About harm reduction programs, is the way they build success upon success.
Alberta just shut its supervised drug consumption site down. Vancouver, the city that pioneered this model in Canada, is pulling back from it too. And right now, in 2026, Wab Kinew’s NDP government is moving ahead with a new one in Manitoba. When the two jurisdictions that ran this experiment the longest are both walking away from it, Winnipeg doubling down should worry every homeowner, renter, and parent in this city.
KLEIN: Safe Injection site is a band-aid on a bullet wound
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Actually, it is positive reinforcement for “bad behavior.”
Guess what happens if you put a drug user next to a Nun holding a ruler.
Have you taken a look at Manitoba NDP? These drug addicts are the NDP’s base.
The Manitoba drug addicts might be second to Manitoba’s street alcoholics in NDiPper support. Been there, done that, working elections.
Sorry Canada …
https://youtu.be/pUk-nPFwB1g?si=eWAhxFlh-_RfM7QR&t=69
L – Kenji, truly, you are a connoisseur of fine music.
I had quite a folk rock immersion back in the day. Not ashamed to say.
Kenji,
I was also immersed in the folk/country rock late 60s through 70s golden era.
You happily have reminded me of some of the old ‘chestnuts.’
As for Jackson Browne, although I like his stuff, I have to ignore his woke activism.
Anyway, Poco and Pure Prairie League, among many, are gone but not forgotten.
Agreed. Although I’d have to have quite a vinyl bonfire if I cancelled all the leftist tools whose music I like. I don’t know if it was the ‘sit at home’ COVID nonsense or what … but I actually admire Browne for posting his unplugged, stripped-down, simple singer-songwriter performances … despite his age.
His voice cracks, but he is on key and tempo. His guitar work is still good. But it really illustrates his skill as a songwriter … and he wrote quite a few man-God relationship songs (yes, it was still the Jesus Freak … in a good way … era). I feel it’s almost as though he is leaving scrapbook for his kids (like me) when he’s gone. These performances illustrate his best qualities … which weren’t quite as hardcore leftist in his Laurel Canyon days as they are today.
Kenji,
Check out Jackson’s visit to “Tiny Desk concerts”
Stripped down with 3 good other players, including Greg Lietch (sp) a great player.
And, yes, the “Jesus Freak” days were something.
Just ask Ritchie Furay of Poco lore, or Phil Keaggy (a guitarist’s guitarist), and my fave player.
I actually played one of his tiny desk songs at my son’s funeral … “Call it a Loan”. Makes me tear up just typing this. Once again, old dude, voice cracking … but with unparalleled emotion, authenticity, and honesty.
Kenji,
I like to play Call it a Loan on my Martin D16 and with my own cracky voice that my wife abides.
Condolences for your loss of a son. That is hard.
I’m jealous … of both the D16 and your creaky old voice and fingers. I need to properly resettle and retire (no more semi-everything) and get the 1974 D-35 I covet … or Guild D-55 and get my callouses built up again.
Although I my old age … I’m starting to believe a ‘parlor’ guitar would be more my speed. Maybe like Ian Anderson’s 0-16NY …
https://www.strings.ie/product_images/uploaded_images/ian-anderson-martin-new-yorker-guitar.jpg
L – Suicidal empathy kills more Manitobans than, insert all NDP/Cult. Marxist tropes put together. That their NDP government hangs on to a policy of assisted maiming/death by injection. When other provinces are coming to their senses, both moral and logical. That makes Manitoba, the North Korea of Canada or is that British Columbia or Ottawa? It’s truly a competitive race to the abyss, in this, “the Demented Dominion”.
My theory? The people handing out ‘free’ needles and drugs are the same people who gleefully mock … “the people of Walmart”. It’s the same deal … they love cultivating groups of people who are ‘worse off’ than themselves. Oh, they may be useless, non-functional, bureaucrats barely making a living … but they know they’re better than at least someone …
The people who run all this “harm reduction” crap are nothing more than cartel salesmen.
Alberta and Vancouver just didn’t “do it right”. LOL
They are not “harm reduction”…..they are harm CONTINUATION.
Well now maybe the people of Manitoba should should stand up & use Kate’s words. “YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME”. I’m finding out that a lot of people are saying them words now days.
Victoria council just voted 8-1 to keep our disgusting “safe injection site” open. All the usual BS. It must be something about the climate that makes people here stupider than average.
I got out of the city when they first started advocating for an injection site in Winnipeg. It’s taken longer than I thought to implement because the North End property owners put up a sustained fuss about it, for all the good it did them. My property values keep going up out here long past the last transit bus stop where we don’t have zombies wandering around.