June 15, 2016 iPolitics – Elizabeth Thompson Orlando shooting renews calls for Canadian gun control - Mulcair calls on Liberals to fulfill campaign promise to repeal Bill 42 The Conservative Bill-42 allows restricted and prohibited weapons to be … [Read more...]
Gun laws, LGBTQ…
June 15, 2016 by Michael Maher
Filed Under: News Tagged With: arms exporting, assisted dying, C-14, guns, Indigenous, LGBTQ, mental health, private prisons
Housing first…
June 6, 2016 by Michael Maher
June 6, 2016 Saskatchewan Star Phoenix – Jason Warick Romanow to lead charge on eradicating homelessness Roy Romanow, former Premier of Saskatchewan, and now senior policy fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, has accepted to be co-chair of … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: assisted dying, C-14, constitution, homelessness, Police Services Act, policing, SCC, solitary, Trinity Western
TRC response…
May 30, 2016 by Michael Maher
May 29, 2016 Toronto Star – Robert Benzie Kathleen Wynne offers indigenous people ‘a formal apology for the abuses of the past’ This morning Wynne delivered an apology to Indigenous people and offered a response from the government of Ontario to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: apology, assisted dying, bail, C-51, income inequality, Indigenous, marijuana, mental illness, oversight, RCMP, residential schools, security, sexual harassment
C-14 in convention…
May 27, 2016 by Michael Maher
May 27, 2016 National Newswatch – Joan Bryden, Canadian Press Emergency resolution at Grit convention urges amendments to assisted dying bill An attempt to introduce an emergency resolution calling for amendments to the C-14 Bill on Assisted dying … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: assisted dying, C-14, climate, Indigenous, living wage, mandatory minimums, marijuana, pot shops
Kids…
May 25, 2016 by Michael Maher
May 25, 2016 Prison Reform Trust (UK) Too many children in care ending up behind bars The link explores the correlation between prison and having been in care as children. The disturbing fact is that in the UK one half of those children in … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: assisted dying, child abduction, drugs, guns, immigration detention, Latinos, military, sentence reform, sexual assault, youth, youth welfare
New pot wars…
May 21, 2016 by Michael Maher
May 21, 2016 Toronto Star – Betsy Powell Toronto pot outlets ordered to shutter in 3 days - The city continues to serve pot shop landlords with a three day deadline to shutter their premises Canada’s justice minister has promised the legalization … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: assisted dying, C-14, consular services, harassment, income inequality, Indigenous, marijuana, policing, RCMP
Rights of Indigenous People…
May 9, 2016 by Michael Maher
May 9, 2016 CBC News Canada to shift position on UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett to make announcement in New York City on Monday The UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aboriginals, assisted dying, bail, death penalty, human rights, Indigenous, MOMS, pre-trial, prisons, remand, tough-on-crime
Breathalyzer…
May 5, 2016 by Michael Maher
May 5, 2016 Ottawa Citizen – Editorial (May 3, 2016) Brampton drinking and driving ruling may have wide implications A Brampton, Ontario, judge has ruled that the breathalyzers, which measure blood alcohol levels and are used by police forces … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: assisted dying, C-14, death penalty, drunk driving, justice reform, poverty, solitary, welfare, youth
Policy making…
April 27, 2016 by Michael Maher
April 27, 2016 Policy Options – Susan Delacourt How policy is being made under the new Liberal government Delacourt’s analysis looks at first impressions when the new Liberal government was in place and the evolution of a new and more … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: assisted dying, C-14, human rights, Indigensous youth, MOMS, policy making
Indigenous women in jail…
April 25, 2016 by Michael Maher
April 24, 2016 Vice.com – Kelly Geraldine Malone Why Indigenous Women Are Canada’s Fastest Growing Prison Population Though first published in Feb 2016, this article may prove very helpful in understanding the enormous increase and … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: assisted dying, drug policy, indigenous women, police killings, prisons, RCMP, SCS, tough-on-crime