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0 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Alberta’s Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says when former prisoners were quietly released from custody in Edmonton’s downtown recently, it came down to “human error.”
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it → say → error
It comes after surveillance videos published by CBC and Global News earlier this month showed provincial corrections transport vans dropping off detainees in an inner city neighbourhood.
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vans → come → neighbourhood
The videos drew concern and calls for reform from local officials, as well as residents and business owners in Edmonton’s Chinatown area.
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videos → draw → area
Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack pressed Ellis Friday for details about what the province is doing to ensure similar drop-offs don’t happen again.
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offs → press → what
Ellis says he was outraged to learn of the two incidents in Edmonton, and said it wasn’t prompted by a directive from him.
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it → say → him
But Knack, and Dylan Bressey, the head of the province’s largest group of municipalities, say the issue isn’t unique to Edmonton.
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issue → say → Edmonton
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Speaking to reporters at the Alberta Municipalities convention in Edmonton, Knack said he wants to work with the minister, but said there seems to be a gap in understanding.
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he → get → understanding
“There’s a disconnect from what is believed to be the actual process and what is actually happening in municipalities across this province,” Knack said.
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Knack → ’ → province
Ellis later told reporters at an unrelated news conference that dropping off former correctional facility detainees on to the streets is not a common practice.
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dropping → tell → streets
“In both of those cases, it was human error,” he said again.
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he → say → cases
“We’re all human beings.”
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We → ’re → ?
Ellis, the former mental health and addiction associate minister, said everything he has worked on building as part of the province’s recovery-focused system has always been about a warm handoff.
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he → say → handoff
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Conservatives → say → call
“This is what I am vehemently opposed to, is just dropping people off where they have no supports,” he said.
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he → drop → supports
Ellis said he has been told by Corrections Alberta that they will be taking measures to ensure the same drop-offs don’t happen again, but didn’t provide details.
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offs → say → details
Dylan Bressey, Alberta Municipalities president and city councillor in Grande Prairie, said it’s an issue in communities near correctional facilities across Alberta, including his own.
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it → say → own
“They’re getting unloaded on our city streets where there isn’t adequate social services for them, and it’s creating social chaos as well as costing a lot of money and police, fire, and parks response,” he told reporters Friday.
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he → unload → reporters
He said he’s heard anecdotes from councillors in several communities, but they don’t have good data.
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they → say → data
“For us, it’s really important that when somebody is released from either care or prison, that they’re released with a proper plan and the proper resources to help them be healthy and also receive whatever supervision or care they need going forward,” Bressey said.
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Bressey → ’ → supervision
When Ellis was asked about reports of similar instances in Grande Prairie, he said he wasn’t aware of them.
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he → ask → them
He said Corrections Alberta will drive people to wherever they need to go, which in some cases can be an hours-long trip to their home community.
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which → say → community
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