Dying for a doob

How many more of our children must die... before the government gets around to setting up "safe inhalation sites"?

-- CALGARY -- Before he was pushed into the path of an oncoming transit train in Calgary, 17-year-old Gage Jeffrey Prevost was arguing over $10 worth of marijuana, say friends.

And according to a witness, Prevost appeared to be fighting with a woman before he fell between two moving trains on Wednesday.

The woman had black curly hair with highlights and was wearing red sweatpants. She looked like a drug addict, he said.

Police say they are looking for a dark-skinned woman, possibly native, in her 20s with facial scars.

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UPDATE: Eight dead in nine days

With the spike of highly visible crimes, there's certain to be unease amongst residents and some "pretty significant questions placed at the doorstep of people who can make change," Mount Royal College criminologist Doug King said.

The important thing is not to move from concern to panic, he said.

See Dave, I'm thinking the most important thing here, is to take back the streets from the criminals... but hey, I'm not a talkin' head with a degree in criminology.

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RELATED: In other drug-related news...

“The RCMP informs us that Afghan heroin is increasingly ending up on, or is destined for Canadian streets,” say Foreign Affairs and Defence Department briefings, obtained separately by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

Roughly 92 per cent of the world's heroin comes from opium poppies grown in Afghanistan, according to the 2007 World Drug Report, released in June by the United Nations Office on Drugs.

What's Taliban Jack gonna negotiate with these guys... a free trade agreement?

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LAST WORD: While we're on Jack Layton...

While it's old news Jack wants to sit and negotiate with the heroin-dealing Taliban, I bet you didn't know he also wants to go mano-a-mano with the Russkies.

“The Russian mission to place its flag on the ocean floor at the North Pole demonstrates a troubling reality for Northern communities and all Canadians concerning Arctic sovereignty,” Mr. Layton said in a letter sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Hey... settle down comrade.

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