The Part I Like Best

About drug decriminalization is the way it reduces stigma and fear of criminal prosecution, which allows our most vulnerable to reach out for help.

Staff at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert have once again caught packages of drugs being brought into the federal institution.

On Thursday, July 17, packages of methamphetamine that hold an institutional value of just over $150,000 were found and seized.

The police have been notified and the institution is investigating.

The seizure comes at the heels of another seizure two weeks ago. In that case, almost $200,000 in meth, hash and MDMA were seized.

That Giant Sucking Sound You’re Hearing

National Post- Canadian talent (and money) is fleeing to the U.S.

In fields ranging from engineering to law, the average Canadian professional can not only make more money in the United States, but face dramatically lower housing prices and cost of living expenses. The disparity has long been most obvious in the tech sector. In some years, the University of Waterloo’s software engineering department has immediately lost up to 85 per cent of its graduates to jobs in the United States.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Blacklock’s- Feds Hire Digital ID Experts

Federal consultants have been hired at an undisclosed cost to centralize all public requests for federal documents into one digital ID system, says the Department of Social Development. The proposal is so complex it required “expertise we don’t have in-house,” said a department briefing note.

“Building this kind of system is complex and requires certain specialized tools and expertise we don’t have in-house,” said the May 20 note Digital Credentials Issue. “Based on international best practices we are asking industry to help.”

Primacy of Consciousness

If you imagine an event will happen, is that a guarantee that it will? That certainly seems to encapsulate Doug Ford’s view of our current trade negotiations with the US.

I’ll take “bloviating sanctimonious blowhard” for $100, Alex….

“We have to negotiate through strength,” Ford responds, “and we really have to flex our muscles and make sure President Trump hears us.”

“(Americans) are going to feel the pressure,” Ford says. “They’re going to feel the pressure when Americans start losing their jobs because we’re going to start on-shoring everything, and once that happens, I told Lutnick, it’s hard to turn that tap off.”

Meet The New Governor

Globe and Mail- Carney inherited a fiscal mess from Trudeau, and he is set to make it worse

Promising to balance the operating budget while continuing to borrow elsewhere is like throwing dirt in one hole while digging a crater in another area of the garden. It’ll be a tough hole to climb out of, and Canadians will suffer the consequences. Rising debt usually leads to slower economic growth, higher debt interest costs that leave less money for other programs and higher taxes for future generations.

Sun- No more excuses: Make the U.S. trade deal happen

This isn’t the time for sabbaticals. It’s time to act like adults. Put down the selfies and get to work.

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