Oct 20, 2023 – Vos visages…

Oct 20, 2023 – Vos visages…   Centre des Services de Justice Réparatrice (QC) Je verrai toujours vos visages… This link involves a little known film connection between Quebec’s justice restaurative, or restorative justice. that was … [Read more...]

Aug 25, 2023 – Prison deaths…

Aug 25, 2023 – Prison deaths… Theogavrielides.com Comparative Restorative Justice: Is it possible? - Dr. Theo Gavrielides Long time and well-known Dr. Theo Gavrielides has just published with a number of other equally distinguished experts: … [Read more...]

Aug. 23, 2023 – The same, sadly…

Aug. 23, 2023 – The same, sadly… John Howard (BC) and Vancouver is awesome.com – Mike Howell B.C. prisoners seek extension of jail time to stay housed, avoid overdose - Criminal defence lawyer: “A terrible indictment of society when the best … [Read more...]

April 17, 2023 – Reading crime stats…

April 17, 2023 – Reading crime stats…   Reading crime stats: Every time there is an election in the air, the politicos and the media focus on crime stats to insert a well-known formula of political propaganda - crime stats are going up, … [Read more...]

Prison perspective…

Dec 20, 2022  Toronto Star – Rik McWhinney and Jason Demers Rik McWhinney spent almost 35 years in prison, 16 of them in solitary confinement: this is his story - In ‘The Life Sentences of Rik McWhinney,’ poems, grievance forms, letters, interviews … [Read more...]

Fossils still trying…

Nov. 14, 2022  Hill Times (Canada) - Kevin Philipupillai ‘Among the worst in the world’: environmental advocates slam outsized oil and gas company influence in Canada’s COP27 delegation - The official Canadian delegation to the 27th UN Climate … [Read more...]

No reform…

Nov. 4, 2022 Lawyer’s Daily SCC overturns lower court decision, rules Criminal Code provisions on sentencing constitutional “A divided Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a Court of Appeal decision, ruling Nov. 4 that certain Criminal Code … [Read more...]

On talking points…

   April 29, 2014  National Newswatch – Don Lenihan Andrew MacDougall’s world of the 24/7  Here’s a commentary by the Senior Associate at Canada’s Public Policy Forum in Ottawa on the “talking points” strategy of the federal government’s … [Read more...]