Results tagged “marijuana”

To a vast number of Canadians, the availability of medical cannabis to treat a range of ailments is a pharma-free blessing. To the federal government, today's ruling against the Tories' appeal to restrict that option is, put simply, a big damn buzzkill.

Omar Khadr's lawyers recently released video footage of Khadr's interrogation by CSIS agents in hopes that the video would embarrass the Prime Minister and garner sympathy from Canadians. Unsurprisingly, the PM's office wasn't hearing that noise. Clearly these lawyers don't know how hard it is to embarrass Stephen Harper.

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In what simultaneously has to be one of the most hilariously inspired and gut-wrenching punishments in the history of parental discipline, a local GTA father has set a new standard for puffing penalization. The man—an elementary school teacher known by the screen name "k_lid"—decided to sell his son’s Christmas present on eBay (a notoriously hard-to-find copy of the best-selling Guitar Hero 3 game) when he returned home from work early to find 15-year-old Isaac...

It is Friday the 13th! Wooooooooo! Auspicious time to begin new news column! Luckily we do not suffer from triskaidekaphobia, or we'd all be in trouble.

The Toronto-based harm reduction group TRIP! has been providing Toronto partygoers with straight up, no-nonsense information and services since 1995. From condoms to needle exchange, "safer snorting" straws to its threesomes guide, TRIP! has the "nightlife health" thing down. This October, the next round of training begins, and TRIP! wants you to volunteer. The weekly workshops cover diversity awareness, basic counseling, harm reduction, the safer side of "better living through chemistry" and HIV prevention....

This was the first press screening Torontoist went to, and we walked in 10 minutes late entirely by accident, so you don’t have to listen to us on this one if you don’t want to.

It's been nearly a week since the Oscars, so the question is, have ? Yes, you'd be a right idiot to watch films on anything but the big screen. Which might beg the question why they now rush DVDs out about two weeks after a film's release with a whole bunch of extras, eh?