Current Affairs (2008) -
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| Jun 25, 2008 |
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Growers Breeding New Hemp HEMP growers in the Dauphin region are going back to some of the original hemp breeds in the area from the 18th century to come up with new varieties. |
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| Jun 25, 2008 |
Search Warrants Challenged A local lawyer has finished his arguments in a case that could change the way search warrants are handled across British Columbia and invalidate thousands of search warrants issued in the past six years, calling the police investigations and subsequent court cases into question |
| Jun 26, 2008 |
Not Your Average Joe You won't see Joe Adams carrying marijuana plants out of a busted grow house along with police. He doesn't fight fires that erupt from the crazily wired buildings, either. But the Garden City man has helped shut down a dozen big marijuana growing operations across Niagara - and likely helped save the lives of firefighters and police officers |
| Jun 27, 2008 |
Witness Denies Trucker Smoked Pot Before Heading Out on Run to Toronto The ex-common-law partner of a Quebec transport driver denied he smoked marijuana prior to an accident that killed one person and seriously injured another. |
| Jun 28, 2008 |
Bar Owner Fears His Business Could Go to Pot After Human Rights Ruling TORONTO - A sports bar owner said he risks breaking the law and could lose his licence if he signs an agreement to settle a complaint at the Ontario Human Rights Commission to allow a patron to smoke medical marijuana outside the bar's front door. |
| Jun 28, 2008 |
Fatties For All There is enough serious crime out there for our already under-funded police force to tackle. Abuse of dangerous drugs like OxyContin comes to mind. Violence against women is a huge issue which remains largely unaddressed. Some corporate crime in this city doesn't even get investigated. I don't think police should be wasting their time chasing around after two-bit grow-ops and small-time smugglers. ( Granted, Pearce seems to have been called up to the majors. ) We, the dope smokers of Newfoundland and Labrador, should be given some recognition and some respect. |
| Jul 2, 2008 |
Rupert Cops Raid Tomato Grow-Op Red-faced drug cops looking for a marijuana grow-op came up with a tomato grow-op instead. Prince Rupert commercial fisherman Bruce Aleksich said yesterday that about 15 Mounties burst into his business last Thursday, only to find 400 tomato plants in various stages of growth. As more people begin to grow their own food, rooting out "grow-ops" will become impossible. |
| Jul 4, 2008 |
High on Postal Service According to the lists obtained by Sun Media, packages with illicit items have been destined for big cities and small towns from coast to coast. Shipment sizes range from a few joints or bottles of booze to a large-scale drug haul worth $1 million. But the most common illicit shipments contain marijuana. |
| Jul 4, 2008 |
Accused Pair in Grow-Op Free After Judge Compares Them to Photo Mr. Stern also said the Crown had relied entirely on circumstantial evidence. "What the Crown tried to do was say, look at the photos on the wall, and you can conclude the two people in photos are the accused," he said. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Drug Testing Beneficial For Companies With Dangerous Work Sites From a single phone interview, John Chiasson secured a lucrative job on a Fort McMurray construction project. There was only one catch: The offer was conditional on passing a drug test. Chiasson had smoked marijuana five days before the test. He figured it would have cleared his system. He was wrong. ...Drug testing is justified to accomplish the legitimate goal of a safe workplace free of impairment. Cannabis can be detected for almost 30 days - crack only 24-48 hours... no wonder there is such a crack problem in Fort McMurray. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Grow Op Accused Had Licence to Grow Marijuana The fire department is calling on the federal government to disclose locations of authorized medical marijuana growers, after a police raid revealed a potentially dangerous grow op. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
On The Frontlines Of The War Against Drugs Special Report: Oakville Beaver reporter David Lea sheds some light on the secret life of an undercover cop with the Halton Regional police Drug and Morality Bureau. Who is morally qualified to work for a "Morality Bureau"? Why does such a thing exist in this century? |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Police Turf War Sank B.C. Hells Angels Investigation Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Police Officers Get Bail After Grow-Op Bust A City of Vaughan notice taped yesterday on the front door of an alleged former marijuana grow operation deems the suburban house unfit to occupy. ...This municipal order may cause a problem for Toronto Police Constable Kevin Bourne, 33. Police arrested him on Thursday, accusing him of taking part in a marijuana grow-op drug ring. Yesterday a court released him on $50,000 bail and ordered he reside in the Vania Drive house he lived in with his wife, Wendi, and their toddler son. |
| Jul 6, 2008 |
Grow-Op Registry Urged Home buyers offered properties tainted by chemicals and mould from indoor mari juana grow-ops could avoid health problems and financial loss if owners are made to identify them, Ontario's top cop says. |
| Jul 7, 2008 |
When Police Face Trial Toronto and York police behaved with exemplary professionalism as they swept in on two uniformed officers accused of criminal offences in connection with a marijuana grow-op. ...Yet there remains, by the chief's own admission, one aspect of this case that is likely to erode public confidence in our law enforcement agencies at least as much as the original allegations of criminal wrongdoing: their suspensions from the force will come with full pay. |
| Jul 8, 2008 |
Schools More Vulnerable to Drugs Over the last while, it has been widely accepted by society that a mainstay of the high school system was random drug dog searches. ...Make no mistake, they are in our schools, and they are here to stay because of this ruling. Although it was widely practiced, there is on evidence that it has been widely accepted. Drugs have been in schools for over 35 years... the ruling means nothing. |
| Jul 8, 2008 |
Children Seized After Grow-op Bust Three children are in protective custody after the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants in a quiet Brooks neighbourhood. The raid on Friday in a home in northwest Brooks led to children ranging in age from two to 11 being placed in provincial care from a home condemned by the Palliser Health Region due to widespread toxic mould. |
| Jul 8, 2008 |
New Drug-Impairement Testing Now In Effect As of July 2, 2008 drivers will have to submit to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test for impairment when demanded by a peace officer who suspects they are driving while impaired by drugs. Bill C-2 empowers Canadian police who suspect a driver of being impaired by any drug, illegal, prescription or over-the-counter, to demand the subject submit to a breathalyzer test, physical coordination tests and an assessment by a Drug Recognition Expert using the Drug Evaluation and Classification ( DEC ) assessment along with a demand of bodily fluid samples ( blood, saliva or urine ). A constitional challenge just waiting to happen... |
| Jul 9, 2008 |
Report Has Hookah Bar Owners Steaming Allegations of marijuana being sold and smoked at Vancouver hookah bars have one operator in a huff. The allegations come as Vancouver councillors are poised to make a decision about how to enforce the city's indoor-smoking ban. |