Current Affairs (2005) -
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| May 4, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Renters Losing Their Charter Rights Of course, child molesters and child abusers can still hide their victims in the home, still safe from inspection and searches, as long as the don't grow pot. It says much about the priorities of our rulers. So, if you are a renter, it appears that just about everybody has the right to invade your privacy and your home. Big Brother, and doublespeak, are alive and well in Canada. |
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| May 4, 2005 |
Cop Gets Eight-year Sentence A Superior court judge has sentenced a veteran Peel Regional Police officer to eight years in prison after the 60-year-old admitted to stealing nearly $3 million worth of cocaine and hash from a police storage facility just months before he was to retire. |
| May 4, 2005 |
Police Board Suggesting Cameras To Curb Crime In an effort to put a stop to criminal and anti-social behaviour after-hours on Scott Street, the Police Services Board wants the town to install a surveillance system in the downtown area. [Big Brother has eyes everywhere..] |
| May 5, 2005 |
Customs Officer Says B.C. Gang Forced Him To Smuggle Drugs A customs officer with the Canadian Border Services Agency is in a U.S. federal prison awaiting a bail hearing after he was arrested Tuesday at the truck crossing in Blaine, Washington allegedly trying to smuggle more than 100 kilograms of B.C. bud past colleagues guarding the U.S. border. |
| May 5, 2005 |
The Longley And Winding Road Who is Blair Longley? "I am like a grandfather of the Marijuana Party. I was the first person back in Vancouver in 1987 to get away with publicly cultivating pot and be let off, acquitted, even though I was clearly doing it. There was absolutely no doubt about it, but I was let go. The whole story is very amusing." |
| May 5, 2005 |
City Applies Pressure On Grow-Ops The project starts immediately and involves three specially-appointed city officials travelling around Abbotsford's streets. Using equipment that senses excessive heat, they will scan homes from the outside to determine whether there is a grow-op inside. If they suspect there is, the staff would knock on the door of the home, and if there is an answer, act under the provincial Community Charter to enter the property on the grounds of it being a public safety hazard. [How to circumvent the Charter of Rights in one easy swoop...] |
| May 5, 2005 |
CN AB:
Global March Supports Effort To Legalize Marijuana Marijuana has been garnering a lot of negative media attention in Calgary recently due to the burgeoning numbers of grow-ops police are busting and concern over organized crime involvement in the industry....But a group of Calgary pot users will be trying to send out a different message on May 7. They'll be participating in Global Marijuana March, a worldwide protest to legalize pot, which first began in New York City in 1996 and has since spread to 37 countries and 181 cities. |
| May 6, 2005 |
B.C. Marijuana Party Shut Out Of Schools B.C. Marijuana Party candidates won't be allowed to participate in all-candidates meetings at Surrey schools. [Yes, kiddies, this is what democracy looks like...] |
| May 6, 2005 |
Medicinal Pot Users Society Mandate Approved The Okanagan is about to join Nelson, Victoria and Vancouver with the creation of a new society with a mandate to distribute cheap, safe medical marijuana. Richard Babcock, founder of the Okanagan Compassion Club Society, knows too well the difficulties in obtaining good medical marijuana. [If the governments med pot program worked, these clubs would be defunct rather than expanding...] |
| May 7, 2005 |
With A Bong In His Heart Dominic Cramer is running late. But when you preside over a growing retail empire rooted in marijuana, being time-challenged comes with the turf. Make no mistake, though, Cramer is no ordinary pothead. |
| May 8, 2005 |
Downtown Pot Rally Brings Whiff Of The '60s Close to 3,000 people celebrated cannabis culture as part of the sixth "Global Million Marijuana March," marked in more than 200 cities worldwide. "We want to see it legalized and decriminalized," said organizer Franklin Skanks. He believes legalizing pot would bring in more revenue via "sin taxes," boost tourism and help shut down organized marijuana grow-ops. |
| May 8, 2005 |
Grow-Op Bust Ends In Death A 45-YEAR-OLD woman, apparently trying to elude police, plunged 15 storeys to her death at an apartm [or..Prohibition claims another life...] |
| May 8, 2005 |
MLA Touts Drug Dogs As School Mascots School mascots should be drug dogs, Alberta's Alliance MLA thinks. "What would it be like in our schools if we were indeed to have a mascot dog that was a drug sniffer?" Cardston MLA Paul Hinman mused in the legislature this week. |
| May 8, 2005 |
Hydroponics Industry Getting 'A Bad Rap Lately' The hydroponics business is getting caught up in the illegal grow-op business and it's unfair, according to one worker. ..."We're trying to promote plants that aren't low light that need good light and good nutrition. A lot of people are into small vegetable gardens in the winter or they grow orchids or bonsai trees. That's what we try to promote." [If every Canadian family would begin a small garden at home, then the so-called "dangers of indoor growing" would be eliminated from our lexicon] |
| May 9, 2005 |
Dealing Dope in B.C. Is Far From a Victimless Crime To hear some latter-day hippies tell it, marijuana use is a victimless and harmless crime. You buy the substance from your friendly neighbourhood dealer just as you would a carton of cornflakes from your corner grocer. But a Province news story last week points to a sinister aspect of drug sales in B.C., namely their apparent connection to violent gangs. [The media constantly mistakes prohibition-realted problems with cannabis-growing problems which makes matters worse,,, and worse...] |
| May 9, 2005 |
CN SN:
Marijuana Activists Join Global Protest SASKATCHEWAN - Marijuana Activists From Saskatoon Joined A Global Protest Saturday. About a dozen people marched from Broadway Avenue to city hall Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of what organizers call state-sponsored discrimination. [Lifting the bonds of oppression has never been an easy task for any group, but perserverence has it's rewards eventually...] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Crusaders Promote Pot With Flagpole Prank Spirits were flying high in the downtown civic square on the weekend, when someone hoisted a mock Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf up a City Hall flagpole. [The cannabis leaf flag is as common as the real flag...so it's surprising anyone noticed the change] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Police Sweep Of Carter High School Yields No Evidence Of Illegal Drugs Leamington police came up empty-handed after their third drug sweep this year at Cardinal Carter Secondary School. Leamington officers, assisted by the OPP and its canine unit searched the school Friday, but found no illegal drugs. [So we can all agree this is more about accustomizing kids to terrorizing authority than drugs?] |
| May 10, 2005 |
School Official Says Province's Drug Dog Idea 'Not Adequate' Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko. .. said he was working to convince reluctant school boards to allow police dogs to conduct drug searches after school hours. Cenaiko said there were some school boards that don't want the dogs in schools and he was currently considering legislation to overrule them..."The dogs are growing up in our schools. The kids get to know them. "Kids know the dogs are being trained to smell drugs." [Kids also grow up with the knowledge of how hypocritical adults are, which is why so many messages get "lost" on youth, no matter what tactics are used ] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Accused In Slayings Described Himself As Assassin Gregory Allen Despres, accused of slaying an elderly Minto couple told American Customs officers he was an off-duty assassin before being allowed to cross the border, says a Charlotte County man who was seeking entry into Maine at the same time. ..Mr. Young said he was detained at the border station while trying to enter Calais because he was arrested in Ottawa almost 20 years ago for drug possession - two grams of hash. He said he was pardoned in Canada on the charge. ... Mr. Young was not allowed to continue on with his friends and never got the money for his trip refunded. [This actually belongs in Ripley's Believe It Or Not...] |