消息
1. Farm Assist raided
Police yesterday arrested two men at Farm Assist, the “蒸气室”在哥廷根街上经营克里斯·恩斯（Chris Enns）和谢里·里夫（Sherri Reeve），后面的夫妻The Compassionate Use Club, which distributes medical marijuana.Says the police release:
今天中午左右，在哈利法克斯地区警察和哈利法克斯地区皇家皇家骑警的统一成员的协助下，综合刑事调查部门的毒品部门同时执行了三项独立的搜查令，该搜查令与正在进行的毒品贩运调查有关，这些调查源于许多投诉。公众。搜索以下位置：
·A business in the 2300 block of Gottingen Street in Halifax. Officers seized a quantity of marijuana, a large quantity of cash and drug paraphernalia. They arrested two men, age 19 and 40, at the scene without incident.
·A residence in the 700 block of East Chezzetcook Road, Head of Chezzetcook. Officers seized a quantity of marijuana and a large quantity of cash. They arrested a 39-year-old man还有一个47岁的女人without incident.
·A property on Colford Drive, Head of Chezzetcook where a large marijuana grow operation was located. Officers seized several hundred marijuana plants in various stages of growth. No one was arrested during this search
The suspects are currently being interviewed and charges are anticipated.
Yes, Enns and Reeve obviously courted arrest with their in-your-face operation, but good on them for standing firm in their convictions. The police always attach this boilerplate nonsense to their releases about drug arrests: “Drug activity often involves violence that puts innocent citizens at risk and is detrimental to the overall safety of our communities.” But Enns and Reeve are the very definition of nonviolence. They are crusaders in the pot wars, but they wouldn’t hurt a flea. Their operation involves a few dozen people growing pot in their backyards and getting together to smoke at their club. This is not the Mexican mafia.
继续逮捕锅的人是荒谬和适得其反的：逮捕后院的园丁将整个贸易置于有组织的犯罪手中。
我们都知道，使用大麻将在几年内合法或非刑事化，但我们继续为无害的犯罪而破坏人们的生命。我将继续嘲笑警察逮捕锅，因为他们值得嘲笑。这是一个邪恶 - 是的，evil- 使用警察权力，服务和保护的完全对立面。他们该为自己感到惭愧。
Arresting people for pot breeds contempt for the law and for the police, and deservedly so.
2.菲尔莫尔（Fillmore）在联邦政府中运行
为了摆脱梅根·莱斯利（Megan Leslie）的讨厌，计划大师安迪·菲尔莫尔（Andy Fillmore）宣布他正在寻找the Liberal nomination for the federal riding of Halifax。Just to annoy us, Fillmore says he wants to “put Halifax back on the national and world maps.”
3. Mohamed Yaffa案向前移动
Yaffa is the Halifax man who is a victim of security theatre at airports, and who has提出人权投诉反对加拿大航空。
4. Another politician moves to Alberta
DarrenBruckschwaiger, a Cape Breton Regional Municipality councillor, has up and quit his job as councillor and moved to Alberta for work in the tar sands. “I’m going to miss the wife, the dog, the cat, the run to Tim Hortons every morning, driving around the district—that’s stuff I did every day,”he told the Cape Breton Post。
5. Boy charged with murder
一个15岁的男孩已被捕，charged with first degree murder在丹尼尔·佩勒林（Daniel Pellerin）的刺伤中，该男子上周在法雷尔大厅（Farrel Hall）的停车场被杀。
6. Wild Kingdom
国王县广告商并注册和一个男人谈论一匹马。“Kelly is my baby,” the man tells the paper.
纪念大学生物学家伊恩•琼斯of Newfoundland, says thehorses should be removed from Sable Island。
Views
1.立法机关回来
Graham Steelegives a previewof this fall’s sitting of the House. These inside baseball pieces usually are tedious, but Steele’s take is refreshingly blunt.
顺便说一句，我接了Steele’s new book this week并希望今天阅读。审查即将到来。
2. Billion dollar nonsense
No doubt you’ve read the figure repeatedly: Nova Scotia could generate a billion dollars a year in economic activity through fracking.拉尔夫·苏雷特（Ralph Surette）在该数字上呼叫BS, pointing out that in reality, whatever potential oil or gas is recoverable in Nova Scotia would be “dribs and drabs”:
Further, there was the testimony of Duncan Keppie, a Scottish-born geologist with a big international reputation who first described the province’s underlying plate tectonics and has declared the notion of untold gas riches under Nova Scotia “rubbish.”
Surette appropriately ridicules the notion that Nova Scotia’s economic problems are rooted in our bad attitude. There’s so much more to say about that, but if I start I’d get carried away and never get this Morning File published.
3. Yeah, Armageddon!
Gail Lethbridge,Roger Taylor, and比尔·布莱克are fans of the end of the world, and want to make it happen quicker. None of them, of course, mention climate change in their columns supporting fracking. I don’t know if Taylor or Black have kids, but Lethbridge has written about hers. It’s interesting that she wants to destroy their planet.
Noticed
一位读者将我的注意力引起了我的注意力行业宣传视频，他说这是Kijiji上的常规弹出广告。
In the harbour
(click on vessel names for pictures and more information about the ships)
Arrivals
apl玛瑙, container ship, Cagliari, Italy to Fairview Cove East
Zim Luanda, container ship, New York to Pier 42
马士克彭布罗克，集装箱船，蒙特利尔到码头41
Em ithaki, container ship, Norfolk to Fairview Cove West
Arionas，油轮，锚定
出港
Em ithaki到英国利物浦
Zim Luanda到牙买加金斯敦
脚注
Still behind on email, still writing the council preview.
Thanks for the comments on the ridiculousness of the police prosecuting peaceful people for pot. Not in this case, but often there is class and racial bias in who gets charged for simple pot possession. A police officer told me that I “don’t need to worry” becuase most possession charges are of people that they want for something else. . . and as a (fairly) law abiding woman in her 60’s, arresting me would serve no purpose. Anyway, thanks for the sense. One thing I do not understand is that in BC and Toronto smoking and vaping lounges go undisturbed, so the Halifax police, although they claim that they cannot decide who to charge, are out of step with police in other big cities, who almost never lay simple possession charges, or raid mom and pop lounge and compassion operations. So the police do have decision making power. IN halifax they would rather go and charge peaceful Mom and Pop operstions than go after organized crimes and gangs. Personal safety considerations entering into — still having the good stats on arrest — I fear.
像往常一样，对社区和省正在发生的事情进行了很好的摘要。难过了解警察突袭。尤其是当每个人都知道有很多吸烟的警察在某些情况下仍在使用它。很高兴认为理事会 - 或至少喜欢促进自己作为进步的人的韦恩·梅森（Waye Mason）会在这个问题上权衡，但这不会发生。
Mr. Black has a son, fyi. He ran in the last provincial election in the Halifax Citadel – Sable Island riding (that his father used to run in).
“我们都知道，大麻的使用将在几年内合法或非刑事化”，尽管潮流正在转移，称它将在几年内将其合法化是有点延长的。
Chrétien’s government introduced a bill in 2002 to decriminalize 15 grams or less but Parliament was prorogued. Martin introduced the same bill in 2004 and then the government was defeated. The current Conservative government tried to add harsher penalties between 2009-2011.
参考：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_Canada
我的漫长赌注是，如果将其合法化，则期望它需要10到20年。从面对价值锅中，似乎是一个公民自由的问题，但我觉得这比这更复杂。
但是，阅读有关警务的批评并指出这一切的荒谬性很愉快。