Media focus on crime aids crime rate decline in Canada
BC Reform leader Jack Weisgerber says media coverage of violent crime has helped raise awareness and spur actions that may reduce crime. He cites groups like CRY and CAVEAT and trends such as calls for a national sex offender registry, DNA evidence laws, and public education campaigns influenced by reporting.
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BC Reform
Jack Weisgerber
Statistics Canada
Canada
Weisgerber
CRY, Caveat
Melanie Carpenter
Neighborhood Watch
Research on Northern BC tree planters health risk taking
Jocalyn Clark a MBC masters student in Community Health at the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences studies tree planters in northern BC to understand health risk taking. Interviews with workers aim to map working social conditions, culture and gender issues fueling risk behavior in a seasonal high income job that attracts about 3000 people yearly funded by a 21000 BC Health Research Foundation grant.
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Jocalyn Clark
MBC
Faculty of Health and Human Sciences
Ms Clark
North East
Clark
BC Health Research Foundation
University of Victoria
ReMax Tops $1 Million For Children's Miracle Network
ReMax becomes first Canadian sponsor to CMN, surpassing $1 million in contributions. Since 1992, ReMax in Canada and the U.S. have donated $7.9 million through employee pledges auctions and fundraising ventures. Donations funded bedside telephones and a full hospital wing sponsorship for bed-ridden children.
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ReMax
Children’s Miracle Network
Canada
United States
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