Supervised injection site, Insite, may be heading back to court

Coming again to the forefront of Canadian news, is Vancouver's Insite facility, which is known as North America's only safe, supervised injection site for illegal drug users.  A facility located in the...

Insite Injection Site Allowed to Remain Open

Insite, the supervised injection site located in Vancouver's downtown east side is allowed to remain open as the BC Court of Appeal dismissed the attempt to close it by the federal government today.  The federal government has tried to close Insite in the past but the...

Insite/Bedouin Soundclash Concert Shut-down (Part 2)

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.

Trafficking in Disruption: Drug Injection Site Holds Party on Hastings St. du...

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...

Insite/Bedouin Soundclash Concert Shut-down

Mark Townsend of Insite talks about the purpose of keeping the safe injection site open and operational.

Past Tense: Harm Reduction, '50s Style

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....

Two completely opposite sides of the same coin

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...

Insite Saves Lives: An Interview With Liz Evans

" 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...

Second safe injection site in Vancouver's West End slips federal radar

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...

Feds to appeal Insite ruling

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,...

Vancouver prostitutes seek to establish brothel in time for Olympics

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...

Vancouver's other Olympic sport

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 ...

Does Tony Clement know where junkies' needles go?

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...

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