Archives for September 2013

Crisis in the streets

  Sept 16, 2013  Vancouver Sun – Jim Lee Vancouver mayor and police chief say ‘alarming trend’ of violent attacks signals mental health crisis - B.C. not ready to create new institution for mentally ill   Both city officials are looking for a 300 … [Read more...]

Blaming the victims

  Sept 6, 2013 –  CBC News Ottawa's research on trafficking of aboriginal women panned - Some in aboriginal community accuse government of blaming victims  A RFP by the federal government is asking for researchers to look at the potential for … [Read more...]

Senior safety?

 Sept. 5, 2013  Toronto Star - Louie Rosella Family of 80-year-old question why she was tasered  Shortly after Madelaine Meilleur announced that all police officers would be able to carry tasers, an 80 year old suffering from dementia and walking … [Read more...]

How to be a kid, safely?

  September 1, 2013  Toronto Star - Jennifer Pagliaro   Jane and Finch: Toronto’s most dangerous place to be a kid?    Here’s an update on a neighbourhood that has seen 10 homicides of its youth under 19 in six years.  Since 2007, if … [Read more...]

FASD

  July 30, 2013  Toronto Star – Guest opinion by Shelia Burns Turning around Ontario lives hurt by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder  The author, a Community Leadership in Justice Fellow, Law Foundation of Ontario, says that fetal alcohol spectrum … [Read more...]

NCR in bombing attempt?

  July 29, 2013  Vancouver Sun – Louise Dickson, Times Colonist B.C. Legislature bomb plot accused John Nuttall in psychiatric hospital  Defense lawyer Thomas Morino says that Nutall, (and probably his co-accused Amanda Marie Korody) has been … [Read more...]

The tides of justice?

 July 27, 2013  MacLean’s – Ken MacQueen A closer look at falling crime statistics   MacQueen writes that the costs of policing are skyrocketing while the crime levels fall but that in spite of the contradiction and in spite of the desperate … [Read more...]

RJ and the coffee pot

 Sept. 15, 2013  Times Live (Zaire) – Nashira Davids The office peace corps  Somewhat tongue-in-cheek with a why-not? flavour, Davids recounts the application of RJ to disputes and tensions coming from the use of the coffee pot at the office.  The … [Read more...]