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overdoses have destroyed families, careers, and more importantly, it’s taken lives, but Seattle and King County have been taking action on this issue, by creating the nation’s first-ever safe injection site. This is reportedly inspired to be like Vancouver B.C.'s safe injection site called Insite, which was the first safe injection site ever made. What is a safe injection site you might ask? It is a supervised building where drug users can use drugs, the facility will normally provide clean…

Impossible to Effectively Raise Minimum Wage Americans today are constantly debating whether or not the minimum wage should be raised. Protest spring up across the nation in order to bring attention to the situation and try and raise the national minimum wage. Despite the protest, raising the national minimum wage is an unachievable task. It would devastate the country and it’s businesses to a point of no return. The negatives of implementing a higher minimum wage unconditionally surpass the…

Things to do in Maple Ridge Maple Ridge’s unique geography and location provide the residents of the city with a wide range of outdoor activities and lifestyle choices. It is precisely these activities that make Maple Ridge such a coveted and great place to call home. Not only does Maple Ridge offer a wide range of outdoor opportunities in close proximity, but the city also provides a great selection of cultural and historical attractions all within the city limits. Here are some of the more…

likely emit harmful pollutants such as methane, a greenhouse gas. Also, paper products take up a big part of landfill areas. The world is gradually trying to get people to recycling the majority of paper products they consume. For example, in Metro Vancouver, there is a policy that makes products such as recyclable paper, green waste, corrugated cardboards and other non-paper products since they can be recycled and/or reused. During incineration, paper products are burned and this is an…

and prostitutes can obtain license then they have to pay taxes and the country will get all the revenue. By making this law legal, it can save the expense of enforcing prostitution laws and having officers make arrests “of the various units in the Metro Toronto Police force, the second most expensive is the Morality Squad, which deals with drug and prostitution offenses... its portion of the budget came to $7.9 million, with $1.8 million, or 23% of the total going to pay the salaries of those…

1 Introduction Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century and at the same time as cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60 years and more is increasing. Older people are a resource for their families, communities and economies in supportive and enabling living environments. (WHO, 2015) The world is rapidly ageing: the number of people aged 60 and over as a proportion of the global population will double from…

Introduction In a marsh environment, it can be assumed by many that the studied environment exhibits a descending pattern as the land meets the ocean in a liminal boundary. This hypothetical descending pattern is both literal – an idea of where the elevation of the land decreases as the marsh reaches towards the marsh front, and figurative – that data taken from sample sites at the marsh such as pH, amount of organic matter deposited within the soil, and amounts of specific sediments deposited…

Canada is known to be one of the most beneficial countries around the globe and its top concern is its resident 's wellbeing. In Canada, British Colombia has succeeded to be one of the top most advantageous cites with different urban areas like Vancouver, and province of Ontario (Toronto, peel district, Halton), yet Toronto is viewed as the minimum healthy. These signs rely on upon, the rate of asthma, diabetes and growth; access to restorative specialists; every day smoking rate; rate of…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…