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A commentary article of mine (Let's use common sense in cases of mercy killing, May 7) argued that Manitoba's Justice Department shows a lack of common sense and humanity in the way it handles mercy killing cases. I focused on the prosecution of two sick old men, Bert Doerksen and Tony Jaworski. Doerksen assisted his wife, Susan, to take her own life. Jaworski killed his wife Sophie by stabbing her with a knife. Both were cases in which the wife was suffering terribly and the husband acted from the motive of mercy or compassion.
The reason the unknowing and naive believe that Canada's crime rate is dropping is because they understand neither crime victims nor how law enforcement statistics are compiled. A Winnipeg police officer told me several years ago that the city's crime rate would be dropping steadily over the next few years because they had adapted a system to make it inconvenient to report crime. If an offence is not reported, statistically it didn't happen. It turns out his forecast was accurate.Lindor Reynolds gives us her usual heart-wrenching tale of yet another visitor to Winnipeg being mistreated, and how they'll never return. And we're all aghast, like it was an isolated incident. And upon reading Ms. Reynolds' column, readers jump up and tell us they are ashamed and embarrassed to live here. Like this is the only city where this kind of thing happens.See the full content of this document
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A commentary article of mine (Let's use common sense in cases of mercy killing, May 7) argued that Manitoba's Justice Department shows a lack of common sense and humanity in the way it handles mercy killing cases. I focused on the prosecution of two sick old men, Bert Doerksen and T...See the full content of this document
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