Over at the CBC the ever resourceful Kady O’Malley has posted documents from Statistics Canada surrounding the decision to make the long form of the census voluntary. She’s starting to notice some interesting bits, here’s two I saw that she might want to add to the list. First, there are two lines written by public [...]
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More evidence that StatsCan disagreed with Clement (aka Helping @kady out)
Too… much… irony… must… share…
Okay I’m dying. So many ironic twists to share with people. Ironic moment 1: I think this picture says it all… Ironic moment 2: So last week I briefly felt what it must be like to be a writer on the Daily Show after showing that at the same time Vancouver Province Editorial Page Editor [...]
Tory logic: Injection sites in Quebec = good, in BC = bad
So Yaffe’s Wednesday column (which I talked about yesterday) about how Insite would not be challenged by the conservative government if it were in Quebec has turned out to be sadly prescient. Today, the Globe is reporting that Federal Conservative Health Minister Tony Clement is willing to consider Quebec’s request for an injeciton site even [...]
Insite – Incremental Death?
Yesterday the federal government announced it would extend the legal exemption that allows Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site, to stay open until June 2008. (to understand why the Injection site is important click here, here and/or here) So the good news is brief and temporary: Insite, gets to stay open an additional 6 months. And [...]
Our New/Old Drug Policy: Welcome to the 1980s
The Tories are beginning to lay down the ground work for a new (or should we say old) drug strategy. The ‘new’ strategy? A TV campaign informing kids that drugs are bad, an increased presence at the border and a slight increase in funding for drug rehabilitation. If it sounds like the 1980s all over [...]
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