As many of you know Taylor and I wrote a piece on what we termed neo-progressivism in last September’s Literary Review of Canada. Since then we’ve keep our eye out for other discussions where we think neo-progressives are gaining traction in the public discourse. Some of the indicators we looking for are policies where: The [...]
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Emerging Neo-Progressive Issues: Drug Policy
Injection site lies
So the conservatives have started sending around this flier which very subtly uses language to undermine the Insite injection site and harm reduction strategies. It also, of course, misleads the public about the course of action that is effective in addressing drug use. Pumping billions of dollars into a 3 decades old “drug war” that [...]
Expert Advisory Committee report: Insite works
Late Friday afternoon (PST) Health Canada tried to quietly release the Final report of the Expert Advisory Committee on Supervised Injection Site Research. (Since government reports are public domain I’ve created a downloadable, easier to read, PDF version that can be found here). Why quietly release such an upbeat report? Because the Health Minister is [...]
The old, old, old war on drugs
Last night I was able to swing by the Wosk Centre for Dialogue to see Prof. Bruce Alexander receive the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in support of Controversy (A prize established at Simon Fraser University to honor work which challenges complacency and that provokes controversy). Prof. Alexander spoke of his personal history and research [...]
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