New Quebec Health Minister Shoots Down Plans For Safe-Injection Sites Around The Province, Local Groups Come Out In Protest Early this summer, plans for a safe inject site (SIS) pilot program seemed to be getting serious in Quebec. Though no concrete plans had been laid down, tentative pilots were proposed for Quebec City and Montreal. However, Quebec's incoming Health Minister Yves Bolduc scrapped the plans shortly after they began unfolding. Bolduc's predecessor Philippe Couillard, who stepped down from his post in late June, had been considering setting up a safe injection site project in Quebec, but Bolduc's office announced a turnaround in their stance towards SISs. [continues 1445 words]
The McGill Daily's Nadja Popovich looks at abuse in "tough love" rehabilitation facilities for teens. In 2006, Martin Anderson, a 14-year-old Florida teenager, died at a "boot camp" for troubled teens. When a video surfaced showing a group of guards repeatedly attacking the teen while a nurse appeared to look on, public outcry against this type of correctional facility came to a boiling point. Amid controversy over whether Anderson's sickle-cell blood trait was the cause of death, the verdict was finally rendered that he had, in fact, died of suffocation from the guards' abuse. [continues 1441 words]
