VANCOUVER DRUG INJECTION SITE — A FAILURE
When the Conservatives formed the government in January, 2006, they inherited a large headache left behind by the Liberals which was the supervised drug injection site, referred to as the Insite, located in Vancouver’s east side. Insite was established under the Liberals in 2003 for a three-year period as a so-called “pilot” project. It was intended to be a precursor for sites in other major cities across Canada. Fortunately, this plan died when the Conservatives took over the government. [...more]
Flanagan: The worst choice, except for all the others
Wherever they went in Canada, Christian missionaries set up voluntary boarding schools and day schools for aboriginal children. The Canadian government began to involve itself at the end of the 1870s, when the end of the buffalo destroyed the economy of the Plains Indians and Métis. Famine loomed in the short term; in the longer term, it seemed necessary to help the native population convert from hunting to agriculture as a way of life. [...more]
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