Part 2 of Mark Townsend speaking to the public after the Vancouver Police department closed down Bedouin Soundclash's performance at Insite safe injection site.
opinion by WaterStreet | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 86 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Supporters of Insite, Vancouver's supervised drug injection site, disrupted rush hour traffic on Hastings St. just after 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23 to hold a party in support of keeping the facility...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 136 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
In the recent hullabaloo over Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site for drug users, critics of the facility are doing their best to create the impression that harm reduction is the recent product of radicals....
created by laniwurm | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 510 views | 11 recommendations | 3 comments
One of these pictures is of Insite, Vancouver's safe Injection site opened in 2003 and located in the poorest and most drug ridden 10 block area in North America.The other is a picture of a man, just one block...
created by Pina29 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 438 views | 7 recommendations | 7 comments
" Liz Evans is the executive director of P.H.S. Community Services Society, which operated Insite, Canada's first supervised injection site, in partnership with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.A British...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 236 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
So far the federal government hasn't acknowledged a second, smaller safe injection site in Vancouver, but I'm sure a write-up in the Globe and Mail will up their profile.Meanwhile, East Vancouver's Insite is...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 2989 views | 7 recommendations | 9 comments
Health Minister Tony Clement announced that the federal government will appeal the recent ruling held by the BC Supreme Court that saved Insite, North America's only safe-injection site from closure."On Tuesday,...
created by cynthia yoo | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 252 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
Is a red-light Olympics right, wrong, or both?"VANCOUVER -- A group of Vancouver prostitutes wants to open a "co-op" brothel in time for the Winter Olympics, saying it would help sex-trade workers by providing a safer working environment when the world comes to visit in...
Yesterday I was walking up Main St. on the Downtown Eastside, headed to a coffee shop with my friend J.D. Under the Georgia viaduct, J.D. asked two workers wearing red coats with strips of green fluorescent tape ...
created by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 783 views | 20 recommendations | 3 comments
I risk sounding like radio commentator Paul Harvey: “And now for the rest of the story”. But I've had the urge to tell the rest of the story since Health Minister Tony Clement visited the Supervised Injection Site on Wednesday, and I read a standard argument for...
created by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 322 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments