Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is about to carve thousands of employees and $1.13 billion out of Alberta Health Services to create what looks like a drug-treatment hobbyhorse for a small group of ideologues in the office of Premier Danielle Smith. Soon-to-be Canadian Centre for Recovery Excellence CEO Kym Kaufmann
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Crime Waves and Policy
Much ink (most of it virtual) is being spilled these days about how “dangerous” our cities have become. Shootings, assaults and so on seem to take place on our transit systems on a nearly daily basis. I’m not here to say that there is no problem – there clearly is
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Conservatives: Punish, Punish, Punish
Canada’s Harper Government once again revealed the ugly side of its views this past week. First up, we have the Harper Government axing the pittance that inmates are paid for their labour while in prison. The government began deducting the money from prisoners’ paycheques as part of a move to recover costs under
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