Alberta court renames Gladue pre-sentencing report for Indigenous offenders
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You're right, the people who grew up in those schools should just get over the trauma, rape and medical experiments, we're tired of the whining!!! /S The problem is that the kids who grew up in those schools are now the adults causing problems. They aren't dead yet they f'd up the next generation and the third generation is just hitting adulthood…
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Again, if someone has cancer and is going to look like a freak with half a face I think it is much more palatable to provide them with reconstructive surgery than it is to provide someone with fake breasts because they don't feel like a woman when there are plenty of beautiful women out there with flat chests.
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Do you think you would really care about this issue enough to upset the status quo that has existed for decades, taking care away from cancer patients if trans people weren't part of the conversation?
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Gladue reports stem from legislation that explicitly mandates unique treatment for the Indigenous, with the goal of reducing Indigenous over-representation among the incarcerated. ...and it doesn't actually reduce that overrepresentation. Indigenous people still spend more time in prision, so obvious the judges are giving them a "Canadian Tire…
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I'm pretty left wing. Right wing policy is wrong about so many things fundamentally in my eyes, but the left gets human rights completely wrong in the opposite direction. Remember afluenza kid? Rich people get massively reduced sentences all the time yet somehow it's only an issue when someone raised on a reserve gets a very slightly reduced…
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A small part of the population seems to be continuing this experiment through “gentle parenting”, antivax, and home schooling. It’s like we’ve learned nothing in centuries of education.
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That’s not true? Sentencing is individualized for every offender and you can find any number of cases involving non-indigenous offenders where the judge takes into account their history. If that history includes growing up in a home with abuse, growing up in poverty, growing up in a dangerous situation, anything that will give context to the…
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I love separating people into groups by race and ethnicity for equality and fairness!!! But dont you ever EVER do that WHITEY. /s
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Yes because it has been documented many time. Fraud is a crime. When the victim is an entire country some people might be annoyed.
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Clearly based on the comments in this post alone, there is another side to the story that this CBC reporter has no interest in.