tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82785818776772707662011-09-05T10:29:22.038-05:00Documenting government ineptness and free market solutions since 2007. freedommanitoba at gmail dot comFreedom Manitobahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355228027770817767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278581877677270766.post-42879835600106391052011-01-23T14:02:00.003-06:002011-01-23T14:42:38.887-06:00

Having a grow-op or drug lab in a personal home is a dangerous thing for a few reasons; you risk having it raided by authorities that have decided that your actions are illegal or possibly that some sort of accident will occur because a private home is not set-up properly to be a manufacturing facility.Winnipeg grow-ops up in flames An explosion at a William Avenue West home Saturday brought

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The Manitoba government is vowing to save 500 jobs threatened by mining company Vale SA's decision to close its Thompson operation.If the mine is profitable it would probably stay open, why would you step in and "save jobs" when they are not producing what they are intended to produce?Vale announced Wednesday that it will close its smelter and refinery by 2015, saying they're no longer profitable

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The only reason that I can think of for government-imposed reduced shopping hours on Sunday is as a throw back to honoring the Christian Sabbath. Slowly over the years Sunday shopping laws have been changed to allow for longer times that business can be open on Sunday and to more types of businesses. Convenience stores were able to be open but the big box stores and malls weren't, slowly that has

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Andrew James was 15 when hes wa killed in a workplace accident, get that? Accident. If he was 17 it would have been the same, if he was 50 it would have been the same.Andrew was shoveling asphalt from a raised trailer box into a back-hoe scoop when the trailer tailgate gave way, Crown attorney Sean Brennan told court. Andrew lost his balance, fell into the trailer and was immediately buried under

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A new federal law aimed at curbing auto theft and including stiffer penalties for car thieves has passed.The Criminal Code has been amended making auto theft a separate crime punishable by up to a decade in prison, and a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail upon a third conviction.Criminals already don't obey the law, so why would stiffer penalties make a difference? The answer, it

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Beginning as early as next fall, Manitobans will no longer be allowed to drop out of school at age 16.Education Minister Nancy Allan announced Thursday that a new law will soon be introduced that will mandate that students stay in school until age 18 or until they graduate from high school.And just what is the point of this exactly? If a person wants to drop out when they are 16, perhaps those

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Yes, it doesn't make a difference, and this is why...It doesn't change the system, and the system is the problem. Shuffling a few people in and out of different positions does not change anything significant. Perhaps if a whole city council was replaced by new people it might make some impact, but they are still part of a system of threats and coercion.Tonight there were elections all around

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FAIL 1:I had a conversation with someone recently that claimed that the gang war on the streets over drugs would be happening regardless of prohibition.In November 2008, John Nault shot a stranger in the abdomen in the bus shelter in front of Portage Place. He explains why.Nault admitted to using a high-powered handgun to shoot a 29-year-old man in the abdomen at close range inside the Winnipeg

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You think you own your property? Think again.The government not only owns the land your house is on, they will act as if they own your house as well and do with it what they please; sell it from under you in a tax sale, expropriate it to build a road, or demolish it if you don't obey their commands.It almost sounds like a theocracy using their thugs amongst the villagers, but it happens right

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The government has the power to steal anything they want of yours, including your house.Ex-grow op home for sale by provinceA former grow-op house has been put on the market by the provincial government at a bargain price.The posh bungalow, at 31 Northport Bay in the city's Royalwood neighbourhood, was seized by the province in 2008 when police found 850 marijuana plants in the basement.This is

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From WikipediaIn economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.Monopolies are thus characterised by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.That

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Headlines like this disturb meCyclists should be forced to wear helmets: study A new study is calling on provincial governments to pass laws that force cyclists to wear helmets.The study, published in the August edition of the journal Injury Prevention and conducted by researchers at the University of Manitoba and the University of Ottawa, suggests cyclists are much more likely to wear helmets

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You are a person with a functioning brain. Because of that you are free to make choices, and choices have consequences.You have the choice to purchase products that can hurt you physically, or alter your thought patterns.According to the government though, you don't, they want to control your body by telling you what you can and can't put in it.Storeowner charged for selling mouthwash as

