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B.C. heroin addict returns to street after province seizes her home
By John Colebourn, Vancouver ProvinceVANCOUVER -- On a crisp March morning, Marianne Christine Sullivan sits on a dock in East Vancouver and talks about being homeless and broke after the government of British Columbia took her $562,000 home under civil-forfeiture legislation.
She says it has been days since she had her last fix of heroin. With a clear head, she now faces the fact she has lost her home because of legislation being used by B.C. police departments to get rid of troublesome households, and she lives and works on the streets.
Harper targeted by Insite supporters
Protesters vow to dog PM's Olympic appearancesIAN BAILEY AND JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail
The day after the federal government said it would go to the Supreme Court to try to shut down Vancouver's safe-injection site, supporters of the facility forced the Prime Minister to delay a photo op at a Chinese cultural centre by chaining the doors.
Dozens of Vancouver police officers descended on the site and cut the chains.
NDP MP Libby Davies Calls for Public Consultations Before Changing MMAR
February 4, 2010 Hon. Leona Aglukkaq
Minister of Health
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Dear Minister Aglukkaq,
Libby speaking out against Conservative's so-called "crime agenda"
NDP MP Libby Davies (Re: The Hill Justice Minister Nicholson pushes crime bill he used to be against)Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, who is pushing the government's tough on crime agenda and plans to revive the bill on mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes in the next Parliamentary session, did not support the proposed law when he was a Mulroney backbencher.
Libby joins Vancouver rally against prorogation January 22, 2010 Press Release
MEDIA ADVISORYNDP MP LIBBY DAVIES TO JOIN VANCOUVER RALLY AGAINST PROROGATION
Vancouver – Vancouver East MP Libby Davies will join hundreds of concerned citizens at Saturday's “Rally for Canada, Stand Up for Democracy!” protest starting at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Vancouver rally is one of many that will take place across Canada to protest the Conservative Government’s move to shut down Parliament by proroguing the House of Commons back in December, 2009. Participants will march from the gallery to Victory Square.
WHAT: Rally for Canada, Stand Up for Democracy!
WHEN: 1:00 PM SATURDAY, JANUARY 23
WHERE: VANCOUVER ART GALLERY to VICTORY SQUARE
Davies urges Harper government to respect the B.C. Court of Appeal decision on Insite
Press Release: NDP MP Libby DaviesBC COURT OF APPEAL GOT IT RIGHT
Davies urges Harper government to respect the B.C. Court of Appeal decision on Insite
VANCOUVER – Today’s British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling to uphold the B.C. Supreme Court decision allowing Insite, the first safe injection site in Canada, to remain open is a victory following its six year struggle to operate.
New Democrat Substance Abuse Critic Libby Davies (Vancouver East) is urging the federal government to not appeal this decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Libby rates Conservative's youth anti-drug strategy "boring and bureaucratic"
Embassy
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."
Statement by New Democrat Deputy Leader and House Leader Libby Davies
By Libby Davies, NDPBy proroguing Parliament, once again, Stephen Harper is shutting down democracy and locking out Members of Parliament, preventing them from doing the very important work they were elected to do in the House of Commons.
New Democrat MPs will continue to work hard in their ridings. That is what they do when the House is not in session. But MPs need to be able to bring back to Parliament the concerns of their constituents.
They won’t be able to, and this constitutes a debasement of Canada’s democratic system.
Libby Davies restates opposition to extradition of Marc Emery
By: Matthew Johnston
NDP MP Libby Davies has a lot to offer civil libertarians.
Western Standard blogger, free speech champion and social conservative Paul Tuns wrote disapprovingly here of Davies’ efforts to legalize prostitution, a policy that libertarians, by contrast, support. In fact, I’ve personally written in support of the legalization of prostitution here and here.
