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Canada is facing a drug policy contradiction. Governments continue to describe toxic drug deaths as a “serious public health crisis”, yet some are dismantling parts of the public health response…

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Consumption and Treatment Services (CTS) save lives, strengthen public systems, and protect workers. Closing them makes Ontario less safe.  Ontario is in a toxic drug crisis. Loved ones die every day ...

Opinion: OPS easy target as they're usually located in areas where homelessness is evident and public consumption of drugs already occurs.

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.

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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 ...

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Ontario is pulling funding for the last remaining provincially funded supervised drug consumption site, after announcing funding cuts at seven others last month.

Governments are responding to the toxic drug crisis with "organized abandonment," withdrawing support and leaving people vulnerable to harm, poverty, and death.

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...

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

Social services minister Jason Nixon said this program wasn't seeing the results other programs were and the decision was made to move the money where it would be better used.

The City of Toronto has confirmed that the winter respite facility at the Better Living Centre will be closing its doors a month early.

New data suggests that consumption sites do not cause crime to spike.

A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.

Overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites in Toronto are not associated with long-term increases in local crime, McGill University researchers have found. Over 10 years, crime reports...

People do not leave custody unprepared by choice. Stability is allowed to erode through inaction long before the release date arrives.

A new policy in federal prisons removes methadone and Suboxone opioid treatments, leaving only a patented once-per-month gel injection available to prisoners. A large group of experts is raising serio...

The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which policy can alleviate?

The Alberta government has confirmed it will follow through with a longtime pledge to shutter Calgary’s only supervised drug consumption site at Sheldon Chumir Health Centre, despite criticism from ad...

As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts’ advice, scaled bac...

The Commissioner’s position on the toxic drug crisis, calling for an evidence-based response that centers public health and compassion.

In times of uncertainty, politicians scapegoat marginalized communities—blaming groups like migrants and people who use drugs for complex societal challenges. From the creation of a "fentanyl czar" to...

The police operation targeting a criminal gang in a densely-populated area of Rio is the deadliest in the city.

Dr. Karissa Brabant, who works with homeless people and those suffering from addictions at a clinic in Moose Jaw, says forced treatment will fail and waste money.

Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused

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WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew took a swipe at governments in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec on Thursday as he announced a plan to have judges weigh in on the

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