Category Archives: Crime
Harper’s policies making prison inmates more violent, society less safe, correctional officers tell voters
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is deceiving the public about being tough on crime, according to the union representing Canadian correctional officers who claim that the Conservative government’s budget cuts to inmate training programs are making penitentiaries more violent for the
Mexico’s press goes to town after Canadian mining CEO admits ‘good relationship’ with drug cartels
The admission by a CEO of a Canadian mining company to having a “good relationship” with drug cartels in Mexico has received widespread coverage in the Mexican press. “The cartels are active down there…Generally, we’ve had a good relationship with
It is not safe to be an indigenous woman or girl in Canada right now
By Leah Gazan Member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, and Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg It has been 44 years since the brutal murder of Helen Betty Osborne, in which the Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission concluded that racism, sexism,