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“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.” ~~ John G. Diefenbaker

Let me be clear ... I DO NOT want to see the victims of this crime sent to jail -- they need help, and society needs to ensure it is available

While I will freely admit that my blog is 'generally' read by people who are centre-right, I actually do have friends right smack dab in the center of things ... and others who I would consider to be center left.   Mondays blog post, " At least those deaths came with the possibility of providing continued life for someone else " was for the most part accepted by all sides of the political spectrum as fairly reasonable, although one of my political friends indicated, " not sure I'd want an organ donation from someone who died of drugs.  Rest is right on ." (this individual is NOT center right :)   One of my friends however, and this individual is in fact one of my many media acquaintances, did take me to task.   One for selectively quoting the article from Kamloops This Week (although I did provide a link to the entire story) ... second that because the pills were stamped Percocet it could be said that Hickson indeed may not have known they...

Practically speaking, manslaughter is when someone is doing something wrong, and someone else ends up dead as a result

Yesterday brought us more news on the Fentanyl front.   In a story from the Victoria Times Colonist, it was said that ... "B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake lies awake at night worrying and wondering why the federal government is allowing other countries to smuggle deadly fentanyl into our country. “ There’s a headline in the Kamloops paper today ,” Lake said in an interview last Friday. “ A young man at a wedding using cocaine and he died. And this is a story we’ve heard again and again and again. That is not addiction. This is poisoning .” I took a few minutes, this morning to head to my trusty research tool, Google, to check a few facts regarding Fentanyl, and came up with two things I wanted to share" BC Coroners Service: " Illicit Drug Overdose Deaths in BC" There were 555 apparent illicit drug overdose deaths from Jan to Sep 2016. This is a 60.9% increase over the number of death occurring during the same period in 2015 (345). Individual...

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