Cambridge, Ontario: "A place for people to prosper - alive with opportunity." www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/c...

"Region cannot enforce encampment-clearing bylaw until after November hearing decision." - CTV News Check out the news segment at bit.ly/47alX8W

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

Injunction! May the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms prevail. Huge gratitude due to @wrlegalservices.bsky.social and many more. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

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.

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

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...

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/...

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

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...

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...

"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.

"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

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-...

@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

Our new resource – created in partnership with @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social and @candrugpolicy.bsky.social lays out the legal implications of operating an Overdose Prevention Site in Ontario and protections for operators and patrons. www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/it-is-n...

📢 New study shows safe supply saves lives. Research in ON found people on safer opioid supply (like hydromorphone) had fewer overdoses, ER visits & deaths, even those with complex health needs. It’s not either/or with methadone. We need both. #SupportDontPunish #SafeSupplyWorks

Region doubles down on defunding doublespeak, WR DAT disagrees. kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/11/r...

The Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy - aka WRIDS and at one time a model for other municipalities- has been defunded by the Region and is officially dead.

Show up Saturday at noon at Kitchener City Hall to protect the health and safety of people lacking housing/shelter (Bill 6) and the ecology of Ontario (Bill 5) from a hostile, provincial government. #ProtectOntario

Many warned the closure of supervised consumption sites would increase public drug use. Unfortunately, that prediction seems to be coming true in an Ottawa neighbourhood: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....

Join us for a webinar with people who lived and organized through the HIV/AIDS epidemic and those currently working at the intersections of harm reduction, drug policy, Indigenous rights, and HIV/AIDS. May 14 - 1–2:30pm EST | 10–11:30am PST sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Bill 6, introduced by the province, treats homeless people like criminals. It proposes six months of jail time and an impossible $10,000 fine for homeless people living outdoors. You can use this form to e-mail your MP telling them to rescind Bill 6: win.newmode.net/encampmentju...

How has policing encampments worked out in the U.S.? Ballooning police budgets, paid for by the public, yet a decline in clearance rates for serious crimes. Doug Ford's Bill 6 will solve less serious crime, and absolutely not solve homelessness. It's Donald Trump-endorsed policy.

Pay more, get less! Jail homeless Canadians, tariff-free! “This is not a piece of legislation that will make municipalities safer. It’s an expensive stay with a whole host of harms that will not improve community health and safety.” www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Five people dead in 3 days. CTS/ SCS - defunded Drug checking- defunded Safe supply - defunded Addiction treatment- 253 day wait list Fact-free, radical drug policies c/o your #ONgov with more carnage to come.

More "War on Drugs" legislation from Doug Ford. Bill 10 makes any landlord — which could include a public or supportive housing provider — potentially guilty of an offence if residents sell drugs in their units. Providers could be fined up to $1 million. www.ola.org/en/legislati...

“We’re disappointed that the government continually falls far short of those housing targets, has no homelessness strategy, has no drug strategy and is relying on really failed American approaches to jail some of our more vulnerable members of society.” kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/05/02/g...

Ontario has reintroduced Bill 6, which will punish encampments even though people have nowhere else to go. That's why we've formed the Encampment Justice Coalition. We're asking Ontario to rescind Bill 6 and commit to housing — not punishment. Read more: tinyurl.com/EJC-Bill6

"As Canadians head to the polls, they'll be faced with few options to increase access to harm reduction," writes @godfrey.bsky.social. "Instead, the major parties' platforms reflect a long-running retreat from lifesaving policies, in favor of 'tough-on-crime' legislation."

“We are mortified. We are disgusted by a callous and uncaring provincial government who were elected to serve and protect all constituents, not undermine democracy and the rule of law at the expense, literally, of people’s lives." www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/d...

Fear and Loathing. “I’m very angry at the thought that the province would even ever try to punish the region and through it some of the most vulnerable citizens because we stand up for what we believe is right for our community,” Councillor Wolf said. www.therecord.com/news/council...

This is dehumanization language. The intent is to frame groups of people as “others” and undeserving of care. It manufactures consent to violate human rights. It is a key feature in genocides. #cdnpoli

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...

Fear and Loathing in Waterloo Region: Council Rejects Two CTS Motions in Support of Ontario Superior Court Injunction

Update: everything failed at Regional council - the original motion asking the province please comply with the #CTS Court injunction, and a new, highly sanitized version. #FearAndLoathingInWaterlooRegion

We’re at Regional Council for #SCS #CTS + 100 Victoria camp eviction bylaw (and in solidarity with @wilmotcan.bsky.social tbh). No room inside Council chambers. Overflow room in effect but it’s nearly impossible to hear the delegates. Kudos to all delegates for your public service. It matters.

Injunction junction. And still no function for all but one affected #SCS #CTS sites in Ontario. Thanks for nothing, Ontario Superior Court, Province of Ontario.

Big fans of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms we are. Lots of that on the agenda Wednesday night at the Regional Council in the face of an openly hostile provincial government. 7pm, Wednesday. FREE!

CTV News spoke to our Executive Director regarding the proposed bylaw regarding the 100 Victoria Street encampment. To view the news segment and read the full article, please visit bit.ly/3YGuDP6

Worth noting: the CPC plan is to essentially incarcerate nearly every fentanyl consumer in Canada at ~ $2million per consumer. Thousands of consumers, many, many billions of tax dollars, no big bang for big bucks. #40mg

Government vs. Government, Bedtime for Democracy DAT:“It is difficult to image any rationale or any number of deaths and injuries that could substantiate defeating a simple request to send a letter." R:“I most likely will be burying my friends due to this ruling..." www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Government is afraid of government! Our release on tonight's #CTS #SCS vote:

Today: We're seeking for 2 letters from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. Two letters - that's it. Yesterday: Judge hears more on injunction for consumption sites. "The Minister of Health and the Premier could reverse this (deadly) decision right now." WATCH: www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

All parties involved in the constitutional challenge brought forward by The Neighbourhood Group Community Services (TNGCS) and two individual Applicants against Ontario's Community Care and Recover Act will reconvene at the request of the Court today. We will be live-posting from this account.

Court can be confusing! Q: Was there a choice for affected CTS sites to accept a provincial deal for HART hubs and close their CTS knowing people will die? Kitchener's CTS site is NOT a HART hub recipient. It's closed. Still no justice for the local applicant, and 1000s of people across Ontario.