Donna Spencer
Canada s Nicole Walker rides Falco van Spieveld, during the Grand Prix event of the National at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Saturday, June 8, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh December 20, 2020 - 8:29 AM
The reinstatement of Canada s show jumping team in the Tokyo Summer Olympics rides on upcoming appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Nicole Walker and Equestrian Canada are battling her doping violation at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
Her appeal is before the Swiss-based CAS on Monday and Wednesday. Walker argues she inadvertently ingested a cocaine metabolite by drinking coca tea in Lima.
She had a hearing Dec. 4, 2019, with the Panam Sports disciplinary commission, which disqualified her scores in the individual and team events in Lima.
1) Defending the vaccine strategy Trudeau defended the federal governments vaccine procurement strategy, which has seen Canada secure access to 214 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with options to purchase 200 million more from up to seven manufacturers. If all vaccine trials pan out, that’s 414 million doses. In the interview ,the prime minister said he “will not apologize” for the number of doses Canada has ordered, and said if we have excess, they “absolutely” would be shared with other countries who are struggling to access them. He downplayed concerns about Americans being vaccinated at a faster rate than Canadians, suggesting that Canada’s stronger health-care system will be to our advantage, and said that lessons learned from the struggle to secure enough personal protective equipment (PPE) early on in the pandemic informed their different approach to vaccine procurement.
Regina non-profit applying to start safe consumption site in city If approved this would be the second safe consumption site opened in Saskatchewan, the first having opened in Saskatoon this October.
Author of the article: Alec Salloum
Publishing date: Dec 18, 2020 • December 18, 2020 • 2 minute read • Newo Yotina Friendship Centre staff and board members (from left) Lori Smith, Cristina Crowe, James Desjarlais, Tannen Acoose, Michael Parker and Amanda Sather Page pose for a portrait in 2018 in front of the building that became the non-profits home. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post
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Michael Parker, executive director of the Newo Yotina Friendship Centre, says the city needs to do more with regards to harm reduction, and that starts with opening a safe consumption site for drug users.
This week,
Health Canada opened a public consultation on its “proposal to restore potential access to restricted drugs through the Special Access Program (SAP).”
The SAP allows healthcare professionals to request unapproved drugs for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions if other therapies have failed, aren’t suitable or are not available in Canada.
The proposal includes bringing MDMA and psilocybin back from a 2013 amendment to the Food and Drug Regulations that restricted these drugs, among others, to be part of the SAP.
If the once restricted drugs qualify again for the SAP, they would be treated as controlled substances, thus allowing healthcare professionals to request these drugs for patients.
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Dec 18, 2020 4:53 PM
An investigation undertaken by members of both the Tyendinaga Police Service (TPS) and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) has culminated in the execution of two search warrants and the seizure of a quantity of illegal firearms, drugs and other items.
In the early morning hours of December 17, 2020 officers from the OPP and TPS, assisted by the OPP’s Tactics and Rescue (TRU) and Emergency Response Units executed two search warrants on residences located in the Town of Deseronto and on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
Police seized a quantity of restricted and illegal firearms from the two residences including a handgun along with a flamethrower and a conducted energy weapon. Additionally, police have also seized substances believed to be cocaine and methamphetamine, over $8000.00 in Canadian currency and various pieces of drug paraphernalia.