An excellent interview with Dr. Mac Chown who supports our street outreach and encampment support teams. Listen and learn. it is the Barrie Encampment Update segment. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #streetoutreach #HousingCrisis #Barrie #cdnpoli ##StopTheSweeps

"Regardless of the societal pressures or social norms of the day, cruelty has never been an acceptable part of Canadian society." Please sign and share this petition and help the healing to begin. #ForcedAdoption #AdoptionCoercion #AdoptionTrauma #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Our city's response to addressing the housing and homelessness crisis is cruel and costly! It costs a lot let to house people than it does to criminalize them. #Barrie #Homelessness #HousingCrisis #HousingIsAHumanRight #onpoli #Cdnpoli ricochet.media/justice/hous...

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Encampments are communities! It's time for our elected leaders to stop the stigma, stop spreading fear and creating division. Homelessness is a policy failure and it's a policy choice. It's time to hold our leaders to account. Housing is a human right!

This approach to addressing the housing and homelessness crisis is harmful, ineffective, and costly! It's time for root cause solutions. Housing Solves Homelessness!

We are more than 1/2 way to our required 500 signatures. If you are a Canadian citizen or resident of Canada please consider signing. Reminder, you need to respond to verification email for your signature to count. #ForcedAdoption ##AdoptionCoercion #AdoptionTrauma #Cdnpoli

Premier Ford was in Barrie for a photo op to help further his and Mayor Nuttall's harmful narrative on PWUD and experiencing homelessness. Residents of this encampment told me neither man stepped foot inside the encampment or spoke with any residents. They used it as a backdrop for their photo op.

On September 19th we held a panel discussion on The State of Emergency our City is currently under. Our panelists each brought their own unique lived experience to the conversation. #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #HousingIsAHumanRight #cdnpoli #onpoli #Barrie youtu.be/UbIMjDIWh_o?...

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Join us on Friday September 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm for a panel discussion on the State of Emergency the City of Barrie is currently under. Each panelists brings their own unique experience to the conversation. #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #HousingIsAHumanRight #cdnpoli #onpoli #Barrie

Pam, an encampment resident shares her experience and challenges finding shelter and the atmosphere. She says people have no where to go and they are scared. Healing Starts with housing! #HousingCrisis ##HousingIsAHumanRight #Cdnpoli #Onpoli #Barrie www.instagram.com/reel/DOgElCB...

Join us on Friday September 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm for a panel discussion on the State of Emergency the City of Barrie is currently under. Our discussion will focus on the Mayor’s State of Emergency declaration, 1/ #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #HousingIsAHumanRight #cdnpoli #onpoli #Barrie

#Barrie is under a #StateofEmergency to rid the city of encampments. #RyansHope volunteers were on site today at the Mulcaster Encampment to witness the eviction that was taking place and to offer emotional support to encampment residents during this traumatic situation. #HousingCrisis 1/

We are seeking people with interesting and diverse lived experiences who feel comfortable sharing their stories to become a part of our digital library. If you are interested in taking part in this project, email [email protected] for more information  #RyansHope #LivedExperiences

Forced treatment doesn't work! It never has and it causes harm. And how can we even be talking about involuntary treatment while people wanting help are dying while on waiting lists?

As someone with boots on the ground this greatly concerns me. Crimilization is an ignorant and ineffective solution. It costs far less to house people than to incarcerate them and causes far less harm. Homelessness is a policy choice! 1/2 #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

We did Easter Outreach today and the Harm Reduction Bunny made a special appearance to deliver life-saving Naloxone to our friends. Our band of bunnies came armed with lots of special Easter treats. #RyansHope #HarmReduction #StreetOutreach #PWUD www.instagram.com/reel/DIpJnr5...

A injured senior was in need of a wheelchair. She could have received government assistance but it would take months. She needed it NOW! This is where our community came in. We put a request out and within 1 1/2 hours she had a chair! This is the power of community! #RyansHope #MutualAid

💥 These are our demands: 1️⃣ DECRIMINALIZE & DESTIGMATIZE 2️⃣ ESTABLISH & EXPAND 3️⃣ REPEAL & DISMANTLE 4️⃣ RELEASE & SUPPORT 5️⃣ DEFUND & DIVEST 6️⃣ REDIRECT & INVEST 🔗 Read our full statement of demands ⤵️ www.hractioncollective.com/what#ourdema... #HarmReduction #DemandBetter #DemandJustice

