In November 2020, Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalizing non-commercial drug possession. The state also significantly increased funding for recovery and harm reduction programs. It sounded like a great plan to voters, so it passed with 60 percent approval.
The deadliest, most addictive drug in history was introduced to a vulnerable population just as the state decriminalized drugs
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are no strangers to criticism. Even so, a take-down from The Hollywood Reporter would have hurt. The magazine, the trade bible in the world of film, television and showbusiness has included the couple on their annual “winners and losers” list for 2023. They were not on the right side.
“In 2020, the royal duo fled a life of ceremonial public service to cash in their celebrity status in the States,” its citation as one of the year’s losers read. “But after a whiny Netflix documentary, a whiny biography (Spare – even the title is a pouty gripe) and an inert podcast, the Harry and Meghan brand swelled into a sanctimonious bubble just begging to be popped – and South Park was the pin.”
It’s that time of year. St. Nick will be visiting and we’ll all soon be stuffed with turkey and good cheer.
Long time readers know the routine but to newcomers simply add your favourite carol in the comments and we’ll play your selection in the next 7 PM slot as we continue with new installments each evening through the Big Day.
I’ll get us started. Merry Christmas.
All wars end with negotiation, but it's hard to negotiate when the other side's bargaining position is "you all die and disappear." pic.twitter.com/x72h9Zlqjy
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) December 16, 2023
Senator JD Vance on December 11 suggested that Ukraine surrender land in order to obtain a peace settlement with Russia.
“It ends the way nearly every single war has ever ended: when people negotiate and each side gives up something that it doesn’t want to give up,” the Ohio Republican said to reporters. “No one can explain to me how this ends without some territorial concessions relative to the 1991 boundaries.”
An Islamist extremist who planned to murder a Christian preacher at Speakers’ Corner refused to attend court yesterday to receive a life jail sentence.
Edward Little was being monitored by MI5 when he considered attacking Queen Elizabeth’s funeral but abandoned the plot as he was “too late”.
Instead he targeted Hatun Tash, who had previously received £10,000 compensation from police after being arrested twice for complaining she was being threatened by Islamic protesters at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, central London.
So long as Hamas remains in charge in Gaza, so long as it even just remains a functioning organization, there can be no lasting peace. That means any talk of negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza under present conditions is naive in the extreme.
New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with “Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic? A Fraught Question for the Moment.” Weisman approached the sensitive matter with his trademark politically corrupted cynicism: In Weisman’s world, no matter the gravity of the issue at hand, Republicans are invariably being partisan hacks when they address it.
Foreign students didn’t create the country’s current housing shortage. Blame should also not fall on the shoulders of temporary foreign workers, refugee claimants or new immigrants to this country.
Blame rightly falls to governments that failed to see the flashing warning signs of a housing shortage for years and a federal government that has put out the welcome mat to new arrivals and essentially had them sleep on the floor.
The foreign student scam was just another way to gain Canadian citizenship.
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the Senate staffer who filmed himself having anal sex in a Senate hearing room, cried homophobia after the video leaked online.
Here are the last images taken by Israeli photographer Gilad Kfir, minutes before he was shot to death by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.
On Friday’s episode of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power” podcast, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) admitted that the humanitarian aid Joe Biden committed for Gaza is “being stolen by Hamas” and “is not being given to the civilians, the elderly, the pregnant women who are in Gaza, who I certainly pray for every single day.”
Britain will be “Venezuela for 20 years” if Labour wins the next general election, Dr Jordan Peterson has warned.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the Canadian psychologist said that it was “highly likely” that Sir Keir Starmer would be elected, but that it would be a “catastrophe”.
In a wide-ranging interview, Dr Peterson also said that believing people can change gender represents “maximal confusion” and criticised the ideology of “diversity is unity.”
A 20-year-old Iraqi has been deported back to his home country after German authorities suspected he was planning a “terrorist attack,” Germany’s Interior Ministry announced on Saturday.
The Interior Ministry of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt accused the unnamed man of planning a “serious act of violence.” He has been permanently banned from entering Germany.
The arrest of a teenager accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Ottawa Jewish community is the latest sign that Canada is struggling with the radicalization of youths.
The minor, taken into custody on Friday night, was the second youth apprehended for terrorism in two days. On Wednesday, RCMP arrested a 16-year-old in Calgary over an unrelated plot.
Had a look at the marches in our city streets?
