Municipalities key to safe, effective cannabis legalization
WINNIPEG—With cannabis set to become legal for recreational use by next summer, Canadians are asking tough questions: Will marijuana be sold next to my child’s school? How will we keep drug-impaired drivers off the road? How will we dissuade my teenager from smoking pot? These are the kinds of questions that thousands of municipal leaders […]
Liberals’ answer to drug impaired driving? Precious little
Impaired driving is the leading criminal cause of death and injury on Canada’s roads. Each year 1,200 to 1,500 Canadians are killed at the hands of a driver impaired by alcohol or drugs. That works out to four to five Canadians a day. On average, a staggering 60,000 more are injured. Thanks to the Liberal […]
How our plan to legalize cannabis will strengthen health, justice, and public safety
The current approach of cannabis prohibition has failed to protect our communities and our youth. Canadian youth use cannabis at rates that are amongst the highest in the world. Our latest survey indicates that 21 per cent of teens aged 15-19 and 30 per cent of young adults aged 20-24 reported using cannabis in the […]
Health Canada adding staff, launches new branch, in preparation for legal pot
Health Canada is taking the lead on the marijuana file in Ottawa in advance of the summer deadline for legalization, overseeing product licensing and regulations, quality monitoring, health research, and public education. In preparation, the department is transforming significantly, according to experts and a former Liberal health minister, adding new inspectors and staff to deal with backlogged licensing […]
Government falling behind on cannabis public education, say critics
Health Canada says it will launch a national public education advertising campaign on cannabis in the spring, though critics say it should have already been in place in order to educate the public ahead of the July 1 legalization deadline. The impaired driving campaign run by Public Safety,“Don’t Drive High”, has been popping up in […]
Must cannabis be grown in Fort Knox?
As the first federal party in Canada to advocate for an end to the futile and counter-productive prohibition policy towards cannabis, the Green Party of Canada welcomes this government’s commitment to legalization. Unfortunately, these efforts are marred by something of a “reefer-madness” mindset. I attempted to amend the legislation to eliminate the extremely severe penalties […]
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Where’s the beef? Industry stakeholders cry foul over Health Canada food guide freeze-out
Industry groups shut out of in-person consultations with Health Canada in its current effort to overhaul Canada’s Food Guide have delivered their concerns—and their own set of potentially competing goals—to politicians and other federal departments. Health Canada declared in 2016 that it would not meet one-on-one with industry groups while revamping its food guidelines because […]
We should tax meat and subsidize fruits and vegetables
Nothing elicits grumbles quite like talking about taxes. Governments around the world tax income, carbon, alcohol, tobacco, sugar, houses, inheritances, even saturated fat. And these taxes can be not insignificant; in Canada, for example, 35 per cent of the pump price for gas is tax. If a group of investors managing trillions of dollars is […]
G7 is Canada’s chance to ‘galvanize’ action on feminist policy: World Vision
When Canada takes the stage as host of June’s G7 Summit, the Liberals should take advantage of the “international moment” to encourage action on education of girls in crisis, according to the head of World Vision Canada. But opposition critics warn any promises made would be coming from a government with a history of “not […]
