Oct 19, 2019 Global TV News – Rachel Brown Conservative platform gets a failing grade, Liberal’s barely passes on poverty and health: report The link provides a comparison between all four national political parties and their stated positions on a … [Read more...]
Pot pardons…
June 24, 2019 by
June 24, 2019 CBC News - Kathleen Harris Canadians can soon get quick, free pot pardons - but pros expect modest uptake “Bill C-93, which waives the $631 fee and the five-to-10-year waiting period for pardon applications, received royal assent … [Read more...]
PTSD in Prison…
May 12, 2017 by
May 12, 2017 CBC News - Angela MacIvor Number of prison workers suffering from PTSD much higher than official stats, union says - Approximately 1 in 20 employees at federal penitentiaries have been diagnosed with stress injuries Dorchester in New … [Read more...]
Prisons gone wrong…
December 19, 2016 by
Dec 19, 2016 iPolitics – Michael Harris Prison reform gone wrong - Canada’s corrections system is now the real crime Harris looks at the impact of the tough-on-crime era on the present operations of the federal and provincial prisons and … [Read more...]
Remembering stress…
November 10, 2016 by
Nov 10, 2016 Ottawa Citizen – Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press The anxiety and stress Remembrance Day holds for many damaged soldiers Retired general Romeo Dallaire has announced his intention to resign from the senate as well but first … [Read more...]
Policing
July 29, 2016 by
July 29, 2016 Ottawa Citizen – David Matyas and Mark Dance Hunger strike shows the ugly underbelly of how Canada treats migrants The authors argue that the indefinite detention practiced now in Canada and resulting in the current hunger strike … [Read more...]
PTSD
March 22, 2016 by
March 19, 2016 Ottawa Citizen – Joanne Laucius 'Where do they get help?' PTSD and stress in the police force PTSD among front line first responders are again in the news with the suicide of an Ottawa Mountie assigned to the Embassy Protection … [Read more...]
Last words…
January 2, 2015 by
Jan 2, 2015 National Post - Full Comment Greenspan & Doob: Stephen Harper’s scary crime bluster Last week, Eddie Greenspan, Canada’s best respected criminal lawyer died and was buried. He and his colleague University of Toronto Law … [Read more...]
Results of double bunking…
May 15, 2014 by
May 16, 2014 Star Phoenix (SK) – Betty Ann Adam Overcrowding caused 2012 jail death, union official says Bob Bymoen, president of the Saskatchewan Government Employees' Union, representing the prison guards says that the killing of … [Read more...]