Prison needles, climate change spending, abortion regret (or not)
My latest articles with a rare perspective
The wrong kind of needlework
Needles handed out freely in prison—what could possibly go wrong? We will soon find out as the Prison Needle Exchange Program is rolled out across federal institutions. Guards I talked to are concerned for their physical safety and legal liability for overdoses, but the harm reduction crusaders are prevailing on federal policy. An academic criminologist said we are now in “lunacy” and “la la land." Ironically, corrections officers weren’t allowed to bring a 25-foot paper mache needle onto the grounds of Parliament Hill to protest the policy because it was deemed too dangerous.
Federal $$$ for climate change adaptation gets blasted
The federal government found another $1.6 billion to spend to adapt to climate change, including $164.2 million so Canadians will have access to “free, up-to-date, and authoritative flood-hazard maps.”
For my Epoch Times article, former Liberal MP Dan McTeague estimates Ottawa has spent upwards of $170 billion on green policies and asked, “When will someone finally call this charade for what it is? It is very much a significant, colossal movement of public funding to achieve absolutely squat.” He had even more to say in my Western Standard article on the topic. On another WS article I wrote, Friends of Science spokesperson Michelle Stirling. She laid out why politicians are far too ready to blame extreme weather on climate change.
Two-thirds of post-abortive women have no regrets
For Epoch Times, I interviewed women for reaction on an online Angus Reid poll that showed 16% of Canadian women had abortions,15% of Canadian women had an unwanted conception but gave birth, and 4% had done both. Pollsters reported no regrets from 65% of post-abortive women and 57% of women in these situations who gave birth. I talked to two pregnancy centre workers and a Silent No More spokesperson for their reaction. They wondered how informed these women were and what support they had. The comment section lit up. Conservative voters in the poll were disproportionately few, but were as likely to have had an abortion. NDP voters were most likely to have a close friend or family member who had aborted.
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