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A disturbing legal trend.Man charged in internet stingHe is facing a charge of using the internet to lure a child under the ageof 14. So he was charged with luring a child under the age of 14. What a bastard. I hope that he gets what's coming to him, trying to take advantage of a young person like that!So where is this child under 14? Let's get her some help!There isn't one.The charges stem from

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The term "victimless crimes" is self-explanatory; it is a "crime" that has no victim, so it is a crime only because the government has decided that it is.True crime has a victim, a complaining party that was harmed in some measurable way; someone who's property was stolen, was physically assaulted, etc. These are crimes that should be investigated and if the criminal is found, compensated for. If

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Some recent news stories about the state of child welfare in Manitoba;System in disarray‘Staggering’ number of kids require careFeds share blame for child welfare system 'chaos'Report cites 'chaos' in Man. child welfare systemChild-welfare horrorAll of these stories were published in the last few days.How sad, how pathetic.The problem here is that government is involved in child "welfare" in the

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How dare I! I know, I used to write sooo much! What happened?I had to make some decisions; I was neglecting some other responsibilities I have given the amount of time I spent researching and writing for this blog so I decided to cut back; those other responsibilities are more important. Also, I had a hard time keeping up with everything I wanted to write about! There is sooo much news to talk

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*note After making this post and reviewing the video I just noticed that the length of the video is 4:20 LOL. A complete coincidence I promise you. About 3000 people were at the Manitoba Legislature grounds yesterday openly defying the prohibition on marijuana. Below is a video I put together from the event where I talked to several people. There are about a dozen police officers observing, and

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I was doing some research today and come across these statistics. Criminal Code incidents reported to police on-reserve, 2004    Location of incident   On-reserve Outside reserves   Number of incidents Rate per 100,000 population Number of incidents Rate per 100,000population Homicide 41 13 581 2 Attempted murder 24 7 693 2 Robbery 162 50 27,315 93 Assault 20,804 6,464 225,843 770

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And here is the evidence. The owner of a downtown Winnipeg bathhouse where a fire killed two people in October pleaded guilty and was fined for fire code violations on Thursday. Somchai Pengpharsuks, who owns the Aquarius Bath House on Notre Dame Avenue, pleaded guilty in provincial court to violating 15 city fire bylaws and was fined $11,000. His plea came with an explanation that he didn't

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I find Human "Rights" Commissions to be absurd; from what I've seen they are little more than sounding boards for people with an entitlement mentality. Such is the case with Rob Johnstone. Rob Johnstone has battled alcoholism for 40 years, and can't find a non-religious recovery program, so he filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission... which woud lead to the conclusion that

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Winnipeg police caught on video beating man What I want to highlight is the comment left on this story by ConSuasive, who sums it up quite well. In general, and according to all my personal run-ins with the police, they are simply no better off than the majority of petty criminals walking our streets. They use violence, intimidation, lying and corroboration of each other's false claims and

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The Shotgun An article over at CBC provides a picture of the current gang turf war going on in Winnipeg. Organized crime investigators report that the African Mafia has splintered into three factions and is expanding into Alberta. These gangs are involved in black market goods to fund their activities, such as the drug trade. The ONLY

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Great video from Tim Hawkins. Saw this posted over at FreeKeene.com

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Yes, this isn't a Manitoba issue, but I bring it up to demonstrate the urgent need to keep politics and religion seperate in every aspect of our lives. In addition to being a libertarian, I am also agnostic, and I am greatly opposed to the mixing of government and religion because there is much evidence that it results in tyranny. For example, proposed legilsation in the Sudan. • Gays and

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The Shotgun The issue of Sunday shopping often comes up around Christmas, when retailers expect a large spike in business for the holiday season. Being the evil capitalists that they are, they would like to "capitalize" on that shopping frenzy and be open to meet the customer demand. There is a government prohibition on Sunday shopping

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I attended a rally/demonstration in Winnipeg on Sunday, Oct 25 that was orgnaized by Wise Up Winnipeg, a group who are pushing for changes in photo traffic enforcement. Here are uneditied interviews with Larry Stefanuik and Todd Dube of Wise Up Winnipeg.

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The Shotgun I used to be a fan of Michael Moore. I saw his film Roger and Me soon after it was released and liked his style of confronting people that were scuz-balls and putting them on the spot. Bowling for Columbine was a great movie that took an interesting look at the culture of violence. The Awful Truth was a fun series that

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The Shotgun. This is what happens when you go into politics, you get morally corrupted. Hard to believe that this clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the early 1990's talking about free markets is the same man who recently pushed to ban plasma tv's in California that are over 40".

