Electronic Nicotine Saves Lives

Bill S-5, “An Act to amend the Tobacco Act and the Non-smokers’ Health Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts” is a Senate Bill to regulate vaping products, retailers and manufacturers.
It’ll effectively kill conventions, enforces strict labelling, prohibits the inter-province mail of vaping devices (tobacco products), thankfully doesn’t seem to prohibit mailing of base juice and flavours (vaping products) and carries the same penalties for the sale of juice and products to youth as cigarettes.
This bothers me greatly:

Flavours
30.‍48 (1) No person shall promote a vaping product set out in column 2 of Schedule 3, including by means of the packaging, through an indication or illustration, including a brand element, that could cause a person to believe that the product has a flavour set out in column 1.
Prohibition -- sale
(2) No person shall sell a vaping product set out in column 2 of Schedule 3 if an indication or illustration referred to in subsection (1) is displayed on the product or on its package.
Amendment of Schedule 3
30.‍49 (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, amend Schedule 3 by adding, amending or deleting
(a) the name or description of a flavour or vaping product; or
(b) a reference to all vaping products, with or without exceptions.

And Schedule 3 consists of: Confectionery, Dessert, Cannabis, Soft drink, Energy drink
My go to flavours are coffee, licorice, “rainbow candy” (Skittles like) and cheesecake flavours. Does “through an indication or illustration” mean plain text, or just a picture of a cola bottle?

Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!

…didn’t Canada just solve all of Trump’s problems? If humane treatment of immigrants is the goal, Canada is the right place. They have polite behavior, free healthcare, and lots of space. That’s a win-win-win.
Or am I missing something?
Canada also gives us a test case to compare to America’s plan. In five years we can check back and see how it turned out for them. If it worked, we can reassess. Until then we obviously need to wall-off Canada. But that’s another topic.

When you’re finished at that link, click over to his main page and read the others.

Turtle Swamp

Pull on the hip waders…

“You’re going to see a change in the way we do business,” Ms. Haley said. “Our goal with the administration is to show value at the U.N., and the way we’ll show value is to show our strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure our allies have our back as well.”
“For those who don’t have our back,” she added, “we’re taking names; we will make points to respond to that accordingly.”

Conservative country

Brian Jean drops a bomb on the Alberta NDP. Game changer.

There is no more uncertainty. There is no more discussion of the Wildrose and the PCs soldiering on their own against Notley’s NDP in 2019.
There is no thought of the two parties co-operating in the 2019 election but remaining separate.
Jean is now foursquare behind one united conservative party if Jason Kenney becomes leader of the Progressive Conservatives in March and comes knocking on Wildrose’s door.

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