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<div itemscope itemtype="/BlogPosting"><p><strong>By Lindsay Kines</strong></p><p>VICTORIA ― The murders of three young children at the hands of their father in Merritt, B.C,christian louboutin shoes. four years ago could have been prevented if the province’s child welfare, justice and mental health systems had worked properly, British Columbia’s child watch dog said in a report released Thursday.</p><p>Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C,louboutin shoes.’s Representative for Children and Youth, says the province’s social safety net failed 10-year-old Kaitlynne Schoenborn and her brothers Max, 8, and Cordon, 5, who were killed by their mentally ill father, Allan Schoenborn in April 2008,christian louboutin heels.</p><p>He was later found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder and sent to a psychiatric hospital for an indeterminate amount of time,The Moon is in Taur.</p><p>Turpel-Lafond found that police, social workers and corrections workers failed to investigate the severity of the father’s mental illness ― even though it was identified as an issue by child welfare workers as early as 1999.</p><p>The various agencies also neglected to collaborate and share information.</p><p>“The representative concludes that the answer to the question of whether the killing of these children was preventable is clearly ‘yes,’ ” the report says. “If the social safety net comprised of child protection, justice and mental health had worked appropriately and in partnership in this case,karen millen dresses, there is a high likelihood that the deaths of these three children would have been avoided.”</p><p>Nor have things improved since the children’s deaths,karen millen sale, Turpel-Lafond concludes,christian louboutin heels.</p><p>“Today, almost four years after the deaths of these three children, a collaborative,So the question that, systemic approach to complex cases across B.C.’s child-serving, mental health,louboutin shoes, and criminal and civil justice systems still does not exist,About 10 kilometres. More work and much change are urgently required to protect other children and families from injury and death.”</p><p>Turpel-Lafond said the B,christian louboutin sale.C,louboutin uk. government has failed to put a better system in place to help children living with domestic violence, as she recommended in her 2009 report on the death of Christian Lee in an Oak Bay murder-suicide.</p><p>“It is alarming and frustrating, in releasing today’s report focused on Kaitlynne, Cordon and Max,karen millen sale, to not be able to point to significant improvements since we released our Honouring Christian Lee report in 2009,” Turpel-Lafond said in a news release.</p><p>“Instead, today we still see unaddressed disconnects between systems that so urgently need to be working closely together in domestic violence situations ― child protection, income assistance, mental health, police and judicial systems.”</p><p>Turpel-Lafond called for the government to renew its commitment to protecting children living with domestic violence and put together a comprehensive plan by September.</p><p>She also recommended that the Ministry of Children and Family Development and the Ministry of Health act immediately to ensure their staff understand the risks to children from parents with serious untreated mental illness.</p></div> | <div itemscope itemtype="/BlogPosting"><p><strong>By Lindsay Kines</strong></p><p>VICTORIA ― The murders of three young children at the hands of their father in Merritt, B.C,christian louboutin shoes. four years ago could have been prevented if the province’s child welfare, justice and mental health systems had worked properly, British Columbia’s child watch dog said in a report released Thursday.</p><p>Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C,louboutin shoes.’s Representative for Children and Youth, says the province’s social safety net failed 10-year-old Kaitlynne Schoenborn and her brothers Max, 8, and Cordon, 5, who were killed by their mentally ill father, Allan Schoenborn in April 2008,christian louboutin heels.</p><p>He was later found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder and sent to a psychiatric hospital for an indeterminate amount of time,The Moon is in Taur.</p><p>Turpel-Lafond found that police, social workers and corrections workers failed to investigate the severity of the father’s mental illness ― even though it was identified as an issue by child welfare workers as early as 1999.</p><p>The various agencies also neglected to collaborate and share information.</p><p>“The representative concludes that the answer to the question of whether the killing of these children was preventable is clearly ‘yes,’ ” the report says. “If the social safety net comprised of child protection, justice and mental health had worked appropriately and in partnership in this case,karen millen dresses, there is a high likelihood that the deaths of these three children would have been avoided.”</p><p>Nor have things improved since the children’s deaths,karen millen sale, Turpel-Lafond concludes,christian louboutin heels.</p><p>“Today, almost four years after the deaths of these three children, a collaborative,So the question that, systemic approach to complex cases across B.C.’s child-serving, mental health,louboutin shoes, and criminal and civil justice systems still does not exist,About 10 kilometres. More work and much change are urgently required to protect other children and families from injury and death.”</p><p>Turpel-Lafond said the B,christian louboutin sale.C,louboutin uk. government has failed to put a better system in place to help children living with domestic violence, as she recommended in her 2009 report on the death of Christian Lee in an Oak Bay murder-suicide.</p><p>“It is alarming and frustrating, in releasing today’s report focused on Kaitlynne, Cordon and Max,karen millen sale, to not be able to point to significant improvements since we released our Honouring Christian Lee report in 2009,” Turpel-Lafond said in a news release.</p><p>“Instead, today we still see unaddressed disconnects between systems that so urgently need to be working closely together in domestic violence situations ― child protection, income assistance, mental health, police and judicial systems.”</p><p>Turpel-Lafond called for the government to renew its commitment to protecting children living with domestic violence and put together a comprehensive plan by September.</p><p>She also recommended that the Ministry of Children and Family Development and the Ministry of Health act immediately to ensure their staff understand the risks to children from parents with serious untreated mental illness.</p></div> | ||
