Month: October 2017

Alberta unveils marijuana framework, calls for minimum age of 18 to buy:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Alberta has unveiled its proposed framework for marijuana legalization, which calls for a minimum age of 18 to buy or use cannabis.

Other proposed rules include:

• Public possession limit of 30 grams (with no limit on possession in private residences).
• Sales will be in specialty stores, separate from alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals.
• Limit of 30 grams per purchase.
• Smoking and vaping in public will fall under existing tobacco laws.
• No smoking or vaping in vehicles, including passengers.
• Four plants can be grown per household, to a maximum height of one metre each.
• Outdoor growing will be banned.

Albertans will have until Oct. 27 to give feedback on the rules.

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mostlysignssomeportents:

Consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen’s Amanda Werner, dressed as Rich Uncle Pennybags from the Monopoly game, sat behind former Equifax CEO Richard Smith this morning during his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee about the company’s breach of 45,500,000 Americans’ private data . From Public Citizen’s statement:

Make no mistake: Arbitration is a rigged game, one that the bank nearly always wins. Shockingly, the average consumer forced to arbitrate with Wells Fargo was ordered to pay the bank nearly $11,000. Bank lobbyists and their allies in Congress are trying to overturn the CFPB’s rule so they can continue to rip off consumers with impunity.

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/04/monopoly-man-photobombs-eq.html

NDP announces B.C. referendum on proportional representation:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Delivering on a promise to give British Columbians a choice in how future elections will be decided, Attorney General David Eby has announced plans for a referendum on proportional representation.

“Today we have taken the first step toward asking British Columbians if they want a change from the current voting system,” said Eby.

“We are taking steps to modernize our democracy today, while giving people the power to decide the future of our most fundamental democratic institution.”

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Morneau says changes to tax proposals will be needed after weeks of outcry:

allthecanadianpolitics:

After weeks of public battering and opposition politicking, Finance Minister Bill Morneau is signalling that he plans to make changes to the Liberals’ proposed tax changes, stopping short of providing discernible details.

On Tuesday the government released a list of five key principles it hopes will reassure Canadians that it is not targeting most small business owners, including a promise that the transfer of family farms to the next generation would not be affected by the tax changes.

“Changes are going to be required — as we move forward we will have more information on timing,” Morneau said in an interview after facing questions in the Senate.

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Trudeau berated at gathering over missing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood quietly with his head down Wednesday as families expressed extreme anger toward him about the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Trudeau must reset the inquiry led by four commissioners, Maggie Cywink from Whitefish River First Nation said in a speech to an annual gathering on Parliament Hill.

“If you want to be remembered as a prime minister who is healing ties with First Nations, then you must start with our women and families,” said Cywink, whose sister, Sonya Cywink, was found slain near London, Ont. in 1994.

“Will you be seen as yet another politician, in the very long list of politicians, who simply peddled in the age-old craft of empty promises?

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yesterdaysprint:

St. Clair Chronicle, Missouri, October 18, 1934

skypecoemal:

Carved with a CHAINSAW by Griffon Ramsey http://pic.twitter.com/20Tenfkgdq

— Apolonis Aphrodisia (@A_aphrodisia) September 21, 2017

Wow.