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Winnipeg Free Press - November 27, 2009

Education Plan Could Help Kids Avoid Scams

A longer-term solution is education, and I have great news for Manitoba parents on this front. Manitoba is the first jurisdiction in North America to introduce a comprehensive series of financial education modules, integrated into all school courses. This approach has proved to be much more effective than a stand-alone course on consumer math, especially since such a course tends only to be taken by students who don't take higher-level math (and go on to be post-graduate students and victims ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 47 Nbr. 1, January 2005

Two-tier health care, education, and policing: a comparative analysis of the discourses of privatization.

While there are similarities in the ways in which the debates on privatization of education, health care, and policing are constructed in ...... There is much more evidence of value-laden language in discussions of health care and education than policing. 4. The diversity of ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 47 Nbr. 3, July 2005

Needing treatment: a snapshot of provincially incarcerated adult offenders in Nova Scotia with a view towards substance abuse and population health.

... Methodology A standardized survey was run with adult offenders incarcerated at the provincial level across Nova Scotia. The purpose of the survey ...... During preliminary interviews conducted for the research, Corrections administrators and staff had estimated anecdotally the level of substance abuse among provincial inmates in ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (October 10, 2008)

Immigration Update @ Gowlings - September 2008

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

... or technical occupation (one at skill level B or under Canada's NOC system of ...... The minimum requirements are: completion of a program at a post-secondary institution in Canada of at least two academic years, or in the case of a one year Master's program, previous education prior to admission the Master's program ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (May 30, 2003)

Wall Street Investment Firms Reach Settlement On Research Analyst Conflicts

Goodmans LLP

... Additionally, seven of the firms must pay a total of US$80 million to fund and promote investor education. Structural Reforms The settlements ...... At the state level, model settlement agreements have been finalized ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 48 Nbr. 1, January 2006

Male and female youth crime in Canadian communities: assessing the applicability of social disorganization theory.

... Despite the theoretical richness of ecological theories, the data necessary for ecological analysis are difficult to obtain; crime data at the community level have been much more readily available for ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 47 Nbr. 2, April 2005

Evidence-based crime prevention: conclusions and directions for a safer society.

... Consider, also, the long-standing school-based substance abuse prevention program known as DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), for which the accumulated evidence shows that ...... But even in medicine, a discipline noted for its high educational requirements and its adherence to scientific ...

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2005, January 2005

Federalism matters: welfare reform and the inter-governmental balance of power in Canada and the United States.

... Typically the construction of the welfare state is attributed to the superior economic position of a strong national government, its financial capacity to provide high levels of desired public services that sub-central ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (July 16, 2008)

Competition Policy Review Panel Proposes National Competitiveness Agenda

Fasken Martineau

... air transport, uranium mining, The Report also offers recommendations in respect of tax policy, post-secondary education and training, selection and ...... "enterprise value" from the current level of $295 million in gross book value ...