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Don’t panic: Statscan job error’s more awkward than catastrophic

August 15, 2014September 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

August 15, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Remember when Statistics Canada said the country added 200 jobs in July?

That was last week: The number-crunching agency really meant 42,000.

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What’s in Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley tailings? Should you be worried?

August 5, 2014September 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

August 5, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

The bad news: Spilling five million cubic metres of tailings represents a massive failure of a mine-waste storage method designed to be safe and secure for decades (and on whose safety guarantee permission to develop mines is supposed to rest).

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Ontario’s now the worst place for educated immigrants looking for work

July 30, 2014August 3, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 30, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Tim Iqbal’s first job in Canada was shovelling snow.

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Should we be hiring more compassionate cops?

July 29, 2014August 3, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 29, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny and James Armstrong, Global News

The head of Toronto’s civilian police watchdog thinks aspiring officer​s should have to volunteer​ with people who have mental illness.

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Health Canada looking for ways to make opioid prescribing safer

July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Health Canada wants ideas on how to stop risky prescribing of the drugs fuelling Canada’s fastest-growing addictions.

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Mentally ill inmate isn’t a dangerous offender, judge finds

July 25, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Marlene Carter, a 43-year-old inmate with severe mental illness who’s spent much of her five years behind bars tied to a plank, bed or chair in a solitary cell, is not a dangerous offender, a judge has ruled.

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Some mentally ill inmates face solitary confinement by another name

July 24, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 24, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Special designations for federal inmates with the most complex psychiatric needs often result in their being kept in what is, effectively, solitary confinement – just don’t call it that.

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Tied down in solitary for years, is sick inmate a dangerous offender?

July 24, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 24, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Marlene Carter is sick.

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If crime is down, why are provincial jails crammed with legally innocent people?

July 23, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 23, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Crime is down – violent crime, especially. But provincial jails are overflowing with a growing number of people who are legally innocent and awaiting trial, a Canadian Civil Liberties Association report finds.

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Should we stop freaking out about Ontario manufacturing jobs?

July 16, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 16, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Perhaps you’ve heard: The number of Ontarians working in manufacturing jobs reached a 38-year low in Statistics Canada’s most recent jobs numbers.

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