Shut Your Pie Hole and Go Home

Banff booze banned for long weekend Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks have banned alcohol for the May long weekend! Anyone who has the audacity to open their pie holes over this one needs to shut your pie hole and go home.  If you can't have a good time on a long weekend without booze, you've got bigger issues at hand and should seek help rather than an ammendment to the ban. It's about time some people in our country started promoting a good time that does not include the consumption mind-altering drugs and drinks. Besides, isn't camping supposed to be a family kind of thing?  I'd personally find it difficult to have a good time with my family if the bone-heads at the next site over were too wasted to keep their party contained.  If you want to drink, stay at home or go to a bar.  Those are places where it's acceptable to indulge.  But camping?  Come on and grow up.  Let the families have a good time without the drunks ruining it.  ...

B.C. Court Affirms Injection Site's Right to Exist I am divided on this issue.  While I can't stand the thought of what illegal drugs have done to our society, I cannot deny that the idea of a safe place to use them has its merrits. For the record, I have never, do not now, nor will I ever support, promote or condone the use of illegal drugs.  I have lived my life 100% clean of all useage (and what has been inhaled second hand could not be helped - it was Amsterdam, after all). What I find most grevious in this situation is that there are communities that actually benefit from safe injection houses.  There seems to be a real need where junkies can go to shoot up without having to worry about becoming infected or worry about infecting others (though I can't imagine there are all that many who really care all that much).  The fact that Liz Evans is "so proud" of the B.C. court's ruling makes me questions her purpose and morals.  Proud that the provinci...