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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social · 11d

Join us for our webinar: HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction & 2SLGBTQIA+ History.

We’ll look at how these movements began, the victories communities won, and how solidarity can advance health, dignity & justice.

📅 Oct. 8 2025
⏰ 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
🔗 Register: sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Queer Momentum @momentumcanada.net · 16d

Alongside 175+ organizations across Canada, including leading 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations like @egalecanada.bsky.social, @fiertecappride.bsky.social, Pride at Work Canada, Enchanté Network & Dignity Network Canada, we are sounding the alarm about potential cuts to Women & Gender Equality Canada (WAGE)

Navy blue text against a white background reads: Over 175 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied organizations call on Prime Minister Carney to maintain funding for 2SLGBTQIA+ equality and women's rights in the 2025 federal budget.

The logos of Dignity Network Canada, Egale, Enchante Network, Fierte Canada Pride, Queer Momentum, and Pride at Work Canada are also shown.

At the bottom, white text against a blue background reads: "Read more and add your voice: MomentumCanada.net/Budget"

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join the HIV Legal Network and the Stephen Lewis Foundation for a vital conversation on why the Global Fund’s replenishment is crucial for LGBTIQ health and rights worldwide.

theslf.org/global-fund

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International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net · Sep 5

⛔️ The @WHO mustn't retreat from #HarmReduction. Weakened mandate = more HIV, hepatitis, overdoses, and deaths. ⛔️

Together with 176 civil society & community groups, @idpc.net urges strong WHO leadership to protect people who use drugs.

Read & share:

Urgent call for continued WHO leadership on harm reduction for people who use drugs – Open letter to the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Civil society urges WHO to sustain leadership on harm reduction, resist funding cuts, and ensure meaningful community involvement.

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 29

As International Overdose Awareness Day approaches, we are calling on the Government of Ontario to act on the abundant evidence and reverse course on the closure of supervised consumption sites in the province.

Read our op-ed in today's Ottawa Citizen: ottawacitizen.com/opinion/reve...

Ontario should reverse its misguided policy on supervised drug sites

The province chose to create the conditions for increased death and harm, say Cécile Kazatchkine and Dylan DeMarsh — including in Ottawa.

ottawacitizen.com

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 27

Read the open letter from the Harm Reduction Nurses Association calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Government of Canada to show courage and act decisively to end preventable drug poisoning deaths.

www.hrna-aiirm.ca/wp-content/u...

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join the HIV Legal Network and the Stephen Lewis Foundation for a vital conversation on why the Global Fund’s replenishment is crucial for LGBTIQ health and rights worldwide.

Wednesday, September 17 · 10 - 11:30am EDT

www.eventbrite.ca/e/funding-he...

Funding Health, Advancing LGBTIQ Equality: Why the Global Fund Matters Now

Explore how the Global Fund advances LGBTIQ health, why Canada’s next pledge is critical to global equality, and what you can do

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 19

capitalpride.ca/events/human...

Tomorrow, Capital Pride is hosting a Human Rights Panel, presented by the European Union and co-hosted by the Dignity Network and the HIV Legal Network. Join Maurice Tomlinson and other experts sharing worldwide perspectives about building 2SLGBTQ+ community.

HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 14

Care about human rights and privacy and believe Canada should be committed to them?

Join this session!

Wednesday, August 27th
7 PM ET (4 PM PT/5 PM CT/8 PM AT)

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Moms Stop The Harm @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social · Aug 11

We’re pleased to amplify a report by our friends at @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social , Hard Time Persists: Healthcare and Harm Reduction in Canada’s Prison System. It provides a national scan of healthcare and harm reduction policies in prisons across Canada.

www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/hard-ti...

Hard Time Persists: Healthcare and Harm Reduction in Canada’s Prison System – HIV Legal Network

www.hivlegalnetwork.ca

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 11

We know why people are dying in Canada’s prisons. Why, then, do these harmful policies and practices persist? Read more about how systemic failures in Canada’s prisons are causing alarming, but predictable, health outcomes here:

www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/behind-...

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Jul 17

"Members of the research team heard about frequent unannounced police visits to local [Ontario] harm reduction programs."

"[P]olice would enter the premises, search clients' belongings, interrogate staff, and at times arrest service users."
#Ontario #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing

Police in Ontario Increasingly Obstruct Harm Reduction Service Delivery

filtermag.org

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Liam Michaud @liammichaud.bsky.social · Jul 17

Police interference w/ harm reduction services is a growing crisis. Surveilling services, arresting clients & other abuses cause service avoidance, violate peoples right to healthcare & highlights urgent need for binding non-interference policies. @filtermag.bsky.social @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social

Police in Ontario Increasingly Obstruct Harm Reduction Service Delivery

Police surveillance and interference block life-saving care as the province becomes more hostile to harm reduction, our study shows.

filtermag.org

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Results Canada @resultscanada.bsky.social · Jul 7

Dear Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social, global advocates have an urgent message for you 👇

With ambitious support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Canada can (and MUST) #Save23MillionLives ‼️

| #cdnpoli @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Please see the statement from One City, the operators of Trinity Community Centre here:

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Shelter is a right. Denying people access because they use drugs is a violation of that right. It's a failure of leadership, and it flies in the face of Canada’s human rights obligations.

All levels of government must fund, not dismantle, inclusive, harm reduction shelter models like Trinity.

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

As Auden Palmer, Director of Outreach Services at One City, told council: “When these services disappear, the people using them don't.”

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

The council’s decision is cruel. It’s political. And it’s dangerously out of step with the reality of a deepening housing and drug toxicity crisis. Defunding low-barrier services doesn’t make people disappear. It makes people more vulnerable – pushing them into parks, alleys, and ERs.

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

We featured Trinity in our Shelter Right report for doing what few others will: offering safety, warmth, and humanity – without punishment or exclusion.

Read the report here: www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/shelter...

The cover of an HIV Legal Network report called "Shelter Right: A blueprint for inclusive shelters in Canada. The cover is a purple background and features a drawing of a tent encampment framed by a blue outline of a house.

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

...,live with mental health challenges, or carry the trauma of chronic displacement.

Trinity serves the people the rest of the system refuses to.

That’s exactly why it’s being defunded.

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Trinity operates as a low-barrier, harm reduction–focused space. It doesn’t require sobriety. It welcomes those turned away from traditional shelters. It offers on-site health and harm reduction supports, grounded in dignity and care, for people who use drugs...

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

This week, Peterborough City Council voted to cut funding for Trinity Community Centre – an emergency shelter that has served over 400 people in under one year – because it is inclusive.

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today is the “Support. Don’t Punish” global day of action!

Reclaim power.
Resist injustice.
Reform drug laws.

supportdontpunish.org

#EndTheWarOnDrugs #SupportDontPunish

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Harm Reduction Action Collective (HRAC) @hracollective.bsky.social · Jun 23

📣THIS THURSDAY📣

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❤️‍🔥Support. Don’t Punish – Care Not Criminalization
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🎟RSVP now - co-hosted by
@hracollective.bsky.social & @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social💥

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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 23

In response to the forced closure of safe consumption sites, communities and volunteers are mobilizing to provide supports themselves. See the legal implications of operating an Overdose Prevention Site in Ontario and protections for operators and patrons here:
www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/it-is-n...

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