The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by the federal government to shut down Vancouver's supervised injection site .

B.C. court affirms injection site's right to exist

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Insite, the supervised injection site on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, provides an indoor space where addicts can bring illegal drugs bought on the street and inject them under medical supervision. (CBC)

The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by the federal government to shut down Vancouver's supervised injection site on the city's troubled Downtown Eastside.

The federal government appealed a previous B.C. Supreme Court ruling in favour of Insite, and on Friday morning in Vancouver, the B.C. Appeal Court confirmed the injection site's constitutional right to exist.

Liz Evans, the founder and executive director of the Portland Hotel Society, which operates Insite said she welcomed the decision.

"I'm so proud of the decision that was made here this morning," Evans said. "It looks like not only have they agreed that it is our constitutional right to have Insite exist, but they've also …weighed in in support of the jurisdictional issue and that means effectively that Insite is now a provincial issue."

Supporters of the injection site said they hope the federal government won't appeal today's decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Conservative support drops in wake of PM's decision to prorogue Parliament

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has paid a large price in popularity for shutting down Parliament, with his Conservatives effectively tied with Liberals in a new poll by The Strategic Counsel.
Conservatives are at 31 per cent, compared to 30 per cent for Liberals, in the poll conducted by Strategic Counsel late last week, as controversy was starting to build over Harper's prorogation of Parliament until March 3.
That's the lowest the Conservatives have been since last June in Strategic Counsel polling.
"Proroguing of Parliament has hurt the Tory brand," said Tim Woolstencroft, the managing partner at Strategic Counsel, who believes that Harper's Conservatives must be seeing the same kind of numbers, because the government has appeared to be in a defensive posture all week. "I think the government is worried about it," Woolstencroft said.
The poll, conducted in online and telephone surveys with 1,860 Canadians, shows the Conservatives have dropped a full 10 percentage points since last October, with the Liberals and New Democrats getting only a slight bump in support.
Last October, Strategic Counsel found 41 per cent support for Conservatives, 28 per cent for the Liberals and 14 per cent for the New Democrats. The newest numbers show 31 per cent for the Conservatives, 30 per cent for the Liberals and 18 per cent for the NDP. The poll is deemed accurate within 2.27 percentage points, 18 times out of 20.
What the new numbers mean, says Woolstencroft, is that the prorogation has hurt the Conservatives but not overly helped the Liberals or New Democrats — at least not yet.
The poll, for instance, was conducted before the Liberals unleashed their ad campaign this week against the prorogation, featuring pictures of Parliament behind a chain-link fence and radio ads talking about a Conservative "cover-up."
Woolstencroft says the poll shows that "a tremendous amount of work still has to be done" by the Liberals if they want to climb and stay in a position of effective challenge to Harper and the Conservatives. (Strategic Counsel is where Peter Donolo worked before he became chief of staff to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff late last fall.)
Ignatieff has been pushing the anti-prorogation message hard on his campus tour this week; he's in Mississauga and Hamilton today. But Woolstencroft says that should be seen as a very preliminary step in any effort to rebuild the Liberal brand.
"The leader of the Liberals is still a relatively unknown character on the landscape," Woolstencroft said. Similarly, there's no sign yet that any opposition party is reaping any real benefit of the Conservative slump — these new numbers tell a story of a misplayed gambit and botched communications, says the pollster.
"(The Conservatives) really didn't have a strong message about why (Harper) was proroguing the House and Parliament. That's led to questions," he said.
"If this was an isolated event, I think proroguing Parliament would have been a non-issue. But there is a sense that this is kind of a pattern of behaviour."

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Chretien's agendas make the Supreme Court.

