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Current Affairs 2005 - Propaganda (81 items)
| Jan 22, 2005 | CN BC: Awareness Critical Abbotsford MP Randy White was pushing his message to the converted last week as he urged the school board to familiarize themselves with a bill that would decriminalize marijuana and mobilize parent groups to get involved.
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| Jan 21, 2005 | CN ON: Crime Stoppers Tips Continued To Rise Last Year The program was established in 1976 in the U.S.; it came to Toronto in 1984. Toronto Crime Stoppers received more than 5,000 tips that led to 474 arrests and 1,808 charges being laid last year, a record-breaker for the crime-fighting program.
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| Jan 20, 2005 | CN BC: Grow Home-Free Subdivisions Hit In BC A British Columbia developer is building Canada's first guaranteed marijuana grow op-free subdivision,
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| Jan 19, 2005 | CN BC: Want Stiffer Sentences For Grow-Ops? Lobby MPs, Not Judges only one in seven people in British Columbia -- and only one in 13 in Vancouver -- convicted of growing marijuana between 2002 and 2004 received a jail sentence. Not surprisingly, law enforcement personnel, who have stepped up raids on grow-ops in recent years, are disappointed with the sentencing records. B.C. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman has also expressed disappointment with the courts..
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| Jan 15, 2005 | Cn BC: Preventing Marijuana Grow-ops Author: Beth Blackburn, RCMP
Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for
central Vancouver Island. Landlords should screen prospective tenants carefully and conduct regular inspections of the property.
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| Jan 14, 2005 | CN BC: LTE: CADAC Sorry Parents Get Information They Wanted The idea of people, especially youth, self medicating when stressed or upset or using any medication, whether it is safe, effective, and benign for recreational purposes is one of our main concerns. How do people learn to cope with every day events and problem solve if they resort to a drug to make them feel better?
[Ritalin, Valium, Prozac - It is okay for kids to use drugs to cope - as long as they are deemed the right ones] |
| Jan 14, 2005 | CN BC: White Fears For Children Will Bill C-17 Abbotsford MP Randy White fears a bill that calls for the decriminalization of marijuana will give school children "the green light" to light up.
[So criminalizing adults is the answer, eh?] |
| Jan 14, 2005 | Drug Dog Educates The jury is in - roughly 95% of my readers say they've got no problem with a drug dog being deployed in Edmonton's senior and junior high schools...To me, police should have to have probable cause before launching any search. Otherwise we're headed for a Communist-style, police-state society where authorities have sweeping powers to randomly search your vehicle, office and home.
[Disturbing trend - we are led to believe, or it is true, there is wide acceptance of totalitarianism] |
| Jan 13, 2005 | CN ON: Police Jumped Gun On Stating Woman Was Impaired Police want to hammer home the message driving while impaired by marijuana can be fatal. A young woman's tragic death was used in an attempt to make that point. If only it were true, or at least, provable by scientific means. Since it wasn't, making a public declaration was not only insensitive, but also inappropriate. As Canada's political system continues to debate the merits of legalizing marijuana, our cops have toughened their stand on the drug's use. Suggesting it opens the door for other criminal activities, the police service's war on grow houses continues unabated.
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| Jan 12, 2005 | Involved Public Can Help Stop Crime Sometimes it's revenge, sometimes it's the possibility of a reward, but most often it's a desire to help the community that motivates people to pick up the phone and make a tip, said the local RCMP liaison with the program.
[It's okay to reward people for revengeful behaviour? And what kind of message does THAT send kids?] |
| Jan 12, 2005 | Pot-spotters Earn $26,050 For Reporting Grow Houses Crime Stoppers approved $26,050 in reward money to Calgarians who called last year with grow-op tips that panned out. That's an $8,550 increase from 2003 and more than half of the overall $49,500 total authorized.
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| Jan 11, 2005 | Drug Dog Will Visit Schools The project, Dogs for Drug Free Schools, differs from traditional enforcement tactics in that a friendly dog is used to demonstrate its drug-finding capabilities to students while its handler lectures about the dangers of drug use.
[Disturbing trend - De-sensitize kids to drug dogs by associating less threatening canines with the task] |
| Jan 9, 2005 | CN AB: Grow-Ops Seed Violence Cultivators Need Pruning No Matter How You Feel About Pot
The city's plan is sound, so long as it's Mr.-and-Mrs. Law-and-Order who ...read the pamphlet, and are encouraged to spy on the neighbourhood for closed curtains and foggy windows. The problem is, too many people in this city sympathize with those who regularly purchase Zig-Zag rolling papers -- even if they aren't personally putting Bic to bong, a lot of Calgarians believe pot is a harmless bit of herbal recreation.
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| Jan 8, 2005 | CNBC: Marijuana Grow-Ops A Community Problem Author: Beth Blackburn, RCMP Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for central Vancouver Island. Questions and Answers on Marijuana Grow-Ops Why should I be concerned?
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| Jan 7, 2005 | CN ON: Residents Spending Millions On Drugs Residents spend about $2.5 million a month -- or $30 million a year -- on drugs in Timmins, ... "That's $30 million that does not stay in the local economy, that does not get taxed, that leaves Timmins and goes into the bank accounts of Hells Angels and everyone involved in the network,"
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| Jan 7, 2005 | Boy Dies After Mixing Marijuana With Painkiller A 14-year-old boy from Levis is dead and another is in hospital with severe health effects after mixing marijuana with a prescription drug.
[Could the cannabis kill him by itself? NO Could the prescription drug kill him by itself? YES] |
| Jan 6, 2005 | CN AB: Cops Hope Pot Busts Turn Tide The 2004 dollar amount is more than 10 times the $9 million worth seized in 2001.
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| Jan 5, 2005 | CN AB: LTE: Dumbfounded He says students have a right to privacy but at what cost? Does this right supersede my child's right to safety?
[rebuttal offered] |
| Jan 4, 2005 | Police Not To Blame For War On Weed Most people realize marijuana would be a fat cash cow for the government if it were legal, and mercilessly taxed like tobacco or alcohol. I support local police busting grows when necessary, but they shouldn't have to bear the brunt of an entirely preventable 80-year political fiasco.
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| Jan 1, 2005 | CN BC: DARE Takes On New Approach With Older Students Author: Beth Blackburn
Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for
central Vancouver Island.
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