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At the press conference, Furey presented a blue bag and green bag embroidered with Toronto Public Health’s branding containing a crack pipe kit and crystal meth kit, respectively.
Poilievre took to social media to denounce the program, urging an alternative solution to solve Canada’s growing drug addiction crisis.
“This is ridiculous. City-branded crack and meth pipes are now being handed out in our cities,” said Poilievre.
“Stop enabling drug addiction with tax dollars. Put it towards treatment and recovery so we can bring home our loved ones drug free.”
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Read MoreMay 31 (Reuters) – Minnesota became the latest U.S. state to legalize marijuana for recreational use on Tuesday after its governor, Tim Walz, signed a law allowing the state’s residents over the age of 21 to legally possess cannabis for consumption.
Apart from the 23 states, adult-use cannabis is also legal in the District of Columbia, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Below is the list of U.S. states that have legalized recreational marijuana:
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Read MoreQuaternary ammonium compounds are also referred to as “QACs” or “quats.” They are a popular ingredient in disinfectant wipes, which Clorox increased production of to 1.5 million packs per day during the pandemic.
One survey suggests 83% of households asked used disinfectant wipes at least one time in the previous week and 29% claimed to use them every day. Researchers found that the chemicals contribute to antimicrobial resistance, pollute the environment and are linked to several health issues.
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Read MorePeople experiencing homelessness in Kelowna were thrust into the spotlight of Canadian politics after the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre tweeted a video of a designated city-maintained encampment.
In Kelowna, all people experiencing un-sheltered homelessness are required to spend their nights at an encampment located along a popular bike path. Each morning, residents are expected to pack up their belongings and vacate the site, but as the population of people living without a home in Kelowna grows, it has been increasingly difficult for bylaw officers to enforce the requirement to decamp each day.
READ MORE: Homelessness in Kelowna tripled in size in the last year: Bylaw
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Read MoreSeattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz told a City Council committee on Tuesday that priority response call times are up. Financial incentives have done little to help address low staffing levels in the beleaguered department, which has been understaffed by hundreds of officers since the council began defunding the police in 2020.
According to the chief, just as many officers are joining the department as those that are leaving, causing levels to stagnate in the first quarter of 2023.
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Read MoreThe growing prevalence of conversational artificial intelligence (CAI), digital agents that talk and respond socially to users, has increased the likelihood of over-dependency on this new technology. Drawing on the interaction of person-affect-cognition-execution model, this study examined how social anxiety, loneliness, and rumination contribute to the problematic use of CAI (PUCAI). The study also investigated the moderating role of mind perception by analyzing how the human-like mental capacity of CAI influences PUCAI. The serial mediation and moderated mediation analyses of data collected from 516 CAI users (214 males and 302 females, Mage = 27.06) revealed that social anxiety was positively associated with PUCAI, and this connection was serially mediated by loneliness and rumination. Moreover, mind perception intensified the positive association between social anxiety and PUCAI, but it buffered the positive association between rumination and PUCAI.
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Read MoreA new group has been created for Jews who are against the extremist agenda of George Soros, a leftist who is infamous for his anti-law enforcement influence on American politics.
Led by senior Newsweek editor Josh Hammer and Missouri attorney general candidate Will Scharf, Jews Against Soros pledges to “fight back against the common left-wing smear that opposition to Soros and his sprawling network of political organizations is antisemitic.”
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Read MoreAI chatbots aren’t much good at offering emotional support being—you know—not a human, and—it can’t be stated enough—not actually intelligent. That didn’t stop The National Eating Disorder Association from trying to foist a chatbot onto folks requesting aid in times of crisis. Things went about as well as you can expect, as an activist claims that instead of helping through emotional distress, the chatbot instead tried to needle her to lose weight and measure herself constantly.
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Read MoreAnother teacher has come out of the woodwork to pen concerns about the rampant violence at their school–this one, not surprisingly, teaching in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
The elementary school teacher says in her open letter, obtained by school reformer and activist Michael Teper, that their day-to-day reality at the TDSB is one of “fear, reprisal and fear of reprisal.”
She says their professionalism is regularly under attack.
She’s experienced and witnessed “reprisals” to staff who report violent incidents and try to obtain support for the “most vulnerable” (she does not define what she means by the most vulnerable.)
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Read MoreThose who live in food-insecure households, meaning they had limited access to adequate and nutritious food, are at greater risk for the development of disordered eating behaviors, according to new research published in the journal Eating Behaviors.
Food insecurity is a significant issue that affects a large portion of the U.S. population. More than one in ten households in the United States have experienced food insecurity. Households experiencing food insecurity often face fluctuations in food availability throughout the month, leading to a cycle of food restriction and overconsumption known as the “feast-or-famine” cycle.
The authors behind the new research sought to better understand the consequences of this cycle on individuals’ eating behaviors and overall health.
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