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On Thursday Oct 15th, one of the candidates for the leadership of the NDP, and one of the candidates that will automatically become the new Premiere of Manitoba, Steve Ashton, appeared on KICK FM's "The Great Canadian Talk Show". He was on for over a full hour. They cover a lot of material, including a few of the questions that I sent in. If he does make it to being Premiere I will go

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The Shotgun. Who are these knucklehead beaurocrats that run the Winnipeg City Police? Earlier this year there was a huge blow up in Manitoba about construction zone photo radar tickets being issued when no workers were actually present in the construction zone. Manitoba Provicinal Court judge Norm Sundstrom ruled that ... Although the

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Prostitution (sex for money) is legal in Canada, it's the acts surrounding it that are illegal, like soliciting, running a bawdy house, etc. Last night a forum was held in Winnipeg's North End with area residents to talk about the problem of street-level prostitution in that area. Residents said the worst area is near Parr Street. Johns can be seen around the clock, and condoms litter the

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On Oct 1st, I wrote and published my reaction to Steve Ashtons proposed "Dignity Act", where I am certainly not kind to the man who may be Manitoba's next Premier. On October 5th I noticed that AshtonCampaign was now following me on Twitter. I admit I was somewhat surprised to see this, considering how critical I was of him, and how most of my tweets have to do with examples of the ineptness of

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The Shotgun. Hey Steve Ashton, you’re an idiot! For making such a statement, Steve Ashton would have me put in jail. Since Gary Doer has decided to step down as Premiere of Manitoba and as leader of the NDP Party, his replacement will automatically become the new Premiere of Manitoba. Regrettably, most voters get no say in who will run

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Mommy is at it again, telling us what's good for us, because of course we're too stupid to make decisions for ourselves. RCMP traffic service units and detachments throughout the province will target enforcement in these two areas during the month of October by increasing vigilance during special check stops and during regular patrols. "Our aim is to remind the driving public not only that

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The Shotgun Imagine that it's 2A.M. ad you are at home, you hear voices outside that sound very close. You go outside and discover that there are thugs trying to break into your vehicle. You chase them off, only to run into their buddies around the corner. You run back home, retrieve some bear spray and a machete in order to protect

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Wednesday - body bags arrive in some Manitoba Reserves in packages that also contain hand sanitizer and face masks, the latter of which are part of flu season preparations, sent by Health Canada. Then the grandstanding began on all sides. Grand Chief David Harper, who represents northern First Nations, says body bags send the wrong message and no one can understand why Ottawa would do such a

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With much of the recent controversy about the photo radar debacle, it seems that a side-effect of all of the attention drawn to the issue of going faster than the government's arbitrary speed limit is that people have been paying attention to the location of photo radar cameras and slowing down, which is cutting into the revenues for the City of Winnipeg. Winnipeg Police Service chief Keith

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The Shotgun So states a Washington Post op-ed. Here is an interview with the authors of that op-ed, one of which is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The Shotgun ...which is what the City of Winnipeg is trying to do. Charlie Warman owns (or so he thought) a home in the St. Boniface area of Winnipeg, on which sits 2 sheds that he rents out to two homeless people for $100 a month each. One of the tenants, Debbie Peachy said; if it were not for Warman, she would be forced to live in a

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The ShotgunProstitution, the act of having sex for money, is not illegal in Canada, nor should it be. But most of the acts surrounding consensual sex for money is illegal;public communication for the purposes of prostitution (soliciting)owning, running, occupying or transporting anyone to a bawdy house (brothel)being in a bawdy housepaying

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I started a twitter account a few weeks ago which is available on the right side of the screen. It's hard to keep up with the number of current news stories that I want to comment on, and making short twitter updates has been a very handy tool in making that happen.When there is a particularly interesting news item I'll do a longer blog about it. Until then, I'll be documenting the ways in which

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The ShotgunWhen I was in my 20's I lived in Southern Manitoba. I was single, working a few part-time jobs and paying rent, money was tight, I couldn't afford a car. I grew up in Northern Manitoba, so the way I would get back there to visit would be on the Greyhound bus. To drive to my home town by car would normally take about 6 hours, but

