Today, on Red Dress Day, I would like to honour all those working tirelessly to end the crisis of #MMIWG2S +, including families, survivors, advocates and Indigenous women leaders.

I am honoured to stand with Minister Anandasangaree Gary Anandasangaree, Minister Nahanni Fontaine, Hilda Anderson-Pyrz and Sandra DeLaronde to announce that a Red Dress Alert Pilot will be launched in Manitoba.

I asked,
No symptoms.
The preceptor asked,
A list of symptoms

-Med student, by rupi kaur

Nick Gurr Susan Stevenson I park my car, 5 days a week, in spitting distance from the tents in those photos

I walk those blocks every single day

I buy lunch and other things from the businesses on that block and surrounding blocks

My elderly parents visited me in that parking lot (with their car!) to…

This is beautiful. Those whose land McGill sits on is give permission to the protesters to be on it.

Doctors are lying. Pregnant people are lying. A majority of Americans are lying. Even the facts can’t be trusted!

The term “gaslight” gets misused a lot but this is gaslighting. These politicians can’t get pregnant, can’t treat pregnancy, and don’t know anything about the topic.

“To abandon that, to go backwards to a system that was never effective, has led us to the crisis where we are today ... That's a knee-jerk reaction. It's an emotional reaction and it isn't driven by science.” Lisa Lapoint
#bcpoli #decriminalization
cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Today, BC gov announced they're making public drug use illegal. Public use has not increased because of decrim. People use outside for lack of alternatives. We've been calling for more OPSs, treatment & housing for 25 yrs. If we'd been listened to, there'd be no issue today.

I am so sick of the moral panic about everything but killing people.

“We don't want people to die hidden in alleyways. We don't want any more families to have to grieve their loved ones. We want effective solutions. And we know that criminalization is no solution. This is a step back.”

Read our statement here 👇

#bcpoli

drugpolicy.ca/for-immediate-…

Our team is not against nuanced & thoughtful discussion of the role of safer supply as one element of a spectrum of responses to drug use. Instead, our aim is to map out how the current rhetoric around safer supply is part of an active disinformation campaign

Pierre Poilievre wasn’t in the room when the Chiefs of Police testified about the toxic drug crisis. And neither was Rob Shaw nor other reporters who are accepting the Conservative’s 30 second video clips—from two hours of testimony—as the complete and accurate story. 2/9

Prolonged diacetylmorphine take‐home onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

'Allowing patients to take home oral diacetylmorphine for up to 7 days as treatment for opioid use disorder does not appear to pose any demonstrable health risk. It is generally manageable for the large majority.'

Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

.Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD gives a 360-perspective on Canada’s #healthcare system or lack there of - origins to present collapse

‘Some might say it’s on fire’ 🔥

Canadian Medical Association was so lucky to have his inspired pioneering leadership
SRPC 🇨🇦 is lucky to have his voice #SRPC2024

the fuck is with this headline @cbcnews

Huge news: The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribe to get a portion of their land back in Illinois. Illinois now has tribal lands.

It's not anti-German to oppose the Holocaust. It's not anti-Turkish to oppose the Armenian genocide. It's not anti-Canadian to oppose the genocides of Indigenous peoples. It's not antisemitic to oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza.

'The proposed Canada Disability Benefit is paltry and will not come close to meeting the articulated needs of Persons with Disabilities.'

Read our reaction to the 2024 Federal Budget: ow.ly/IAO050Rk9rL