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Current Affairs 2007 - Youth (68 items)
| Dec 21, 2007 | Where Have All The Grow Op Kids Gone? Real estate agent Tammy Wing Yan Tsui and her husband Clement Kin Keung Cheung were charged with two counts of production of a controlled substance and two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking as a result of the July 17 raids at 4382 Blair Dr. ( where the children were found ) and at 7471 Minoru Blvd.
It is unknown at this point to what happened to the five children.
"We don't know what happened to those kids," said Linda Korbin, executive director of the B.C. Association of Social Workers.
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| Dec 21, 2007 | Are The Kids All Right? What kind of parent would subject toddlers to the dangers of living in a marijuana grow operation? We would suggest they are parents who may not have the basic moral or intellectual capacity to care for children.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | No Laws Needed To Protect B.C. Children Found In Grow-Ops Social workers in the Fraser Valley were called in last week to deal with three young children found in a grow-op. Despite the wearying familiarity of the scene, they had to make a child-protection decision in the absence of any specific policy.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Dad Puts Marijuana-Smoking Son's Wii Gift On E-Bay Online debates over parenting skills and marijuana legalization have been sparked by a Waterloo man who put his son's Christmas gift for sale on e-Bay after he caught the 15-year-old smoking marijuana.
The man, who goes by the e-Bay user name "k_lid" claimed on the auction site that he spent weeks scouring stores in order to buy Guitar Hero III for his son, Isaac, to play on his Nintendo Wii.
After finally scoring a copy of the game, the elementary school teacher came home one day to find his son smoking marijuana in his backyard with two friends.
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| Dec 14, 2007 | Police Pull Children From Abby Grow-Op Police officers were conducting the search warrant in the 3200 block of Firhill Drive, but while investigating a marijuana grow operation, they became concerned about the levels of carbon monoxide.
The carbon monoxide levels were found to be in excess of 100 parts per million [the hazard increases dramatically above 30 ppm, according to experts].
Police also found three children under the age of 12 in the home, who are now under the care of non-parental family members.
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| Dec 13, 2007 | Grow Ops Are For Grown-ups o whom it may concern,
I am writing to say how outraged I am after reading this news item last Monday. As a mother of three, I can understand how parents across the country must feel. While it seems that we live in a fairly liberal society where we respect the rights of our children, there are some things that should remain sacred. No matter how many reasons parents might give, there is just no excuse for letting toddlers run a large-scale marijuana grow op.
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| Dec 11, 2007 | Students Learn Drug Lesson Yesterday, La Verendrye School students learned a whole lot about illegal drugs.
Their instructor, RCMP Const. Dave Higgs, talked to a room filled with Grade 7 and 8 students in an information session on common street drugs.
Before starting, Higgs warned students as an RCMP officer, he can't and won't turn a deaf ear on anyone's admission of guilt, as the substances he was talking about are illegal in this country.
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| Dec 11, 2007 | Grow-Op Above Daycare About 18 months ago some mysterious people took over the commercial space atop the Yeshiva Gedola daycare in Outremont, without introducing themselves to their neighbours.
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| Nov 11, 2007 | 'Marijuana Is an Addictive Drug' Andy Ivens The Province Sgt. Scott Rintoul mans the RCMP's drug-awareness bureau in B.C. Well-acquainted with the arguments for legalizing marijuana, he challenges the legal-pot advocates to consider one important point -- our children.
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| Nov 5, 2007 | More Calgary Children Seized From Grow Ops More than 60 per cent of all children seized from drug houses in Alberta under the year-old Drug Endangered Children Act were in the Calgary region. Alberta Children's Services figures show 23 of the 38 children apprehended under the act came from the Calgary area, which includes Banff, Cochrane and High River.
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| Nov 2, 2007 | Marijuana Comments Raise Concerns During the question and answer part of the forum on Nov. 1, a student asked Chad Nilson about legalizing marijuana.
