(Montreal) The incarceration rate of Inuit in Quebec jails is 15 times higher than the provincial average, according to data from the Quebec Ministry of Public Safety.

Posted 10:22am Updated 12:13pm

Jacob Serebrin The Canadian Press

According to these statistics, approximately 4.5% of the Inuit population living in Quebec was imprisoned in a provincial jail for a one-year period ending March 31, 2022.

This rate is almost double that of any other Aboriginal group.

David Boudreau, an attorney with the Legal Aid Bureau who has worked in northern Quebec for more than five years, believes the high incarceration rate is due to a “scandalous lack of resources.”

He says programs aimed at preventing crime or diverting offenders from the justice system are not often available in Nunavik, where the majority of the province’s Inuit live.

Mr. Boudreau specifically cites the lack of sex education programs or services that allow people to heal from trauma. “That causes the never-ending cycle of aggression,” he laments. There are many sexual assault cases in Nunavik courts, but the care programs offered to offenders in southern Quebec are not available to people living in the north, the attorney adds.

The only help available to residents is often provided by social workers, not all of whom have the professional skills to deal with these issues. As a result, Inuit convicts must serve their sentences in prison rather than under house arrest. Only a few will receive a suspended sentence.

“Judges are very sensitive to the lack of resources, but it is beyond their power to solve this problem,” stresses Me Boudreau. You have to work with what you have. There is a lack of political will to set up programs that would reduce the crime rate. »

Inuit make up less than 0.16% of Quebec’s population, but made up 2.45% of inmates in provincial jails for a year ended March 31, 2022.

They also make up 12.4% of Québec’s Aboriginal population, but make up 35% of the Aboriginal prison population in Quebec prisons over the same period, according to federal and provincial data.

Mylène Jaccoud, a professor in the University of Montreal’s Department of Criminology, says Inuit are “over-represented” in provincial prisons.

She recalls that the James Bay and Northern Quebec Convention, signed in 1975, had granted autonomy to the Inuit, but their process of self-determination was less advanced for them than for certain First Nations, such as the Crees.

“The Cree took charge of their administration of justice in a way that the Inuit did not. For me, that makes a big difference,” launches Pre Jaccoud. To illustrate this phenomenon, she points out that the vast majority of Nunavik police officers are non-Inuit. As of May 2022, the Nunavik Police Service had only 4 Inuit officers out of 88 they employed. The region’s population is 90% Inuit.

Police refused to give The Canadian Press an interview.

Another problem: There are no prisons in Nunavik. In Amos, more than 1,000 km from Kuujjuaq, the region’s largest city, inmates often have to serve their sentences.

In 2022, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Quebec government on behalf of more than 1,500 Inuit prisoners. According to the lawsuit, the Inuit’s rights are systematically violated when they are transferred to prisons far from their community.

The lawsuit also criticizes the government for a system that prevents detainees from receiving bail hearings within the time limits set by the Criminal Code, leading to excessive and unjustified pre-trial detention.

The Makivik Corporation, which represents the Inuit in negotiations with various levels of government, has not called back The Canadian Press despite our numerous calls. The office of Minister for Relations with First Nations and Inuit, Ian Lafrenière, referred the questions to Public Safety Minister François Bonnardel, who declined to comment.

Renaud Lavillenie, injured, the doctors have forbidden him to run at full speed but he cannot help it, his nervous system does not allow him not to sprint onto the pole mat and throw himself at Mondo Duplantis, which he knocks down and with him, agitated, embraced, he wallows happily. It’s finally done, with an intimacy that the television cameras magnify, make universal, the pole vault handover between the older and the younger brother, two pole vault miracles, two athletes capable of bending almost six poles with strength and speed Feet rigid and stiff and as hard as old tree trunks and turning them into a feather that makes them fly up and one pushed the other.

A ceremony of transfer of power that is religion in the Pole, the sporting activity furthest from the ground and closest to its roots.

As Lavillenie did nine years ago at the home of Sergei Bubka in Donetsk, the capital of Ukraine’s Donbass, which was shortly afterwards ambushed by Vladimir Putin’s Russian troops and would burn down the gymnasium where he jumped, Duplantis struck at the house of Lavillenie, in the Clermont Ferrand de la Michelin and in the Puy de Dôme, the world record. The Frenchman, who is now 36, then jumped 6.16m and couldn’t jump higher because, excited at having jumped 6.16m, he later attempted 6.21m and injured himself, and it was him again not; The 23-year-old Swede from Louisiana jumped 6.22 meters on Saturday. He does it with his yellow cane, a 20-step run, 45 meters, on the third attempt. It was the sixth time Duplantis had broken the world record, but he celebrated it as excitedly and happily beside himself as if it were the first.

