News Toronto to lease hundreds of hotel rooms to ease crowding in homeless shelters Toronto says it will lease hundreds more hotel rooms to ease the crowding in its homeless shelter system in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, as a Montreal man became the country’s first homeless death from the virus. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-to-lease-hundreds-of-hotel-rooms-to-ease-crowding-in-homeless/ […]
February 2020 Harm Reduction News and Events
News How Toronto’s party scene can get safer using harm reduction “The good news is that there’s already many harm reduction services available for partiers and promoters to access and fold into their event programming.” https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/harm-reduction-toronto-parties/ OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed “Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says […]
April and May 2018 Harm Reduction News
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 […]