Chretien's agendas make the Supreme Court's agenda
December 17, 2009 1:05 PM .
By Alison Crawford
If you're a political history buff, keep an eye on the Supreme Court of Canada in 2010. Today, the court ruled it would hear a case that could result in the release of former prime minister Jean Chretien's agendas, minutes with former national defence minister Art Eggleton as well as the itinerary of the former transport minister David Collenette. The documents cover the time period of January 1994 through to 1999.The initial complaints came from former Reform Party researcher Laurie Throness, followed by a parallel complaint from the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Throness made six requests for Chretien's 1994-99 daytimers. When his requests were refused, he went to then-information commissioner John Reid. He sided with Throness and ordered the Privy Council Office to release the agendas. Reid also ordered the release of information from Eggleton and Collenette, as well as copies of Chretien's agendas held by the RCMP. The Mounties would have had some of that information in order to carry out the prime minister's protective detail.The PCO immediately refused to release Chretien's agendas, arguing the documents are exempt from the access to information act. At federal court, Chretien's executive assistant Bruce Hartley said the agendas contained confidential personal information. Canada's former privacy commissioner George Radwanski sided with the government. In a lengthy May 2001 letter to Reid, Radwanski wrote, "None of us wants to go through life feeling that at any moment someone may be, either metaphorically or literally, looking over our shoulder. If we have to weigh every action, every purchase, every statement, every human contact, wondering who might find out about it, judge it, misconstrue it or somehow use it to our detriment, we are not truly free. It is from this perspective that your pursuit of agendas is totally unacceptable."In defence of its decision not to release the agendas, former RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said releasing the Mounties' copies could potentially help someone plan an attack or ambush on the prime minister's motorcade.Ever since, the cases have continued to wend their way through the courts. Despite these cases initially being kicked off by Reform Party researchers, the Conservative government has also opposed the release of agendas. And Throness is now chief of staff to Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl.The new, interim information commissioner is Suzanne Legault. She says she's pleased the Supreme Court will hear the cases."Obviously it's a recognition that these cases are of significant public importance," Legault said.At issue is whether records related to departmental business but physically located in ministers' offices are outside the scope of the access to information act. If the Information Commissioner wins, the documents would be of interest to several parties who continue to have questions about who Chretien may have met or talked to about a number of sensitive files, including the 1997 APEC summit in Vancouver, the sponsorship scandal and the so-called "Billion-dollar boondoggle" involving former HRDC minister Jane Stewart and oversight of her department's job-creation program.High-profile agendas were most recently in the news during the Oliphant inquiry earlier this year when sections of former prime minister Brian Mulroney's daytimers were made public. Except for a single page, those documents were dated after Mulroney left office.

138 Canadian soldiers have been killed thank-you PMO NOT!!!!.

Since 2002, 138 Canadian soldiers have been killed serving in the Afghanistan mission.

Four Canadian civilians have also been killed, including one diplomat, one journalist and two aid workers.

