A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

A gathering on the 1000 block of Pandora will feature a community barbecue, cultural activities and other events

After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medic...

Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.

VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Green Caucus has issued a statement following the recent BC Coroner’s report on deaths due to overdose: “It’s been over ten years since the toxic drug […]

More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.

An Alberta minister who appeared to make a bombshell revelation last week in the legislature about the dire state of the province’s supervised consumption sites is now admitting he was wrong. Critics ...

A study that has been widely criticized as flawed, biased and misleading is being cited by the Saskatchewan government as a reason there's no urgency to replace the services Prairie Harm Reduction pro...

The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act allows any citizen to trigger an investigation of a neighbour for drugs on the property. Since its adoption across Canada two decades ago, the snitch legis...

“We have this bizarre dichotomy where everybody agrees that this is a health issue, but the majority of the resources…goes to law enforcement.”

I’ve spent my career working in the public health emergency. It’s time for a full embrace of evidence-based drug policies.

For Immediate Release April 14, 2026 Ten Years In: A Crisis Being Normalized Today marks ten years since British Columbia declared a public health emergency in response to the toxic drug poisoning ...

As funding cuts loom, Ontario's public drug consumption sites may shut down, leaving a donor-funded system to fill the gap

March 31st 2026 The Honourable Doug Ford, MPPPremier, Minister of Intergovernmental AffairsVia email: premier@ontario.ca | doug.fordco@pc.ola.org The Honourable Sylvia Jones, MPPDeputy Premier, Minist...

The government has framed these closures as a shift toward treatment and recovery. This is a false choice. Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People can...

For Immediate Release March 17, 2026 Harm Reduction Nurses Denounce Ontario Decision to End Supervised Consumption Sites The decision announced on Friday, March 13th by the Government of Ontario to en...

RNAO is urging Premier Ford to reverse the decision to close supervised consumption site. This will cost lives.