In April, the administration at the University of Ottawa began drafting a Non-Academic Student Code of Conduct. It gave the administration power, at its discretion, to punish students for things like sleeping on campus. The code is designed to curb a rise in student activism in the past few years, potentially quelling protests by giving the university power to expell students, ruin their academic standing, and/or remove their student loans.

Drug Policy in the Code

Vancouver's supervised injectection site (Insite), is breaking ground as the first of its kind in North America. But it opperates on an exemption granted by the federal government that they are threatening to take away.

Tony Clement, Canada's Health Minister, says that Insite doesn't even do "harm reduction" because it allows users to inject drugs that are ultimately harmful to themselves and to society. Apparently, the Conservative government sees public health reflected in the number of their laws that are broken, rather than factors like the prevention of death and slowing of disease epidemics by offering "low-threshhold services" to a highly at-risk population that would not otherwise access health services.

Despite the criticisms, the science is overwhelming in favour of Insite. There are an astounding 21 peer reviewed studies showing that Insite accomplishes everything it was set out to do.