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It's been a little while since I've written one of these. The Red River Valley Echo is a newspaper that is based in Altona, Manitoba. Recently their editor Greg Vandermeulen wrote an article about health care and how privatization of it would not lead to positive results. I responded back today with the following letter...Greg Vandermeulen wrote an editorial that was published on Aug 28 about how

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog; The ShotgunJim Cotton over at Manitobapost.com recently took a look at the Canadian Constitution and what it says are the functions of the Federal Government.I am what you might call a minarchist, I am for reducing the size of government to be very, very small. Part of the reason I feel this way is because I feel the evidence shows that

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This has been cross posted to The Western Standard Blog, The ShotgunGary Doer, who has been the Premier of Manitoba since 1999, has decided to resign. A new NDP leader, and therefor a new Manitoba Premier, will be selected this fall.Jim Cotton at ManitobaPost.Com had a good summary of some of the activities under Gary Doers tenure.was elected on a promise to fix hallway medicine in 6 months, it

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This has been cross posted to The Western Standard Blog: The ShotgunThe town of Killarney Manitoba has seen a recent rise in vandalism in the town of 3300 people and a curfew for people 17 years old and younger has been proposed in order to deal with it."They're out jumping around on rooftops on Main Street; they've been dancing around on a few vehicles," (Mayor Rick Pauls) said. "We've had some

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog: The ShotgunThe Doer Government is funding a study to see whether there is place for a government run, government owned "educational" TV station.(On Screen Manitoba executive director Tara) Walker said a provincial education public broadcaster would be a training ground for local filmmakers to tell stories, on TV and on the web, about

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog: the Shotgun I love science, I am a fan of it; good science that is. The Federal Government is funding research into the relation between smoking marijuana and mental illness. "Science has shown that cannabis may actually trigger the onset of psychosis and may also intensify the symptoms for those who already have a psychotic illness," (

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog: The ShotgunThe hog industry in Canada has seen some hard times lately, and after begging for $800 million government dollars now they are being offering a nice little financial incentive to get out of the hog business, $75 million tax payer dollars. Speaking at a research farm in rural Manitoba Saturday, (federal Agriculture Minister Gerry

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This has been cross posted to The Western Standard Blog, The ShotgunThe folks at the Motorhome Diaries are driving across America meeting with people to search for freedom. Unfortunately that trip won't include Canada, since they were turned away at the Canadian border about a month ago and banned from entering this country.Last week they took a wrong turn at the border near Detroit, Michigan and

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The Shotgun.When I first read the CBC story about the protest going on with the highway blockade in Northern Manitoba I wasn't clear about a few details. Reading today's article in the Winnipeg Free Press provides more details, which I find quite disturbing.The blockade, consisting of protesters, their vehicles and logs, went up Thursday on

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The Shotgun.Another aboriginal community has been screwed over by the government, which really is no surprise, they've been doing that since before Canada was founded.Members of an Indian band are blocking access to a $1.3-billion hydroelectric development project in northern Manitoba.A spokesperson for Manitoba Hydro says the group is

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The Shotgun Marc Emery, the Prince of Pot, will be turning himself in to U.S. authorities in September to serve a 5 year sentence for various charges related to his marijuana activism. That activism consisted of selling marijuana seeds to people through his mail order business from his downtown Vancouver store front. He was interviewed

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog, The ShotGunThere have long been rumours about police forces having "quotas" with regards to the number of tickets handed out for various traffic infractions. The Winnipeg Police Service recently told their officers that they need to keep up with writing traffic tickets in order to sustain past revenue levels.Police Chief Keith McCaskill

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This has been cross posted to The Western Standard Blog, The ShotGunCops are going after a man in Quebec who let his 7 year old son drive the family car with several members of the family inside, including what looks like a 3-4 year old girl. The father posted the video on YouTube and it has led "authorities" to investigate the man.In the following CBC report, they say that the father has come

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard Blog: The Shotgun"Go Home Stupid"; these words were uttered to me today as I was walking through Portage Place Mall in downtown Winnipeg on my way home after work. I didn't know the man that said these words to me, I don't think I've talked to him before, but he knew me. You see, by looking at my skin and facial features, many people would assume

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Manitobapost is a site run by noted Winnipeg blogger James Cotton. Freedom Manitoba will be contributing the occasional blog post to Cotton's website, (the first appearing here) which is averaging 264 page views a day, not too bad for a local blog.

