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Globally we are in that straitjacket now Mr Munday. It already at the doorstep. Its got the power to shake up the whole world into a new reality. I am afraid that this opportunity will be grasped at the 11th hour by opposing Communist forces..no need to name names, as we know who they are on the world stage. It will be of no surprise  either that China is just sitting and waiting to make her move, her strike at all our necks.
Change that you and I want is by necessity incremental at best. To give in to inertia and ennui is just not on for the likes of I. Peeps demonstrating in the streets will now be commonplace and hopefully sanity rules at the end of the day. For it is in the realm of the street that all our nations will be rest back to us.

world  economic collapse explained in 3 minutes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao

ASOLUTELY PRICELESS CONAN

    Now I don't have anything against blacks but this is an interesting statistic. My personal opinion is that the influence from rap musics glamourisation of the crack gang lifestyle is largely responsible

 
Prison watchdog probes spike in number of black inmates

15/12/2011 9:48:07 AM

CBC News
Canada's independent prisons ombudsman has launched an inquiry into a 50 per cent spike in the proportion of black offenders filling federal jails over the last 10 years.


Howard Sapers, the federal correctional investigator, wants to study the possible causes behind the increase, which saw the proportion of black offenders in federal incarceration jump to 9.12 per cent in 2010-2011, from less than six per cent a decade earlier.


 





It amounts to a 52 per cent leap, with the most dramatic increase occurring over the last five years.

Black people make up roughly 2.5 per cent of Canada's population.

More than 1,300 black offenders are currently serving time in federal penitentiaries.

Most of them are in Ontario, where 20 per cent of the entire federal prison population of 14,312 inmates is black, according to new statistics.

Saper will explore why the numbers have increased so rapidly. If there are gaps in the system that must be filled, such as a possible need to hire more visible minority staff, he hopes to identify them.

Locked away during 'formative years'

"We've decided to commence an investigation into both the increase and to help us determine whether the CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] is meeting the needs of this population of offenders," Sapers told CBC News.

"We'll be taking a look at how culturally appropriate programs are - whether or not the Correctional Service of Canada is living up to its legal responsibility to provide ethno-cultural services that are specific to meet the needs of this group."

Sapers said it will be several months before his report is filed, but he already has theories.

"We suspect that this is a population of offenders who are sentenced for the first time for longer periods of time, but are entering the institution at an age that is younger than the general population," he said.

That means most of those black inmates will still be in their peak employment years by the time they get out of prison, said Moya Teklu, a policy research lawyer at the African Canadian Legal Clinic.

"They're so young and they're locked away for so long," she said. "Those are formative years. Those are the years where you learn to become an adult, a contributing member of society. If they don't learn that in these institutions, then we're going to have a huge problem when they're released back into society."

The disproportionate number of black convicts serving in federal prisons has long troubled Roger Rowe.

The Toronto lawyer, who has been practising for more than 20 years, said little has changed since a 1995 report on systemic racism in Ontario's criminal justice system.

"On any given day, you can step into any criminal court in Toronto and see a gross over-representation of black young males," Rowe said, adding that he feels the issue of an over-representation of black and aboriginal people has been studied to death.

Tackling root causes

Rowe said tackling root societal causes would be key to solving the over-representation problem.

"Very often, poverty is a factor. Disengagement from the school system is a factor. Racial profiling is a factor," Rowe said.

A key question in Sapers' investigation is to learn what distinguishes black offenders from other inmates.

Tazio Clarke, a Toronto social worker who mostly helps adolescent, high-risk and black offenders, said Sapers will likely find that the black prison population is young and in need of education.

"As soon as my youth come out, I'm setting up appointments for school meetings to advocate, to just get them into school," Clarke said.

Clarke estimates that 80 per cent of the teens he sees behind bars are black. Many are caught in a cycle of criminality.

"Lots of theft, assault, robbery, armed robbery to murder, attempted murder. So it's a vast range but the commonality is that it's repeated," he said.

Without proper opportunities to learn and acquire skills or job prospects, Clarke foresees many of the youths he works with continuing to get locked up, boosting the numbers even further.

"It takes a while as a worker to get used to that sight," Clarke said. "It's actually pretty traumatic, I would say."

As for the latest statistics showing the spike in black inmate representation, Clarke was hardly surprised, adding that he only needs to scan the faces in a detention centre to draw an obvious conclusion.

"Visually, I could see the reality to the stats," he said. "Like, what's going on here? Do they have specific jails for other cultures that I'm not visiting? Because I'm not seeing them."

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Quote from: Maggie on December 10, 2011, 05:28:11 pm

i think it has come to the point in the west that the environmental movement has zero credibility.....they are against any development no matter what it is or how safe it is......consequently government pays only lip service to their concerns....sure when they get loud enough they can bully certain politicians into retreating but i think things are changing...especially with Harper in Ottawa....i think when they try to pull their nonsense on him it will only harden his stance and make him push forward with greater determination.....these environmental studies are a mere formality..........if the government decides to proceed and issues the permits then that is the law......true in the past the liberals have loaded the courts with political appointees that sided with the eco terrorists.....but that too is changing and i am not convinced they will get as favorable a hearing when they try to block it as they use to....time will tell

If only that were true Munday. Shelia Legget, was appointed by Harper to chair the hearings on Northern Gateway. Before the hearings even begin next month she has already delayed a decison by one year. Why you ask?? So, every foreign interest group with funding from George Soros or the competition in the Middle East/Venezuela/Nigeria can speak up and say why Canada can`t expand it`s export market.

We need to start speaking out against this kind of interference and corruption. The environmental argument is just an excuse and a flimsy one at that.

indeed, which is why i say no matter who is in Ottawa it never changes.....what would possess a CONSERVATIVE prime minister to appoint an idiot like Legget to head up such a panel / why would a CONSERVATIVE prime minister appoint that idiot as parliamentary budget officer. why would a CONSERVATIVE prime minister not appoint more conservative judges to the bench.....it just does not make sense and furthers my point about the whole system being rotten to the core.....

that being said and I agree with your sentiment Mr Munday however there are those decent politicians in all parties elected by the peeps who need to make change from within. Weighing in, there are more decent politicians in the Conservative Party than all the others in my opine. I vote for that change, incremental ya sure but change nevertheless. I hold my nose and vote for the best of a bad bunch. For not to vote stets us up for a worse state of affaires altogether. Dictatorship\Fascism