Stephen Harper's majority government: Not looking out for YOU
As we close in on one year of Stephen Harper's majority, it is evident that this is a very special government. YOU are just not on its list of priorities.It's not that this government does not have...
View ArticleC-10 passes in the Senate: Why the Conservatives' crime bill is wrong for...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Like a thief in the night, the Conservatives passed their Bill C-10 through third reading in the Senate last week. This bill represents bad policy, abandoning an evidence-based...
View ArticleThe disastrous consequences of the omnibus crime bill
With last week's Senate approval of Bill C-10, Canada is close to becoming the most regressive Western democracy on criminal justice. That unenviable position has most recently been occupied by the...
View ArticleLack of science and consultation on Bill C-10
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Quebec's objection to Bill C-10 is based on a lack of science to support the bill's changes to the youth justice system and on social and cultural values about how young...
View ArticleThe omnibus crime bill: What is to be done?
On March 12, despite months of protest across the country, the federal government's omnibus crime bill (euphemistically known as the "the Safe Streets and Communities Act"), cleared its final...
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Crime bill hunger striker concerned about Parliament's silent treatment
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Last Friday marked the 31st day of my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new draconian crime law, deceptively christened "Safe Streets and...
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Obert Madondo's indefinite crime bill hunger strike
Is this show currently playing? April 17, 2012 On March 14, Ottawa-based activist and progressive blogger Obert Madondo started an indefinite hunger strike to protest Stephen Harper's omnibus crime...
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A number is never just a number: Crime, punishment and politics
Wednesday, August 1, 201226Percentage drop in Canada's crime severity index (a measure of the seriousness of crime) between 2001 and 2011. Canada's crime rate is the lowest point it's been since 1972....
View ArticlePerspectives on crime bill C-10 in Quebec
On this past December 5, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty's last budget. At...
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Vic Toews and torture: A shameful legacy
Friday, July 12, 2013Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca.On July 8, 2013, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced his resignation from...
View ArticleThe irrationality, ineffectiveness and costs of the Harper crime agenda
Champions of harsher justice measures in the Harper government would have us believe that longer sentences are a win-win-win: for victims, for safe streets and for future victims. To that end, the...
View ArticleCrime and the young: It's complicated
Crime and the young. It's complicated, far more so than any tough-on-crime Tory politician could -- or would probably want to -- capture.Consider last week's police blotter. In Cole Harbour, a...
View ArticlePrisoners' Justice Day: Justice requires hope
Sunday, August 10, marked the 40th anniversary of what has come to be known as Prisoners' Justice Day in Canada. Ever since the suicide of Edward Nolan in a segregation cell at Milhaven Institution on...
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Prisons are not 'functioning fine' under Harper's tough-on-crime agenda
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The tough-on-crime strategy has not made our communities safer
Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have...
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