Current Affairs (2007) -
Chronological (432 items)
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| Dec 18, 2007 |
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Pot Protesters Oppose Bill C-26 Saskatchewan -A group of protesters gathered at the provincial legislature Monday to protest amendments to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act proposed by the Harper government. Bill C-26 would see the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences for possession of drugs with the purposes of traffickin |
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| Dec 18, 2007 |
Production of Potent Pot Flourishing and Lucrative The production of increasingly potent marijuana continues to flourish in Canada despite a decline in grow-operation seizures in British Columbia over the past four years, the RCMP says. The national police force's annual report on the illicit drug trade concludes that pot cultivation remains "an evolving and very lucrative" industry. |
| 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. |
| Dec 19, 2007 |
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Judge's Death Puts Cases In Jeopardy Crown and defence lawyers are working to keep on track two long-running and ongoing Victoria cases temporarily delayed by the sudden death of a Supreme Court judge. Conferences have been scheduled for January to make sure of continuations of the murder trial of Ruby Ann Ruffolo and the constitutional challenge to the marijuana charges levelled at two men arrested in a raid on a house used by the Vancouver Island Compassion Society as a grow operation. |
| Dec 19, 2007 |
New Tool To Detect Stolen Electricity BC Hydro and Crime Stoppers have announced a new enforcement tool that they hope will encourage people to report suspected marijuana growing operations. Addresses of suspected illegal drug operations reported to the Crime Stoppers tip line can be forwarded to BC Hydro energy diversion investigators. An unexplained spike in electrical energy use in a residence or business is one way to identify an indoor marijuana farm, which is why the meter is often bypassed and stolen electricity routed to the grow operation. |
| Dec 19, 2007 |
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Protesters Target MP's Office Okanagan-Shuswap:Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes answered questions and took heat Monday from protesters upset about a proposed law that would see mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers. About 20 protesters congregated outside the downtown Vernon office of Mayes, who emerged to tell the protesters that the guidelines would keep Canadian streets safer. |
| Dec 20, 2007 |
Ex-Federal Justice Led Drug-Use Probe Former Supreme Court of Canada justice Gerald Eric Le Dain, who also led a landmark commission into drug use in Canada in the '60s and '70s, has died. Le Dain, who died in Toronto Tuesday, was 83. |
| Dec 20, 2007 |
Grow-Ops Growing Bigger, Going Rural Crime analysis shows marijuana grow operations are moving to bigger houses, hiding behind more bushes and growing more dope than ever. The grow-ops' changing profile has emerged in response to authorities' crackdowns, says RCMP crime analyst Parvir Girn. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Dec 21, 2007 |
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Protest Targets New Minimums Sidney - Protesters waved flags, shook signs and yelled questions outside Saanich Gulf Islands MP Gary Lunn's office in Sidney on Monday. One even lit up a marijuana cigarette and had a few puffs. The gathering was part of a national day of demonstration against the proposed federal Bill C-26, which would raise mandatory minimum sentences for cannabis ( marijuana ) offences, including cultivation and trafficking. |
| Dec 29, 2007 |
Woman Led Fight to Legalize Medical Marijuana KITCHENER - In recent years, when people saw Catherine Devries of Kitchener, they saw a tiny and obviously ill woman who needed to use a wheelchair when she managed to get out of bed at all. ....Catherine died last Sunday in St. Mary's Hospital, at the age of 49. Most of her life, she had struggled with a host of health problems and pain. |