Archives for March 2015

Politics and life…

    Mar 12, 2015  Toronto Star – Tonda MacCharles Tories table life-sentence legislation in Commons - The Conservative government has formally introduced its promised Life Means Life Act in the Commons. The legislation is showing the … [Read more...]

Niqab and hijab…

    Mar 11, 2015  National Newswatch:  Joan Bryden Harper calls Muslim face-covering veil ‘anti-women,’ unacceptable The rhetoric around the niqab and the hijab has been notched a little higher with an exchange between Stephen Harper and Justin … [Read more...]

Politics of fear…

    Mar 10, 2015  Globe and Mail – Jane Taber Trudeau slams Tories for terror rhetoric Addressing a group of 500 McGill alumni in Toronto, Trudeau drew a comparison between the way Canada responded to the Jewish refuges of the 30’s and the … [Read more...]

Political Pandering…

     Mar 7, 2015  Toronto Star – Editorial (Mar 6, 2015) Cynical political pandering, not public safety, is driving the Tories’ tough-on-crime agenda This, says the Star, is cynical political pandering at its rawest…the Tories are tilting at scary … [Read more...]

Costly, cynical, and likely unconstitutional…

    Mar 6, 2015 Globe and Mail – Debra Parkes and Isabel Grant A life sentence without parole will not make Canadians safer Parkes is a professor of law at Allard (UBC) and Grant at the University of Manitoba.  Both are of the opinion that the … [Read more...]

Politics, not justice…

    Mar 5, 2015  National Newswatch – Paola Loriggio Harper’s ‘life without parole’ initiative a political move, say critics  Critics and legal experts are calling the latest Harper government move to end parole for certain first degree murder … [Read more...]

Life means life, anyway…

    Mar 4, 2015  CBC News – Laura Peyton Stephen Harper proposes bill to deny parole for some murderers The article includes a one minute video of the Prime Minister answering a question from a reporter about ending the possibility of parole for … [Read more...]

In this together…

    Mar 2, 2015 Toronto Star - Editorial (Mar 1, 2015) Canadian Muslim families are in the front lines “More often than not these families are appalled at the radicalization of their children. They struggle to comprehend it. They see it as a … [Read more...]