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Labour Intensive Farming “No Longer Relevant” – Minister of Public Safety

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In February, startling news was leaked to Kingston, Ontario’s daily newspaper, The Whig-Standard. Minister of Public Safety, Peter Van Loan, was cutting Canada’s prison farm program located at six Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) institutions.
The program is part of CORCAN – the branch of CSC providing rehabilitative employment training to inmates.
The planned closures [...]

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