British Columbia has learned that punishing drug users doesn’t stop drug use or the negative impact drugs have on our society. The province decided to shift from a punishment approach to drug control to a health focussed approach, as in they will help people get off of drugs instead of
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Things Are Good: Canada Implements Handgun Ban
Mass shootings in the USA have tripled in the last few decades with mass shootings becoming an almost daily occurrence. Canadians are no strangers to mass shoutings either, with too many happening within the country. Obviously, that’s not good. The Canadian government has responded to this dangerous increase in firearm
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Is the U.S. a threat to our security?
I have experienced a number of revelations about the state of North American democracy in the last few years. In 2016 I thought it was solid as a rock. How could it not be? We and the Americans have solid constitutions, centuries of experience with democratic governance, loyal militaries, free
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ford Has Hamilton Police Arrest Peaceful Satirist Lawyer At His Campaign Rally
This is an example of police state behaviour, and Ford should be punished. First Doug Ford hides from the media, now his staff have them arrested. This should never happen in a free society.#TheChoiceIsYours #onpoli https://t.co/9KXnq1tJ6x — Steven Del Duca (@StevenDelDuca) May 26, 2022
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Gun Control – A Not So Modest Proposal
This post will no doubt annoy firearms aficionados – I don’t much care. In the last 2 weeks, the United States has experienced 2 mass shooting events that resulted in multiple deaths each – one approaching 10, and another over 20 dead. Uvalde, TX – a community of 13,000
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada’s Green Party – Against Women and Reality – Rise Again RPOJ
Canada’s Green party has been performing some fairly amazing political seppuku as of late. For a party that lost 4% of its popular vote from the 2019 election to the 2021 election to take a shit on Canadian women with a news release like this firmly cements the Green Party
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women Fight Back Against Gender Ideology in Ontario – The Simple Sticker.
This is the work on the ground that needs to be happening Canada wide. The push-back against gender ideology does not happen by itself. Stickers on lamposts are enough to trigger witchhunts here in Canada apparently. This thread from twitter de For TRAs confused about women stickering Just over
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: You Don’t Think It’s Really Fascism?
If it’s not from Germany, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism, right? More seriously, way back when I first started this blog (in 2004), I wrote a piece about whether or not we were in an emerging Dark Age. That was 2 years before Canada elected a CPC government for the first
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: David Milgaard Dies
A man who helped define the Canadian justice system as deeply flawed, has died at age 69. David was sent to jail for a murder that he didn’t commit. The real killer later went to jail for other killings, and was proven the killer with the advancement of DNA evidence
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: How low will these Conservatives go?
A recent headline in the The New York Times read “Long After Blockade, Canada’s Truckers Have a Political Champion.” The champion it was referring to was the Conservative Party of Canada. The article went on to explain how “Many in the party are busy rewriting what happened on those chaotic
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Separation of God and state
This week the House of Commons debated a motion by the Bloc Québécois regarding the House’s morning prayer. Yes, the morning prayer no less. As a number of MPs pointed out, the House has somewhat more important issues to deal with. Furthermore, the Bloc might have waited until June when
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Canada’s climate scorecard: “highly insufficient”
Checking the various international climate performance indices for Canada’s rankings is a depressing business. Consider for example the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The CCPI is compiled annually by three NGOs: Germanwatch e.V., the NewClimate Institute and the Climate Action Network International. Based on 14 indicators, it ranks the climate
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Silence Is A Warning
This week, a draft ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) was leaked. Although what’s in the ruling itself is retrograde (and that’s being kind), that isn’t a surprise. Far too many of the judges appointed during Trump’s tenure, and the GOP’s refusal to allow Obama to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hyperbole to English Translation Service – What GC Women Want…
Wow. And yes this is just another day on Twitter. The evils of GC women are exposed in this mega-tweet that is completely hinged and dedicated to accurately describing reality. Gender Critical women oppose the presence of men in Rape Crisis centres because – surprise – most women have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans Diaper Furry ‘Artist’ Speaking in Elementary Schools in Canada
As an Educator I wonder about the appropriateness of scheduling a talk in an elementary school by someone who gets off by shitting in a diaper and then drawing furry art about that very act. Reduxx has featured a piece about what is happening here in Canada: “Since then, Labelle
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Raise the Incidence of Sexual Assault against Girls – British Columbia Education at it’s Finest!
Who the hell is on this board and why do they think that the destruction of female boundaries and privacy is good thing? “The vast majority of reported sexual assaults at public swimming pools in the UK take place in unisex changing rooms, new statistics reveal. The data, obtained
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The West? Really?
Many Canadians think of “the West” as one monolithic block. This concept seemed to firm up in many minds back when Preston Manning and his Reform Party stormed Ottawa proclaiming “the West wants in.” I remember Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson giving a talk to a standing-room only crowd
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The end of monarchy?
So the Queen is 96. A good age. Happy birthday, Your Majesty. Her birthday once again prompts the usual question. Do we want to continue with the monarchy? Or is it time to move on from an archaic institution? According to an Angus Reid survey, the answer is yes we
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Canada’s 2022 federal budget
Canada’s 2022 federal budget had a very strong housing focus. I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the budget here: https://nickfalvo.ca/canadas-2022-federal-budget-was-a-housing-budget/
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: How much for defence?
Chrystia Freehand’s recent budget, although modest, did have some goodies in it for the military, including more than $8-billion in new funding over five years. While less than expected, perhaps, it’s not a bad raise. It is expected to bring our defence spending up to 1.5 percent of our GDP,
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