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On supervised-injection clinics, Ontario Liberals discover a convenient ‘division’
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Apr 12, 2012
In her response to the release of a report that called for supervised drug-injection sites in Toronto and Ottawa on Wednesday, provincial Health Minister Deb Matthews said the McGuinty government was happy to receive good advice and that “we make our decisions based on evidence.” The next sentence: “Experts continue to be divided on the value of the sites.”… a spokeswoman for Ms. Matthews offered this explanation: “As the Minister said in her statement, experts continue to be divided on the value of the sites — these experts include police, medical experts and other community leaders.”
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical
Posted in Child & Family Debates | No Comments »
Ontario’s publicly funded intolerance
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Dec 14, 2011
The various groups that have come out against Ontario’s proposed anti-bullying law are doing a fine job of proving the argument that the province has no business funding a separate Catholic school system… a group called Ontario Catholic Parent Advocates, is saying quite plainly that Bill 13 would require Catholic schools to accept homosexuality. And that they shouldn’t have to… The Catholic Church has a right to its beliefs. But the fact that taxpayers continue to fund schools that want to teach those beliefs looks ever more ridiculous as stories like this play out.
Tags: ideology, rights, tax, youth
Posted in Education Policy Context | No Comments »
Close the bedroom door for privacy
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Jul. 27, 2010
Given the lack of logic in the government’s position, it’s understandable that critics suggest something else must be up. It is part of Stephen Harper’s innate distrust of the bureaucracy, they say. Or it’s part of his fundamental libertarian DNA… Most likely he was throwing a bone to a chunk of his voter base, not realizing what wrath he had wrought. When the critics arrived, a government not prone to compromise dug in its heels. So here we are, a nation full of unhappy statisticians under a government willing to defend your right to keep your number of bedrooms private. Unless you decide to sell your house, in which case everyone will know the answer anyway.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
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