Jamie Sarkonak
@sarkonakj
Writing about cultural policy and federal governance in Canada. Opinions: @nationalpost
Nanaimo is a hotbed of "harm reduction" radicalism. Unsurprisingly, the city is now choking in public drug use, crime and disorder. A great piece by @sarkonakj nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-…
Nobody sees the bare necessity to explain why the logic of their position doesn't lead straight to corner-store suicide pods.
Classic example of how "rights talk" has derailed the euthanasia conversation. Insisting on a terminal illness doesn't "discriminate" against people without a terminal illnesses any more than insisting on anxiety for a Xanax prescription. apple.news/AsiVENl4MRWGFq…
A long post on immigration case work in MP and Senate offices. 🧵 More broadly speaking, Parliamentarians get asked all the time to vouch for people wanting visitor visas or to wanting immigrate whom they don't know at all, or to write the Minister on cases that have already…
Immigration Canada sure is funding a lot of programs for new immigrants in my area. Meanwhile, immediately next to the bus stop these posters are in, a homeless person, likely suffering from untreated addiction and mental health issues, tries to sleep on the ground.
It's not an MP's duty to write letters of support for terrorists actually
Public Safety Minister says he was only doing his duty as MP when he wrote letters supporting an alleged terrorist group member’s immigration application. globalnews.ca/news/11296843/…
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By making it even harder to sentence the most violent of young offenders as adults, the SCC is giving gangs a greater incentive to recruit minors for dirty work. Almost like this is a policy issue that should be left to Parliament!
And this is the excat reason gangs recruit kids under 18yrs of age. It's a slap on the wrist and their youth record is gone once they turn 18.