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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
... the very end of this very wonderful article. The man was against it, saw the benefits the safe-injection site ended up offering to the neighborhood, and now supports its expansion.
Say something like that in the US, and you're labelled as a "flip-flopper". And God Forbid you ever, ever say you were wrong about something you campagined on.
It is nice, however, to see public health concerns actually triumphing for once. Especially with a population (drug users) that is so easiliy marginalized and written off.
I have a feeling, however, that it was easier to get the site established in Canada because of the Universal Health Care. The populace can understand that the country as a whole will have to swallow the $150,000 treatment of a HIV patient. In the US, it's just as easy to say "they made their bed; they can lie in it".
Unfortunately.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