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If you value liberty and you aren't familiar with Free Talk Live, then you're missing out. FTL is radio show and podcast hosted by Mark Edge, a self-described Minarchist; and Ian Freeman, a voluntaryist/anarcho-capatalist. They have frequent co-hosts that range from small-government libertarians to anarchists and speak honestly and frankly about the failings of the government paradigm.The content

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This is an update to a post I made in April of 2008. This has been cross posted to the Western Standard blog, The Shotgun.A paper published in April 2008 by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy suggests leaving the reserve might be the key to success for First Nations people.Leaving reserve is key to aboriginal success: think tankMany reserves are short on resources, recreation, education and

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This has been cross posted to the Western Standard blog, The ShotgunConstruction on The Canadian Museum for Human Rights , which started in April of this year, is taking place Winnipeg and set for completion in 2012. So far they have begged for, and gotten, $160 million dollars of government money.Is it well spent?Officials at The Canadian Museum For Human Rights announced earlier this year that

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The Shotgun The Federal Government has been growing marijuana in an old mine in Flin Flon Manitoba for 9 years for the 300 people that receive the plant from them for medical purposes. The company that has been contracted to grow the pot for Health Canada, Prairie Plant Systems, says that they ceased operation June 30th because they

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A Winnipeg man and woman were arrested Wednesday in an RCMP bust of a $600,000 marijuana grow-op.Will this make any different in the drug supply or drug trade? Nope, someone will step in to take their place in a week. It is the black market after all, highly profitable.Something that is re-assuring is that the highest rated comments on this article are pro-legalization. More and more people are

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The ShotgunThe case against two men accused of polygamy has been put on hold until September when a B.C. Supreme Court judge will consider a defence argument to toss out the charges.What are the charges? Polygamy; having more than one wife at the same time.These folks in Bountiful, B.C. are what’s called “Momon fundamentalists”, in that they

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This is an update to my original Legalize it post from Sept, 2007. This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The ShotgunLegalize it, all of it.Let me make very clear that I do not advocate most drug use; I think that using some drugs is generally bad. I have never used “recreational” drugs in my life, ever. I think our society would be better off if many drugs didn’t exist; but they

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The Shotgun This past summer was a bad year for flooding in Manitoba, once of the worst since the big flood of 1997; Manitobans that were impacted by this years flood will receive $40 million in aid.In past posts I have criticized this move, saying that it is up to private homeowners to have the proper insurance or face the risk of living

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The Shotgun Remember in the 1920's when alcohol was prohibited by the government? You probably weren't there yourself, but we know it happened. It was supposedly ended back then, but alcohol prohibition is still alive in Canada.Some enterprising folks were delivering alcohol products to the northern Manitoba reserve of Pukatawagan by boat.

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The Shotgun Last year in Winnipeg, a 7 year old girl went to school with a swastika drawn on her arm. It was later revealed that the girls mother drew the symbol on her daughters arm to send a message to the school; that she was upset about discrimination against white people at the school, which prominently displayed posters boosting

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The Dauphin Countryfest is taking place this weekend. Like many events like this, there was a huge bottleneck problem with entering the grounds.According to police, many impatient fans of the Dauphin Countryfest started drinking Wednesday while waiting in a 20-kilometer highway lineup outside the gates to the site.On Wednesday, police issued 17 charges to a number of people for having liquor in

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J. Fox's Restaurant and Local on Academy Road decided they would like to have a summer patio for their customers to enjoy during our short sunny season. To do this they would need to use a grassy area of public property.Of course, the busybodies came out.A number of residents had filed letters opposing the outdoor seating area at J. Fox's Restaurant and Local, which had been approved by another

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The ShotgunThere are different kinds of human rights, positive and negative;positive rights are those that require action of a third party to fulfill them; a right to legal council, a right to an education, etc.negative rights are those that extend out from an individual and don't require action on anyone elses part; freedom of speech,

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The ShotgunEarlier this week 24,000 Toronto municipal civil service employees walked off of the job. Some of the services that have been interrupted are garbage pickup, city-run daycares, swimming pools, summer camps, museums, some libraries and others. This has caused a lot of turmoil for Toronto residents; garbage is piling up in the

