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OPINION | The Niki Ashton Case and the Need for Balance on COVID-19 Restrictions

By Carter Vance on February 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

With spiking case counts across the country during the second wave of COVID-19, many Canadians were understandably upset when reports came that a number of politicians jetted off to exotic locales for winter vacations after numerous pleas from politicians to stay at home. This has decreased public trust in government and has lead to individual members of the public not taking the problems posed by COVID-19 seriously. However, the case of New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Niki Ashton highlights that it may be worth questioning how COVID restrictions and regulations could be made more humane in the first place.

OPINION | Decriminalization is the beginning, not the end, of a compassionate approach to drugs and addiction

By Carter Vance on January 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

This article will highlight that, though it is an imperative from both human compassion and rational policy sense to back the decriminalization of drug use and possession, a robust policy to deal with the public health consequences of drug use must not fall into the libertarian fallacy of legalization as the inherent goal.