News & Events

Push for rescue breathing in Overdose response causes changes in kits:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-changes-rescue-breathing-opioid-overdoses-1.4608089
April 10th 2018

Find out where to get a Naloxone kit

You can also learn more about Naloxone on our blog.

Moss Park OPS moving inside end of June:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/moss-park-ops-indoors-1.4658552
May 11th 2018

Federal Government announces needle exchange programs in prisons:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4208380/feds-prison-needle-exchange-program/
May 14th 2018

Advocates raise concerns over prison needle exchange roll-out:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-29-2018-1.4681275/advocate-group-supporting-needle-exchange-trial-in-prisons-concerned-over-roll-out-1.4681360
May 29th

You can learn more about needle change programs on our blog.

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What Doug Ford as Premier could mean for safer injection sites and harm reduction in Ontario:
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2018/06/10/with-doug-ford-as-premier-city-braces-for-fight-over-supervised-injection-services.html
June 11th 2018

Anti-Ford protesters gather in front of his campaign office:
https://nowtoronto.com/news/ontario-election-2018-doug-ford-protest/
June 6th 2018

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Book Launch:
Fighting for space: a book launch and harm-reduction history
March 19th 6:30-9:00
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and event begins at 7 p.m.

Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church Street
– FREE event, everyone is welcome –

Description:

Through the 1990s, Vancouver experienced a drug crisis similar to the epidemic that Canada struggles with today. Travis Lupick, author of “Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction,” will recount how the city responded and what lessons should be applied now.

He’ll deliver a history of harm-reduction activism in Vancouver that connects the story in the book with the Downtown Eastside’s response to the fentanyl crisis today.

For more information check out the Facebook event page

Allied event:
Ocap Speaker series:
One Of Us: Why Toronto’s Poor Should Welcome Refugees

March 15th 6-8pm, 40 Oak Regent Park Community Food Centre

Free event with meal, childcare, wheelchair access and tokens

Description:
Featuring speakers from No One Is Illegal-Toronto and OCAP

There is a pervasive sense that refugees and poor immigrants, particularly those without full immigration status, take resources away from the poor who were born in Canada. Many politicians exploit this sentiment to sow division among the poor for personal gain. Even those politicians who may not be overtly racist, still imply that their failure (and in reality, refusal) to address poverty and homelessness is a result of a “refugee influx.”

The speakers will challenge this notion and make the case for why we should welcome refugees and toss out our rulers.

For more information check out the Facebook event page

When: February 20, 12:00–14:00
Where: Department of Justice: 130 King St W (King and University)

NO MORE DRUG WAR!
February 20 is a national day of action, with events happening in multiple cities across Canada. Please join us in Toronto.

WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DRUGS.

In 2017 over 4,000 people in died in Canada of preventable drug overdoses.
This is horrific. It is completely unacceptable. It is a criminal justice issue, and it needs attention now.

Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour are disproportionately targeted and criminalized in the war on drugs.
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We are calling for immediate widespread expansion of needle distribution and overdose prevention services in Canadian federal prisons.

Join us on February 20 at noon for a rally and press conference. Please be in touch if you or your organization would like to speak or help prepare material before the action on February 20.

We acknowledge that this event is taking place on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, Petun, Seneca, the Mississaugas of the New Credit Indigenous peoples. This territory is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the lands and resources around the Great Lakes.