"The latest poverty statistics were released by Statistics Canada last Wednesday, and the data once again shows that British Columbia has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada.
Using the Low Income Cut-Off – After Tax (LICO-AT) as the poverty line, 1 in 10 British Columbians are living in poverty. That's 469,000 people struggling to make ends meet. In relation to the rest of the country, B.C. is tied third with Quebec after Ontario and Manitoba."
Trish Garner, Rabble. December 17, 2014.
And an absence of real justice ...
"But most frightening of all is that a crime in America seems to be becoming more what authorities say it is, rather than what the law says.
The most obvious example is the prosecutors who appear to have guided grand juries away from indicting police who killed unarmed citizens, even when there was no obvious need to deploy that kind of force." Neil Macdonald, CBC.ca
And an absence of real justice ...
"But most frightening of all is that a crime in America seems to be becoming more what authorities say it is, rather than what the law says.
The most obvious example is the prosecutors who appear to have guided grand juries away from indicting police who killed unarmed citizens, even when there was no obvious need to deploy that kind of force." Neil Macdonald, CBC.ca
These are the signs of illegitimate power at work.
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