Senator Tony Dean

Honourable senators, as some of you know, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH, headquartered in Toronto, is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital as well as one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. Last week, I attended a CAMH information excha…

Senator Tony Dean Canada’s Senate has taken some knocks over the past few years and, as recent events show, it still is. These issues have rubbed salt into public disenchantment with a 150-year-old institution and Senators who are still working with 150-year-old job descriptions. The stakes are hi…

Honourable senators, on October 31, I was privileged to attend an important symposium at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, one focused on young people and cannabis. The symposium brought together international experts on cannabis harms and harm reduction and followed a similar gathering of experts…

Senator Tony Dean Some of my senatorial colleagues worried aloud recently that the summer deadline for passing legislation that would legalize and strictly regulate cannabis is too tight. Based on old Senate debating habits, they may have an argument. But given the importance of this legislation f…