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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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The Future of Prison Farms

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The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
In February 2009, it was discovered that Canada’s Public [...]

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