Now that the flag waving and placard parading has eased and we are paying the three-cent extra carbon tax on gasoline, not the 13 cents Pierre Poilievre was rhyming about, we are reconciled to the ever-changing cost per litre.
Thank you for publishing Tina Comeau’s Thursday piece on drug addiction . Thank you also to Ms. Comeau for the poignancy of her message and for her courage in being able to share it. The American novelist Pearl Buck, a 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner for her book The Good Earth, wrote that “our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”
How much further into “the shadows of life” could Justin Saulnier have been when he became drug addicted at a young age? And who was there to help him? Certainly no government agency. All of them were too busy trying to figure out how to best squander the next billion.