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Youth crime and flawed statistics | rabble.ca
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Youth crime and flawed statistics. August 17, 2009. One evening a couple of weeks before that, I was going home, heading for the causeway from Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau to Belleville, Yarmouth County, on Eel Lake Road, only to find it blocked and police lights flashing along its full length as far as my house on the other side, that was within the blockaded investigation scene. Media do sometimes exaggerate, I admit, but I have an accusation of my own. I'll get back to this. We welcome your comments! Rabble&...
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SAGA TIMES: December 2012
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Sunday, 16 December 2012. TAKING LIBERTIES: CANADA'S GROWING TORTURE INFRASTRUCTURE. The ease with which self-described democratic states embroil themselves in torture continues to be illustrated by the manner in which agencies of the Canadian state, from spies to judges, have wedged open a door to legitimize complicity in a practice that both domestic and international law ban outright. Http:/ scc.lexum.org/en/2002/2002scc1/2002scc1.html. Outrage ove...
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SAGA TIMES: FIPPA China and lax immigration policies could be a sellout of Canadian labour
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Monday, 3 December 2012. FIPPA China and lax immigration policies could be a sellout of Canadian labour. The Canada-China Investment Protection and Promotion Treaty (FIPPA China), along with changes the Harper Conservatives made to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program earlier this year, may be setting the stage for a migration of Chinese workers into Canada. Article 7(3), along with other provisions of FIPPA China, states that subject to Canadian laws...
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SAGA TIMES: February 2012
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Tuesday, 28 February 2012. Criticism of Bill C-30 driven by media misunderstanding, claims Vic Toews. Minister of Public Safety embarks on a campaign of misinformation, critics charge. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews continues to defend the Tories’ lawful access legislation – and himself – saying many in the media misunderstand the highly controversial Bill C-30. Let me be clear: Bill C-30 creates no new powers to access the content of e-mails, web-b...
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SAGA TIMES: Reported Elsewhere: Human rights museum staff leave amid interference allegations
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Friday, 30 November 2012. Reported Elsewhere: Human rights museum staff leave amid interference allegations. CEO denies any political interference in content of Winnipeg-based museum. Posted: Nov 30, 2012 10:47 AM CST. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Quote of the Day. To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity." – Nelson Mandela. Canadian Human Rights Reporter. Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives. Saga Times is indep...
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SAGA TIMES: January 2012
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Tuesday, 17 January 2012. Wikipedia going dark for a day in protest of US SOPA/PIPA legislation. Wikipedia announced its decision for a world-wide black out of its English-language site for 24 hours, beginning at 05:00 UTC Wednesday, January 18. An excerpt of the statement is as follows:. It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web. Blackout, and outlines.
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SAGA TIMES: Unions protesting over the exclusive use of temporary foreign workers in a BC mine is not racism
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Friday, 14 December 2012. Unions protesting over the exclusive use of temporary foreign workers in a BC mine is not racism. It’s no surprise the exclusive use of Chinese temporary workers at a northern BC coal mine ignited a heated debate about foreign investments by China and a fight for Canadian jobs. But the fact it is now being used to fuel flames of racism is a shabby cheap shot at orgainized labour and is insulting to Canadians. As such, the arg...
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SAGA TIMES: Reported Elsewhere: Canada Climate Change Policy Ranks Worst In Wealthy World
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Tales, truth in politics, and other noteworthy stuff. Friday, 7 December 2012. Reported Elsewhere: Canada Climate Change Policy Ranks Worst In Wealthy World. The Huffington Post Canada. Canada has the worst climate change policy of all wealthy nations, and the fourth-worst among all nations, says a survey from environmental umbrella group Climate Action Network. 8221; reads the preamble to the Climate Change Performance Index 2013. Read full story here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Quote of the Day.
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Quebec's Bill 74 puts us all on a slippery slope toward Internet censorship. David Christopher, Digital Freedom Update. Internet censorship. Website block lists. An extreme new law recently passed in Quebec means all of this could soon be the reality right here at home. BC Court finds RCMP organized terrorist plot. At the end of July, the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that agents of the RCMP engaged in the planning of, preparation and funding for, and facilitation of a terrorist offence. An est...
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Feminism | rabble.ca
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Watch: All women rise up! International Women's Day Toronto 2016. From Rio to Tokyo, gender discrimination in sport continues. Katie Douglas, Pro Bono. The treatment of athletes like Caster Semenya at the Rio Olympics shows that the rights of women who do not conform to binary understandings of sex are deemed less worthy of protection than others. Kim Kardashian is not a feminist - get over it. Four things to know about women and homelessness in Canada. Are you getting any closer? Who talks, who listens?
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