Nilson responded that because that issue falls under federal jurisdiction, students should lobby their MP if they want marijuana legalized.
Saskatchewan Party candidates Darryl Hickie and Kevin Shiach said they have received phone calls from parents concerned that Nilson was advocating legalization.
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| Nov 1, 2007 | Let's Rethink Drug Discourse In grade school we get the this-is-your-brain-on-drugs lecture and learn many ways to say no. But what's missing is how to say yes in moderation. People of all ages are doing drugs, and it's time to recognize that information based on abstinence does more harm than good.
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| Oct 26, 2007 | Drugs In High School: 'You Can Get Any Drug You Want' They wander the halls, moving back and forth from group to group.
They make their way through our high schools, tempting each and every student.
Some lurk inside lockers.
Others hide in coat pockets, jean pockets...any place where students think they won't be found.
They are drugs.
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| Oct 25, 2007 | Burnaby Grow-Op Raises Child Welfare Concerns B.C. social workers are calling for a code to investigate children living in houses with marijuana grow operations, after Burnaby RCMP found three children under 5 in a Burnaby operation this month.
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| Oct 18, 2007 | ON: Hawkesbury Shops Ditch Drug Paraphernalia Hawkesbury merchants plan to stop selling marijuana bongs, drug pipes and other accessories at the request of police, even though it's legal to do so.
The decision comes after a town hall meeting last week when store owners agreed with Hawkesbury OPP that they were aiding drug use by selling the paraphernalia, especially to youth.
[More harm reduction out the window - kids will use pop cans and other questionable materials instead] |
| Oct 16, 2007 | Curiosity About Drugs Shouldn't Be a Crime For many years, I have been able to successfully stick my head in the sand about illegal drug use.
My older child started high school this fall. The sand is crumbling away.
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| Oct 2, 2007 | Own Up To Your Teenage Reefer Madness 'Dad, did you smoke pot when you were in high school?"
"Yes, but actually I was in eighth grade when I started."
"No." ( Actually, I did but I don't want to tell him because I don't want him to get any ideas. )
"No." ( It's true that I didn't. I was kind of a goody-two-shoes. But frankly, I've always wondered if I would have had more fun as a teenager if I had been willing to take more chances. I think maybe I missed out. )
"It's none of your business."
What should you tell your kids - and how honest should you be - about your teenage adventures with sex, drugs and drinking?
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| Sep 13, 2007 | Drug Ads Could Trigger Tokers Do anti-pot ads just make folks want to spark up? Health Minister Tony Clement better find out before he launches that no-nonsense anti-drug campaign he's been threatening...More than that, students in their study reported that the pot spots actually made them more likely to spliff up....The feds can't say they weren't warned.
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| Sep 6, 2007 | Teens Smoke More Pot Than Cigarettes, Report Says After alcohol, cannabis was the most commonly used illegal substance among youth. Cannabis use is reported by 17 per cent of students in grades 7 to 9, about 29 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds, and almost half of 18- to 19-year-olds, the substance abuse centre report said.
Pot smoking, in fact, now exceeds the rate of cigarette smoking among youth, the study found.
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| Aug 8, 2007 | Too Bad the Hippie Generation Has Turned Into a Bunch of Hypocrites Young intellectuals staged sit-ins and demonstrated against rules and structure during the '60s. Now firmly in positions of power, they have established human-rights tribunals and other kangaroo courts to stifle free speech and punish nonconformists. ...
The generation that challenged and toppled the rigid status quo at universities now prohibits dissenting views on campus, and blatantly uses the education system for purposes of indoctrination. ...
Those who once proudly questioned authority demand absolute acquiescence to radical feminism, affirmative action, climate-change paranoia, anti-Americanism and other tenets of political correctness. ...
On top of it, this generation of supposed anti-materialists has accumulated more wealth than any previous generation and made it virtually impossible for anyone under 30 to even dream of owning their own home.
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