Blacklock’s- Memo Admitted Drug Failure

Cabinet beginning in 2023 suspended enforcement of the Controlled Drugs And Substances Act in B.C. It permitted public possession of up 2.5 grams of narcotics, the first cabinet order of its kind since Parliament criminalized cocaine and opium in 1911. The experiment was to run three years but was cut short last May 7 after 15 months on complaints of public disorder.

Overdose deaths in the 15-month trial period totaled 3,313 compared to 2,843 in the 15 months prior to decriminalization, a 16.5 percent increase. Figures were drawn from the British Columbia Coroners Service.

Toronto Star- ‘Overwhelming’: Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls

The names of those who’ve died, most from drug poisoning, are scrawled on the Prairie Harm Reduction building. Kim Randall, the director of support services, points to the name of a woman who went by Baby Sis. She died in January.

Math is hard.

National Post- Canada’s pediatricians advised to support affirming gender-questioning six-year-olds

Newly published advice to Canada’s pediatricians continues to charge “full steam ahead” with the gender-affirming model of care in the face of increasing uncertainty about its safety, and suggests that parents who don’t unquestionably affirm their child’s expressed gender risk harming their child, concerned doctors say.