Dear Editor, Jack Layton missed a golden opportunity to embrace the use of pot by the NDP candidates that landed them in pot water. Legalized pot as a platform plank will energize millions of voters. I have neighbours who fall into a couple of categories... either they have illegal grow-ops, or they make their own wine and beer as a hobby. Fields of hops and vineyards are compatible crops in our area only because society has moved away from prohibition and restrictions on home-made booze. [continues 305 words]
Editor: Jack Layton missed a golden opportunity to embrace the use of pot by the NDP candidates that landed them in pot water. Legalized pot as a platform plank will energize millions of voters. I have neighbours who fall into a couple of categories - either they have illegal grow-ops, or they make their own wine and beer as a hobby. Fields of hops and vineyards are compatible crops in our area only because society has moved away from prohibition and restrictions on homemade booze. [continues 304 words]
ALDERGROVE - It may be the longest undefended border in the world. But the Canada-US border is about to have beefed up security along the 49th parallel from the coastline of Washington State running eastward along Zero Avenue and continuing as far into the province and state as the Columbia River Valley. Carey James, Chief Patrol Agent of the US Border Patrol says the $5-million US pilot project, dubbed ISIS for Integrated Surveillance and Intelligence System, should be up and running this month. [continues 1041 words]
