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By. Kat Lee

THE CITY is banking on the federal government sending more people to jail for longer periods of time if its hope of an economy-boosting jail here is to be realized.
A city co-sponsored feasibility study lists three pieces of legislation the federal government wants passed, each one of which would result in more [...]

WhyProhibition.ca is joining with LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) and the BCCLA (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) in opposing the decision by Victoria Police to censor one of their officers. It’s clear that police departments across Canada and the United States consistently speak out in favour of prohibition, including producing, in the case of the [...]

By. Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star

OTTAWA–Provinces are spending $2.7 billion to expand or replace aging and overcrowded jails across Canada – with little public scrutiny, an Ottawa researcher says.
Justin Piché, a PhD candidate in sociology at Carleton University, obtained data through freedom of information requests, email and phone contact with each of the provinces and territories.
In [...]

By Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun
The federal government is appealing the recent ruling of the B.C. Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
B.C.’s appeal court, in a 2-1 decision last month, upheld the lower court ruling that dismissed the federal government appeal.
The appeal ruling allowed Insite, the first legal supervised injection site in North [...]

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By Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER – The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed the federal government appeal, which means Insite, the Vancouver supervised injection site that was the first of its kind in the country, will remain open.
The federal government is expected to appeal today’s ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Insite was originally allowed [...]

I have some great news! C-15 is no more.
 
Today, Stephen Harper asked the Governor General to “prorogue” (end the session of) Parliament. This means that all the bills are dead, C-15 included!
 
Had it not been for the hard work of everyone in lobbying the Senate, C-15 would have passed into law. That’s right, we campaigned [...]