Dec 5, 2011
CBC Radio One

CSSDP Thunder Bay members Heather and Stephanie talk to CBC radio about the new chapter and what sensible drug policy means to them.

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Across Canada, protestors recently met to urge lawmakers not to "mess up like Texas." They were supposed to be sporting cowboy hats, but in Oshawa all they wore were expressions of dismay at the progress of a crime bill they feel the government has no grounds for.

by: Chris Cobb
Ottawa Citizen
November 19, 2011

He's an 18-year-old the law defines as a man.

He comes from a solid middle-class family. He's a smart, hard-working person with great potential and he's never been in trouble with the law.

Like millions of Canadians teenagers before him, and at least a quarter of his contemporaries, he's going through a marijuana phase: something that reliable justice statistics show he will eventually grow out of, just as many police officers, politicians, doctors, teachers and lawyers grew out of.

PEOPLE'S HEALTH RADIO

Canada's mass incarceration agenda

NOVEMBER 14, 2011 | PHR looks at the mass incarceration agenda in Canada -- from the "ominous" crime bill, to prison construction and privatization in B.C. to the targeting of poor people who use illicit drugs.

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By: Jillian Follert
Oshawa This Week
April 21, 2010

Police called to UOIT campus at April 15 Just Say Know event

OSHAWA -- A drug education conference at UOIT took an ironic turn Friday afternoon when a guest speaker invited to talk about the challenges faced by medical marijuana users says he was harassed -- for being a medical marijuana user.