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Current Affairs 2007 - Government (150 items)
| Jan 24, 2007 | Drug-Endangered Children Will Get Help AB: Twenty-five police officers from the Capital Region are being trained in a course on investigating drug-endangered children....
The program focused on how to deal with the children that police sometimes find living in the drug houses and marijuana grow operations they've raided.
[The trend of removing children from homes will be monitored throughout the year as it violates logic, reason and basic human rights] |
| Jan 20, 2007 | Marijuana Growers Lose Houses A court decision this week doubled the number of marijuana growers forced to turn over their homes since local authorities began taking an aggressive approach to the problem five years ago.
Eight houses in Waterloo Region have now been ordered forfeited following changes in the law to make it easier in 2001, with another case scheduled for a hearing in March.
That puts local police and prosecutors on the leading edge in Ontario as they go after lucrative marijuana grow houses.
[The more drug warriors profit from prohibition, the more entrenched it becomes] |
| Jan 17, 2007 | War On Drugs Needs New Strategy Canada is losing the "war on drugs" and unless the government changes its strategy, the casualties of illegal drug use will continue to climb....This "get tough" approach has not worked in the United States and will not work here. It's a philosophy that panders to public sentiment that seeks to punish those struggling with addiction, rather than reduce the harm done by it. ...Good politics doesn't always translate into good policy. And when the policy can be proven to do more harm than good, it's time for voters to take a long hard look at why governments persist in a course of action detrimental to the public's health.
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| Jan 13, 2007 | Man Gets Six Months For Evading Tax On Marijuana Raid Netted $190,000; $47,132 Left Owing
An Ottawa man was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for failing to pay nearly $50,000 in taxes on revenue from growing marijuana.... Mr. Papadopoulos said Mr. Le could have reported the earnings as either "business" or "other" income on his tax return.
"You don't have to tell us where it's coming from, but you have to report it," said Mr. Papadopoulos, adding the return could still be audited if it meets certain criteria.
[You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't] |
| Jan 13, 2007 | Marijuana Advocate Battles For Business Licence Tim Felger says he'll open his bookstore/political office, called Da Kine, in downtown Abbotsford whether he receives a business licence from the city or not.
Since he first applied for a business licence in the summer of 2005, Felger says he has been the subject of 170 building and bylaw inspections, 24 fire inspections and more than 100 police visits.
"I'm not only being singled out, but [City of Abbotsford officials] are violating my freedom of expression," said Felger, a long-time marijuana advocate.
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| Jan 12, 2007 | Hydro Identifies High 'Pot'ential New B.C. Hydro numbers suggest Langley's biggest cash crop may be marijuana.
Langley may have the second-highest per captia ratio of marijuana grow operations in the Lower Mainland, according to B.C. Hydro.
Under a new law introduced last year, the electricity supplier can supply municipalities with a list of all addresses with unusually high power consumption.
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| Jan 11, 2007 | When Cops Inhale Did the Toronto Police narcs who swooped down on the Church of the Universe congregation in the Beaches, arresting 22 and laying 205 pot charges, actually inhale?
That's a loaded question for those worried about lack of accountability when it comes to officers breaking the law during investigations.
And if some of the arrestees are right, coppers did toke on-scene in the course of their reconnoitering.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Cannabis Activist Speaks Out on Raid and Booze Local marijuana activist Mik Mann is worried a recent police raid of a Coombs compassion club means bad news for those who legally grow and consume the herb.
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| Jan 3, 2007 | Medicinal Marijuana Grow-Op Halted Trail resident Peter Roglich is left bewildered after local RCMP seized roughly 200 marijuana plants from his personal grow-op last week.
According to Roglich, he and his wife have both been diagnosed with Hepatitis C, are using the plants for exclusively for medicinal purposes; and have been licensed to do so for the past six months.
Roglich says he has a certified licence through Health Canada and cannot understand what provoked the RCMP to enter his home.
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| BC: 'Grow Op War Won' Marijuana growers seem to be in rapid retreat, especially in Surrey, where civic officials are poised to declare victory over local grow-ops.
The most powerful weapon hasn't been increased conventional policing, but rather the threat of electrical inspections and service disconnections for residential homes that B.C. Hydro records show have extreme power consumption, a tell-tale sign of a grow-op.
[What will they do when the next generation of lights do not use much electricity and are much cooler?] |
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