Dec 4, 2022 Toronto Star – Daniel Brown Long-awaited reforms to criminal sentencing are also sound public health policy - Bill C-5 recognized drugs as a public health problem that should be addressed through treatment programs, not through … [Read more...]
Jump ahead!
December 10, 2021 by
Dec. 10, 2021 Institute for Research on Public Policy (Policy Options Canada) - Navjot Kaur and Bavneet Chauhan How can we improve our criminal justice system? The link summarizes the long practice of hard line theory around crime and punishment, … [Read more...]
Two ways…
September 14, 2021 by
Sept 13, 2021 – (Ed Note: I apologize for a confusing and incorrect post on Adam Capay in the September 10 edition of the newsletter. While the content was correct the incident is old and I repeated it as though it were happening now. In fact, the … [Read more...]
Leftovers…
August 20, 2021 by
Aug. 20, 2021 MacLean’s Magazine – Michael Friscolanti Every 49 minutes… That’s how frequently people died of drug poisoning in Canada during one dreadful week last summer. Here their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters share a message: the … [Read more...]
Public Health wins…
April 18, 2021 by
April 18, 2021 BC Government News B.C. moves forward on drug decriminalization, new overdose emergency response funding In a news release dated April 14, 2021, the BC Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson has announced that … [Read more...]
Safer communities…
February 8, 2021 by
Feb 8, 2021 Choosing Real Safety: A historic declaration to divest from policing and prisons and build safer communities for all The link provides a declaration about what constitutes a safer community and the failed role of more policing, more … [Read more...]
First responders…
November 15, 2020 by
Nov. 15, 2020 Toronto Star - Rachel Collier Health PEI ignores recommendation, adds police to mobile mental health units The decision in PEI marks a sharping of the focus for the composition of first response team when mental health is the primary … [Read more...]
Women in solitary…
November 9, 2020 by
Nov 9, 2020 Refinery29.com - Sabrina Maddeaux The Ugly Truth about Solitary Confinement in Canada’s Women’s Prisons Maddeaux starts with Ashley Smith and her crime of throwing apples at the postman for which she got 14 days that turned into four … [Read more...]
New life…
October 7, 2020 by
Oct. 7, 2020 CBC News – Meghan Grant 'It gave me back my life': Calgary Drug Treatment Court shows low recidivism rates, cost savings - 76% of grads had no new substantive convictions after graduation Alicia Myles knows what it is like to focus … [Read more...]
Our loss…
October 24, 2019 by
Oct 24, 2019 National Newswatch – Glen Pearson The Election’s Greatest Loss “The heat of the federal election is now over and cold morning of reality has begun to set in. All that energy. All those voiced aspirations of what a great country this … [Read more...]