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[Cdn.] Federal government loses appeal to stop medical marijuana patients from growing pot at home
Source: CBC News
The federal government has lost its latest attempt to prevent medical marijuana patients from growing pot at home.
New rules were introduced earlier this year that prohibited home growing and instead shifted production to commercial operations, but a group of patients is challenging that regime.
Those patients won a court injunction earlier this year, allowing them to continue growing their own marijuana at least until their case is decided next year.
The government appealed, but the patients' lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, says the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld the injunction.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/federal-government-loses-appeal-to-stop-medical-marijuana-patients-from-growing-pot-at-home-1.2874238
Posted: Dec 15, 2014 4:44 PM PT (7:44 Eastern Time)
Ten Rock Songs by Canadian Acts that Should Have Been Top 10 Hits in the U.S.
I beseech you, my American friends: please do NOT judge us by Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion, or (nauseatingly) Justin Bieber. This country has produced MANY hard-rockin' tunes which most of you, alas, have never even heard of! We are, up here, entirely too polite to aggressively promote ourselves.
Honorable Mention: The following ditties aren't hard rock, but they still kick ass!
Now, remember, the premise of this list was to name songs that you, as Americans, haven't heard. Thus, if you HAVE heard any of these tunes, please let me know. Also, by all means, tell me if I've actually MISSED some righteous Canuck songs!
Dick Cheney’s grotesque legacy: Why the record is so much worse than reported
Ms Heather Digby Parton opines:
As many of us wade through the horror of the Senate torture report, it’s hard not to think back to a time when the man who ran the country explained to us in plain language what he was doing. I’m talking about Vice President Dick Cheney, of course, the official who smoothly seized the reins of power after 9/11 and guided national security policy throughout his eight years in office. He was one of the most adept bureaucratic players American politics has ever produced and it’s his doctrine, not the Bush Doctrine, that spurred government actions from the very beginning. It was called the One Percent Doctrine and according to author Ron Suskind it went like this:
If there’s a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It’s not about our analysis … It’s about our response.
Or put another way: “It’s time to take the gloves off.”
This was the philosophy that propelled the U.S. government to abandon any pretense of following the post-WWII international consensus about preventive war and inhumane tactics. Despite the fact that the U.S. had lived under a real existential nuclear threat for decades, they persuaded the people that this terrorist threat was so much greater that any rules and norms in place before 9/11 were no longer operative. If even a 1 percent chance existed that we might suffer an attack, we had to do whatever was in our capability, including torture, to stop it. That this also facilitated the long-term goals of Dick Cheney and other neocons was purely coincidence.
He used the One Percent Doctrine most effectively to con the nation into backing an inexplicable invasion of a nation that had nothing to do with the attacks on America. And he was able to rationalize it with many people who knew better by evoking his doctrine: if there was only a 1 percent chance that Saddam had nuclear weapons or a 1 percent chance that he was in league with al-Qaida, we had to react. And so we did. And that kind of thinking permeated the U.S. government, particularly the intelligence services. The analytical side was bullied into providing intelligence conclusions that weren’t based in fact. The covert agents simply went over to the dark side. The military wasn’t immune. The torture regimes of Guantánamo and the treatment of prisoners in Iraq are on them.
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In terms of character, the man is little better than Stalin or Hitler, in my most humble opinion.
#IllRideWithYou: Australians show solidarity for Muslims amid Sydney siege
Source: CTV News
Marlene Leung, CTVNews.ca
Published Monday, December 15, 2014 7:54AM EST
Last Updated Monday, December 15, 2014 2:02PM EST
Australians are showing solidarity for Muslims concerned about a backlash amid the Sydney hostage crisis, by offering to ride with them on public transit.
The hashtag #IllRideWithYou began to trend after a gunman took 17 people hostage in the Lindt Chocolat Café in downtown Sydney Monday morning. Two people inside the cafe held up a flag with an Islamic declaration of faith that has been used by extremists in the past, prompting speculation that the standoff was the result of a possible terrorist plot.
The standoff eventually ended in a shootout with police, and officers later confirmed that three people, including the gunman, were killed.
The hashtag started with a tweet from an Australian woman who offered to ride a local bus route with anyone wearing Islamic religious attire who didn't feel safe.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/illridewithyou-australians-show-solidarity-for-muslims-amid-sydney-siege-1.2147986
Well done, indeed, Aussies!
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