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Current Affairs 2005 - Government (116 items)
| Apr 1, 2005 | Think Before Un-inviting A Guest By yanking Emery from the invitation list, Warawa has created greater flak than if he had just let Emery come and debate.
The new MP said he didn't want the situation to become politicized.
Well, it's Canada and it's pot.
There is little that is more political, more of a hot-button issue, than that.
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| Apr 1, 2005 | CN ON: Pot Activists Sound Off At Meeting A town hall meeting about illegal marijuana grow ops in Scarborough grew heated last night when activists supporting the legalization of cannabis challenged the information being presented by a parade of local politicians and police.
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| Mar 25, 2005 | Returning Pot Activist To US A Death Sentence he wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a prison term would be a death sentence.
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| Mar 24, 2005 | CN BC: Police Want Store Owners To Reveal Pot Information The City of Abbotsford wants businesses who sell hydroponics supplies and used goods - especially guns or equipment used in marijuana growing operations - to pass their customer information on to local police.
[If trying to enforce a victimless law requires such extreme measures and relinquishing even more privacy and rights, then at some point, the tipping point will occur] |
| Mar 22, 2005 | CN ON: Grow-op Posse Alarms Police Politicians Hunt Drug Door To Door - Almost Vigilantism,' Officers Contend
Two Scarborough politicians are going door to door in their neighbourhood looking for marijuana grow houses to report to police.
[Can you imagine if politicians put this much time and energy into ending poverty. What a wonderful world it would be.] |
| Mar 21, 2005 | American Woman Awaits Extradition Decision Nightmares about abuse in prison and separation from her son have plagued Renee Boje for more than four years as she awaits a decision on her extradition to the United States.
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| Mar 21, 2005 | CN BC: BC Hydro Could Help Bust Grow-ops Last week, Solicitor General Rich Coleman urged BC Hydro to help police in their battle against drugs. He asked the Crown corporation to turn information over to the authorities when customers have unusually high power bills, which may indicate a possible grow operation in the residence.
[The next generation will have no clue what privacy is or means] |
| Mar 19, 2005 | Government Calls For Tough Action On Grow Ops Marijuana grow operations pose a serious threat to our citizens, the law enforcement officers who try to disrupt the illegal enterprises, and the well-being of communities across the country.
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| Mar 18, 2005 | CN BC: Prove it or lose it Civil forfeiture enacted by fall Legislation introduced in Victoria last week will eventually allow government to seize goods believed to have been bought with ill-gotten profit.
[seize goods believed to have been bought - the keyword being "believed" instead of "proved". It only opens the door to more corruption,which fuels ambitious lawmakers and keeps them coming back for more] |
| Mar 15, 2005 | N BC: Hemp Mill Financier Makes Run For Office Last week, Duncan hemp industrialist Brian Johnson announced his candidacy for the Cowichan-Ladysmith riding on the Democratic Reform BC slate. The Liberal government, Johnson maintains, cancelled his hemp investment venture capital corporation in 2003, despite publicly endorsing his ideas.
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| Mar 12, 2005 | Pot Patch Violence A Myth Justice Minister Wrong, Lawyers Say. Ontario Police Met With Violence In Only 2 Of 800 Raids In 4 Years, Cop Testifies ...many in the legal community say the claim by politicians and police that grow-ops are violent vehicles for sophisticated, organized crime groups is a "cheap shot" that does not stand up to "10 minutes of fact checking." Numerous lawyers who defend these cases in court suggested Public Security Minister Anne McLellan is misleading the public about the dangers of grow-ops with her recent comments in the wake of the Alberta murders.
[There is a lot of political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left on the cannabis Bill to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been upsetting each other for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead, and get the grow op violence out of the equation. If Canadians do not speak out loud and clear with thier votes and voices, then be prepared for the prison-industrial complex in a neighbourhood near you] |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Grow-Op Penalties Will Rise - Toews OTTAWA - Growing support among MPs of different political stripes for tough mandatory minimum sentences to deter marijuana grow operations usually run by organized gangs could lead to amendments to the Liberals' marijuana bill, Conservative justice critic Vic Toews predicted.
[You would think it would be impossible to pass a mandatory minimum law for something like gardening a plant in this day and age, but we should know better than to ignore these wacko notions that could become law. There is a lot of
political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been
deliberating pissing each other off for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead. So the race is on.. |
| Mar 11, 2005 | Canada could be a world leader in smarter drug strategies For the past three days, we have examined how the federal government's
prohibitionist approach to dealing with marijuana has utterly failed to
reduce the supply of, or demand for, the drug. Cannabis use appears to be
associated with cultural and social factors, rather than with the harshness
of the laws or the degree of their enforcement.
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| Mar 10, 2005 | Devil's Advocate In a news story of this size and scope, the first casualty in the mainstream media is the truth....the mainstream media played their Orwellian word association game. Marijuana-Grow Operation-Four Cops Killed. We have seen this before. Muslim-Fundamentalist-Terrorist. Native-Reservation-Alcoholic. Male-Black-Criminal. Male-White-Racist.
See? Pushing your political agenda through the media in the midst of the nation's grief is how you keep your job. It seems as if some politicians shed crocodile tears to further their agenda of cannabis prohibition. Some politicians would rather have Health Canada approve pharmaceuticals responsible for thousands of deaths every year, than tell the truth about the medicinal value of the cannabis plant.
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| Mar 3, 2005 | CN AB: CN AB: Four Mounties Shot Dead Gunman Kills Four Mounties: A Police Raid on an Alberta Marijuana Operation Goes Terribly Wrong, Shocking the National and Touching Off Calls for A Crackdown
[( PROPAGANDA ALERT: All the headlines scream "Killed in grow op raid", though no plant numbers are given,,,, that is a first.
Regardless of the FACT that this incident was NOT related to a cannabis crop - the pot was successfully investigated the night before, the RCMP were there about the stolen cars but this will always be imbedded in the public mind as a grow op raid gone back.
More commentary: Shooting coveup?
Fifth Estate Documentary: Hail of Bullets]
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| Feb 28, 2005 | Marijuana Party Head Joins Liberals The head of the Marijuana Canada party has resigned to join the Liberals. Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who led the party from its inception in 2000 until December of 2004, said he will make a formal announcement on Tuesday
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| Feb 28, 2005 | Canucks In Haze On Pot Canadians are confused about what the feds mean when they talk about the decriminalization of pot, a new poll shows. The poll of 1,000 Canadians was conducted between Jan, 28 and Feb. 2 by the polling firm SES for Tory MP Randy White.
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| Feb 25, 2005 | CN BC: City Bylaw Pounding Pot Growers A new Chilliwack bylaw is muscling marijuana grow-ops out of residential neighbourhoods and hitting operators in the pocketbook - even before court convictions. Four hundred grow-ops were reported to police in Chilliwack last year, suggesting the real number could be more than 1,200.
[Squeezing out the family gardens in favour of organized crime - good idea- NOT] |
| Feb 25, 2005 | CN AB: Cops On Hook For Injuries During Raid Cops who cracked the ribs of a city man when they wrongly raided his home must pay him $20,000, Alberta's top court ruled yesterday.
[What happened to the cop? He got a promotion...] |
| Feb 25, 2005 | It's Time for Canada to Legalize Cannabis Most arguments against cannabis legalization are moralistic, whereas the arguments in favour are pragmatic and would help to protect minors, users, and society.
The time has come to legalize cannabis.
[Straightforward and to the point. Hooray!] |
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