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“It was my big goal to beat him here in Clermont Ferrand to do it here for Renaud,” admitted the Swedish child prodigy, the Polish Mozart, precocious and brilliant. Duplantis first made 6.17 meters in Torun (Poland) three years ago, in February 2020, just 20 years old, and improved a week later in Glasgow (6.18 m), days before confining the pandemic world to her homeland . After Olympic gold in Tokyo in the summer of 21, the Swede, son of an American pole vaulter and a Swedish heptathlete, set the record lift last winter with 6.19 meters and 6.20 meters in two consecutive indoor competitions in Belgrade. and to win his first outdoor World Cup in Eugene in July 2022, he added another inch to the record to 6.21 meters, the height he erased in Clermont Ferrand under the indescribable gaze of an emotional Lavillenie. “Beating him in front of you is very special. I certainly wouldn’t have made it without his presence.”

Mondo Duplantis is called Alien because he makes the impossible easy, as the Ukrainian Sergei Bubka, the Tsar of Poland, was told almost 40 years before him. Bubka, athletically the opposite of Duplantis – he was a muscular cabinet, potential energy expressed in strength and refined, analytical technique; A light and very fast little angel, the Swede was born with a pole or a broomstick in his hands and is guided by inspiration, ingenuity and an apparent insouciance and security – he broke his first world record (5.85 meters) in the May 1984 and 16 records and nine years later, on February 21, 1993, 30 years ago, he left it at the 6.15 meters, which Lavillenie was only able to overcome in 2014 under his watchful eye at home.

“I had a Bubka poster in my room,” says Lavillenie in L’Équipe, “but Mondo had one of mine. I have a very special relationship with him, hard to describe. The truth is that I contributed a bit to create this monster. He’s going to break the record a few more times, this won’t be the last, but he’ll do it here at least once.

None of them, neither Bubka nor Lavillenie, managed to exceed the 6.20 meter limit that all the specialists had predicted for them. That honor went to Duplantis, who, given his youth, is promised by everyone that he will reach 6.30 metres. It won’t be this winter when he nears the new frontier. The Swede has already announced that he will not be taking part in the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul this weekend. There is an outdoor world cup in Budapest in August, and there he will be ready to fly higher and afterwards repeat his motto: “The only limit is the sky”.

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Bernard Looney, chief executive of British hydrocarbon giant BP, will receive an extraordinary bonus of £11.4 million, or CA$18.5 million, as hydrocarbon prices soar, the Times reports in its Sunday edition.

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BP reported full-year results for 2022 on February 7, buoyed by the rise in oil and gas prices, particularly the war in Ukraine.

The British company saw its profit excluding special items, the indicator favored by the markets, more than double in a year to $27.7 billion, a record.

Contacted by AFP, BP has neither confirmed nor denied the size of the bonus awarded to Bernard Looney. “Details of our CEO’s compensation will be included in the annual report to be released in the first half of March,” said David Nicholas, a spokesman for the company.

The size of the exceptional bonuses given to Bernard Looney and other executives at the company have been the subject of consultations with investors, according to the Times.

A dispute with investors over compensation would increase political pressure on BP, which, like other energy giants, has faced calls for higher taxes on windfall profits, the newspaper noted.

Inflation in the UK exceeds 10%, mainly due to energy prices.

With the cost of living rising, workers in sectors ranging from railway workers to teachers and nurses have been on strike in recent months to demand pay rises.

In one of the country’s unexpectedly closest midterm races, 55-year-old “healthy” Democrat Adam Frisch failed to eject Colorado firefighter Lauren Boebert from Congress in November’s election by just 564 votes.

While the next parliamentary elections are not due until 2024, Frisch is looking forward to beating the “Angertainment” circus leader out of office.

“She didn’t even win her homeland,” said Frisch in disbelief. “Only a small handful of congressmen lose their home district.”

With the next general election not due until 2024, Adam Frisch looks forward to beating the Angertainment ringmaster out of office

Fresh talking to voters in Colorado

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) blamed other Republicans for not getting more votes in the November midterm elections. “I don’t know if there wasn’t enough enthusiasm for our top ticket candidates for governor and for the Senate or what happened there.”

When asked why Garfield County resident Boebert didn’t get more votes, she blamed other Republican candidates.

“I don’t know if there wasn’t enough enthusiasm for our lead candidates for governor and for Senate or what happened there,” Boebert told the Wall Street Journal in December, “but there was a lot of shifting in the votes. ‘

While many voters in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district held their noses to vote for Boebert, Frisch claims the national Democratic Party held him back in the midterm elections by “abandoning” rural America and setting unimaginable climate goals and incoherent energy policies have .

“We just went into every nook and cranny, every city and township that we could, and many times we were the only candidate that ever came up, the only Democrat that ever came up.”

The former Aspen councilman was practically a newcomer to politics. “It’s mostly moms and dads who stand up,” he said of the wealthy ski enclave’s advice. “I was probably the first person to take a seat on the city council and move on to other things in politics.”

Born on a Native American reservation in Montana to parents who were health professionals, Frisch was raised in Minneapolis. He first came to Colorado via ski racing for the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He was injured before he even started driving for the team and eventually found his way to New York City – where he transitioned from waiting tables to working in international finance for over a decade, spending time across Asia and London.

“After 9/11 I went to a lot of funerals. I thought it was time to do a fresh start, came out to spend the winter of 2001-2002 in Colorado, finally met the proverbial girl next to the shop and the rest is history,” he said. Frisch and his wife Katy have two children and live in Aspen.

