2018-01-19 For your selection, January 19, 2018

I want most urgently to circulate and encourage:

***   The deadline for participation in “transformation” of the Criminal Justice System, has been extended to January 31^st.  ***

 

Please help spread the word.  There are a number of ways to participate, besides making a submission.  Go to  justicetransformation.ca.  

I am hoping to find some excitingly innovative input from Canadians.  It is important to say something, even if it is to reinforce a point made by others.  The first link below is my submission.   There are many, quite different points to be made.  I addressed only one.

IF we don’t care, we will get a don’t-care system for Criminal Justice.

Added at bottom:  CBC Radio discussed NAFTA this morning.  Once again, they did not mention the ISDS clause.  I think it is really important to keep hammering it.  So once again, I challenged them on the omission.  See at bottom.

 

POSTINGS, FOR YOUR SELECTION

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=20228

My submission to the consultations – – different from many?  I focused on  “No, we do not have the Rule of Law in Canada“.   The people in Corporations and other people of power are not always prosecuted for their crimes.   They can be exempted, for example, by paying fines – –  financed and expensed by the Corporation.  The person walks away.  And so on.

I hope my submission makes it clear that we will ALL be the worse off,  if the status quo continues.

The question asked is    “How would you change our Justice system to better serve all Canadians?”

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http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=20281

The reply I received from the Justice Transformation project.  Tells of the extended deadline.

I phoned the Deputy Minister of Justice’s office in Saskatchewan on January 19^th.  They did not know about the Federal Government’s Justice Transformation initiative.   You might think of persons who should know, and contact them?

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http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=20290    Ted Talk

The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insight that comes with taking time for stillness  . . . he teases out strategies we all can use. . . .

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2018-01-10 Powerful press conference! New York City is divesting from fossil fuels AND suing 5 big oil and gas companies.

This may be the best press conference I have ever watched

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2018-01-07  Dr. Mark Hyman on changing the way we do “health”. Functional medicine. Free on-line series, “Broken Brain”.

Time sensitive.

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2018-01-18   ‘Insanity’ to allow nuclear waste storage near Ottawa River, Indigenous groups say, CBC News

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2017-07-11   (USA) Is The Justice Department Shying Away From Prosecuting Corporations? NPR interview, author Jesse Eisinger

It’s an American source that speaks well to what I tried to say in my submission to justicetransformation.ca.

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2018-01-14 Canadians who have ‘electromagnetic hypersensitivity’ (EHS) feel forced to escape modern life – home

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2018-01-09 ‘We need to let social media run amok,’ says scholar Chris Kutarna. CBC The Current.

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2018-01-09 Julian Assange: Ecuador seeks mediator in ‘unsustainable’ standoff

In the time since that article, Ecuador is, or was, attempting to provide Assange with Ecuadorean citizenship.

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2015-03-17  Updated 2017-12,  The Minerva Initiative

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2017-12-06  Indigenous Climate Action rejects $150,000 award from Aviva Canada due to moral conflict with Aviva investments

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Children are moulded, “The Golden Notebook”, Doris Lessing

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Just posted this morning:

2018-01-20   It appears that the NAFTA ISDS clause does not exist. A note to the CBC.

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I have been neglecting you!    There are more postings that I didn’t send notice of.   Consider my failure a Christmas gift to you.  Quiet! 

Cheers,    Sandra