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Tory MP Goguen moves motion to end committee hearings on omnibus crime bill

Submitted by mellowdee on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:42am
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'This puts the mock in democracy,' says NDP MP Jack Harris about the Conservation manoeuvre.

By TIM NAUMETZ | Nov. 17, 2011

PARLIAMENT HILL—Opposition MPs and the government majority on the Commons Justice Committee are battling over a motion the Conservatives moved Thursday morning to end a final series of hearings on the government’s controversial 102-page omnibus bill by midnight the same day.

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The new drug law: a costly idea that won't make our streets safer

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:02pm
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By. Stephen Maher, Montreal Gazette

A few years ago, O I popped into an Amsterdam coffee shop and asked the dreadlocked blond girl behind the counter to sell me a gram of its weakest marijuana.

I can't handle B.C. bud because too much of it is what they call wheelchair weed.

They don't seem to have any mild marijuana in Amsterdam, either, and one toke left me in a state of profound angst. I bought a ticket for a canal-boat tour of the city in a state of medium paranoia, and spent a deranged hour gaping at the beautiful architecture and trying to control my racing mind.

Drugs, including marijuana, pose real risks, and I do not recommend them, but many Canadians indulge. Read more »

Canada: Omnibus crime bill lacks evidence

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 2:48pm
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By. Al Graham

The Conservative government of Stephen Harper's has several former police officers in it, including our MP Rick Norlock.

When these former police officers where arresting people, they always had to go by the evidence before them to build a case. It makes one wonder what happened to that common sense once they were elected.

As Mr. Harper's government gets closer to bringing in its large crime bill, which includes warrantless searches of your Internet use, where is the evidence that these new mandatory minimum laws will be effective?

It's a shame people who once required evidence no longer use it to form our country's first ever mandatory minimum cannabis laws. If our government did its research, they would see the evidence from the United States is enough to stop anyone from implementing this useless sentencing. Read more »

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