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This has been cross-posted to the Western Standard Blog:The ShotgunIf you expect to have religious freedom for yourself, then you have to allow it for other people, whether you agree with their choices or not. That is how liberty and fairness works.There are many religious practices out there that I disagree with, that I think are harmful. When we talk of harm, we talk of consent; where there

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Recently eight privately run "party buses" were shut down by police after failing spot-check inspections.Manitoba Public Insurance Vehicle Standards and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission supported the inspection of the vehicles, which can be rented by groups attending alcohol-related events but who do not want to drive.So here we a group of people self-organizing, providing a valuable

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Hog farmers in Manitoba say that their industry is in trouble, and that they need government help.The combination of low hog prices, fluctuating currency exchange rates, high input costs, and an erroneous perception that swine flu is somehow related to pork has left the industry on its knees."Nothing has ever come close to what we are seeing today," he said. "I mean we're going through nearly 36

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The Winnipeg Folk Festival is not happy about people re-selling their tickets at high prices for camping passes.My take on the idea of scalping is this; unless there is an agreement made when buying the tickets from the Folk Festival to not re-sell the tickets for higher than their face value, then the ticket is the private property of the ticket owner and are free to do with them what they

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Two employees of St. Amant Centre in Winnipeg have been fired for what administrators are calling unforgivable behaviour.The workers left two female patients with special needs in a company van last month while they went to a movie.See, when people in the private sector screw up, they get canned. If this was a government run care home doing the same thing, there would be paid leaves,

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Members of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba have voted to accept a land claims settlement worth $126 million.The money will compensate for land that was illegally taken in 1907. Under the proposed settlement, every adult member of the band would receive $1,000.Here's the question, shouldn't the people that were responsible for the illegal acts be prosecuted for them? Oh, they're dead.OK then,

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It's about time!Residential schools was one of the most shameful acts of the Canadian government; the forced assimilation of an entire race into a culture different than the one they choose.It is also a great example of how the government cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of "the people", it acts in it's own best interest.Now Manitoba schools will be taught more thoroughly about the

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MPI is suing several people involved in events that lead to the death of Winnipeg cab driver Antonio Lanzellotti.MPI is seeking more than $50,000 from the youths to recover the loss of Lanzellotti's taxi and the equipment inside, the SUV the group stole, and another car they badly damaged. I don't see a problem in MPI wanting to recover the claims they paid out from the people responsible for the

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This seems to be a weekly occurrence. A 44-year-old man from Winnipeg has been charged with cultivation of marijuana, cultivation for the purpose of trafficking and theft of electricity. This is a continuation of the government monopoly on marijuana cultivation, which they do so legally in Flin Flon. The only real crime here is theft of electricity.

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What is consent? It means to give permission, approve. People of sound mature mind, who are able to understand the difference between right and wrong and understand consequences, are able to consent to all sorts of activities, including sex.Until 1890, the age of consent in Canada was 12, when it was raised to 14, which it sat at until 2008 when it was changed to 16.So what has happened in 118

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More clueless politicians...Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives are planning to introduce a bill in the legislature this week designed to knock the wheels off drug dealers.The party wants to suspend the driver's licences and seize the vehicles of drug dealers caught with quantities of drugs intended for trafficking.Justice critic Kelvin Goertzen said taking away those tools — which dealers use

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Ahhhhh, that collectivist nonsense that is the "social contract".An article on Canada.com (not attributed to any author, which is strange because it is an opinion piece) on June 6th discussed "Tax Freedom Day", the concept promoted by The Fraser Institute each year pointing out the day that Canadians stop working for the government and start working for themselves. My personal Tax Freedom Day in

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Recently the City of Winnipeg took swift action to put a fence around a property that was causing a hazard in the neighborhood;The City of Winnipeg has erected a fence around a West End property after its owner demolished a house but failed to fill in the foundation, leaving a hole that posed a public safety hazard.Two years ago, the city convicted the owner of 369 Home St. under the Vacant and

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These seem to be a weekly occurrence in Manitoba; drug busts and grow op raids.Members of the organized crime unit searched the home in the 400 block of Machray Avenue in the city's North End around 3:10 a.m. The search turned up 33 ounces of cocaine with an estimated street value of $40,000, along with just under $4,500 in Canadian currency and a variety of drug-trafficking paraphernalia.Is

