The "pre-crime" agenda is unleashed in full force...
Although Freeland is running ahead of Trudeau among Liberal Party voters, the polls reveal she is trailing voter sentiment for anyone-but and the preference against all. This hostility to Freeland is particularly visible among Canadian men, and in the Canadian prairie states where her Ukrainian grandfather Chomiak migrated after release from a US Army prison camp, and where Freeland grew up.Lots of people have been wondering about Chrystia Freeland and her tweaked-out squirming on camera. According to John Helmer, it's not drugs. She stops fidgeting as soon as she starts speaking. He's collected some anonymous diagnoses that say she has Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD).
Helmer also writes that she's very desperate to become Minster Prime, maybe even moreso with Project Ukraine failing hard. Helmer gives some stats about her levels of popularity. She's almost less popular than Trudeau. An amazing accomplishment. I think she may hate Trudeau, and see him as an obstacle to her rightful place in power.
The title of the piece is hilarious - her HPD is incurable... unless she becomes leader!
All in all, a very interesting read.
CANADA’S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND DIAGNOSED WITH PROGRESSIVE HPD – INCURABLE UNLESS SHE TAKES THE PRIME MINISTRY FROM JUSTIN TRUDEAU
by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In two public performances of less than two minutes apiece, Chrystia Freeland (lead images),johnhelmer.net
I can personally attest to the above. Every prairie male (and female) I know equally despise Freeland as much as Turdeau.
CALGARY — Alberta, a province that’s most often in the headlines for setting firewalls around its own jurisdiction, finds itself an unlikely leader in setting the national agenda on addictions and recovery policy.
Any lingering doubts surrounding the momentum behind the fledgling Alberta model of recovery-oriented addictions care were put to rest this week as over 1,900 Canadians congregated in Calgary for the eighth annual Recovery Capital Conference. Among those in attendance were elected officials from across Canada, including the respective ministers in charge of addictions services in Ontario and Saskatchewan.
“We’re aligned with what’s happening in Alberta,” Michael Tibollo, Ontario’s Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, told me on Wednesday. “The focus in Ontario is on recovery… and meeting people where they’re at with the supports they need.”
Saskatchewan Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Tim McLeod added, “Alberta has been a great neighbour and partner” on the addictions file. McLeod reiterated that Saskatchewan is in the process of transitioning toward a “recovery-oriented system of care”, as outlined last fall in the province’s new Action Plan for Mental Health and Addictions.
“The work being done by Alberta and Ontario certainly aligns with Saskatchewan and the approach that we’re taking there.”
The vote of confidence comes at a time when critics of the Alberta model, which explicitly rejects safe supply, are casting doubts on its efficacy in curbing drug-related deaths linked to powerful street opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil. Illicit drugs claimed the lives of at least 1,706 Albertans last year, the highest number on record, with an average of four people each day killed by opioids.
Alberta addictions minister Dan Williams acknowledged, on Wednesday, that the province needs to do more to combat toxic street drugs but emphasized the “great improvements” that have been made in reducing fatalities related to other substances, including prescribed opioids. According to the province’s substance use surveillance system, deaths linked to commonly prescribed pharmaceutical opioids like codeine and methadone have dropped by 70 per cent since 2018. There have also been significant decreases in deaths related to alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamines and benzodiazepines.
Williams also told me he expects the forthcoming Compassionate Intervention Act to lead to a reduced death toll among transient and unhoused drug users.
“If somebody is a danger to themselves or others because of their drug use, we as a society need to find appropriate ways to intervene,” Williams told me. Adding, “It is un-Canadian to leave (drug-addicted) individuals to live intermittently homeless in minus-40 weather in northern Alberta.” While he was unable to give me a precise timeline for the introduction of the act, he insisted it remains a top legislative priority.
For his part, Williams is embracing Alberta’s role as a national trendsetter. When asked why the province is calling a new provincial crown corporation dedicated to addictions and recovery research the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence, or CoRE, Williams had the following to say:
“We have a proudly Canadian national view of how we can positively influence the addiction and mental health recovery space and the name of our new crown corp reflects that.” Williams said that he hopes CoRE will be an incubator of interprovincial research partnerships.
