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Current Affairs 2007 - Government (150 items)
| 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 25, 2007 | Trustee Charged With Growing Pot for Trafficking A Manitoba school trustee has been charged with growing marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking.
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| Oct 24, 2007 | Party Has High Hopes A user of medicinal marijuana in Regina has joined the race for a seat in Saskatchewan's legislature to push for a greener society -- and he doesn't mean the environment.
Tom Shapiro, 51, has let his name stand as Saskatchewan Marijuana Party candidate for the riding of Regina Coronation Park.
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| Oct 23, 2007 | RCMP Refused To Test Crew For Drugs David Hahn, president of BC Ferries, repeatedly asked to have the bridge crew of the Queen of the North tested for drugs and alcohol in the hours after the ship crashed and sank, but RCMP investigators refused.
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| Oct 23, 2007 | Europeans Know Drug Abuse Is an Illness, Not a Crime Europe has a drug problem, and knows it. But the Europeans' approach to it is quite different from the North American "war on drugs."
I spend 120 days a year in Europe as a travel writer, so I decided to see for myself how it's working. I talked with locals, researched European drug policies and even visited a smoky marijuana "coffee shop" in Amsterdam. I got a close look at the alternative to a war on drugs.
Europeans are well aware of the North American track record against illegal drug use.
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| Oct 22, 2007 | Pro-Pot Protest Nets Just 60 People Police were out in full force for a contingent of mostly teenagers protesting to decriminalize marijuana during Saturday's pro-pot rally.
About 60 people marched up Pitt Street to Domino's Pizza near Tollgate Road for the first-ever Walk 4 Weed demonstration.
It was a far cry from the hundreds who were expected to attend, but that didn't stop organizers from forging ahead with the peaceful demonstration.
[So does police intimidation work?] |
| Oct 21, 2007 | Can Employers Test For Pot? Drug and alcohol testing programs can be implemented in workplaces in Canada -- and employees suspended or fired as a consequence of the results.
But Karen Izzard of the Canadian Human Rights Commission said Friday that employers who choose to do so face human-rights complaints or lawsuits.
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| Oct 19, 2007 | Minister Rejects Mandatory Drug-Test Law Federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon won't legislate mandatory drug testing to weed out pot-smoking crew members on B.C. Ferries' northern fleet.
Cannon says Canada's ferry operators already have the power to perform regular drug testing on employees, and he has instructed B.C. Ferries to get its own ship in order.
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| Oct 19, 2007 | Choose Your Poison On the farming side, any policy that successfully reduces the production of marijuana to a significant degree will utterly crash the economy of most of the interior of British Columbia. Mining, fishing, forestry and food farming, the mainstays of the interior economy, home to two million, have all been in inexorable decline for decades. The only thing keeping most families afloat is production of marijuana or jobs in retail and other industries supported by the proceeds of sales of marijuana by the growers.
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| Oct 19, 2007 | ONTARIO JUDGE RULES CANNABIS PROHIBITION INVALID Today in an Oshawa Court, the trial judge in the 'Tom, Dick, and
Harry' case dismissed the charges against them, for simple possession
of marijuana. He said that in his view the marijuana prohibition had
no valid force or effect. ...He said the cases against Tom, Dick, and Harry, are dismissed because
the law is not there to charge them or convict them. The exact terms
of his decision will be available later, after an exchange of faxes
with the Court house.
[Every person arrested for a cannabis offense should read this important information and make their lawyer aware of it - this is a federal law and should be applied the same across the country] |
| Oct 17, 2007 | New Money, Same Old War It's probably helpful at this point to review a couple of simple, if inconvenient, truths. Prohibition doesn't work. It's been the law of the land since 1929 and it hasn't made a dent in either supply or demand. Law enforcement doesn't work. You can buy illegal drugs in every town in Canada. You can acquire illegal drugs in every prison in Canada. If law enforcement can't control drugs in prisons, it takes a particular kind of idiot to think they'll be successful controlling them on the streets of a democratic country.
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| Oct 16, 2007 | Green Party More Than Just Tree-Huggers Green is for marijuana, a carbon tax, income splitting for couples and dying with dignity, according to federal party leader Elizabeth May.
- - Along with a $50/tonne carbon tax to limit pollution, the Greens are touting legalized and taxed pot, universal child-care and a tax system that encourages more family time at home and with friends by splitting taxable income.
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| Oct 15, 2007 | Harper Gets Tough On Drugs, Soft On Logic Harper promises that someone caught selling even the smallest amount of drugs will face harsh penalties. Frankly, doesn't the government have better things to devote tens of millions of dollars to than chasing around people dealing a few grams of marijuana? Wait a minute: five years ago, wasn't there widespread support for legalizing marijuana?
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| Oct 6, 2007 | What's Harper Smoking? Stephen Harper's announcement Thursday of a new national drug strategy served at least one valuable purpose: It conclusively demonstrated that the prime minister knows nothing about drugs or drug policy.
The list of misinformed, misleading or nonsensical statements uttered by Mr. Harper is long and this space short, so let me skip quickly to the highlights.
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| Oct 6, 2007 | Conservative Anti-Drug Plan Blasted Critics of the Conservative government's anti-drug plan are calling it everything from naive to politically opportunistic and a threat to the civil liberties of Canadians.
A coalition of Vancouver health and social groups says prison terms and attempts to scare users straight won't solve Canada's illegal drug problem.
"You just can't incarcerate your way out of this," former Vancouver mayor Philip Owen, a member of the Beyond Prohibition Coalition, said yesterday. "The United States locks down 2.3 million people every night."
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| Oct 5, 2007 | Why a War on Drugs Just Won't Work Basing policy on belief, not facts, dooms strategy to failure from the start...Here's the thing: Health issues can't be resolved through ideology.
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| Oct 4, 2007 | Med Pot's Slow Access? As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada's Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever.
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| Oct 4, 2007 | Tories' War On Drugs Termed US-Style The government is embracing a U.S.-style "war on drugs" that approaches drug abuse as more of a criminal matter than a health issue, Liberal and New Democratic Party critics said yesterday.
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| Oct 3, 2007 | Ottawa's New Drug Policy Wrong Way To Go 'The party's over," federal Health Minister Tony Clement intoned this past weekend. Mr. Clement was talking about drug users, but it wasn't entirely clear which ones...All the available evidence suggests that this will be a waste of time and money. Worse, it could cost some lives and ruin others.
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| Oct 3, 2007 | BC: US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson.
Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday.
Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters.
But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters.
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