Oct 28, 2016 Canadian Mental Health Association (Ontario) MCSCS announces overhaul of segregation practices Following the review of the practices around segregation in provincial jails in 2015, the Ministry of Correctional Services has announced a … [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...]
Travel ban…
August 11, 2015 by
Aug 11, 2015 Ottawa Citizen – Ian MacLeod Stephen Harper's travel ban won't apply to fighters against ISIL At first, diplomats, aid workers and journalists were excepted from the travel ban. Now it seems that the so called ‘good guy,’ one who … [Read more...]
Running wild…
April 29, 2015 by
April 29, 2015 iPolitics.com - Andrew Mitrovica Caught in the gears of intelligence running wild C-51, the anti-terrorism bill, has created frightening prospects for the potential of the intelligence community to go astray, especially without … [Read more...]
Right and wrong…
April 22, 2015 by
April 22, 2015 National Post – Peter MacKay Peter MacKay: What the Court got right — and wrong — on mandatory sentences for gun crimes Minister of Justice Peter MacKay writes a guest column for the National Post to remind us that the tension … [Read more...]
49 Rangers…
April 21, 2015 by
April 21, 2015 CBC News – Kristen Everson 49 Canadian Rangers have died since January 2011 Flagged first by a Chaplain to the Northern Rangers serving the Artic Region, the Defense Department has revealed that since January 2011 forty-nine … [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...]