Aug 19, 2019 The Conversation – Fatemeh Torabi Asr The language gives it away: How an algorithm can help us detect fake news Here is an explanation of how computers can detect fake news using algorithms which Simon Fraser University suggests is a … [Read more...]
Holiday hunger…
May 27, 2019 by
May 27, 2019 Human Rights Watch (UK) Interview: Scraping Together Pennies for a Loaf of Bread – Human Rights Watch Stephanie Hancock speaks to Western Europe researcher Kartik Raj to find out. UK Welfare Policy is Pushing Families into Hunger … [Read more...]
Quo vadis?
June 17, 2018 by
June 17, 2018 Canadian Lawyer – Michael Spratt Dear soon-to-be-premier Ontario has a new premier-elect and everyone is wondering about what policies he will embrace over a multitude of issues. Spratt, a Criminal Defence Counsel who supported … [Read more...]
Prison deaths…
June 6, 2018 by
June 6, 2018 CBC News - Hala Ghonaim Families of inmates who died at London, Ont. jail say 'enough is enough' - Thirteen inmates at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre have died in the last decade Families and lawyers in London are upset with … [Read more...]
Mama Rita…
June 3, 2018 by
June 2, 2018 National Catholic Reporter – Dan Morris-Young Restorative justice has a name, face and heart in East LA - Mama Rita: Inmates 'are not the crimes they did' Long-time Dolores Mission parishioner Rita Chairez works in restorative justice … [Read more...]
UN and Human Rights…
July 8, 2015 by
July 8, 2015 Globe and Mail – Mike Blanchfield, Canadian Press Ottawa poised to defend rights record on aboriginals, terrorism at UN committee An eighteen member panel for the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations is meeting in … [Read more...]
Right of Privacy
June 13, 2014 by
June 13, 2014 National Newswatch – Canadian Press Court says warrant needed for Internet info The case before the SCC involves a Saskatchewan man accused of child pornography. The court has ruled that police need a warrant to get … [Read more...]