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'Drug Free' Harper collects on beer bet with Obama
By. CBC NewsPrime Minister Stephen Harper collected on his sudsy Olympic hockey bet with President Barack Obama on Friday.
U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson delivered two cases of beer to the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa.
Owing to Canada's 3-2 overtime victory over the United States in the gold-medal match in men's hockey, the U.S. ambassador brought Harper 24 bottles of Molson Canadian.
"To show there's no hard feelings, the president also threw in a case of Yuengling on top of the Molsons," Jacobson said.
Injection site safe: Director
By DHARM MAKWANA, QMI AGENCYContinued criticism from the U.S. government on Vancouver's supervised injection site is beyond a joke, said one of the program's directors.
The 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released this week by the U.S. Department of State recommends the government of Canada press Vancouver to eliminate Insite and drug paraphernalia distributions programs, such as clean-needle exchanges, to come in line with international protocols.
Canada's rudimentary approach to ‘unselling' drugs
While U.S. hits hard with Hollywood-style ads, Canada takes a rudimentary approachSimon Houpt, Globe and Mail
Nancy Reagan would be horrified. Almost 30 years ago, when a young California schoolgirl asked the U.S. First Lady what advice she would offer to help kids resist the pressure of peers to take drugs, she replied: “Just say no.”
Elderly Ontario woman extradited to U.S. on decades-old pot charge
National PostTORONTO — A 74-year-old woman from Hamilton, Ont., who attempted to cross the border into New York state earlier this week learned the hard way that the United States does not take kindly to drug charges — no matter how old.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection say Homenella Cole advised border officers at the Lewiston-Queenston border crossing Monday that she was inadmissible to the U.S. because of previous criminal convictions in Canada.
"She said she wanted a waiver to enter the U.S., which is not uncommon," said CBP spokesman Kevin Corsaro.
A routine criminal record check revealed that Cole was the subject of active felony warrant issued on April 1, 1980 by the New York City Police Department.
Read more »Starbucks Denies Funding Anti-Marijuana Group
By Steve Elliott
In the wake of a threatened nationwide boycott by cannabis consumers, coffee giant Starbucks has denied funding an anti-marijuana group.
I hope the Seattle-based company is telling the truth. It would break my heart to know that Starbucks was working against the interests of one of its biggest consumer bases.
One would certainly hope that a progressive-leaning, forward-thinking company, based in THC-attle, of all places, would know better than to insult its own loyal customers this way.
Child tug-of-war spans international border
By Michael Platt, Calgary Sun“He has to come home.”
Phyllis Heltay’s words hang between desperation and disbelief.
She’s been fighting for over a year to bring her 11-year-old grandson home to Canada, after he was taken into custody by the State of Oregon and placed in foster care.
Noah Kirkman faces the possibility of being permanently adopted out to strangers, despite having a mother and sister in Calgary, and at least three willing homes where the Canadian boy might be cared for by blood-relatives.
Government links to US anti-drug campaign
New Health Canada website leads to American equivalentsBy Carl Meyer, Embassy
Questions are being raised after Health Canada's new anti-drug website for youth included links to a similar campaign being run in the US. Health Canada says it had no choice but to link to several American sources on its new youth anti-drug website as no applicable Canadian sources existed. However, others see it as the government moving Canadian policy more in line with its southern neighbour.
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Free Marc Emery! The FREE MARC Campaign
Canada's best-known marijuana activist needs your help!Marc Emery has fought for the end of marijuana prohibition for over a decade, through direct action civil disobedience, and funding anti-prohibition activists and campaigns, but now he needs your help.
Marc Emery has been extradited to the United States for the sale of cannabis seeds to American customers where he will serve a 5 year US prison sentence. You can help reverse this abrogation of our sovereignty by joining in calling for his immediate return to Canada:
Contact Vic Toews to approve Marc Emery's treaty transfer request
Participate in the FREE MARC Campaign to raise awareness about Marc Emery's extradition
Call Your MP and ask them to support Marc Emery's return to Canada Read more »
America's Prison Spree Has Brutal Impact
The November 9 Supreme Court arguments on whether it is cruel and unusual to impose life in prison without parole on violent juveniles who have not killed anybody understandably got prominent media coverage.
But a far more important imprisonment story gets less attention because it's a running sore that rarely generates dramatic "news." That is our criminal-justice system's incarceration of a staggering 2.3 million people, about half of them for nonviolent crimes, including most of the 500,000 locked up for drug offenses. Read more »
