Crack pipes for children in Vancouver

Further to the post below on the Supreme Court's sanctioning of dope injection is this video (via Robert at sda) about Vancouver's "...failed state of a neighbourhood in Vancouver's downtown east side" and the "...small band of ideologues at UBC and Coastal Health" pushing these insane policies:

 

Mark Hasiuk's story in the Vancouver Courier.

Aussie 'human right' to be offended affirmed

Mark Steyn: Bad news for Andrew Bolt (and most other Aussies):

... guilty verdict against Andrew Bolt...  Justice Mordecai Bromberg’s ruling is absolutely appalling in the precedent it sets for “freedom” of speech in Australia....

... Bromberg’s execrable decision has dramatically incentivized the willingness of favored groups to take offence – and dramatically constrained the ability of mainstream media commentators even to raise the issue. Shame on Australia.

Updates:

Andrew Bolt reacts -

My big mistake: "... The judge has ruled that none of the “fair skinned Aborigines” who took legal actual against me had a choice in deciding their “racial identity”, and I broke the law to say that they did and in the way that I did...."

To appeal against racial division is now racist: "... It’s a nightmare. A world in which things are the deemed the opposite of what they are, and we must choke on our dissent, is what we have come to. ... (Once again, no comments, because it has become too dangerous to print many. And so your free speech has effecitvely been limited, too, by this attack on my own.)"

Canadian connection - Justice Bromberg cited the SCC Taylor decision in his ruling.

Ilegal dope vs tobacco - mixed messages (and lying scumbag politicians)

Today the Supreme Court of Canada ruled (unanimously) that Vancouver's "supervised drug injection" site ('Insite') can stay open:

To force the site to close “would have been to prevent injection drug users from accessing the health services offered by Insite, threatening the health and indeed the lives of potential clients,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the ruling. 

It thereby constitutes a limit on the section 7 charter rights of drug addicts - life, liberty and the security of person.

So the Supremes ruled that enabling illicit dopers is good for their health, life, liberty and security.

Then we have another class of (legal) users - smokers, who have been attacked mercilessly and kicked while they're down.  In BC the health minister is now threatening smokers with another kick - forcing them to pay higher health fees:

“Some people, in B.C. about 14 per cent of the population, continue to smoke and they’re going to cost more,” de Jong said in an interview. “Maybe they should contribute more.”

Civil liberties and ethics experts think it's a crappy idea, primarily on "slippery slope" grounds. As far as I know, no one wondered if it might be unenforceable.

Also, Minister De Jong neglected to point out that the government is already taxing smokers to death:

The province collected $682 million from tobacco taxation in the 2009-10 fiscal year, $708 million in 2008-09 and $692 million in 2007-08.

That probably more than covers additional health costs. And I'm sure that De Jong would prefer that no one mentioned any studies like this one in the New England Journal of Medicine which found:

... In our study, lifetime costs for smokers can be calculated as $72,700 among men and $94,700 among women, and lifetime costs among nonsmokers can be calculated as $83,400 and $111,000, respectively. This amounts to lifetime costs for nonsmokers that are higher by 15 percent among men and 18 percent among women.

Altogether this spells "CASH GRAB" from (and harassment of) smokers to offset the cost of enabling dopers.

The Saudis are at war with the West

Charles Lewis in today's Post:

Textbooks used in Saudi Arabia's schools contain virulent forms of anti-Christian and anti-Jewish bigotry that fuel intolerance and violence around the globe, a new report says....

... "This is not just hate mongering, it's promoting violence," [Hudson Institute director, Nina Shea] said in an interview. It is exporting terrorism through textbooks.

Christians are referred to as "swine" and Jews as "apes," while being blamed for much of the world's ills....

Updated: More at Blazing Cat Fur.

Saudi textbooks are loaded with propaganda of a type that is used in wartime to dehumanize the enemy ("swine" and "apes") in the minds of  the warring nation's citizens and warriors.

The Saudi Wahabists are at war with the West and unless we realize that fact and act to defend ourselves and to aggressively take the offensive we are doomed to lose. Given our terrorist-hugging leftist media, academia and ... our prospects seem poor.
 
Maybe a good place to start would be the introduction of Frank Miller's "Holy Terror" into our school curricula.
 


["Holy Terror" via Blazing Cat Fur].

Al Gore's faked science project

Anthony Watts:

"... I’ve discovered that by watching carefully it reveals an “inconvenient truth” of the worst kind...."

Corrupt, cozy concensus media

Great rant by Brian Lilley:

... The state broadcaster is the biggest customer of the Canadian Press. The Globe and The Star own the Canadian Press. The National Post relies on sports content from CBC to keep itself and its website alive and CTV’s parent company, Bell Media, just launched a joint bid with CBC for Olympic coverage.

... They won’t tell you the state broadcaster is thumbing its nose at taxpayers and refusing a court order because it goes against their financial interests, they could even lose advertising from CBC’s generous ad budget which it uses to keep other media outlets in line. ...

So that's how they get their share of the CBC's $1.1B taxpayer subsidy.

The next great pipeline debate.

Globe and mail:

Debate around the Keystone XL pipeline has been rancorous and divisive ... has mostly played itself out in America.

... But the next great pipeline debate will unfold right here in Canada.

... the proposed $5.5-billion, 1,700-kilometre Enbridge pipeline. It would run from Edmonton to the coastal port town of Kitimat, B.C., ....

National Geographic recently devoted a cover spread to the pending tussle ...

... Vivian Krause. ... the tenacious Vancouver-based and independently financed writer has parted the curtains on the extent to which environmental groups in Canada are funded by American organizations. (Her website, fair-questions.com, is visited regularly by everyone from the RCMP to the federal auditor-general to the Oval Office in Washington.)

... Ms. Krause estimates there’s $50-million in American funding pouring into the Canadian environmental movement every year.

... $30-million in funding from the U.S. green donor, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of California ...

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund of New York paid a couple of Canadian environmental groups a total of $200,000