Nov. 14, 2014 Global TV News ‘We’ve been dropping like flies’: Soldier speaks out about mental health in the military Forty-two year old Petty Officer 2nd Class Kerry Houghton describes what it was like for her as she suffered through bouts of … [Read more...]
“Like flies…”
November 14, 2014 by Michael Maher
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aboriginal rights, carding, income disparity, military, needle exchange, policing, social investment, suicide, wiretaps
Wrong House…
November 3, 2013 by Michael Maher
Nov 3, 2013 CBC News Saskatoon Gang member pleads guilty in Lorry Santos murder case Three members of a gang were sent to Saskatoon from Alberta to kill a defector from the gang but given the wrong address, resulting in the pointless death of a … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: funding, gangs, inequity, juvenile justice, predictive policing, realignment, RJ, sentencing, social investment, violence
Income inequity as an election issue?
September 20, 2013 by Michael Maher
Sept. 20, 2013 Globe and Mail – Armine Yalnizyan Five years of economic recovery have been far from equal The question of income inequity is getting new focus because it is now seen to slow the recovery and to undermine the notion that in a … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: gangs, immigration detention, income inequality, lifers, NCR, prison transfer, prisoner suicide, social investment
RJ and the coffee pot
September 16, 2013 by Michael Maher
Sept. 15, 2013 Times Live (Zaire) – Nashira Davids The office peace corps Somewhat tongue-in-cheek with a why-not? flavour, Davids recounts the application of RJ to disputes and tensions coming from the use of the coffee pot at the office. The … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: curfew, drugs, mental health, overcrowding, re-entry, RJ, sentencing, social investment