Neighbours Don’t Continually Steal From Neighbours — ByWard Markets Need Mayor to Act

 Before Ottawa City Council recessed for their five-week summer break, they announced that the newly formed ByWard Market District Authority would replace the lacklustre performing ByWard Business Improvement Area, better known as the ByWard BIA. S The BIA had become a punching bag for the increasing dysfunction in the ByWard

The controversy over safe injection sites is missing the point

 The province of Ontario has recently announced a review of supervised injection site programs (colloquially termed safe injection sites), as Health Minister Christine Elliott put a hold on three planned sites in Toronto, Thunder Bay, and St. Catherines. Their reasoning echoes the sentiment felt by those who were initially resistant

Jesse — An Opioid Addict’s Story

 Photo: OLM Staff As frontline workers and policymakers continue to try and mitigate the opioid crisis in Canada, harm-reduction services have been popping up in major cities to address the rapid increase in overdoses due to fentanyl. Long-term recovery models are still dealing with waitlists months long, and supervised injection

Health Canada Responds​​​​​​​ to the National Opioid Crisis

 Ottawa Life Magazine contacted Health Canada to learn more about their response to the opioid crisis. Thierry Bélair, the Press Secretary to the The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, responded to our questions. What do you think the federal government has learned from British Columbia (and Vancouver's) response

Government Slow to Take Action on Opioid Crisis

 The official numbers aren’t out yet, but the number of opioid-related deaths in Canada in 2017 is expected to have surpassed 4,000, reports the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). This is yet another significant increase in opioid-related deaths, up from a record 2,861 deaths in 2016. Supervised injection sites

Letter To The Editor: A Response From The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

 The following letter from Rita Notarandrea, CEO of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, is a response to our August 27th article Canada Slow to Respond to Prescription Opioid Crisis by Dr. David Juurlink. I agree with Dr. Juurlink’s assertion (in his August 27 article, Canada Slow to Respond to