	First name	Last name	Rank	Unit	Province	Date of incident
	Garrett	Chidley	Private	2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	December 30, 2009
	Zachery	McCormack	Corporal	Loyal Edmonton Regiment, 4th Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	December 30, 2009
	George	Miok	Sergeant	41 Combat Engineer Regiment	Alberta	December 30, 2009
	Kirk	Taylor	Sergeant	84 Independent Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery	Nova Scotia	December 30, 2009
	Andrew	Nuttall	Lieutenant	1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	British Columbia	December 23, 2009
	Steven	Marshall	Sapper	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	Alberta	October 30, 2009
	Justin	Boyes	Lieutenant	3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	October 28, 2009
	Jonathan	Couturier	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment	Quebec	September 17, 2009
	Patrick	Lormand	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment	Ontario	September 13, 2009
	Jean-François	Drouin	Corporal	5 Combat Engineer Regiment	Quebec	September 6, 2009
	Yannick	Pépin	Major	5 Combat Engineer Regiment	Quebec	September 6, 2009
	Mathieu	Allard	Sapper	5 Combat Engineer Regiment	Quebec	August 1, 2009
	Christian	Bobbitt	Corporal	5 Combat Engineer Regiment	Quebec	August 1, 2009
	Sébastien	Courcy	Private	2nd battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment	Quebec	July 16, 2009
	Patrice	Audet	Master corportal	430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron	Quebec	July 6, 2009
	Martin	Joannette	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment	Quebec	July 6, 2009
	Nick	Bulger	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	July 3, 2009
	Charles-Philippe	Michaud	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment	New Brunswick	June 23, 2009
	Martin	Dubé	Corporal	5 Combat Engineer Regiment	Quebec	June 14, 2009
	Alexandre	Péloquin	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	June 8, 2009
	Michelle	Mendes	Major	Chief of Defence Intelligence	Ontario	April 23, 2009
	Karine	Blais	Trooper	12e Régiment blindé du Canada	Quebec	April 13, 2009
	Jack	Bouthillier	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	March 20, 2009
	Tyler	Crooks	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	March 20, 2009
	Corey	Hayes	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	New Brunswick	March 20, 2009
	Scott	Vernelli	Master corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	March 20, 2009
	Marc	Diab	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	March 8, 2009
	Dennis	Brown	Warrant officer	The Lincoln and Welland Regiment	Ontario	March 3, 2009
	Dany	Fortin	Corporal	425 Tactical Fighter Squadron	Quebec	March 3, 2009
	Kenneth	O'Quinn	Corporal	2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron	Newfoundland and Labrador	March 3, 2009
	Sean	Greenfield	Sapper	2 Combat Engineer Regiment	Manitoba	January 31, 2009
	Brian	Good	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	January 7, 2009
	Gregory	Kruse	Sergeant	2 Combat Engineer Regiment	Ontario	December 27, 2008
	Gaetan	Roberge	Warrant officer	Royal 22nd Regiment	Ontario	December 27, 2008
	Michael	Freeman	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 26, 2008
	John	Curwin	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	December 13, 2008
	Thomas	Hamilton	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	December 13, 2008
	Justin	Jones	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	December 13, 2008
	Demetrios	Diplaros	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 5, 2008
	Mark	McLaren	Corporal	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 5, 2008
	Robert	Wilson	Warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 5, 2008
	Prescott	Shipway	Sergeant	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	September 7, 2008
	Andrew	Grenon	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	September 3, 2008
	Chad	Horn	Private	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	September 3, 2008
	Mike	Seggie	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	September 3, 2008
	Shawn	Eades	Sergeant	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	Ontario	August 20, 2008
	Stephan	Stock	Sapper	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	British Columbia	August 20, 2008
	Dustin	Wasden	Corporal	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	Saskatchewan	August 20, 2008
	Erin	Doyle	Master corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	British Columbia	August 11, 2008
	Josh	Roberts	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 9, 2008
	James	Arnal	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	July 18, 2008
	Colin	Wilmot	Private	1 Field Ambulance	Alberta	July 6, 2008
	Brendan	Downey	Corporal	Military Police Detachment	Saskatchewan	July 4, 2008
	Jonathan	Snyder	Captain	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	British Columbia	June 7, 2008
	Richard	Leary	Captain	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	June 3, 2008
	Michael	Starker	Corporal	15th Field Ambulance	Alberta	May 6, 2008
	Terry	Street	Private	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Quebec	April 4, 2008
	Jason	Boyes	Sergeant	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	March 16, 2008
	Jérémie	Ouellet	Bombardier	1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	Quebec	March 11, 2008
	Michael	Hayakaze	Trooper	Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)	Alberta	March 2, 2008
	Étienne	Gonthier	Corporal	5e Régiment du génie de combat	Quebec	January 23, 2008
	Richard	Renaud	Trooper	12e Régiment blindé du Canada	Quebec	January 15, 2008
	Eric	Labbé	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	January 6, 2008
	Hani	Massouh	Warrant officer	2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	January 6, 2008
	Jonathan	Dion	Gunner	5e Régiment d'artillerie légère du Canada	Quebec	December 30, 2007
	Nicolas	Beauchamp	Corporal	5th Field Ambulance, 5 Area Support Group	Quebec	November 17, 2007
	Michel	Lévesque	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	November 17, 2007
	Nathan	Hornburg	Corporal	The King's Own Calgary Regiment	Alberta	September 24, 2007
	Raymond	Ruckpaul	Major	Armoured Corps, The Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	August 29, 2007
	Christian	Duchesne	Master corporal	5th Field Ambulance, 5 Area Support Group	Quebec	August 22, 2007
