Nov. 23, 2022 APRT Report / Justice Teams Network (US) Interrupting Intimate Partner Violence – A Guide for Community Responses without Police This report is a startling presentation around intimate partner violence acknowledging the … [Read more...]
Misguided…
Oct 14, 2022 CTV – (BC) - Lisa Steacy Denying bail to reduce B.C. crime a 'dangerous' proposition: Canadian Civil Liberties Association The bail question has been a major part of the legal system’s reform efforts for some time. Advocates … [Read more...]
Power and democracy…
Sept 9, 2022 The Lawyer’s Daily – John L. Hill Myles Sanderson parole decisions The loss of life and the injuries in the Sanderson case has the power to move us to outrage and insistence on the harshest interpretation of legal punishment as a … [Read more...]
UN and Canadian children…
June 12, 2022 CTV News – Laura Osman, Canadian Press Urgent measures must be taken to ensure rights of Canadian children: UN committee Canada is currently undergoing a review under agreement with the United Nations on the way Canada treats its … [Read more...]
Secondary punishment…
Jan.15, 2022 Washington Post (US) - Lizzie Johnson and William Wan The ethics of a second chance: Pig heart transplant recipient stabbed a man seven times years ago Here’s an excellent introduction to the question of secondary punishments. … [Read more...]
Baby deaths…
Jan 13, 2022 Blogger Russell Webster (UK) A Baby Never Forgotten. A Tribute to Brooke Leigh Powell by Dr. Lucy Baldwin and Louise Powell This article and the link is most unusual. Sometimes we can find the worse of our humanity at the edges of … [Read more...]
Orange Delight…
Sept 25, 2021 – Sept 30 – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation September 30 marks #OrangeShirtDay and the first National Day for #TruthAndReconciliation. We wear orange to remember the Indigenous children who were sent to Residential … [Read more...]