Williams and his Ontario and Saskatchewan counterparts all said that the federal government needs to do more to improve the substandard living conditions that have allowed addictions to flourish in Indigenous communities across Canada.
“When we’re addressing treatment and recovery, we have to also look upstream in terms of what’s causing some of the issues we’re seeing in First Nations,” Tibollo told me. “When they don’t have adequate water supply and housing… it begs the question why aren’t they (the federal government) doing more?”
The ministers nevertheless expressed optimism in the level of engagement in the recovery movement they’re seeing from Indigenous communities. According to Williams, Roughly half of the Recovery Capital Conference’s attendees, for example, represented First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.
So while Alberta still carries something of an independent streak, the steady diffusion of its recovery-oriented model to other provinces is showing, in real time, just how much it can accomplish when it embraces a position of national leadership.
There's some good news in Canada - Alberta has an incredible new policy in combatting drug addiction, which includes not giving people more drugs, and taking steps to help them recover. Genius! And other provinces are paying attention.
This week, a leaked memo in B.C. revealed that hospital workers were being told not to confiscate weapons or illicit drugs from patients – and to look the other way at in-hospital drug dealers. It caused a stir in the B.C. Legislature, but it’s not altogether surprising for a province that has already decriminalized hard drugs, pioneered the government distribution of recreational opioids to addicts and opened one of the world’s most comprehensive networks of low-barrier shelters and safe consumption sites. All of this has been done in the name of “harm reduction”; the notion that any attempt to discourage drug use will only force the activity into the shadows and increase overdose deaths.
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Studies show that the mere act of telling a hospital patient not to blow crack smoke in a newborn’s face can trigger a potentially deadly stigma spiral. By merely suggesting that crack cocaine (or bladed weapons, or drug transactions) are not welcome in a health-care setting, we are othering society’s most vulnerable and thrusting them into lone-use situations.
Apparently, not their neighbor to the West (BC) - I mean, this should make health care workers and doctors really want to go to work, right? Unbelievable.
Good on Smith:
'Who are you to stop someone blowing crack smoke at a newborn?' Inside the thoughts of B.C.'s harm reduction program
"By making shelters a place drug use, drug micro-economies and weapon micro-economies co-exist, we are forging a holistic continuum of support"nationalpost.com
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…. No wait; potentially worse than the old boss. Is that even possible?There is talk of Mark Carney possibly becoming the new PM of Canada. That would be terrible. This guy:
I saw this article online today from Farmers Forum about the carbon tax protests across Canada this month:There is a facebook group I have recently found called the "Nationwide Protest Against the Carbon Tax" that has just over 100, 000 people in a matterof a couple weeks because Carbon Tax is going up again April 1st. Some people are saying fuel up March 31 then boycott buying fuel for the following week while others are setting up protests in multiple provinces and in some case multiple cities within a province. I'm curious if anyone else has heard about this movement and has any thoughts on it? It could be ways to make it more impactful or things to watch out/possible dangerous
The Archipel Pass is an initiative implemented by the Municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine. By acquiring the Archipel Pass, all visitors to the Îles de la Madeleine contribute to the establishment of the Sustainable Land Management Fund. This fund will finance the establishment and management of a regional park, waste management, as well as the improvement and maintenance of recreational and tourist infrastructures.
Naturally, the municipality's mayor justifies the introduction of this pass to help the municipality pay for the effects of tourism. But in reality, there's much more to it than that. This will be the first time in Canada that citizens will have to pay an additional fee to go to another municipality, and it will also be the first time that citizens of one municipality will have to show proof that they actually live in that city when they want to leave the city to go to the neighboring municipality without having to pay.
We're not yet talking about "15-minute" cities, but we can clearly see the Canadian and Quebec governments' orientation towards "total control of its population". The municipality's mayor tells us that it's only from May 1 to October 14 and that it's an experimental project, but does this remind us of something along the lines of "it's only for 15 days, until the curve flattens out"?
According to André Lafrance, there are already plans to set up something similar for "Toronto and another island at the other end of Canada".
And as Me Lafrance puts it:
"I want people to remember one thing from our interview tonight, and that is that the Pass des Îles is a social control and that the royalty is just a smokescreen."