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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team
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Community-led effort to action solutions to Waterloo Region's drug poisoning tragedy. It's a crisis, not a spectator sport! Unfunded. Volunteer. Non-partisan. Honest. Find us on Insta at: @wrdrugactionteam
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Lots of talk in Ontario - and a genuine absence of provincial interest in activating evidence-based solutions like... housing.

11/2024: "We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people."
- Premier Doug Ford

06/2025: Bill 6, jail and fines for folks in encampments

This morning:
UPDATE: The Government of Ontario has now formally voted AGAINST creating a plan to eliminate homelessness within 10 years. Data from across Ontario continues to reflect the absence of provincial success. Gratitude to @aislinnclancy.bsky.social for your efforts to #ProtectOntario
Last night the Housing Ends Homelessness Act (Bill 28) was debated at Queens Park. The Bill sought a provincial strategy to coordinate and activate solutions to end homelessness within 10yrs. PC MPPs spoke against the Bill and is expected to die today in a formal vote.

cc: @ericwickham.ca
#BREAKING
The P.C.-led Government of Ontario has just voted AGAINST ending homelessness within 10 years via the Housing Ends Homeless Act, legislation supported by Greens, Liberal, and NDP MPPs.

Bill 28: www.ola.org/en/legislati...
Cambridge, Ontario:
"A place for people to prosper - alive with opportunity."

www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/c...
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Great new!👍The Court has granted an injunction for the 100Vic Encampment Case! The Region is restrained from enforcing its Site-Specific By-law until the constitutionality of the bylaw can be determined following the hearing in November.

Read the decision at: wrcls.ca/3878-2
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Doug Ford was asked about misrepresenting crime stats in Somerset Ward and showed that he doesn’t even know where our neighbourhood is on a map.
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Ontario misled the public on crime data to justify closing supervised consumption sites. Evidence shows these services save lives & improve community safety. #HarmReduction tinyurl.com/ybuhw3hf
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the media reported that at the time, a year ago.

is there any reason to believe that facts are suddenly relevant now? this is a serious question.

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Yesterday, @cmckenney.bsky.social
and I confronted Health Minister Sylvia Jones about the unsubstantiated statistics that she used to justify closing the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West Community Health Centre.
"We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people." - Premier Doug Ford, 2024 #ProtectOntario #AMO2025
Last year at #AMO the province and a handful of radical mayors made a raging tragedy worse by defunding #CTS #SCS sites, benefiting no one. Lest we forget. #ProtectOntario
25,000 un-prevented #overdose deaths - and so many injuries - since the Ontario government came to Queen’s Park in 2018 and made a preventable crisis much worse, for everyone, everywhere. Ontario's PC drug policies remain deadly in 2025- OBVIOUSLY. #IOAD2025 #ProtectOntario #Onmuni #AMO2025
One year after the #ONgov's #AMO announcement to abandon evidence-based public service and defund #CTS #SCS sites - over the unequivocal advice of internal and external advisors and then some - @jackhauen.bsky.social follows up. #ProtectOntario

READ: www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/o...
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In St. Mary's, ON? Consider going to support this IOAD event! Flag raising and speakers starting at 9:30am EST, Aug. 31st.

Please see poster for more details.
Tuesday August 12, 6:30pm onwards. Roos Island, Willow Park, Kitchener.

kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/08/11/w...
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"Other users named in the documents include municipal police in Edmonton, Waterloo, Hamilton, Saskatoon & York, the provincial police forces in ON and QC, the ON and Toronto police unions and every ministry of the ON govt"
August 12, 6:30pm onwards. Come!

The harm reduction community has been hit hard this year. We've lost friends, family, life saving services and parts of ourselves to policies that continue to fail us. But still, we gather. Still, we care for one another. Still, we resist.
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"We cannot continue to claim we are pursuing a human rights-based approach if, at critical moments like these, we refuse to take responsibility for meaningful change and fail to act in accordance with the very principles we proclaim ourselves wishing to uphold."

#HumanRIghts #Unsheltered
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Today, during a heatwave, Cambridge bylaw and police used heavy machinery to throw out 4 unhoused peoples personal belongings. With no suitable shelter options, they face serious health risks. Evictions should be paused during extreme weather. Learn a better way: homelesshub.ca/book/office-...
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@hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social and @hracollective.bsky.social are co-hosting a series of incredible speakers from across the country to mark the annual Global Day of Action!

REGISTER HERE: www.eventbrite.ca/e/care-not-c...

#SupportDontPunish #HarmReduction #CareNotCriminalization