If elected officials won’t heed experts, the outreach physician says, maybe they’ll listen to her 100,000 followers. – From The Tyee – read the source article here “What does someone who is unhoused and sleeping outside do all day?” Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk asks in an Instagram video, standing in front of […]
by Ashley Joannou, – read the Chek News source article here Events are planned across British Columbia today to mark 10 years since the province declared a public health emergency related to the overdose crisis that has since killed more than 18,000 people. A “moment of silence and minute of rage” […]
‘Desperately missed’: Rally remembers those lost in 10 years of toxic drug emergency – by Wolfgang Depend from Times Colonist. Read the source article here Paula Beardy said her grandson Sheldon Beardy was a good kid.He would have turned 28 on Monday. But his mother died last year, and after […]
March 27, 2026 — The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) is deeply concerned by recent decisions made by the governments of Ontario and Alberta to end provincial funding for supervised consumption services (SCS). Canada is facing a toxic drug supply and unregulated drug poisoning crisis. Each preventable death is a tragedy, and […]
This is the updated data for Vancouver Island and Oceanside on the impact of the toxic drug poisoning crisis.
On behalf of the VIU Harm Reduction Alliance, we invite you to join us in two upcoming events at Vancouver Island University on Tuesday, March 24th and Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. Tuesday, March 24th, 2026: Film Screening of “No Fixed Address: White Cart Memorial” at the Malaspina Theatre, VIU Nanaimo Campus. Doors open at 2:30pm, Q&A with the […]
10 years, over 18,000 avoidable deaths. Join us Tuesday April 14th from 1:00 – 3:30 at the BC Legislature Grounds, in Victoria BC. Rally to Rage, Grieve and Remember. Taking the Mic will be Leslie McBain from Moms Stop The Harm, Lisa Lapointe, Former BC Chief Coroner, Ann Livingston from […]
Overdose deaths are trending down, but BC is still in the thick of a crisis. Here’s what the data tells us. by Michelle Gamage and The Tyee – click for the source article, and to support Canadian journalism [Editor’s note: This article talks about overdose fatalities, including of youths, and […]
Ten years after a declaration of a state of emergency around the toxic drug crisis, it continues to kill more people every month than died in an entire year when heroin dominated the market. by Jody Paterson @ Times Colonist – read the source article here PreviousNext Katy Booth with medetomidine […]
By Terry Ferrell – read the source editorial in the Cowichan Valley Citizen Rumours have persisted for years that unhoused people are being bused to the Comox Valley, en masse. The same unsubstantiated rumours have been circulating for just as long in virtually every community in B.C. It’s time to […]
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