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| + | <div itemscope itemtype="/BlogPosting"><p>Canada and Denmark appear close to agreement in their festering territorial dispute over Hans Island,karen millen sale, with an amicable plan for both countries to split ownership of the tiny, barren rock in the Arctic being put forward.</p><p>A plan to divide the island — a 1.3 square kilometre rock between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland, a self-governing territory under the Danish crown — through the middle would give Canada a second foreign land border and settle a spat that captured international attention as much for its absurdity as its potential seriousness.</p><p>The position taken by bi-national negotiators is to connect the 1.2-kilometre gap in the existing maritime boundary across the landmass, sources say. The maritime boundary currently stops at the low-water mark on the island’s south side and starts again from the low-water mark on the north side, a cartographic decision made in 1973 that left the competing claims unresolved.</p><p>Connecting the dots would divide Hans Island almost precisely in half,with Mr that was ju.</p><p>But whether Ottawa and Copenhagen approve the settlement plan, and when it might be unveiled, may be a harder decision for politicians,christian louboutin uk.</p><p>“The political complexities of making an announcement are, in many ways, much more complicated than settling the actual territorial dispute,” said Whitney Lackenbauer, associate professor of history at St. Jerome’s University, part of the University of Waterloo, who studies Arctic sovereignty.</p><p>“Both governments publicly staked their sovereignty claims. The early messaging of ‘standing up for Canada’ puts our government in a difficult position,karen millen outlet.”</p><p>Rob Huebert, an Arctic security specialist at the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, said: “Settling is not necessarily a bad thing — it gets the irritant out of the way,louboutin shoes. But it could have a political cost to stand up and say: ‘We’ve surrendered a little bit.’”</p><p>Despite word of a draft settlement, a spokesman for the Minister of Foreign Affairs said Ottawa has not yet accepted a plan,christian louboutin shoes.</p><p>“Canada and Denmark are cooperating in developing a mutually agreeable way forward with respect to Hans Island,christian louboutin uk,to mixed but growin,” said Joseph Lavoie.</p><p>“The dispute continues to be well-managed in accordance with the 2005 Joint Statement on Hans Island. Canada and Denmark have excellent relations and we are satisfied with how our current arrangement is working,” he said.</p><p>Jingoistic posturing over ownership of the frigid rock started in earnest in 2004, in response to the <em>National Post</em> highlighting the island as one of four boundary disputes causing concern over Canada’s ability to maintain sovereignty of its vast northern region.</p><p>News that Danish warships and naval personnel were visiting the island caused alarm.</p><p>Svend Roed Nielsen, the Danish government’s top representative in Canada at the time, told the <em>Post</em> his government was trying to “keep our ammunition dry” in the dispute.</p><p>Bill Graham, then Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, retorted in Parliament: “I can assure this House, this government will not surrender any sovereignty of any of Canada’s lands in the Arctic or anywhere else in the world.”</p><p>The coverage prompted a rally in front of a Danish consulate by protesters declaring “We Eat Danish for Breakfast,” and a visit to the island by Canadian soldiers — who captured a Danish flag and erected a 12-foot pole, topped by a Canadian flag — in a military operation code-named Exercise Frozen Beaver.</p><p>Mr. Graham himself then visited the island to pose for photographs with the flag, an act that prompted Denmark to call in Canada’s envoy for an official protest.</p><p>The dispute between such symmetrically soft powers over a barren rock piqued the fancy of the international press, eliciting bemused articles and sarcastic cartoons.</p><p>Despite the rhetoric, it now appears it will be settled as it was always likely to be — in quiet compromise.</p><p>In 2005,louboutin uk, an agreement to negotiate a settlement was signed by Ottawa and Copenhagen and lawyers from the two foreign ministries have been working on it since.</p><p>“This is not a daunting task,” said Michael Byers, Canadian Research Chair in International Law and Politics at the University of British Columbia.</p><p>“The fact of the matter is,etc Prey drive issu, this is disputed territory; there are tenable arguments on either side and the two countries are very close allies. This is something that good friends can easily work out,” said Prof. Byers.</p><p>“An opportune time to do so is early in a majority government, because if there is any political flak to weather over this it will dissipate fairly quickly.”</p><p>Fallout there could be,karen millen uk.</p><p>A recent public opinion survey showed that the Canadian public took the hardest stance on Arctic sovereignty among all northern nations — including Russia and the United States.</p><p>Some 42% of Canadians wanted their government to “pursue a firm line” in defending the Arctic compared to 5% of Danes.</p><p>But there are benefits for Ottawa in agreeing to a compromised, analysts said.</p><p>“It may be the Harper government wants to give the trade talks with the European Union a little positive push by solving the longstanding and almost insignificant boundary dispute,” said Prof. Byers,karen millen uk.</p><p>A compromise could also enhance Canada’s reputation for maturity, responsibility and cooperation prior to submitting its claim on the Arctic seabed that is being prepared by all northern countries for submission next year to the United Nations for arbitration.</p><p>Prof. Lackenbauer said Canada having a second international land border wouldn’t make much difference in practical terms,christian louboutin heels.</p><p>“It might end up only being a fun Trivial Pursuit question, but it might get us thinking about the fact that we aren’t only neighbours with the Americans, that we are part of an Arctic community of nations as well,” he said.</p><p><em>National Post</em><br /><em> </em></p></div> | ||
