Aug 31, 2015 CBC News - Dean Beeby RCMP database on missing persons is overdue, over budget - Harper government promise of national database for unidentified remains stalled 5 years later There has been a long standing debate about whether … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
Life’s ploy…
August 28, 2015 by
Aug 28, 2015 Hill Times-on-line – Tim Naumetz Canadians believe 'Life Means Life' Act an election ploy: poll More than half those polled say that Harper’s ‘life-means-life’ announcement last week is an election ploy based on fear. 34% … [Read more...]
Spot checks?
August 26, 2015 by
Aug 26, 2015 Toronto Star – San Grewal Peel police conducted 159,303 street checks in six years Known as ‘carding’ in Toronto, and just as controversial, Peel Regional Police records show that one out of 46 residents had been carded in the … [Read more...]
Inside the PMO…
August 25, 2015 by
Aug. 25, 2015 Globe and Mail – Editorial (Aug. 24, 2015) Ottawa’s accountability problems start at the top, in the PMO The editorial says that the Duffy affair has given a penetrating look inside the operations of the PMO whose power … [Read more...]
Drawbacks in C-14…
August 24, 2015 by
Aug. 24, 2015 CBC News (BC) – Jason Proctor Law that gives locations of mentally ill offenders questioned after B.C. man threatened The revelation of the location of a man convicted for murder and released under the not-criminally-responsible … [Read more...]
“Life means life”
August 19, 2015 by
Aug 19, 2015 Canadian Press Harper says he’ll resurrect ‘life means life’ legislation One of the bills already promised but allowed to die on the order paper, Stephen Harper has resurrected the “life means life” bill in the election campaign. … [Read more...]
Punishing mental illness…
August 17, 2015 by
Aug. 17, 2015 Toronto Star – Amy Dempsey Ontario justice system ‘punishes’ mental illness The John Howard Society of Ontario is about to release a new report on the interface of mental health and criminal justice. The report is calling for … [Read more...]
Aboriginal justice…
August 16, 2015 by
Aug. 16, 2015 The Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy – David Daubney Truth, Reconciliation and Prisons Citing a long standing over-representation of Aboriginals in Canada’s prisons, Daubney recalls the development of criminal justice policy … [Read more...]
Waiting…
August 15, 2015 by
Aug. 15, 2015 (Ed note: We have eleven weeks of political announcements and attention seeking stunts for proposed new policies, all meant to shout down the other. Few of these announcements will ever reach to the authentically human impact of … [Read more...]