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"Pay up, or we'll come after you".If some group came up to you on the street with this demand, they'd be called thugs. If a group came into your business with this demand, they'd be called the mob. When a group that has badges and uniforms does it, they're called the government.A store owner has been fined several thousands of dollars for tax evasion.The investigation revealed that Faires paid

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It seems that some Manitoba businesses are having their ability to produce product slowed down by government red tape.Beekeepers in Saskatchewan and other Prairie provinces say their industry is suffering because of delays in processing visas for seasonal workers from the Philippines.Beekeepers have already recruited the workers, but the Canadian embassy in the Philippines has been slow to

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Often when a particular item is used in the course of a crime or in the course of someone harming themselves a cry goes up to "ban" the item. If someone gets high on salvia and gets hurt, ban salvia; if spray paint is used in vandalism then ban selling it to minors...May I point out that the government "banning" something does not make it go away.How many years marijuana been prohibited? Speeding

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Alcohol prohibition didn't end in the 1930's, it's still here in the form of The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission. A great Letter to the Editor appeared in today's Winnipeg Free Press, which I'm quoting verbatim here...MLCC 'drug cartel'Bruce Owen's column on low beer prices didn't tell the whole story when it comes to the government bootlegger that is the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission.The

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What is a victimless crime? Simply put, it is when people interact in a consensual manner, yet in a way that the state deems to be criminal.For example; prostitution, drug use and distribution, gambling, etc. If person A approaches person B and they are willing to have a consensual transaction for sex, drugs or a poker game, there is no victim, all the parties consented. Yet the state in

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When is it okay to defend yourself? When you are being attacked? When your home is being invaded? When you are being shot at?This is what Daniell Anderson did when the police raided his home with guns blazing in the middle of the night. More details in a previous blog entry Consequence of Prohibition.Today a judge decided that the police were within their rights to nearly beat this man to death.A

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I'm no fan of corporate welfare; public money being given to private enterprise for whatever purposes. I've criticized the move to give $7-million dollars to Canad Inns to develop a water park. Turns out that the city has withdrawn that offer after it became apparent that the Canad Inns were no longer interested.Mayor Sam Katz’s cabinet has formally withdrawn the $7-million grant the city offered

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Another week, another drug raid in Winnipeg. Members of the Winnipeg police organized crime unit and street crimes unit, along with the tactical support team, conducted the raids at an apartment in the 300 block of Goulet Street, an apartment in the 2900 block of Pembina Highway, a residence in the 100 block of Grassie Boulevard, and a house on River Road in Lorette, Man. Really, what's the

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Having beliefs that the government doesn't like will get your kids taken away, such as in this case of a white supremest family here in Winnipeg.This is a scary thought and practice. Beliefs are just those thoughts within your heads, likely manifested in your life through certain actions.The custody trial is set for the family in this story.The man and his wife, neither of whom can be named

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It is a simple fact, while on public property, any person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. AND it is entirely legal to videotape or photograph someone while in public without their permission. It might not be polite, but it is legal.But apparantly the Winnipeg Police Service don't know the law.John Paskievich was filming a documentary just north of the downtown core, on Gertie

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So the Winnipeg Police Service used three months of resources to investigate some cocaine dealers and ended up arresting 16 people.How long do you think it will be until those 16 people or others like them will be back in place doing the same thing?It's simple economics, supply and demand. As long as there is a demand for certain drugs, someone will be willing to supply that demand, whether those

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Today is my Tax Freedom Day! Yay me.So for all of 2009, the income I've worked for has gone 100% straight to the government.$21,733, that's how much I'm being forced to give the government this year. Sure makes that "Tax Refund" seem pathetic doesn't it.Calculate your Tax Freedom Day. The Personal Tax Freedom Day calculator, like Tax Freedom Day, includes all taxes from all levels of government

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It turns out that the government doesn't care about making good on their illegal actions. Manitoba Attorney General Dave Chomiak closed the door Wednesday on any hope people had about getting their money back. "We are not going to be doing any refunds, or reimbursements. We are not legally responsible to do that and we are not going to do that," he said. And he's right, they aren't legally

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