Safe supply
On Friday, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons was served a legal challenge. The same day, it paused the imminent implementation of a new ban on unwitnessed safe supply prescribing — passed just a month ago, after a rushed process pushed by a small group of invested physicians.
Safe supply
A year before Canada's first prescribed safe supply clinic closed its doors, London Police Service helped vilify the program locally and federally – building on a national panic propelled by lofty police claims that safe supply was driving the toxic drug crisis.
Ontario
As the Ford government faced one of the worst public health crises in Ontario's history, it convened more than 100 experts from policing, health, and lived experience to find solutions. Three years on, the ministry won't talk about it – and never released its report.
Safe supply
Three years after working to influence federal safe supply policy, several of the same small group of addiction doctors may have manoeuvred the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to place major new barriers on life-saving prescribed safe supply.
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are free, and Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act could be struck from law in T-minus 5 months, 17 days if Health Canada does not get its act together. This renders 'possession for the purpose of trafficking' no
ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group incorporated in late 2022. By March 2023, it had $70 million in Alberta provincial funding. Now, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is deflecting requests for information on how that money got spent.
Safe supply
After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medicalized safe supply and compassion club models never saw the light of day.
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Final part of a twelve-month investigation: records reveal additional organizations party to the takeover of Out of the Cold shelters as the Nova Scotia government played favourites with service providers. Meanwhile, worker paranoia about surveillance by security guards proves true.
Upon taking control of the former Out of the Cold shelters, Atlantic Community Shelters Society got a 72% bump in provincial funding to the facilities. The agency had so much surplus cash in its first year, it transferred more than $1 million to its sister agency, Quest Society.
Out of the Cold staff were criminalized while running low-barrier shelters in Halifax, until they were terminated. This hit a crescendo as Halifax police were 'alerted' to union organizing – by the agency getting their contracts. Why and how did police help dismantle Out of the Cold?
Part 1 of an 11-month investigation: The dismantling of Halifax-based Out of the Cold Community Association followed the Nova Scotia government's coordinated criminalization of the organization and its staff – including the country's earliest documented use of the SCAN Act to surveil a nonprofit.
The Toronto Star is reporting on a $3.7 million contract providing Palantir access to Canadian military data – "a big piece of Canadian sovereignty data-exposure,” as one expert said. This may enable Palantir to leverage ongoing social media monitoring, including facial recognition.
As provinces like Manitoba resume harm reduction as usual, the Alberta government's coup against supervised consumption appears to be crumbling underfoot with no medical or public health experts coming to bat. Can an American economist in Italy save the government's case against consumption sites?
Sixteen years ago, Raheleh Tarani’s brother was killed by Iranian authorities during a protest. Her May 9, 2024 assaults and arrest at UofC by Calgary police brought back flashbacks – this time, frenzied concern for the safety of her sons attending that protest on Canadian soil.
Drug Data Decoded writer/editor joins eight other plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking damages and vindication that Charter rights were violated during the brutal police operation to remove a peaceful demonstration at the University of Calgary on May 9, 2024.
The Ministry of Public Safety, working to prevent the release of files related to surveillance of nonprofit organizations by government police, has admitted that it holds 300 pages of records related to investigations of nonprofits across the province.
The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act allows any citizen to trigger an investigation of a neighbour for drugs on the property. Since its adoption across Canada two decades ago, the snitch legislation has never been used to attack a nonprofit agency – until now.
A conservative provincial government is writing off Alberta's Compassion Intervention Act as a violation of disability rights, favouring community-based treatment over residential rehab. However, a trip out west last June shows its evolving interest in privatized inpatient facilities.
The Research Review Council formed in early 2025 with government authors of a recent fraudulent study on supervised consumption services. But, when asked for records of the council's authorized projects, the Centre of Recovery Excellence inexplicably denies its existence.