Insite

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

Life, death and politics in the first four weeks of the federal election campaign

Top researchers gather to learn how Vancouver’s safe injection site has made B.C. a medical world-beater—and a political pariah

Emmett Macfarlane examines the looming showdown between Montreal and Rona Ambrose on supervised-drug-injection facilities

Is it time to ban alcohol and cigarettes too?

Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more

Rona Ambrose and Pierre Poilievre just say no

Signs of hope and renewal in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood

If the government makes it impossible make pure MDMA, is it really surprising when dirty MDMA hits the market?

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet’s powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill—twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories. But for our purposes here, in this second annual stocktaking of the year just ending, it’s the 12 calendar months that matter. Pick just one political story for each page, and 2011’s kaleidoscope might just take a turn from jumbled to intelligible.

Evidence on the harm-reduction facility is as good as we’ll ever get

The PM came close to shutting down Insite, only to be reminded there are still some limits to his reach