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Talk to your Chief/RSM. Unless your unit has real bad management/leadership, they should straighten up your supervisor.
Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???
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Different units and different environments have very different cultures. RCN vs CA vs RCAF...
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A lot of troops dont seem to understand they can request a meeting with their CSM/RSM at any time. Couple years back we had an issue with our S&T warrant, many complained to me but didnt wanna go to the CSM, sat them down and said look you got two options keep being bitter which will likely lead to you releasing from not being happy here or actually speak up to try and get things fixed.
The bystander effect on troops sometimes is crazy
no attack will ever be deterred by legislation. Any person who invades another's space has already made the decision, consciously or otherwise, to cause harm and no amount of legislation will stop him. Laws are to define the boundaries for law-abiding citizens they are useless in all other cases. Fear of the consequences can affect a person's behaviour as in I won't carry a gun because that adds another 5 days to my sentence if I get caught or I will use the gun I carry to try to avoid getting caught but it won't prevent the attack by an individual who has decided on home invasion as his means of support.
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Another sad home invasion case.
Edit to add: maybe its time PM Carney borrows some of Poilievres bail reform ideas.
Welland man facing child sexual assault charge freed early after similar attack, victim family says
Edit to add: maybe its time PM Carney borrows some of Poilievres bail reform ideas.
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As many have pointed out here, the issue with bail isnt the laws, its the fact prisons of over capacity that we dont have a place to hold these people so they are getting bail more or less because the system doesnt have a choice. Its an issue with capacity at provincial jails, a lack of provincial judges and prosecutors etc
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In no environment should bringing someone to work with a contagious illness be required. If you can’t trust your subordinates to tell you the truth when they have short illnesses, you have trust or power issues.
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Personally I think releasing a child sex offender back onto the street on bail is a problem with the law, full stop. But for the sake of argument it's all too easy to build a bunch of new prisons, hire a bunch of staff, and throwing these dirtbags into prison instead of back on the street (to violently sexually assault toddlers) and call it "bail reform". Charging how our bail system works one way or the other.
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Plenty of empty space in western Ontario to build prisons in the middle of no where. We just need to get on it. That or pick an island in the arctic
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It seems the Trudeau Liberals actually toughened up bail criteria, following 'soft on crime' criticism ... from Jan/25
From Sunny Ways to his Final Days: How Canada changed in nine years of Justin Trudeau’s leadership
Violent crime has increased in the country under the Liberals. According to Statistics Canada’s crime severity indices, both non-violent and violent crime have increased over the past nine years. Although it is worth noting that overall, crime is below levels seen earlier this century. The crime severity index, which dates back to 1998, peaked in 1999 at 118.84.
After facing criticism for inaction on crime, Trudeau’s government changed bail rules to place the onus on defendants to prove why they should be released.
From Sunny Ways to his Final Days: How Canada changed in nine years of Justin Trudeau’s leadership - Angus Reid Institute
New Liberal leader will face an electorate looking for answers to financial and health care challenges January 7, 2025 – This week Canadians received the news that many have been expecting for weeks, that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would be resigning his position as Liberal leader. Alongside...
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I do not disagree with you.
But I also see the profound differences between the three environments. And first hand experienced a HHQ two removed from me saying "regardless of what the rules may say, we will not even present to the L2 commander a request within his authority because we don't want to."
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What it really comes down to is the government is trying to save costs by sacrificing our safety.
Like most things Canadian, we half ass it and are shocked when it fails to work.
100miles north of Rankin. No walls required and no guards
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There's no room at the Inn, unfortunately...
For example:
South West Detention Centre among institutions over capacity
Most of Ontario's institutions were over capacity in 2023, the data shows.Maplehurst Correction Complex in Milton, Ont., was the most overcrowded last year, with an average inmate population of 1,188 but official capacity for 887 – meaning it was operating at 134 per cent capacity in 2023.
Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre in London, Ont., was a close second at 133 per cent capacity, with an average 471 inmates while having operational capacity for 353.
South West Detention Centre in Windsor, Ont., was operating at 129 per cent capacity, with 337 inmates but space for only 262 people.
Criminal lawyers and corrections officers say the overcrowding in jails has led to several problems, including cramped living conditions for inmates and an increase in assaults on correctional officers.
Inmates are triple bunking in single cells in several institutions, said Chad Oldfield, a corrections spokesman for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.
Correctional officers are increasingly assaulted, he said, and operational stress injuries and post-traumatic stress for the guards is on the rise.
"We've also lost a number of staff who have died by suicide over the last year," he said. "You've got climbing inmate counts and then you've got staffing shortages, it's just a recipe for disaster."
Correctional officers are third among occupations with approved work-related stress injury claims registered with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board between 2016 and 2022, WSIB data shows. Only police officers and paramedics have more stress injury claims.
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Legislation doesn't deter anything. Fear of a violent response and consequence does.
To me its on a person to person basis. Are you calling in sick all the time or very infrequently ? I track it, and watch for patterns. If I feel its becoming an entitlement I may order you to sick bay and when you're back we need to have a talk; maybe there are other things going on and you need help.
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Interesting piece on the collapse of the NDP support in the last election.
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"Singh stood outside of an auto plant in Windsor, Ont. during the federal election, hoping to offer support and comfort to workers reeling from news of new auto tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. But Singh was not greeted with warmth — most of them ignored him entirely, rushing past with their heads down as they came off shift, while some others indicated a preference for the Conservatives and Leader Pierre Poilievre."
"said both the Liberals and Conservatives have shifted their policies toward organized labour over the last decade and many within the NDP acknowledge the party has lost touch with where it started."
"about 25 per cent of workers have always voted Conservative."
"exit polling in recent elections in Canada, the U.S. and Germany all show that voters without higher education are shifting to the right."
"populist parties on the right sense a “generational opportunity” and have been adjusting their message and softening anti-union rhetoric."
""We were probably both taking each other for granted," Angus said, noting that the NDP was founded to give working class people political representation. "I think we strayed from that mission."
Labour vote splitting as Canada's political parties battle for workers' support
OTTAWA — A year ago, then-NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's Labour Day message to workers insisted that his party alone would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with working Canadians and the unions that work to protect their rights.
Labour vote splitting as Canada's political parties battle for workers' support
"Singh stood outside of an auto plant in Windsor, Ont. during the federal election, hoping to offer support and comfort to workers reeling from news of new auto tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. But Singh was not greeted with warmth — most of them ignored him entirely, rushing past with their heads down as they came off shift, while some others indicated a preference for the Conservatives and Leader Pierre Poilievre."
"said both the Liberals and Conservatives have shifted their policies toward organized labour over the last decade and many within the NDP acknowledge the party has lost touch with where it started."
"about 25 per cent of workers have always voted Conservative."
"exit polling in recent elections in Canada, the U.S. and Germany all show that voters without higher education are shifting to the right."
"populist parties on the right sense a “generational opportunity” and have been adjusting their message and softening anti-union rhetoric."
""We were probably both taking each other for granted," Angus said, noting that the NDP was founded to give working class people political representation. "I think we strayed from that mission."
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Looks like there was considerable backlash. The separate threat of a teachers strike happening at the same time also possibly playing a part.
Alberta government pauses ban on school library books with sexual content
The fact that the Edmonton public school board validly included “Atlas Shrugged” due to sexual content probably gave them pause.
