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...]
1 in 200…
June 11, 2015 by
June 12, 2015 (Ed note: In the June 2, 2015 issue of communiqué in an article entitled “Mandela rules” the intro confused the Penal Reform International and the Prison Reform Trust. It was in fact, Penal Reform International, whose chair is … [Read more...]
Silence less than golden…
June 9, 2015 by
June 9, 2015 iPolitics – Elizabeth Thompson MPs new sexual harassment policy still keeps bad behaviour in the dark Canada is closer to becoming one of the first countries in the world to have a policy for sexual harassment between … [Read more...]
No!
June 5, 2015 by
June 5, 2015 New York Times – Op Ed Edward Snowden (June 5, 2015) Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance Snowden is celebrating “the power of an informed public” in what he views as a triumph for democracy when the people themselves … [Read more...]
Home grown…
June 3, 2015 by
June 3, 2015 Globe and Mail – Editorial (June 3, 2015) Truth and Reconciliation: Genocide or not, Canada authored this story The editorial invites the reader to play an imaginative game about a knock at the door and the end of family for your … [Read more...]
A system of paralysis…
May 14, 2015 by
May 14, 2015 CBC Radio – Anna Maria Tremonti Chris Hedges says America on road to revolution, even in Baltimore Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hodges is interviewed by Tremonti on the discontent in American cities and the US prison system. He … [Read more...]
Women and equality…
May 4, 2015 by
May 4, 2015 Toronto Star - Carol Goar Women replace high hopes with steely resolve Goar makes a review of the hopes spawn by the Beijing declaration on gender equality 20 years ago and comments on the progress in the legal equality … [Read more...]
Women and the Military…
May 1, 2015 by
May 1, 2015 National Newswatch – Stephanie Levitz — The Canadian Press Military, judge agree on sexual misconduct problem, but not on how to solve it At first, General Tom Larson, Chief of Defence Staff, said there was no problem. Now a … [Read more...]
For the record…
April 15, 2015 by
April 15, 2015 Toronto Star Four ways the Supreme Court has battled the Conservatives on crime The failure of federal legislation to meet the test of the Charter of Rights continues. Here, the STAR lists the rejections from the SCC on the … [Read more...]