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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...
created by Jessica Tucker | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago
264 views | 13 recommendations | 0 comments
264 views | 13 recommendations | 0 comments
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. 166 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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. 270 views | 20 recommendations | 6 comments
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...
created by sweet east pearl | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
315 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
315 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
4110 views | 7 recommendations | 9 comments
4110 views | 7 recommendations | 9 comments
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,...
created by cynthia yoo | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
279 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
279 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
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...NowPublic on Facebook
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