The couple have lived in Aspen for almost two decades, where Frisch made his living in the home building and construction business.

Katy now serves on the school board. “You and I believe that the children must go to school at almost any cost.”

During the Covid-19 pandemic, a teacher shortage prompted Frisch to get his substitute teacher’s license and teach preschool and kindergarten a few days a week.

His self-described “vagabond” lifestyle has endowed him with views that are skeptical of partisan politics.

“I always tell people if there was a Get Juice Done party, that party would be me,” he said, adding that he sees himself in the Problem Solvers’ caucus when he comes to Congress.

“I’m not going to spend my time on any oversight committee yelling and yelling at tech execs why they don’t have more Twitter followers,” he said, referring to Boebert and the oversight committee’s big-tech censorship revenge spree.

Frisch’s self-described “vagabond” lifestyle has endowed him with views that are skeptical of partisan politics

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) and former President Donald Trump enjoy a strong political connection, especially after announcing his third presidential bid in November

Frisch criticized his opponent as “not focused on the job but on himself”.

“There’s an agricultural bill every six years, and she doesn’t want to work on that. She doesn’t want to be on the Agriculture Committee, she wants to be on the Oversight Committee.”

“All you see of her is the Ghosts and Goblins Committee.”

“The amount of heads that kind of shake in despondency at the chambers of commerce and more right-wing communities because they know. You know she’s embarrassing,” the Democratic nominee said.

“I think as a pro-business, pro-domestic energy, moderate Democrat — which is probably not exactly what the Democratic primary base is looking for to get through the primary — I felt like I could build a coalition of Republicans, Democrats and… Democrats build independents,” Frisch continued.

“I think about 30 to 40 percent of the Republican Party want the party to go back to normal and focus on issues that aren’t part of this ‘fear’ industry.”

“We called all sorts of people. We got some support. A lot of people respectfully laughed at us,” he said, adding that at the national Democratic Party, “no one answered our calls.”

Little love is lost between Frisch and the National Democrats who have “botched up rural America for the last 30 years.” claims the Colorado Dem.

“The Democratic Party is only 20 big cities – we can and must do better.”

“This white working class, no college … the Democrats have lost that bucket and they’ve lost that bucket of rural America and white working class and they’re starting to lose some of the working class Latinos and African Americans, too.”

He added: “They may vote against some of their economic interests, but mostly they vote against their dignity, respect and self-worth.”

“That will be trump – pun intended – that will trump the economy throughout the day.”

Fresh then rattled off statistics –

• 3,142 counties in the country, 2,000 of which are defined as “rural” by the Department of Agriculture
• In 1996, President Bill Clinton won over 50 percent of these districts
• In 2012, President Barack Obama won 25 percent
• In 2020, President Biden won fewer than 10

“When I’m out with farmers and ranchers and we start talking, I rarely have time to say, ‘Hey, listen, why don’t you get the Farm Bill? It’s 2,000 pages,” he said. “Now they’re being bombarded with being stupid because they don’t have a college education, or not working hard because they happen to be in the oil and gas industry.”

He then snapped up members of his party peddling high-flying climate targets that he says have “no basis in reality.”

“Some of the Democrats from very large urban areas who are complaining about oil and gas production — yes, I bet your constituents use five times more energy and power than the men and women of western Colorado who actually produce energy.”

And when it comes to Biden’s energy stance, he said, “I’m not sure what the energy policy is.”

“If you have a party president asking for help from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, yes, then you need a different domestic energy policy,” said Frisch.

“The climate crisis is definitely happening,” he said, “but if you hear Biden in California talking about having to shut down all these things … then they have to go back.”

The moderate Democrat declined to say if he wanted Biden at the top of the ticket, where he will run in 2024. “I’m going to focus on my own district,” he said. “I think it is important that the democratic process comes into play. Lets see what happens.”

Frisch said Biden’s climate goals — net-zero emissions from the US grid by 2035 — have a “mathematical problem” and a “regulatory problem.”

“The places where wind and solar are traded are not where they are used,” he said. “Building the transmission lines to carry solar energy from eastern Colorado to downtown Denver or anywhere else in the area is incredibly expensive and incredibly time consuming.”

He predicted that it would be 80 years before there were enough transmission lines to rely on solar power.

“It’s very, very frustrating at a national level when politicians or other people talk about things that there’s literally no mathematical way to do.”

When it comes to gun access and ownership, Frisch and Boebert—who own the gun-themed Shooters Grill in their area—have fewer disagreements on policy issues.

“I’m a firm believer in the Second Amendment.”

“Western and southern Colorado have this libertarian way of leaving me alone,” he said. “So we see a very high second amendment and also a very high endorsement vote.”

Frisch said he prefers to leave restrictions on Colorado’s current gun laws, which include red flag legislation that Boebert said he opposes. He said it was “very, very difficult” to ban guns by type, but “a lot of people, if they want to own a bazooka, it’s fine for society. Other people shouldn’t be holding a screwdriver.’