Oct 6, 2015 CBC News – Harvey Cashore Harper government partnered with industry group fighting CRA over KPMG case Off shore on the Isle of Man, money belonging to the richest with the best accountants and lawyers is at issue. But so is the … [Read more...]
“Life means life”
August 19, 2015 by
Aug 19, 2015 Canadian Press Harper says he’ll resurrect ‘life means life’ legislation One of the bills already promised but allowed to die on the order paper, Stephen Harper has resurrected the “life means life” bill in the election campaign. … [Read more...]
Time for no crime?
July 20, 2015 by
July 18, 2015 Globe and Mail – Editorial (July 18, 2015) Most of Canada’s prisoners have never been convicted of anything. Why are they in jail? Would you believe that an average 55% of those currently in jails across the country have not … [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...]
Special: Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre
April 13, 2015 by
A special from the Smart Justice Network of Canada… April 13, 2015 – Ottawa Carlton Detention Centre in Chronic Crisis Criminalization and Punishment Education Project Tracking the Politics of Criminalization and Punishment in Canada: Aaron … [Read more...]
More jail?
February 11, 2015 by
Feb 12, 2015 Law Times (Canada) – Matthew Gourlay A Criminal Mind: Time for a constructive look at bail controversies This article looks first at the legal rational sometimes used to refuse bail and then more specifically at the case of Shawn … [Read more...]
Oversight…
February 3, 2015 by
Feb 3, 2015 (Ed note: Marion Lane’s blog in the last communiqué made reference to an editorial in the Globe and Mail without specifying the date of the editorial. It was, in fact published Dec. 29, 2014, in the context of the Bill Cosby and … [Read more...]
Courtly cautions…
October 30, 2014 by
Oct. 30, 2014 Huffington Post – Althia Raj John Major, Retired Supreme Court Justice, Warns Over 'Knee-Jerk' Reaction to Ottawa Attack The former leader of the Air India inquiry thinks that the government needs to make a case for … [Read more...]
Presumption…
September 7, 2014 by
Sept 7, 2014 Toronto Star – Carol Goar Presumption of innocence whittled away Goar lines up the various authorities who have support a clean-up of the remand system as an instant cash saver, including government panels, economists, the Civil … [Read more...]