Canadian politics thread

[whitev70r]

Honda is gloating somewhere ... BC ends decriminalizing drug experiment.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/0...ation-project/

[spoon.ek9]

Not sure if true, but there were posts about Adams trying to treat his cancer with Ivermectin on the advice of some Conservative quack

[Mikoyan]

Originally Posted by spoon.ek9

Not sure if true, but there were posts about Adams trying to treat his cancer with Ivermectin on the advice of some Conservative quack

It's true. He talked about it publicly.

[spoon.ek9]

It fits the bill then. I cannot for the life of me fathom how anyone can base their medical decisions on political affiliation.

[underscore]

It's easy, just be really stupid.

Originally Posted by GLOW

one of my fav engineering memes, b/c how often it is close to truth

Spoiler!

No joke this has been my entire year so far.

[Dbone]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

Honda is gloating somewhere ... BC ends decriminalizing drug experiment.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/0...ation-project/

It is sad to see how much of a pussy Eby has turned out to be. He once fought for these people, and now he throws them to the wolves just because of some BS tweets by people like Sturko, and the rage baiting wankers at the National Post.

Big win for organized crime, and very expensive private rehab facilities. Massive loss to us tax payers as it means more policing (probably), more hospital visits, more deaths, and a worse life for those whom already have it incredibly bad.

I think the people who are cheering for this need to be honest with themselves. They don't care about the drug addicts. They don't care about their suffering, or if they ever return to society. They are absolutely fine with them living through horrors that should not exist in a rich country like ours. They just don't want to see it.

[GLOW]

Originally Posted by underscore

No joke this has been my entire year so far.

quite often in EE/electrical contracting this is the case.

Spoiler!

one time i was presenting to a room of engineering/technical staff and wanted to end with this meme as a joke, i can't recall if i did b/c my manager was in the room... come to think of it i think i did, but not one smile or laugh, no one found it funny or got the humour b/c i think they all came from consulting

[Traum]

In hindsight, it was not surprising to the drug decriminalization pilot program fail. IMO, some parts of the failure could certainly be expected to happen, and we should have done better. For example, it can't just be decriminlization alone -- the drug users / addicts need to be supported and followed through with rehabilitation programs at a minimum to increase the chances of keeping them off drug use. (People who are more left-leaning than I am would probably also say you need to provide housing and work support so that these people would have a way to stand on their own 2 feet.)

On the other hand, things like "safe supply" drugs getting resold on the street is really the thing that seems to have triggered the most backlash, and I feel like that consequence wasn't as easily foreseen. Of course, its occurrence was not surprising, bcos it was still a logical consequence of making drugs available to addicts while not providing them with support to wean them off drug use.

At the end of the day, I still don't think the concept of decriminalization was doomed to be a failure from the start. Rather, our execution was poor, and that lead to the pilot program's failure. On the other hand, bcos of the poor execution, from now on, people are always gonna use it as an example of why the concept of decriminalization is a failure, and on a superficial level, it is hard to argue against that.

I look at decrimination like a cooking recipe, and implementing how decrimination happens is akin to the actual cooking part. Even when you have a good recipe, it doesn't guarantee good results if your cook just burned all your food. It is the cooking that failed, not necessarily the recipe. But not too many people in society are gonna distinguish between the two when it comes to drug decriminalization. (And that is very unfortunate.)

Originally Posted by Dbone

It is sad to see how much of a pussy Eby has turned out to be. He once fought for these people, and now he throws them to the wolves just because of some BS tweets by people like Sturko, and the rage baiting wankers at the National Post.

Big win for organized crime, and very expensive private rehab facilities. Massive loss to us tax payers as it means more policing (probably), more hospital visits, more deaths, and a worse life for those whom already have it incredibly bad.

I think the people who are cheering for this need to be honest with themselves. They don't care about the drug addicts. They don't care about their suffering, or if they ever return to society. They are absolutely fine with them living through horrors that should not exist in a rich country like ours. They just don't want to see it.

[noclue]

Dont believe in giving druggies liberty, their brains are already fried to the point they'll never reintegrate into society again. All the bleeding hearts cite portugal, but if you look at recent studies it's regressing back to higher drug use and trafficking into the EU. The DTES has been a failure ever since I came to Canada in the nineties, just poverty pimping and money for the non-profit organization directors.

You know what works but unpopular because of "muh rights"? Singapore/China/Asia harsh drug policies.

[GLOW]

am i getting my policies mixed up, but didn't they try it in portland ahead of us, and folks supporting it referenced portland like it was a good thing? i recall portland themselves admitted it was a complete disaster (or perhaps it was their critics that cited that, similar to how cons are now here)

[GS8]

The huge problem is that the drugs now are far worse than what was being ingested 30 years ago. There's a reason it's called the TOXIC drug crisis.

The long term effects of fent tainted meth is beyond most types of rehabilitation.

It's like snipping random parts of a car's wiring harness, then trying to solder it back together and expecting the car to run just fine once again.

Good luck with that.