Deaths from fentanyl are at an all time high, and still, the libertarian approach, that has proved to be a disaster, continues. Drug addicted women caught up in the sex trade suffer the most
On the one hand, Canada's Left defends the sale of women's bodies as freedom. On the other hand, Canada's Left also supports Iran developing nuclear weapons so that it can spread a religious ideology that stones women for being accused of having an affair and forces them to drape themselves in black curtains when they appear in public, as well as lowering the age of marriage for girls to 9yrs. Canada's Left embraces 'queer' ideology while supporting societies and cultures that are openly murderous of LGBs (Iran loves trans ideology, BTW, because it's a way of avoiding having to murder gay kids).
What threads these paradoxical perspectives together is a simple idea: all women (including lesbians) belong to men who should have exclusive access to, and control over, them whenever they want. The promise of 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven if you kill a Jew tells you all you need to know about Islamist views of women.
Yes I think the solution is keep both Muslims and Jews out of Western countries ideally deporting them all. Their domestic issues are not ours. Neither group should have any political power over native Europeans.
Thanks Julie. You say the debate rages in Canada and yet here I am relying on your reporting. BTW, What is the actual dateline of this piece? Mention of Trudeau is confusing.
Yes, it was while Trudeau was PM that these policies were put into effect. But since he is no longer PM, his status as PM in this article should be put in the past tense to make that clear and avoid confusion.
Thank you for reporting on this! Most Canadians don’t understand how bad it’s become. I had high hopes for an approach to the drugs and sex trade that centred harm reduction. I don’t blame policy makers for trying this. It’s unconscionable, however, that they can’t admit its astonishing failure.
I went to East Hastings back in 2019, and it was by far the worst thing I've ever seen. It is despicable what the Liberal party has done to my country.
This is the first time I’ve seen this addressed, and it’s a question I’ve had since the “safe injection site” thing started in the US: say I wanted to try heroin (or whatever) for the first time but was either scared to buy it off of a dealer (or, more likely, didn’t know how to get it). Could I go to one of these sites and find some Whatever, get it tested for purity, and have the government / NGO help me safely use it?
If so, is this a thing people do? I’m old now, but in my younger and crueler days I would have been curious and adventurous enough to maybe do this if it’s a real thing.
Questions: When prostitution increases, the number of prostitutes increases. But,does the number of customer/johns increase or do the same men pay for more sex? If the number of men buying sex increases, do you have any observations as to where they come from or what factors influence the increase?
I'm surprised that you didn't mention 'safer supply': For the last several years the BC government has been giving free hydromorphone to addicts on the theory it will divert them from fentanyl, instead they sell the hydromorphone to pay for fentanyl and so you the street price of potent opioid pills is through the floor. Adam Zivo at Canada's National Post has been on this beat for years with excellent reporting:
Thank you for writing about this Julie. I desperately hope a lot of locals see this. It feels like most people in Vancouver are willfully deaf and blind to the facts of this matter. Nobody seems to give a shit about it in any realistic logical reality based way. The NDP has just made it worse. It’s made me hate my home town. 💔 thanks for everything you’ve done❤️
The fact that fentanyl and other highly addictive drugs are so easily available anywhere in Canada is a disgrace. The Liberal government promised more crackdown in response to Trump on trade. The fact that nothing has been done months later tells you everything you need to know about the Liberals and the BC NDP. People need to stop making excuses for these pathetic politicians. The Liberals were able to quickly shut down bank accounts of average Canadians who donated to the Freedom Convoy. They could stop this tomorrow if they wanted. They don’t want it to end!
The godless Left thrives on Death. Whether abortion policies that allow killing full term babies minutes before birth, assisted suicide for depressed teens, or flooding desperate communities with poisonous drugs, the demonic happy face Canadian elites come from the same region of Hell as the Nazis and Stalinists before them. Evil in blue hair and a pierced nose, carrying a clipboard.
On the one hand, Canada's Left defends the sale of women's bodies as freedom. On the other hand, Canada's Left also supports Iran developing nuclear weapons so that it can spread a religious ideology that stones women for being accused of having an affair and forces them to drape themselves in black curtains when they appear in public, as well as lowering the age of marriage for girls to 9yrs. Canada's Left embraces 'queer' ideology while supporting societies and cultures that are openly murderous of LGBs (Iran loves trans ideology, BTW, because it's a way of avoiding having to murder gay kids).
