An armed shoplifting suspect in Colorado barricaded himself in a stranger's suburban Denver home in June 2015. In an attempt to force the suspect out, law enforcement blew up walls with explosives, fired tear gas and drove a military-style armored vehicle through the property's doors. www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-to-man-whose-home-they-blew-up-appeals-court-says?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR2P0j3WDmtdCb1T47InQCyhZHahcyq3Qd9VEmTDgQaRNsN-mYvlEmHdMvs

Documents showed correspondence from UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s leadership team over a so-called kamikaze campaign by Jeff Callaway to undermine competitor Brian Jean, who had led the former Wildrose Party. Callaway dropped out of the race before the vote.
“It appears to me that people in Mr. Kenney’s campaign were essentially running the other campaign,” Notley told reporters Sunday. “They can desperately spin whatever they want to desperately spin.”
On Friday, the RCMP confirmed it is probing allegations of wrongdoing related to how Callaway’s campaign was funded.
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Richardson said the Shaping Alberta Future website states that its political action committee (PAC) is a way to avoid election financing rules, which now prohibit corporate and union donations to political parties. The PAC tells donors it will collect money to help pay for non-political advertising expenses such as overhead. He also said the PAC is working "entirely for the purpose of doing the work of a political party," which is contrary to election financing laws. He then quoted the Shaping Alberta's Future website, which tells potential donors: "One hundred per cent of donor contributions are spent by us on efforts to promote Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party." The PAC's activities "are not minor or innocent errors being committed in the course of navigating new rules," Richardson wrote in his letter to the election commissioner. "The activities are self-described as a deliberate strategy to avoid the limitations of the elections financing law. canadianews.org/world/2018/10/24/467587-n

UCP leader Jason Kenney’s recent remarks about selling off crown lands if his party wins the next provincial election, demonstrated his total lack of understanding about government’s duty to consult with Indigenous peoples and his lack of regard for Treaty Rights in Alberta, says Treaty 8 First Nations Grand Chief Arthur Noskey.   www.albertanativenews.com/treaty-8-grand-chief-slams-jason-kenney-and-the-ucp/

Considering the proven relative lack of harm from cannabis Health Canada and the provinces are riding a bonanza of useless new uptight regulations for it. Despite the fact that moat people confuse decriminalization with legalization this legalization is no decriminalization. Cannabis (in some circumstances) continues to receive criminal sanction by the feds and the provinces are overstepping their authority by applying their mere civil jurisdiction regulations (which can be refused in Canada just by saying "no" as long as you know how) with criminal level punishments. You can still go to jail for five years for selling weed in Alberta for instance. The Alberta Marijuana Party is against more pot laws. "Legalization" has brought us more. ca.news.yahoo.com/health-canada-releases-draft-regulations-185315073.html?soc_src=strm&soc_trk=fb

Casler explained: "He’s a speed freak. He crushes up his Adderall and he sniffs it because he can’t read and he gets really nervous when he has to read cue cards. I’m not kidding. This is true." www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/12/report-president-donald-trump-is-an-adderall-snorting-speed-freak/

At least 67 people are in prison right now, sentenced to die there for selling marijuana, according to the best available data. Until last week, Jeff Mizanskey was one of them. “Man, I feel great,” the great-grandfather told MSNBC, as he contemplated his first weekend as a free man in more than 20 years. His sentence was commuted in May from life without parole to simple life, and on Tuesday he walked out of a maximum security Missouri prison. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/life-prison-selling-marijuana-people-new-pot-laws-forgot

“We need to petition our legislators, exercise our right to vote, rally our communities and lobby for what we believe in.” Unlike pharmaceuticals, which have to go through relatively rigorous (if imperfect) testing before being released on the marketplace, the vast majority of chemicals like glyphosate will never be adequately tested for their effects on ecosystems or human beings. Governments don’t have the resources, and companies don’t have the incentive. Even when safety guidelines and regulations are in place, the rate of chemicals acceptable by law may be far higher than what is genuinely safe. The fact is we simply have no idea the extent of the harm most chemicals are doing to our bodies or our planet. nworeport.me/2018/12/09/erin-brockovich-we-are-being-slowly-poisoned-to-death-by-monsanto/

While Dudeism in its official form has been organized as a religion only recently, it has existed down through the ages in one form or another. Probably the earliest form of Dudeism was the original form of Chinese Taoism, before it went all weird with magic tricks and body fluids. The originator of Taoism, Lao Tzu, basically said “smoke ’em if you got ’em” and “mellow out, man” although he said this in ancient Chinese so something may have been lost in the translation. Down through the ages, this “rebel shrug” has fortified many successful creeds – Buddhism, Christianity, Sufism, John Lennonism and Fo’-Shizzle-my-Nizzlism. The idea is this: Life is short and complicated and nobody knows what to do about it. So don’t do anything about it. Just take it easy, man. Stop worrying so much whether you’ll make it into the finals. Kick back with some friends and some oat soda and whether you roll strikes or gutters, do your best to be true to yourself and others – that is to say, abide. dudeism.com/whatisdude

The spike mirrors an increase in hate crimes south of the border in the United States, where they rose in 2017 for the third consecutive year, according to the FBI. “We were shocked by the numbers – and, at the same time, we weren’t,” said Ihsaan Gardee, the executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims. “This increase didn’t occur in a vacuum.” www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/29/canada-hate-crimes-rise-muslims-jews-black-people

“It’s a mix of hypocrisy and pure profiteering,” Jodie Emery told the Guardian. “They made a living off tax dollars for trying to keep people out of the cannabis business and now they’re going to position themselves to cash in.” www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/canada-marijuana-cannabis-police

The same authorities who hounded dealers are now investors in cannabis – and there’s still no amnesty for past convictions. The hypocrisy is staggering www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/canada-cannabis-legalization-past-conviction-amnesty

Longley has little doubt, however, that his party would continue to exist, seeking political opportunity in the way legalisation is rolled out. “In every possible way, what they’re doing is nothing like anything that we campaigned for,” he said. “There’s this slight bit of progress, but when you look at the bigger picture, it’s nothing close to what we would want.” www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/canada-marijuana-party-legalisation-future

Mexico's incoming government submitted a bill on Thursday to create a medical marijuana industry and allow its recreational use, part of a crime-fighting plan that would make Mexico one of the world's most populous countries to legalize the drug. The bill would permit companies to grow and commercialize marijuana. People would also be allowed to possess up to 30 grams, and cultivate plants for private use, as long as they register in an anonymous government listing and produce no more than 480 grams of marijuana per year. Smoking pot in public places would also be permitted. www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-marijuana-legal-bill-1.4898122