Aug 24, 2016 Policy Options – Amarnath Amarasingam and Craig Forcese Radicalization and violence in Canada: The Aaron Driver case The authors are trying to provide some insight and clarity around what leads to radicalization and then in turn to … [Read more...]
US Update…
December 17, 2015 by
Dec 17, 2015 The Sentencing Project (US) Are Judges or Prosecutors Driving Racial Disparity in Post-Booker Sentencing? Though the length of federal sentences have in fact decreased, the article wonders about the role of judges and … [Read more...]
Temporary vs permanent…
September 3, 2015 by
Sept 3, 2015 Vancouver Sun – Tara Carman Canada favours temporary residents to permanent: report - Former immigration minister Jason Kenney calls findings ‘complete rubbish’ Harsha Walia, a co-author of the report entitled Never Home: … [Read more...]
Global mobility…
May 17, 2015 by
May 17, 2015 Globe and Mail - François Crépeau and Idil Atak Mobility will stop the migrant tragedies, not the military The authors are experts in questions around international migration, both professors at McGill and working with the UN … [Read more...]
The other side…
April 20, 2015 by
April 20, 2015 Ottawa Citizen – Kelly Egan Profs, moms, lawyers alarmed at jail conditions at Innes Road How bad are things at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC)? Here’s what Aaron Doyle, a criminologist at Carleton University said … [Read more...]
MOMS…
April 16, 2015 by
April 16, 2015 (Ed note: A group of mothers who gather for mutual support and whose children are locked up in the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre were invited to speak at the recent public forum sponsored by Dr. Aaron Doyle of Carleton … [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...]
Parliament as victim…
February 26, 2015 by
Feb 26, 2015 CBC News – Chris Hall In the Conservative war on terror, the first casualty is Parliament - Public approval still no substitute for public scrutiny C-51 or the anti-terrorist bill has passed its second reading in the House … [Read more...]
97% in 10 years…
December 3, 2014 by
Dec 3, 2014 Toronto Star – Steve Rennie Huge increase in number of aboriginal women in Canadian prisons Kim Pate says that mandatory minimum sentences and more limited conditional release options are among the factors in the last ten years … [Read more...]