The Globe’s Gary Mason takes a retrospective look at how Restorative Justice practices could help with the Stanley Cup rioters. “Throwing an engineering student in jail for three months because he behaved like an idiot one night doesn’t make sense. There may be nothing in the 2011 Stanley Cup riot report as contentious as the …
Category Archive: Canada
Sep
13
Funding restored to restorative justice programs
The Alberta government is not going ahead with planned cuts to restorative justice programs. Members of the Alberta Restorative Justice Association were given the news Friday in a meeting with Solicitor General Frank Oberle. “I could have got up and kissed him. Like, really, it floored us because he was stern, very down to …
