harm reduction
What is xylazine, the dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis?
Kali Sedgemore, a harm-reduction worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has seen its impact firsthand
Canada’s first safe injection site struggles with the rise of fentanyl
In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, at Ground Zero of the opioid crisis, once-controversial Insite is now just one small part of a tragic landscape
On Justin and half-freeing the weed
Plus … Colby Cosh makes his own case for legalizing marijuana
Harper swings and misses on Insite
The PM came close to shutting down Insite, only to be reminded there are still some limits to his reach
Are we ready to subsidize heroin?
After the supreme court ruling, Montreal and Victoria are planning safe injection sites. Others aren’t far behind.
Closing Insite would violate Charter: Supreme Court
Montreal, Toronto and Victoria could establish similar services
The Insite ruling
Our round-up of coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision in favour of the safe injection site
Insite: does it incite insight?
And how do we decide whether something is working?
Is the federal government right to be trying to shut down Vancouver’s safe injection site?
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Canadian injection site cut overdose deaths, study says
North America’s only sanctioned site of its kind should become a model
Insite, foresight, hindsight
The B.C. Court of Appeal’s ruling on Vancouver’s Insite shooting gallery for heroin addicts makes for interesting reading. We are all so busy arguing over the merits of harm reduction, and the wisdom of the Harper government’s attempt to shut down the clinic, that it is easy to forget the big constitutional issue that was the chief concern of the court here. You would think that Canadian jurisprudence had developed a clear objective rule for settling even the trickiest “double aspect” issues, wherein both federal and provincial governments can claim that some crumb falls within their respective spheres of constitutional power.
Wait — are you sure we’re talking about the same John Reynolds?
The former Reform/Alliance/Conservative MP and one-time interim party leader? Because I have to admit to finding this Globe story to be a bit of a gobsmacker, what with him turning out to be the anti-Randy White: