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Canada’s tough on crime agenda and its immediate effects
There’s no shortage of comprehensive data available to measure the long-term accomplishments of this approach to crime. Unfortunately, one of the most problematic issues with the implementation of such judicial actions is its focus on the immediate, short term results. For as history has informed us, that which offers the most stark and promising immediate result often bares adverse, if not dangerous, consequences down the line.
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Jack’s Final Message is a Recipe for Disaster
Jack’s final message might work on a personal level but its a recipe for disaster as a political strategy.
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Conversing with Jack Layton
The November 2003 issue of Canadian Dimension featured this extensive interview with Jack Layton shortly after he was elected leader of the NDP.
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Nameless and homeless: Affordable housing—if not now, when?
Today, it’s widely acknowledged that the “deinstitutionalization” of psychiatric survivors has been a total failure and fraud; it was from the very start. Why? Because of government incompetence and negligence, poor urban planning, and public indifference to “discharged” psychiatric survivors and other poor, marginalized and stigmatized people in our communities.
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The world is hurtling toward destruction, but giving up some male power is not an option
I wonder how many women are feeling like I do, especially older women. I look around and see that men are running the world, and no matter how screwed up the world is getting, what a dreadful and dangerous mess we are in, they are still loath to share the reins with women, who tend to see things and do things somewhat differently than men, if they are allowed to.
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Was CUPW Defeat Inevitable?
Trade unionists across Canada should feel shame in the wake of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ totally predictable crushing defeat by the jubilant Harpies. And we should finally feel a cold shiver of fear.
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An Election Night I Will Never Forget
So after 50 long years of being on the receiving end of Canada’s archaic first-past-the-post polling, Québec had finally rewarded us with a resounding mandate—probationary, yes, and totally out of the blue—but resounding just the same. After half a century of political intercourse of our two solitudes, the NDP had hit the spot and united the left forces in both nations under one banner!
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Canada’s New Partisanship
On the morning after Election Day, supporters of the Conservative party were able breathe a sigh of relief that their troops were not defeated and replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition. Conversely, the news that Stephen Harper would be heading-up a majority government came as a cold shower to those hoping that a progressive coalition would lead the country into a new day.
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The Making of a Global Disposable Workforce
A sea of change is underway in Canada as the country shifts away from traditional immigration towards a “rent a worker” policy all too prevalent around the globe. And it is taking place without public debate or official announcements.
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Precarious Workers, Precarious Lives: Ontario’s Private Health Care Secret
With Ontario’s senior population projected to double in the next 16 years, senior care is big business and numerous companies are cashing in at the expense of both workers and clients.
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