May 1, 2014 – Global News
Rick Raemish spent 20 hours in solitary confinement – exhausted, unable to sleep and bored out of his mind – because he wanted to.
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Canada’s sickest inmates are locked in its deadliest prisons
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May 1, 2014 – Global News
Kinew James died alone in her cell, pushing a button to call for help.
She died at Saskatoon Regional Psychiatric Centre, where more inmates have died in the past seven years than any other federal prison in Canada.
Investigation: Canada’s psychiatric prisons have highest death, assault rates
May 1, 2014 – Global News
Offenders are more likely to die or be violently attacked in a psychiatric prison than any other federal institution – by a long shot.
The people in these specialized facilities – in B.C., Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec – are the most vulnerable and problematic in a prison system already overflowing with mental illness.
And numbers obtained by Global News through an access to information request indicate they’re disproportionately subject to violence and death in the institutions supposedly designed to care for them best.
Do police have my mental heath info? Will it get me barred from the U.S.?
April 15, 2014 – Global News
In the wake of a report castigating police forces for automatically disclosing and sharing suicide attempts – info that gets into the hands of U.S. border guards, among others – many are wondering what bits of their personal info police databases might have, and whether it could prove compromising when crossing the border.
Stop automatically disclosing suicide attempts, privacy czar tells cops
April 14, 2014 – Global News
Stop sharing information on individuals’ suicide attempts with other police forces unless the people in question pose a danger to others, Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner is telling police.
Nomination news: CJF and CAJ
Global News got a couple of exciting accolades this week – a pair of nods from the Canadian Association of Journalists for Crude Awakening and Remembrance Day, and a nomination for globalnews.ca as a whole for Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award.
Toronto election: Why Scarborough transit debate isn’t a done deal
March 14, 2014 – Global News
It didn’t take long for Toronto’s mayoral candidates to reprise that most debated of transit issues: Scarborough’s magic morphing light rail/subway.
What’s behind Ontario’s job-market woes (hint: not the recession)
March 14, 2014 – Global News
Ontario’s labour dysfunction is more than a recessionary ripple effect, a new paper finds: It’s been more than a decade in the making.
Alberta regulator rejects CNRL request to steam at active spill site
March 10, 2014 – Global News
Alberta’s Energy Regulator has rejected Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s request to start steam operations amid a series of spills that have been oozing bitumen nonstop since last May.
CNRL wants to start high-pressure steaming near active spill site
March 5, 2014 – Global News
The company whose northern Alberta spills have been oozing bitumen for 10 months nonstop has asked the province to let it start high-pressure steam operations less than a kilometre away from one of the spill areas.
