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1 CN ON: Province To Open Moss Park Injection SiteThu, 02 Nov 2017
Source:Toronto Star (CN ON) Author:Mathieu, Emily Area:Ontario Lines:89 Added:11/06/2017

Government will work with harm-reduction workers operating pop-up site

Ontario is dispatching its Emergency Medical Assistance Team to set up a tent in Moss Park to provide a heated and insulated space for safe injections.

"This is an overdose crisis. People are dying and, today, Minister Eric Hoskins and the Ontario government have stepped up," Councillor Joe Cressy said Wednesday night. The tent will be set up Thursday and replace a temporary site run by the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (TOPS). The ministry will work with TOPS staff, Cressy said.

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2 CN ON: Talks To Move Illegal Toronto Drug-Use Site Indoors FailWed, 01 Nov 2017
Source:Globe and Mail (Canada) Author:Gray, Jeff Area:Ontario Lines:104 Added:11/06/2017

Talks to move Toronto's illegal popup supervised drug-use site inside a nearby homeless centre have failed, but the harm-reduction activists who have been setting up their tents in an east-end park every evening say they plan to stay put.

The crowdfunded, volunteer-driven Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance (THRA) has operated its controversial pop-up site in Moss Park near Sherbourne and Queen Streets since August, with tacit approval from police and city officials amid a growing number of opioid overdose deaths.

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3 CN ON: Ottawa Urged To Expedite Approval For Drug-Use SiteThu, 02 Nov 2017
Source:Globe and Mail (Canada) Author:Gray, Jeff Area:Ontario Lines:101 Added:11/06/2017

The City of Toronto and the province are asking the federal Minister of Health for the "immediate approval" of a proposed indoor supervised drug-use site at an east-end homeless centre where an illegal outdoor site has been operating for months.

In a letter to Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor dated Oct. 31, Toronto Mayor John Tory and Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins say the illegal site, set up in Moss Park near Sherbourne Street and Queen Street East, has saved many lives since it was launched in August by reversing overdoses in a neighbourhood that had been hit by an increase in such deaths.

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4CN ON: Racist Past Of The Word Marijuana Raises New ConcernsFri, 03 Nov 2017
Source:Ottawa Citizen (CN ON) Author:Miller, Jacquie Area:Ontario Lines:Excerpt Added:11/06/2017

Is the word marijuana racist?

It's a long-standing debate in the cannabis world, but the question is now slipping into the mainstream as the drug is on the edge of becomingly legal for recreational use. Many people aren't aware of the history of the term marijuana, which is linked to campaigns in the U.S. in the 1930s to demonize the plant by associating it with Mexican immigrants.

Halifax Coun. Shawn Cleary recently created controversy when he declared he would no longer use the word. "Let's do what we can to not perpetuate racism," he said on Twitter.

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5CN ON: In Search Of A Buzz, Branding: Legal Pot Shops Need NameFri, 03 Nov 2017
Source:Ottawa Citizen (CN ON) Author:Miller, Jacquie Area:Ontario Lines:Excerpt Added:11/06/2017

The name of the government agency that will sell pot to Ontario has been revealed: the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

But neither does LCBO, the name of the provincial liquor monolith that sells us whiskey and wine. That acronym is so well known in Ontario that today no one bothers to spell it out.

Will the acronym for the new marijuana agency - OCRC - become just as familiar? It has a certain slurry symmetry. It could lend itself to a nickname. How about "Ock-Rock," suggests Trina Fraser, an Ottawa lawyer who specializes in cannabis business law.

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6 CN ON: LTE: Dumb DrugsFri, 03 Nov 2017
Source:Ottawa Sun (CN ON) Author:Day, Don Area:Ontario Lines:31 Added:11/06/2017

Why are Ottawa politicians, and by extension the Ottawa Police Services, continue to condone the use of illegal hard drugs by allowing the pop-up safe-injection site to remain open?

With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's push to legalize marijuana, am I assuming the Liberals' next step will be to legalize all illegal drugs? This may be the plan, to have a drug-induced and dumbed-down electorate.

Don Day

Ottawa



(Even the Trudeau Liberals might not have the guts to go there)

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7CN ON: Permanent, Supervised Injection Site Gets Endorsement FromTue, 31 Oct 2017
Source:Ottawa Citizen (CN ON) Author:Payne, Elizabeth Area:Ontario Lines:Excerpt Added:10/31/2017

Ottawa's largest permanent supervised injection site could be open in a Lowertown trailer as soon as this weekend.

The trailer, to be operated by Ottawa Inner City Health and located outside Shepherds of Good Hope on Murray Street, will be open 24/7 and serve a population of between 100 and 150 injection drug users, said Inner City Health executive director Wendy Muckle.

Ontario's Health Minister Eric Hoskins has endorsed the site in a letter to federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, his office said Monday.

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8 CN AB: PUB LTE: MP Misses Point Of Safe Injection SitesTue, 31 Oct 2017
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:Schulz, Petra Area:Alberta Lines:41 Added:10/31/2017

Re. "MP hosts impassioned debate over supervised injection sites in southwest," Oct. 30

The title should have been "MP misses the point." Supervised consumption services (SCS) primarily save lives, and anyone who has lost a loved one can tell you how important that is.

Our son Danny died from an overdose in 2014. He was only 25, was a promising young chef and is dearly missed. There are many families like ours who are members in our group Moms Stop The Harm, who live in MP Matt Jeneroux's riding of Edmonton-Riverbend. I encourage him to meet them.

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9 CN ON: Addict Cites Need For Trauma TreatmentTue, 31 Oct 2017
Source:Expositor, The (CN ON) Author:Ball, Vincent Area:Ontario Lines:120 Added:10/31/2017

A Brantford man who has battled drug addiction for more than 40 years hopes the city follows through with safe injection sites as part of its strategy to combat substance abuse.

But Randy Roberts, 53, said there is also a need for the treatment of trauma as part of a program to treat substance abuse.

"I want people to remember that we're all hurting," he said.

"There has been a lot of work done on this and for most addicts the root cause of their addiction is childhood trauma -- physical, psychological, sexual abuse."

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