What threads these paradoxical perspectives together is a simple idea: all women (including lesbians) belong to men who should have exclusive access to, and control over, them whenever they want. The promise of 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven if you kill a Jew tells you all you need to know about Islamist views of women.
Yes I think the solution is keep both Muslims and Jews out of Western countries ideally deporting them all. Their domestic issues are not ours. Neither group should have any political power over native Europeans.
An excellent comment. I will leave it at that because everything we say online is being closely monitored here in the UK.
The UK really has it ass backwards these days.
The pigs who commit these grooming gang rapes receive a slap on the wrist, when they receive any consequences at all from the Starmer government.
Meanwhile, they toss people in jail for calling out such monstrosities.
Insanity. And then the social media monitoring….also insane.
Thanks Julie. You say the debate rages in Canada and yet here I am relying on your reporting. BTW, What is the actual dateline of this piece? Mention of Trudeau is confusing.
It was Trudeau’s liberal government policies, still in place and supported by Carney, that created what Julie describes. There is no confusion.
Yes, it was while Trudeau was PM that these policies were put into effect. But since he is no longer PM, his status as PM in this article should be put in the past tense to make that clear and avoid confusion.
done
Agreed, JP — was this written while PMJT was in office, or did the spectre of PP’s career edit it to try once again to blame his eternal nemesis?
Thank you for reporting on this! Most Canadians don’t understand how bad it’s become. I had high hopes for an approach to the drugs and sex trade that centred harm reduction. I don’t blame policy makers for trying this. It’s unconscionable, however, that they can’t admit its astonishing failure.
I went to East Hastings back in 2019, and it was by far the worst thing I've ever seen. It is despicable what the Liberal party has done to my country.
This is nothing new to West Van., read about Gabor Mate.
This is the first time I’ve seen this addressed, and it’s a question I’ve had since the “safe injection site” thing started in the US: say I wanted to try heroin (or whatever) for the first time but was either scared to buy it off of a dealer (or, more likely, didn’t know how to get it). Could I go to one of these sites and find some Whatever, get it tested for purity, and have the government / NGO help me safely use it?
If so, is this a thing people do? I’m old now, but in my younger and crueler days I would have been curious and adventurous enough to maybe do this if it’s a real thing.
This has also happened in Portland. Incredibly sad. https://getbettersoon.substack.com/p/why-im-leaving-portland
I wonder what’s next in the non-judgemental category.
CalCUTta / KOLkata - Here, There & Everywhere...Is and Gets Worse - Everytime. Think 🤽🏻♂️
Thank you
Questions: When prostitution increases, the number of prostitutes increases. But,does the number of customer/johns increase or do the same men pay for more sex? If the number of men buying sex increases, do you have any observations as to where they come from or what factors influence the increase?
I'm surprised that you didn't mention 'safer supply': For the last several years the BC government has been giving free hydromorphone to addicts on the theory it will divert them from fentanyl, instead they sell the hydromorphone to pay for fentanyl and so you the street price of potent opioid pills is through the floor. Adam Zivo at Canada's National Post has been on this beat for years with excellent reporting:
Thank you for writing about this Julie. I desperately hope a lot of locals see this. It feels like most people in Vancouver are willfully deaf and blind to the facts of this matter. Nobody seems to give a shit about it in any realistic logical reality based way. The NDP has just made it worse. It’s made me hate my home town. 💔 thanks for everything you’ve done❤️
The fact that fentanyl and other highly addictive drugs are so easily available anywhere in Canada is a disgrace. The Liberal government promised more crackdown in response to Trump on trade. The fact that nothing has been done months later tells you everything you need to know about the Liberals and the BC NDP. People need to stop making excuses for these pathetic politicians. The Liberals were able to quickly shut down bank accounts of average Canadians who donated to the Freedom Convoy. They could stop this tomorrow if they wanted. They don’t want it to end!
The godless Left thrives on Death. Whether abortion policies that allow killing full term babies minutes before birth, assisted suicide for depressed teens, or flooding desperate communities with poisonous drugs, the demonic happy face Canadian elites come from the same region of Hell as the Nazis and Stalinists before them. Evil in blue hair and a pierced nose, carrying a clipboard.
Fucking ewwww