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HART Hubs are heartless! They don't meet people where they are at. Forcing organizations to convert to this model in order to receive funding to continue to operate is a lose, lose situation. Either way people will die! This is policy choice and a policy failure! #onpoli #FordFailure #DrugSky

Thought for the day "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg #thoughtfortheday #quoteoftheday

People and planet above polluter profits! #cdnpoli #CanadaSky

while poilievre calls for 50K beds, no one has asked him about how he will make sure that these beds are safe there are neither federal nor provincial regulations on recovery centres, there is no ombudsperson to protect people from harm in recovery centres #cndpoli #harmreduction

"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul." Clarissa Pinkola Estés

This is heartbreaking. The Ford government's decision to not fund SCSs is costing lives already and this is week one. My heart grieves for this and future preventable losses. #onpoli #cdnpoli #FordFailure

Twenty important lessons from On Tyranny. #cdnpoli #unpolished #resist #canadastrong

1/ Supervised Consumption Sites (SCSs) work — and Canada has the data to prove it. A recent ecological and spatial analysis shows a striking 67% reduction in overdose mortality within 500m of SCSs. #ACMT2025 #PublicHealth #Medsky

One of the many ways #PWUD keep each other safe, #Naloxone kits hanging throughout an encampment. #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #onpoli #cdnpoli #MSTH #DrugSky

As a healthcare provider in Regent Park, I joined the community yesterday in mourning and rage as the supervised consumption site Bevel Up had its last day of service. It’s truly hard to express the cruelty this represents for people who use drugs. /1 #onpoli #medsky #topoli #cdnpoli

Despite a temporary injuction to remain open 9 of the 10 Ontario #SCSs closed their doors yesterday. Today they open as HART hubs. Under this model they will receive four times as much money. This is how the province has tied their hands. People will die from this #FordFailure #onpoli #DrugSky

Encampments are community and this is a beautiful example of how these communities care for each other. It is in the shelter of each other that people live. Irish Proverb #RyansHope #StreetOutreach #HousingCrisis #onpoli #OnStorm www.instagram.com/p/DH4r9QCM5Z...

No one is immune from the toxic drug crisis. If it hasn't affected you personally yet it soon will. Every drug death is a policy failure and a policy choice! #cdnpoli #DrugSky

"In his decision, [Ontario Superior Court Justice John Callaghan] wrote that the closure of the supervised consumption sites would cause “significant harm,” including loss of life." #OnPoli

It's a temporary injunction but we will celebrate it a win! #saveONsites #onpoli #Harmreductionsaveslives #4Ryan

"A judge has granted all existing supervised consumption sites that were scheduled to close on April 1 an injunction so they can continue operating until a final decision is rendered in a court challenge." #SaveCTS www.thestar.com/news/gta/sup...

Just this! As someone with boots on the ground providing support to those living in survival mode I can testify to thr truth of this. Police don't keep communities safe, housing, food security, mental health supports do. #DefundThePolice #RefundTheCommunity #cdnpoli #onpoli #housingcrisis

We have been given a similar choice here in Canada. For the future of our country let's not be fooled into making the samemistake. We are living in the tume of monsters but that doesn't mean we need to vote for one. Not Pierre Poilievre!! #nevervoteconservative #TeamCanada #Cdnpoli #TeamCarney

Every drug death is a policy failure, and is a policy choice! Pur loved ones matter! End the war on drugs. #4Ryan #MSTH #cdnpoli

Help save our sites! Allies needed in Toronto. #SolidarityNotCharity #PWUD

They were not numbers, they were real people with real life stories. See beyond the stigma! #4Ryan #homelessness #mentalillness #substanceuse #substanceuse #toxicdrugs #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

We’re already seeing increased public drug consumption after the closure of Somerset West SCS in Ottawa & several deaths of people connected to the South Riverdale site in Toronto, two sites that have already been forced to close by the Ford government’s disastrous policy change. #ONpoli #SCS

Harm reduction is healthcare! Every drug death is a policy choice and a policy failure! #4Ryan #MSTH #DrugSky #DrugSky #cdnpoli

Kudos to the Toronto Board of Health for challenging Ontario's fact-free decision to kill Consumption and Treatment Services, drug checking, and more, at the Superior Court of Justice. Online briefing Thursday with other intervenors @candrugpolicy.bsky.social ++ here: drugpolicy.ca/advisory-org...