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Eugene Forsey vs. Maxime Bernier
Quebec Conservative repeats harmful myths about Confederation When Stephen Harper’s former (and perhaps future?) far-right-hand man in Quebec, Maxime Bernier, denounced the federal “spending power”…
Trading Sovereignty for Surveillance
Danger rises of state interference with information flow In June 2010, the Harper government released a consultation paper which asked Canadians to comment on the…
Youth Voices: Harper’s Crime Strategy
Closing the Doors on Youth On November 12th, 2010, the federal government announced an investment of $45 million to increase the number of beds in…
Tough on crime will likely lead to more crime, bigger deficit: report
OTTAWA – The Harper governmentís tough on crime agenda will likely increase the incidence of crime and the deficit, says a new report released today…
The Fear Factor
Stephen Harper’s “Tough on Crime” Agenda Download 982.08 KB 58 pages According to Statistics Canada, crime rates have been trending down for over 20 years.…
Rights-Based Legal Aid
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Back to the “Good” Old Days
Child labour rampant in Asia, serfdom on the rise here “The disparity in income between the rich and the poor is merely the survival of…
Moratorium Needed on Punishment Legislation
More crowded and costly prisons wrong way to deter crime Prior to the 2006 federal election campaign, where the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats touted…
Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child of “queue-jumping” asylum seekers
If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. They came as…
Canadians want real security, not $18 billion fighter jets
The recent unilateral decision by the federal government to spend up to $16 billion on the purchase and maintenance of new fighter jets is both…
Protesting the G20: A Waste of Time?
During the G20 ministerial meetings in Toronto, the sensational images of burning police cruiser cars and broken shop windows dominated the newspaper headlines. This is…
Looking on the Bright Side
There’s still good reason not to become a pessimist You may have missed the news about a recent study by the Mayo Clinic on optimism…
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