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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Going Sideways in Vancouver
Breaking news from the harm-reduction front in B.C.:
The Vancouver Province reports today that Don MacPherson, the City of Vancouver's drug-policy co-ordinator, will go before council on Thursday to ask for $1 million for a three-year program to provide free wine to homeless alcoholics.
I'm betting council will approve the project. After all, council already supports a safe-injection site for IV drug users and an experimental program to give free heroin to addicts -- and these involve illegal drugs.
And so, let us all praise harm reduction, a philosophy whose relentless logic will surely produce increasingly surprising policies in years to come.
Posted by Terry O'Neill on March 21, 2006 in Food and Drink | Permalink
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We are truly governed and now policed by the insane.
Posted by: Duke McGoo | 2006-03-21 11:17:31 AM
Sounds like this guy has had too much wine himself! Now we know the meaning of:"drunk in charge."
Posted by: Stephen | 2006-03-21 11:28:16 AM
To paraphrase Barney Gumble, "Three years with only wine?! I'll go crazy!"
Posted by: Paul Canniff | 2006-03-21 1:18:58 PM
Only confirms how the problem of lack of decency, morality and how really big the problem of alcoholism is, drugs too, in the civil and public servants, governments in Canada
Premier Ralph helped only to double to he number of alcoholic outlets.
Sounds like this guy has had too much wine himself! Now we know the meaning of:"drunk in charge." especially in Alberta
The Premier of BC Campbell got arrested for drunbk Driving while on vacation in Hawaii but he likley would have not been arrested by the pretentious RCMP in BC, Alberta.
Posted by: Canadian | 2006-03-21 1:21:14 PM
Wonder when they will provide free partners to those wanting sex, and perhaps free goods to those who feel obligated to steal...
The rot and decay continue and will continue as long as we have idiots voting in more idiots.
Posted by: Alain | 2006-03-21 1:51:12 PM
The most outrageous thing about this proposal is the impact it will have on small businesses.
If it's adopted, it is they who will suffer the most as they will not only experience a sharp drop in revenue, but find themselves with hard-to move supplies of mouthwash, Lysol, shaving cream and highly salted cooking wine and other fine low-cost wine substitutes.
There really ought to be a law against government competing against the private sector.
Posted by: truewest | 2006-03-21 3:12:47 PM
I think this is a proposal that conservatives should endorse, because the next step is to argue that the government should spend some money distributing 6-shooters to curb the street need for semi-automatic handguns.
As for this:
"Premier Ralph helped only to double to he number of alcoholic outlets."
He tripled them, thank you very much. Just for that a portrait of him should hang in every home (above the bar, of course)
Posted by: Feynman and Coulter's Love Child | 2006-03-21 3:20:57 PM
King Ralph's greatest accomplishment was not the increase in outlets; it was changing the way booze was taxed so that beer became more expensive and single-malt became cheaper. Seems perverse, but only if you ignore the Klein maxim: if you want to think like a winner, you've got to drink like a winner.
Posted by: truewest | 2006-03-21 3:37:23 PM
On the surface this seems like another crackpot NDP idea.But,if you live in the downtown core of the major cities,as I do,you may embrace this program.Supposedly,this will keep the stinky,diseased,hard core rummies from annoying the working class.They will recieve enough wine to satisfy the cravings,but not enough to stagger around,piss-stained and mumbling for spare change.It is alright to occasionally help a wino,even for a conservative.
Posted by: wallyj | 2006-03-21 6:29:49 PM
Let me know when they start giving away free cigarettes. Thanks.
Posted by: jema54j | 2006-03-21 7:44:54 PM
Well I guess they can afford it..what with the transfer taxes they get on all those house sales!
Posted by: PGP | 2006-03-21 8:08:29 PM
So true.
"80 percent of citizens still think that all politicians are bad, incompetent, pretentious at all levels of government. Most Politicans are not only incompetent managers but are immoral persons, liars still. Only confirms to all the problem of lack of decency, morality and how really big the problem of alcoholism is, drugs too, in the civil and public servants, governments in Canada Premier Ralph helped only to double to he number of alcoholic outlets. Now we know the meaning of:"drunk in charge." The Saskatchewan government says taxpayers have been cheated out of nearly $2 million by rogue civil servants over the last three years. "The Alberta Provincial spending has risen some 45 per cent during the last five years; health care spending alone has climbed 70 per cent over that period. " Most of it is in the personnel costs. The high personnel operating costs mainly due to the existing poor managers, inadequate personnel management can kill you. Even in Alberta. And how can you expect others to take a pay cut when you yourself live a poor example by living high on the hog. "So what's the Albertan premier trying to take our minds off? His own bad Bad management." "Qualified to be a used car salesman Klein still does not know how to manage resources, for clearly he is not a competent manager," Kelin's past real mismanagement of the now very costly and still ineeffective personnel, even in the Hospitals is catching up. Premier Ralph Klein is " He is killing medicare to cover up the fact he and his incompetent ministers had mismanged even the health system in Alberta cost wise also. Like others too have said ""A THIRD WAVE SEPARATE PRIVATE SYSTEM WILL STILL NECESSITATE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF THE EXISTING HEALTH SYSTEM. SOMETHING THE MOSTLY INCOMPETENT HEALTH MINISTERS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO IN THE PAST, TODATE. SO THE HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS IN ALBERTA WILL REMAIN LIKELY FOR THE REST OF US POOR FOLKS" "
Posted by: Belinda | 2006-03-22 6:56:20 AM
If you say so truewest. Wait until I'm premier and we get rid of the AGLC so that taxes have nothing to do with the price of beer or scotch (or bourbon, which I prefer). Then we can all drink like Kings! At the bar until 5am! And drink some more in the car as the DD takes us home!
Posted by: Feynman and Coulter's Love Child | 2006-03-23 3:46:15 AM
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