Criminal Justice

• Manitoba Tories promise to push for reforms to Canada’s criminal justice system

  Candidates Kelvin Goertzen and Rejeanne Caron made the announcement Friday in Winnipeg.

  Politics

  Sep 29, 2023
  
• N.B. Kindness Closet aims to help people impacted by the criminal justice system, poverty

  The Kindness Closet is a boutique which aims to help people dealing with the criminal justice system and poverty receive training and access resources.

  Features

  Aug 13, 2023
  
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• Proposed N.B. jail sees large opposition at public hearings

  City council in Fredericton approved first and second readings of a bylaw for a rezoning to allow a correctional facility within city limits despite fierce opposition.

  Crime

  Jan 10, 2023
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• B.C.’s prolific offender review ‘too little, too timid, and too late’ say BC Liberals

  An expert review of B.C.'s chronic offender problem has delivered a report with 28 recommendations mostly focusing on mental health.

  Crime

  Sep 21, 2022
• Saskatchewan stabbings show Canada in critical need of justice system supports: experts

  Criminology experts say Myles Sanderson's criminal profile should have given off more warning signs before he was released on parole months prior to the attacks.

  Canada

  Sep 7, 2022
• Ontario needs to bring all parties together to address issues at EMDC: OPSEU head

  While concern is longstanding, tensions appear to have escalated in recent months amid a dispute over a memorial outside the jail and a recent rally following another inmate death.

  Politics

  Jul 29, 2021
• StatCan to collect, report race-based crime data in project with police chiefs

  The partnership will involve collecting and reporting data about Indigenous and ethnocultural groups when compiling information on victims and accused people.

  Canada

  Jul 15, 2020
• Is the Liberal government’s promise to repeal mandatory minimum sentences dead?

  'Repealing mandatory minimum sentences may be exactly the sort of pressure-release valve that our overburdened courts need,' says lawyer Michael Spratt.

  Politics

  Jan 18, 2020
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• Winnipeg murder rate skyrockets in 2019, criminal justice expert points to long-term solutions

  More people — 44 — were killed in Winnipeg than ever before, doubling 2018's homicide rate of 22.

  Crime

  Dec 31, 2019
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• Top of mind: ‘Justice’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year

  The word follows "toxic," picked by Oxford Dictionaries, and "misinformation," plucked by Dictonary.com.

  World

  Dec 17, 2018