In Stephen Harper's world: even suicide is no way out

The Harper government has quietly nixed recommendations to expand and modernize Canada's access-to-information and privacy laws.

Our national politics getting you down? Is our federal government not living up to your expectations, here, here, and here? Are you not getting the information you need? Are ya feeling like it's all a sham? Are ya feeling pressured? Are things turning to shit? Is your ally your enemy? Do you see no way out? Desperation and despair setting in? Need to find a solution to your woes? Hmm, ... maybe this will cheer you up?

Did that help? D'ya feel better? No? Well have you been to your local library lately? Maybe they can help get you the information you need? Oopsie... apparently some of them can't!

"The Vancouver Public Library has told an Australian group that it can't use the library's public meeting rooms to hold a suicide workshop for the terminally ill.

'What we do at these gatherings is to, first of all, explain to people why we think it's a good idea to know how to kill yourself peacefully and reliably,' said Nitschke ... 'We provide people with the information they would need to be able to take that course, knowing it will succeed, that it won't fail, that they won't end up in a worse situation than the one they're currently in'."

[AGAIN- for emphasis] ... 'We provide people with the information they would need ... [so] that they won't end up in a worse situation than the one they're currently in.'

YEAH, WE SHOULD ALL BE SO LUCKY!