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By Maya Ekman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com KENORA \u2013 The Kenora Justice Centre is seeing \u201cextraordinary\u201d results with a 70 per cent drop in property crimes and reciidivism related to property crime in the last six months. Justice David Gibson, regional senior judge, attributed those results to the centre’s bi-cultural approach to rehabilitation, \u201cbased on love and kindness.” Gibson was able to present these results to Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Edith Dumont, during her visit to Kenora on Tuesday. The judge also said crimes against the person have dropped about 35 per cent, and crimes involving the administration of justice have dropped by 43 per cent. \u201cWe think that this is the future of the way justice will be done, not just in Kenora, but in Ontario and hopefully… <\/p>\n

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By Maya Ekman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com KENORA \u2013 The Kenora Justice Centre is seeing \u201cextraordinary\u201d results with a 70 per cent drop in property crimes and reciidivism related to property crime in the last six months. Justice David Gibson, regional senior judge, attributed those results to the centre’s bi-cultural approach to rehabilitation, \u201cbased on love and kindness.” Gibson was able to present these results to Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Edith Dumont, during her visit to Kenora on Tuesday. The judge also said crimes against the person have dropped about 35 per cent, and crimes involving the administration of justice have dropped by 43 per cent. \u201cWe think that this is the future of the way justice will be done, not just in Kenora, but in Ontario and hopefully... <\/p>\n

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