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Day 3 - Support for a National Housing Strategy
Libby rates Conservative’s youth anti-drug strategy “boring and bureaucratic”
Libby rates Conservative’s youth anti-drug strategy “boring and bureaucratic”
Questions are being raised after Health Canada's new anti-drug website for youth included links to a similar campaign being run in the US. Health Canada says it had no choice but to link to several American sources on its new youth anti-drug website as no applicable Canadian sources existed. However, others see it as the government moving Canadian policy more in line with its southern neighbour….Libby Davies called the Health Canada website "very disappointing" and suggested that the department has been influenced by the government's "ideology about drug use."
The original article, Government links to US anti-drug campaign was published on January 12, 2010 in Embassy. Author(s): Carl Meyer
Day 3 – Support for a National Housing Strategy
Day 3 – Support for a National Housing Strategy
(cross-posted on rabble.ca)
Yeah the rain held off! I can’t believe how much I’m paying attention to the state of the weather. If it doesn’t rain I feel so much better. Usually I don’t worry about weather – but being outside for hours at a time makes a difference. It makes me appreciate that I get to go home every night and put my feet up and be warm. No so for many I talked with today at Main and Hastings.
We also talked about the issue of a billion dollars for Olympic security. Imagine what housing could be built with that. I met several people who are laid off because of the Olympics. They work part time in BC Place Stadium, but because of the Olympics, have been laid off. I’m not sure if this applies to all staff there. But one woman said she fell just short of enough weeks to collect EI. Crazy.
The 3rd Annual POVERTY OLYMPICS will be held Feb 7 in the Downtown Eastside – I’ll add more info on it in a later blog and on my website. I plan to attend.
I’ve also had many comments on Harper’s proroguing of Parliament – people are quite clear why he did it…to try and avoid further questions on Afghanistan, and side-step the Opposition on this and other issues.
I continue to gather support for Bill C304 – the Bill for a National Housing Strategy. Folks ask if it is really possible to get this Bill approved and I reply – YES! I encourage people to contact Conservative Members of Parliament and tell them they should support this Bill. The Libs and BQ have so far shown good support – but its unbelievable that only ONE conservative MP voted in favour of it at 2nd Reading in September. The Bill has great support across the country, from local municipalities, to major housing organizations, faith groups, unions, and First Nations – so I hope we can get the message through to more MPs that this Bill is needed more than ever.
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Libby marks Mental Illness Awareness Week
Lessons in the Rain - Hunger Strike Day 2
Passing of the Wooden Spoon to Libby – Libby Davies
Passing of the Wooden Spoon to Libby
It will never get the attention of the official Olympic torch relay, but Sunday a generic wooden spoon changed hands near the Olympic Countdown Clock in downtown Vancouver. On the receiving end was New Democratic Party MP Libby Davies, who becomes the 55th participant in the 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay, a low-key handoff that will see Davies stick to a liquid-only diet for a week in order to raise awareness of homelessness as the 2010 Winter Olympics loom large.
The original article, Davies joins hunger strike was published on January 11, 2010 in The Province. Author(s): Ian Austin