by Craig Jones Former Executive Director, The John Howard Society of Canada. A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America By Ernest Drucker The…
Omnibus passes – but don’t throw away the key!
Bill C-10 , the Safe Streets and Communities Act passed in parliament with a majority vote of 157 to 127. It now moves to the senate. The…
World AIDS Day
UNAIDS has a new five year strategy for Getting to Zero. Zero transmission and zero new HIV infections globally. This is an incredible challenge considering there are 34…
B.C. physicians issue report on drug policy and law reform
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by David Eby (Reposted with permission) It’s hard to imagine an area more difficult for politicians talk about than drug policy reform. Maybe…
Thrown Under the Omnibus
The idea for the Toronto forum on Bill C10 (the Safe Streets & Communities Act) – “Thrown Under the Omnibus” – was hatched at the harm reduction…
Global Commission on Drug Policy
New York: 06/02/11 A high level Global Commission on Drug Policy is challenging governments around the world to stop the so-called “war on drugs” and to infuse…
