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CHARBONNEAU – Huxley’s futuristic solution to the ‘drug problem’

May 9, 2024 // 7 Comments

ALDOUS HUXLEY came up with a solution to the drug problem of the day in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley’s book is set in the World State city of London in AD [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – ‘People died while government dithered on B.C. drug issue’

May 8, 2024 // 3 Comments

Excerpt from Question Period in the House of Commons on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Frank Caputo Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, B.C. (Conservative) Mr. Speaker, after nine years, [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Govt is breathtakingly disconnected from reality’

May 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Debate in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, May 6, 2024. S. Bond: While the Premier’s disastrous decriminalization of crack cocaine, meth and fentanyl continues to cause [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Why are Liberals misleading Canadians on drug policy?

May 3, 2024 // 10 Comments

Excerpt from debate during Question Period in the House of Commons on Thursday, May 2, 2024: Frank Caputo Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC Mr. Speaker, the Liberal minister [Continue]

STONE – Eby’s drug decriminalization has led to drug exploitation

May 3, 2024 // 4 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson FOR THE LAST 15 MONTHS, the BC United Caucus has relentlessly called on the NDP to scrap their decriminalization experiment, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Robots could learn from the lowly flatworm

May 2, 2024 // 1 Comment

WE CREATE ROBOTS in our own image. Or, in the way we imagine ourselves. We imagine ourselves as calculating machines with all the processing going on in our brains. Bodies [Continue]