Dec. 8, 2023 – Emotion and truth… CNN – Allison Morrow The US shoplifting scourge is a lot of hype with little evidence… To be sure when passion rules, statistics can be found to sustain the passion. That is the case, says Morrow, … [Read more...]
Canada mirrored…
September 19, 2022 by
Sept 19, 2022 CBC News – Brian Mulroney gives eulogy at ceremony for Queen in Ottawa / Adrienne Clarkson speaks at ceremony for Queen in Ottawa Mulroney recalls the context of Apartheid in South Africa and Canada’s role in the struggle with … [Read more...]
Special
March 30, 2019 by
Mar 31, 2019 60 Minutes to Feature Success of Vera’s Restoring Promise Initiative at Repurposing a Maximum Security Prison Unit - CBS 60 Minutes - Sunday, March 31 at 7PM EST German-style prison rehab leads inmate to college basketball team and … [Read more...]
Travesty…
January 8, 2018 by
Jan 8, 2018 Toronto Star – Vicky Mochama Treatment of women in Canadian prisons a human rights travesty The number of women incarcerated is growing at alarming rates, especially Indigenous women (37% over the last ten years without crime rate … [Read more...]
Prison Health…
October 26, 2017 by
Oct. 26, 2017 Pew Charitable Trust (US) Prison Health Care Costs and Quality - How and why states strive for high-performing systems The Pew Foundation and VERA Institute for Justice together have produced this report looking at the data derived … [Read more...]
Cost benefit analysis…
April 22, 2016 by
April 22, 2016 N.Y. Times – Jason Furman and Douglas Holyz-Eakin Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay The authors do a cost benefit analysis of the “staggering” growth in the nation’s prison population. The article examines both the notion of mass … [Read more...]
Senate teeth?
April 17, 2016 by
April 17, 2016 National Newswatch – Joan Bryden, Canadian Press Senators who fear assisted dying law violates charter willing to amend, kill it After so long talking about the weakness of the Senate, here’s a twist. Bryden is reporting that some … [Read more...]
PAC’$…
June 25, 2015 by
June 26, 2015 Toronto Star – Robin V. Sears Rise of Canadian PACs corrodes our democracy - The proliferation of U.S.-style political action committees and the attack ads they fund is hurting Canadian politics. The PAC’s are proliferating and … [Read more...]
Poverty and self-harming…
May 21, 2015 by
May 21, 2015 Metro News – Leah Holoiday New University of Alberta data links youth mental illness to families faced with poverty A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine has found some troubling links between mental … [Read more...]
Policing…
November 22, 2014 by
Nov. 22, 2014 Globe and Mail – John Lornic New era of policing: Will the benefits of body-worn cameras outweigh the privacy issues? Calgary is the first Canadian city to introduce body-worn cameras but Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax … [Read more...]