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Best Super Bowl Ad? The Hockey One
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2/3/2012 8:58:00 AM
Herald Column: What About "Safer Roads"?
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2/3/2012 7:56:00 AM
My latest Calgary Herald column looks at the mysterious delay of Alberta's impaired driving legislation:
Given how intent the Alberta government was in pressing ahead with its new impaired driving legislation, word that the law will be delayed represents a remarkable turn of events.
After all, it was not long ago that Premier Alison Redford was suggesting that the tough new measures would be in effect by Christmas. Now we’re being told that the law may not take effect until after the expected spring election.
On the surface, the reversal seems to make very little sense.
The government’s urgency in passing the law — which involved invoking closure and extending the brief fall sitting of the legislature — was justified by the argument that lives were potentially at stake and that safer roads could not wait.
Well, it turns out they can.
The same government that was completely uninterested in ...
Herald Column: Alberta's Neo-Prohibitionists
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1/3/2012 2:03:00 PM
My latest Calgary Herald column looks at the cumulative effects of a number of Alberta government initiatives with regard to the consumption of alcohol:
It remains to be seen whether 2012 will be a banner year for Premier Alison Redford and her government. So far, 2012 is shaping up to be a banner year for nanny-state neo-prohibitionists.
Redford has been premier for barely three months, yet already she has embarked upon two major policy initiatives dealing with alcohol consumption.
Act one was her new impaired driving legislation, which has enshrined in the Traffic Safety Act an enforcement level of .05 per cent blood-alcohol content (BAC), well below the Criminal Code level of .08 per cent.
A number of concerns have been raised about the new law, including issues of due process and presumption of innocence, the question of effectiveness and whether we're targeting the wrong group of drivers.
The law ...
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