Only in Canada.
This is really too good not to blog about: Canada offers up to 15 free glasses of wine or sherry to the homeless. While incidents with the law went down 51 percent and ER visits down 36 percent, this part is definitely my favorite:
"Three of the 17 participants died during the program, succumbing to alcohol-related illnesses that might have killed them anyway, the study said."
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002/20060104/1308483644.htm&ewp=ewp_news_0106alcohol
"Three of the 17 participants died during the program, succumbing to alcohol-related illnesses that might have killed them anyway, the study said."
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002/20060104/1308483644.htm&ewp=ewp_news_0106alcohol