But then why do we see increases of all types of crime in Saskatchewan?
While I might do my own analysis of reaction to oppression (as much of the
crime exists in the aboriginal community), our government's policies have
not been punitive a la Harris - or have they for a particular group?

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> Subject:      When social policy is health policy
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> Just like in Richard Wilkinson's "Unhealthy societies: The afflictions of
> inequality."
>
> Now if reporters could begin to analyze why this might be the case!
>
> Violent crime up 7.5% in Greater Toronto
> Young people have highest rate, Statscan says
>        Elaine Carey
>             DEMOGRAPHICS REPORTER
>   Greater Toronto's violent crime rate has risen dramatically for the
> first time
> in seven years and a leading criminologist
>   blames the Harris government.
>
>   ``It seems to me inevitable that we would have an increase in violence
> because
> it seems we have policies designed that
>   way,'' said Anthony Doob, a criminology professor at the University of
> Toronto.
>
>   Violent crime in Toronto rose by 7.5 per cent last year to a rate of 868
> incidents per 100,000 population, Statistics
>   Canada said in its annual report on crime yesterday. But property
> crimes,
> including theft, break and enter and fraud, fell
>   by 6.8 per cent.
>
>   This lead to a 2.1 per cent decline in the over-all crime rate, leaving
> Toronto with the fourth lowest rate of all
>   metropolitan areas, after Chicoutimi-Jonqui
>