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- Mr. Harper: Don't let Insite close
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  The positive impact on public security includes reducing the social nuisance associated with drug use and drug-related crime. Instead of punishing drug users, safe-injection sites provide the police with an opportunity to engage with the drug users and alleviate the harm drug use has traditionally caused communities. As such, police officers are able to develop a positive relationship with both the users and the society affected by drug use and drug-related crime. Furthermore, the people living in those communities affected most by high rates of drug abuse tend to feel safer after safe-injection sites have been implemented in their communities.
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- Court gives B.C. safe-injection site one-year reprieve
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  The controversial safe-injection site here that allows addicts to shoot up illegal drugs in a safe environment won a major court victory Tuesday, shielding the facility from a threat of being closed by the federal Conservative government for at least another year...
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- In Search of an Aboriginal Future
  Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
  The face of Canada changed for Marie Wadden when she first visited the Innu community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador in 1970. "I thought I knew everything there was," she says, "but I was blown away by the language, the diversity of the culture. I wondered how I'd never heard of them. It was my first realization that there was another, unknown reality in this country." Since then, Wadden has felt closely linked to the struggle of Canada's Aboriginal people -- a struggle she believes they are on the verge of losing.
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- B.C. apologizes for Komagata Maru incident
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  After 94 years, the B.C. legislature unanimously passed a motion Friday apologizing for the Komagata Maru incident. On May 23, 1914, the Japanese charter ship Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver harbour with 376 immigrants from India. Canadian immigration officials refused to let the passengers disembark, using the continuous journey regulation which required migrants to arrive in Canada directly from their country of origin.
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- Glossy magazine wakes up on 'wheat sheets'
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  Paper-making development could help alleviate some of the pressure on Canadian forests. For the first time in North America, a glossy magazine will be published on paper made from the pulp of wheat straw, a development advocates say could herald the birth of a new resource industry that would alleviate some of the pressure on Canadian forests.
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- More gay men are victims of violent crime, report shows
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  Gay men in Vancouver are twice as likely as straight men to be victims of violent crime, suggests a study conducted at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. The nine-year study surveyed more than 500 homosexual men to DOCUMENT the rate of physical assaults in Greater Vancouver.
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- Vancouver Olympics security cameras raise privacy concerns
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  The RCMP plans to install hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras for security during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, CBC News has learned. Under the plan, cameras would be placed at approximately 100 Olympic sites, including both athletic and public celebration venues.
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Shemuses comments on:
Barenaked Ladies singer faces drug charge in N.Y.

wow. the police look into the house, see them using drugs and arrest them. them there is hard core drug enforcement policy. i feel a lot safer knowing that Steven is locked up and in the criminal justice system.

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10:15 pm 7/15/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
The Culture of Meat

A humanity that would domesticate is not healthy. Exploitation and slavery come to mind, as well as torture. Given all the information available about the harms of animal products on the human body I am flabbergasted that people accept this ‘meat washing’.

incorrect overdose of simple proteins

no animal that eats meat naturally has to cook it

intestine inflammation

reduced energy and fatigue

Maybe because I have never eaten it and observed the effects on others that I take this no intentional harm abuse or consumption of life stance. good book: Eternal Treblinka

Maybe because i have never eaten it and observed the effects on others that i take this no intentioal harm abuse or consumption of life stance. good book: Eternal Triblinka

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9:44 am 7/09/08
Shemuses comments on:
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

there are several differences between a medical doctor who has not broken the law and a convicted pedophile serial killer. suggesting said convicted felon be freed?
many canadians, the majority in fact are proud that our country enables women access to essential healthcare. these services save lives, often lives of the most vulnerable women in our society. there is a viable and empathetic middle way that combines health care, education, abstinence, birth control, and abortion. we need to look beyond our idealogy and meet the real needs of families in our communities.

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10:52 pm 7/06/08
Dmegivern comments on:
Harper's apology to First Nations puts pressure on Bush

About time!

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11:53 am 7/02/08
frankson comments on:
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

....... a sad day for Canada.
why don’t we free Cliff Olson and add him to the list !?
No difference.

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7:11 am 7/02/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Will Canada Last?

Sorry.. FOURTH

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9:29 am 6/30/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Will Canada Last?

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff,
First of all have you ever been to Madrid or London. Al Qaida will kill any Jew, Christian or Hindu they run across and then reload. A border is not a good defense system for terrorism. Second, the war and the value of the dollar have weakened us. It is just peculiar that it wasn’t Jimmy Carter who did it to us this time. Third of all the US owns the Stanley Cup (ever been to Detroit ?). Forth where is Robert Rubin when we need him most !

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8:58 am 6/30/08

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