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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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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 15h
Sharing this article again because it's the culmination of a few months of work from me - and people should be reading about it.
Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go?
Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · 1d
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:
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · 1d
#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...
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Sep 24
Cambridge, Ontario:
"A place for people to prosper - alive with opportunity."

www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/c...
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WRLegalServices @wrlegalservices.bsky.social · Aug 22
"Region cannot enforce encampment-clearing bylaw until after November hearing decision." - CTV News

Check out the news segment at bit.ly/47alX8W
Court rules in favour of Kitchener encampment residents, pausing plans to evict them
The Region of Waterloo’s plans to evict residents at a Kitchener encampment have been put on hold after a judge ruled in favour of the residents.
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WRLegalServices @wrlegalservices.bsky.social · Aug 21
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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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 21
Injunction!

May the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms prevail. Huge gratitude due to @wrlegalservices.bsky.social and many more.

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BREAKING: Judge sides with encampment residents, pausing Waterloo Region’s eviction plans
The Superior Court of Ontario has ruled in favour of the residents at the Victoria Street encampment in downtown Kitchener, pausing any plans to remove them from the site.
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · Aug 20
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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CPHA - ACSP @cpha-acsp.bsky.social · Aug 20
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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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Aug 20
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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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · Aug 19
The closure of the supervised consumption site has made the community less safe. With no place to go, people are using drugs on the street and closer to children. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Is Chinatown safer without a supervised consumption site? Neighbours say no | CBC News
Two months after Somerset West Community Health Centre closed its injection site, neighbours say they've witnessed a surge in public drug use.
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · Aug 20
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.
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 18
"We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people." - Premier Doug Ford, 2024 #ProtectOntario #AMO2025
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 18
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
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 18
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
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 18
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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Moms Stop The Harm @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social · Aug 13
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.
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 11
Tuesday August 12, 6:30pm onwards. Roos Island, Willow Park, Kitchener.

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Toronto & York Region Labour Council @labourcouncil.bsky.social · Aug 6
"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"
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · Aug 1
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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Regan Sunshine Brussé @reganbrusse.bsky.social · Jul 15
"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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THRIVE HIV @thrivehiv.bsky.social · Jul 15
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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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · Jun 24
@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
Support Don't Punish. Care Not Criminalization. June 26. 1PM Pacific time. All the many group logos of participating groups: MSTHL, CSSDP, CDPC, HRNA, DSDP, and many others.
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