	Mario	Mercier	Master warrant officer	2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	August 22, 2007
	Simon	Longtin	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	August 19, 2007
	Jordan	Anderson	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Nunavut	July 4, 2007
	Cole	Bartsch	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	July 4, 2007
	Colin	Bason	Master corporal	The Royal Westminster Regiment	British Columbia	July 4, 2007
	Matthew	Dawe	Captain	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	July 4, 2007
	Jefferson	Francis	Captain	1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	New Brunswick	July 4, 2007
	Lane	Watkins	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	July 4, 2007
	Stephen	Bouzane	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Newfoundland and Labrador	June 20, 2007
	Christos	Karigiannis	Sergeant	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Quebec	June 20, 2007
	Joel	Wiebe	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	June 20, 2007
	Darryl	Caswell	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	June 11, 2007
	Darrell	Priede	Master corporal	Army News Team, 3 Area Support Group	Ontario	May 30, 2007
	Matthew	McCully	Corporal	2nd Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron	Ontario	May 25, 2007
	Anthony	Klumpenhouwer	Master corporal	Canadian Special Operations Forces Command	Ontario	April 18, 2007
	Patrick	Pentland	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	New Brunswick	April 11, 2007
	Allan	Stewart	Master corporal	Royal Canadian Dragoons	New Brunswick	April 11, 2007
	David	Greenslade	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	April 8, 2007
	Kevin	Kennedy	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	April 8, 2007
	Donald	Lucas	Sergeant	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	April 8, 2007
	Brent	Poland	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	April 8, 2007
	Christopher	Stannix	Corporal	Princess Louise Fusiliers	Nova Scotia	April 8, 2007
	Aaron	Williams	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	April 8, 2007
	Kevin	Megeney	Corporal	1st Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders (North)	Nova Scotia	March 6, 2007
	Robert	Girouard	Chief warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	November 27, 2006
	Albert	Storm	Corporal	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	November 27, 2006
	Darcy	Tedford	Sergeant	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Alberta	October 14, 2006
	Blake	Williamson	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	October 14, 2006
	Mark	Wilson	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	October 7, 2006
	Craig	Gillam	Sergeant	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Newfoundland and Labrador	October 3, 2006
	Robert	Mitchell	Corporal	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	October 3, 2006
	Josh	Klukie	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	September 29, 2006
	Glen	Arnold	Corporal	2nd Field Ambulance	Ontario	September 18, 2006
	David	Byers	Private	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	September 18, 2006
	Shane	Keating	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	September 18, 2006
	Keith	Morley	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	September 18, 2006
	Mark	Graham	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	September 4, 2006
	William	Cushley	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	September 3, 2006
	Frank	Mellish	Warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	September 3, 2006
	Richard	Nolan	Warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	September 3, 2006
	Shane	Stachnik	Sergeant	2nd Combat Engineer Regiment	Alberta	September 3, 2006
	David	Braun	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 22, 2006
	Andrew	Eykelenboom	Corporal	1st Field Ambulance	British Columbia	August 11, 2006
	Jeffrey	Walsh	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 9, 2006
	Raymond	Arndt	Master corporal	The Loyal Edmonton Regiment	Alberta	August 5, 2006
	Kevin	Dallaire	Private	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	August 3, 2006
	Vaughan	Ingram	Sergeant	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Newfoundland and Labrador	August 3, 2006
	Bryce	Keller	Corporal	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 3, 2006
	Christopher	Reid	Corporal	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	August 3, 2006
	Francisco	Gomez	Corporal	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	July 22, 2006
	Jason	Warren	Corporal	The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada	Quebec	July 22, 2006
	Anthony	Boneca	Corporal	Lake Superior Scottish Regiment	Ontario	July 9, 2006
	Nichola	Goddard	Captain	1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	Alberta	May 17, 2006
	Matthew	Dinning	Corporal	2nd Military Police Platoon	Ontario	April 22, 2006
	Myles	Mansell	Bombardier	5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment	British Columbia	April 22, 2006
	Randy	Payne	Corporal	CFB/ASU Wainwright Military Police Platoon	Ontario	April 22, 2006
	William	Turner	Lieutenant	Land Force Western Area Headquarters	Ontario	April 22, 2006
	Robert	Costall	Private	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	March 29, 2006
	Paul	Davis	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	March 2, 2006
	Timothy	Wilson	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	March 2, 2006
	Glyn	Berry	Diplomat	Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada	Wales	January 15, 2006
	Braun	Woodfield	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	November 24, 2005
	Jamie	Murphy	Corporal	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	January 27, 2004
	Robbie	Beerenfenger	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	October 2, 2003
	Robert	Short	Sergeant	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	October 2, 2003
	Ainsworth	Dyer	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Quebec	April 18, 2002
	Richard	Green	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	April 18, 2002
	Marc	Léger	Sergeant	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	April 18, 2002
	Nathan	Smith	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	April 18, 2002

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