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Weekly Pulse: The new hunger epidemic, making CPCs come clean and smoking hipsters
| November 17, 2010![Nico Little](http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Photo 93_0.jpg "Nico Little is an Anglo-Albertan who decamped to Montreal sometime in the late nineties "to learn French and be gay." He then moved to Ottawa, Ontario, where he worked as an HIV outreach worker in bathhouses, bars and online chat rooms for several years. In 2008 Nico helped found POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work Educate and Resist), an organization of current and former sex workers advocating for recognition of their labour, Charter and human rights. Nicholas now lives in London, U.K. You can follow his blog, Ickaprick & Ironpussy, at www.ickaprick.com. He is also a regular contributor to the Montreal-based magazine No More Potlucks.")
Suggesting that drug policy should be based on scientific evidence costs UK senior advisor his job
| November 2, 2009Following the money: The Fraser Institute’s tobacco papers
When the Fraser Institute celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004, media coverage was ebullient. The Province was typical when it proclaimed in an editorial “we're all 'right wing' now” and ended by congratulating the institute for “daring to dissent. May it do so for another 30 years.”
This piece was reprinted in the Ottawa Citizen and the Windsor Star. National Post columnist Lorne Gunter reported that “the Fraser Institute is so highly regarded that not only was the room chock block [sic] full of prominent provincial and national conservative politicians, organizers, consultants, academics and volunteers, it was also full of financiers of conservative parties and causes.”