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Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Reilly, John
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First edition
- Call Number
- 07.2 R27bl
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- Author
- Reilly, John
- Responsibility
- John Reilly
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 231 pages
- Abstract
- From the bestselling author of Bad Medicine and its sequel Bad Judgment comes a wide-ranging, magisterial summation of the years-long intellectual and personal journey of an Alberta jurist who went against the grain and actually learned about Canada’s indigenous people in order to become a public servant. ”Probably my greatest claim to fame is that I changed my mind,” writes John Reilly in this broadly cogent interrogation of the Canadian justice system. Building on his previous two books, Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather than reducing it. He examines the radically different indigenous approach to wrongdoing, which is restorative rather than retributive, founded on the premise that people are basically good and wrongdoing is the aberration, not that humans are essentially evil and have to be deterred by horrendous punishments. He marshalls extensive evidence, including an historic 19th-century US case that was ultimately decided according to Sioux tribal custom, not US federal law. And then he just comes out and says it: “My proposition is that the dominant Canadian society should scrap its criminal justice system and replace it with the gentler, and more effective, process used by the indigenous people.” Punishment; deterrence; due process; the socially corrosive influence of anger, hatred and revenge; sexual offences; the expensive futility of “wars on drugs”; the radical power of forgiveness—all of that and more gets examined here. And not in a bloodlessly abstract, theoretical way, but with all the colour and anecdotal savour that could only come from an author who spent years watching it all so intently from the bench. (From Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- The beginning -- Learning -- Getting to know the Stoneys -- Restorative justice -- The origins of processes -- The evil Cornwallis -- Milton Born With a Tooth -- The right thing -- Respect -- Paradigm change -- Crow Dog v. Spotted Tail -- Rupert Ross -- Punishment -- Deterrence -- Due process -- Sawbonna -- Rev. Dale Lang -- To forgive or not to forgive -- Anger, hatred, vengeance -- Advocacy vs. conversation -- Polarization -- Drug prohibitions -- Sexual offences -- One size fits all -- Shifting focus from judicial solutions to community solutions -- The TRC -- FAQ.
- ISBN
- 9781771603348
- Accession Number
- P2020-6
- Call Number
- 07.2 R27bl
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publication on Rocky Mountain Books website
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- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- metal; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0009
- Description
- A blackjack made of flat strips of leather braided around a small round steel knob at the handle and larger, longer knob at the tip. There are folded strips of leather braided around the blackjack’s flexible shaft made of a coiled metal spring. There is a wrist strap of leather attached to a flat…
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- Title
- Blackjack
- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- metal; skin
- Dimensions
- 20.0 cm
- Description
- A blackjack made of flat strips of leather braided around a small round steel knob at the handle and larger, longer knob at the tip. There are folded strips of leather braided around the blackjack’s flexible shaft made of a coiled metal spring. There is a wrist strap of leather attached to a flat-braided ring which slides up and down the shaft. There are some illegible pencil markings inside the wrist strap “W--X--”.
- Subject
- weapons
- law enforcement
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0009
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[Former warden's reply to article : Wardens in arms by Ed Struzik]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13763
- Author
- Portman, Dale
- Physical Description
- p.19
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In Canadian Geographic, vol. 129, no. 6 (December 2009). Letter to editor reply pertianing to the Struzik article which examined the history of the warden service and the radical changes implemented to the force in November 2008
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Liquor and the liberal state : drink and order before prohibition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26245
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Malleck, Dan
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29l
- Author
- Malleck, Dan
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xiv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Prohibition
- Law
- Law enforcement
- Abstract
- Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces the takeover of liquor regulation by the Ontario provincial government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to an active prohibitionist movement and equally active liquor industry. While the liquor licensing regime helped build a vast patronage base for the governing Liberal Party, some believed it exceeded the constitutional authority of the provinces. The drink question became as political as it was moral - a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights, and, ultimately in the crafting of the modern state. Liquor and the Liberal State demonstrates the challenges governments faced when dealing with the seemingly simple, but tremendously complicated, alcoholic beverage. This lively and meticulous work shows how commentators of all stripes fit the liquor question into a complex conception of liberalism, typically seeing either prohibition or excessive consumption of liquor as an infringement of personal liberty and a threat to the fundamental values of the nation. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction: Arguing over liquor and liberalism -- The place of the government in the drinks of the people -- Centralization, I: The Crooks act -- Power and influence in the new system -- Politics, law, and the license branch -- How drinking affects the constitution, 1864-83 -- McCarthy and Crooks enter a tavern, 1883-85 -- Attempting to water down the Scott Act, 1884-92 -- Plebiscites as tools for change? 1883-94 -- Talking and blocking national prohibition, 1891-99 -- Dodging decisions at the end of the liberals' era, 1894-1905 -- Drinking in Whitney's conservative liberal state, 1905-07 -- Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907-16 -- Conclusion: liquor, liberalism, and the legacy of the Crooks act.
- ISBN
- 9780774867177
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29l
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- Archives Library
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The Moccasin Telegraph - muddy water manhunt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue66
- Author
- Feddema-Leonard, Susan
- Physical Description
- p. 6-7, 9-17
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Crime
- Law enforcement
- Hinman, Caroline
- Notes
- In Willmore Wilderness Foundation 2018 annual newsletter - images from Whyte Museum used: V282/pg70-1, V282/pg74,
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- P
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- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1999
- Author
- Laird, Gordon
- Call Number
- 07.2 S7l Pam
- Author
- Laird, Gordon
- Responsibility
- by Gordon Laird; photography by Myron Zabol
- Published Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- p.62-70 : ill
- Subjects
- Crime
- Law enforcement
- Government
- Reilly, John, Judge
- Snow, John, Chief
- Social services
- Stoney Indians
- Notes
- In Saturday Night, June 1999
- Call Number
- 07.2 S7l Pam
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- Archives Library
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Rally for the wardens
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11631
- Author
- McIvor, Mike
- Physical Description
- p. 13 - 14 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Law enforcement
- Notes
- In Wild lands Advocate, vol.9, no.6 (Dec 2001)
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- P
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- Date
- 1985
- Material
- fibre; skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1031 a,b
- Description
- Two Banff National Park warden hats.a) Soft light brown felt stetson with a leather band and a metal badge attached. b) Green felt Boy Scout style hat with four indents at the crown and four metal grommets for ventilation. A leather thong is threaded through two grommets where the brim meets the…
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- Title
- Warden Hat
- Date
- 1985
- Material
- fibre; skin; metal
- Description
- Two Banff National Park warden hats.a) Soft light brown felt stetson with a leather band and a metal badge attached. b) Green felt Boy Scout style hat with four indents at the crown and four metal grommets for ventilation. A leather thong is threaded through two grommets where the brim meets the crown. A Parks centennial “1885 - 1985” button and two stickers are attched to the front.
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1031 a,b
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Wardens in arms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13745
- Author
- Struzik, Ed
- Responsibility
- story and photography by Ed Struzik
- Physical Description
- p.50-61 : ill., map
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In Canadian Geographic, vol. 129, no. 4 (July / August 2009). Article examines the history of the warden service and the radical changes implemented to the force in November 2008
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