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The spate of recent border crossings, particularly in the small town of Emerson in southern Manitoba, as well as in Quebec over the Summer of 2017, have brought to attention a rather forgotten piece of paper that prevents refugees from seeking safe haven in Canada if entering from the United States.
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VANCOUVER – A subsidiary of Malaysian state-owned Petronas, the company behind a massive Liquefied Natural Gas plant proposal near Prince Rupert, has built at least 16 large unauthorized dams in northeast BC to trap water used for fracking operations, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has learned.
This article was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press, March 8, 2017
Manitoba has a higher proportion of adults in custody than any other province.
We lock up people more frequently than Saskatchewan by 17 per cent and three-and-a-half times more frequently than B.C., according to a Statistics Canada report from last week.
Overcrowding in prisons — and especially remand centres — is a growing and serious problem.
Diab (right) in 2013 with his wife Rania Tfaily and their daughter Jena.
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between dropping crime rates and rising incarceration numbers to the Harper government’s tough on crime strategy. Since 2006 the Harper Conservatives have implemented legislative and policy changes designed to “tackle crime” and “make communities safer.”
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between falling crime rates and increasing incarceration numbers to the Harper government’s “tough on crime” strategy.
The high-profile Duffy trial is said to have put a spotlight on the inner workings of the federal government and notably the chain of command from the PMO downwards—the who-knew-what of the Nigel Wright cheque exchange, for example (if anyone still cares). So far, Duffy’s lawyers have hammered on the vagaries of Senate spending rules, with witness testimonies exposing how a supposedly non-partisan arm of government is used for political ends by Liberals and Conservatives alike.
Six jeunes adultes musulmans ont une discussion animée dans une langue étrangère devant une mosquée tard dans la soirée. Ils débattent peut-être des mérites du nouvel album de Drake. Peut‑être parlent-ils de jeux vidéos, de sport, de filles, ou peut-être militent-ils pour le renversement du gouvernement Harper. Qui sait? Il n'y a pas de preuves ni dans un sens ni dans l'autre. Rien que des stéréotypes.
Screenshot from a short film about Guantánamo Diary (see http://guantanamodiary.com/).
Guantanamo Diary By Mohamedou Ould Slahi Little, Brown and Company (2015), 432 pages, $32 (hardcover)