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Wow.
Just wow.
Because marginalizing our First Peoples isn’t enough.
Because imprisioning our First Peoples isn’t enough.
Is erasing First People’s historical narrative enough Mr. Harper?
Would it be surprising our government is focused on building prisons for non-reported crimes, rather than helping the mentally ill who currently reside within the prison population and really should not be there?
“The needs of mentally ill offenders in custody exceed the current capacity of the Correctional Service of Canada, according to the report released Thursday.
“Canadian penitentiaries are becoming the largest psychiatric facilities in the country,” said Howard Saper, correctional investigator of Canada.”
We are warehousing the mentally ill instead of treating them. Quelle suprise!
“In reviewing offender access to mental health services, the report found that the intermediate care component of the correctional service’s mental health strategy has not yet been implemented due to a lack of funding. Offenders requiring intermediate care fall between those needing primary care and acute inpatient care.”
Of course, this issue falls nowhere near the getting ‘tough on crime’ and ‘law and order’ agenda our current conservative government is addicted to. When ideological concerns trump reality and fact we get the kinds of irrational stands that Harper’s government is (in)famous for (Climate Change, Environment and the Oilsands etc).
Currently, these offenders are often managed in segregation units where they can be isolated for prolonged periods of time, a practice that is “unsafe and inhumane,” Saper said.
Ah, let us get back to the good ‘ole days:
Ah, let us get back to the good ‘ole days:
An excellent environment for rehabilitation...
Stay tuned for the Harper government to ignore the following:
Among the recommendations Saper made based on the report are that the correctional service should:
- Fund implementation of its mental health strategy, with a particular focus on intermediate care.
- Develop mental health service delivery partnerships with the provinces and territories.
- Enhance its support of the development of a national strategy for corrections and mental health, with a focus on care guidelines.
Needs more cowbell punishment! Being soft on these criminals is out of the question!
One of the foundational aspects of science is sharing. Along with a rigorous peer review process studies and findings are published so that wider scientific community can test, assess and prove the quality of research findings. Steven Harper is not really a big fan of science, or other disciplines that base their results in reality (please see Stockwell Day’s imaginary offenders, for which we need to build more prisons). The CBC takes a run at the issue:
“Recent access-to-information documents obtained by PostMedia News reveal that all media inquiries to scientists
Canadian Science: Safe Sane and Censored!
working for Natural Resources Canada must now pass through a Byzantine thicket of “subject matter experts” and the minister’s director of communications — “no exceptions.”
As one bureaucrat warned in an internal email: “What may appear to be a simple request for facts may actually relate to policy or high-profile issues.”
The email simply puts in print what journalists covering the Harper government deal with on a daily basis.”
Thank you Mr. Harper I would tick off the boxes on the promises of an open, transparent, accountable government but I seem to have lost my pen. Or perhaps Mr.Harper has constructed a closed,tightly buttoned, top-down regime that seeks to control all messages put out by the government, to make sure the correct spin is in place. From the Montreal Gazette
“University of Alberta ecologist David Schindler states: “Muzzling under the Harper government is the worst it’s ever been.”
The Vancouver Sun quoted University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver: “The concept of free speech is non-existent at Environment Canada.” Weaver is close to the epicentre. As one who regularly co-authors studies with EC colleagues, he understands the impacts on federal scientists. He calls it “Orwellian,” and says that as a result, “morale is at an all-time low.”
Yep, protecting our rights to free speech, always priority with Harper and his reality challenged band of anti-intellectual populists. Another example:
“NRCan scientist Scott Dallimore co-authored the study, published in the journal Nature on April 1, about a colossal flood that swept across northern Canada 13,000 years ago, when massive ice dams gave way at the end of the last ice age.
The study was considered so newsworthy that two British universities issued releases to alert the international media. It was, however, deemed so sensitive in Ottawa that Dallimore, who works at NRCan’s laboratories outside Victoria, was told he had to wait for clearance from the minister’s office.
Dallimore tried to tell the department’s communications managers the flood study was anything but politically sensitive. “This is a blue sky science paper,” he said, noting: “There are no anticipated links to minerals, energy or anthropogenic climate change.”
But the bureaucrats in Ottawa insisted. “We will have to get the minister’s office approval before going ahead with this interview,” Patti Robson, the department’s media relations manager, wrote after a reporter from Postmedia News approached Dallimore.”
I guess we will just have to be happy with ‘Conservative Approved’ Science.
We'll get to your problems soon, we promise.
For all the hoopla the regular G8 conferences cause what really happens there. It seems one of the more anti-democratic features of the ‘new globalized economy’. According to the CBC the tough issues will not even be seriously discussed.
“A leaked draft of the final communiqué for the upcoming G8 summit suggests Canada has dodged a bullet on the thorny issues of abortion and climate change.
The draft, obtained by The Canadian Press, says the world’s most powerful countries are prepared to throw money at “all factors” affecting the health of women and children in poor countries but doesn’t specifically mention abortion.
There is no agreement yet on specific funding for the maternal initiative, climate change, food security or aid to developing countries, despite strong words urging concrete measures.”
Our anti-choice Prime Minister and his merry band of pro-life fascists are out to scuttle reproductive freedom for the Third World. It is good to know that we will stick to our ideological beliefs in the face of the facts (abortions save womens lives).
“Action is required on all factors that affect the health of women and children,” the document says. “This includes addressing gender inequality, ensuring women’s and children’s rights and improving education for women and girls.”
Message to Harper Government: Women are people too.
Hello, hello?! Abortion is a part of women’s rights! But hey it is just the womenz anyways marginalizing them has always been a slam dunk.
Climate Change though, WoW! Canada looks like to be putting forth this bold initiative:
“On the environment, the only thing G8 negotiators have apparently agreed to is that fighting climate change shouldn’t hurt countries’ economies — a position the Harper government has been pushing.”
Taking the status quo is really a non initiative. Restructuring our economy so we are not shitting in the air we breath and the water we drink is going to hurt economically. It is necessary to do it sooner than later because right now we have the choice to do it, when our ecosystems ‘decide‘ they have had enough of us I assure you, gentle reader, that the economies will be much more than “hurt”.
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