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Thank you Ms Landolt for your interview on the radio and your article in today’s National Post. As a resident of downtown Toronto I have been involved in arguing against The Toronto Drug Strategy and a safe use site in … Continue reading →

May 30, 2011 Letter to the Editor The National Post 300 – 1450 Don Mills Road Don Mills, Ontario M3B 3R5 Fax 416-383-2305 Dear Sir: Thomas Kerr, author of the article on the Vancouver Drug Injection facility (May 30, 2011) … Continue reading →

Excellent local CTV video and print story on Insite: http://bit.ly/iUXqLz

ONE The battle over Insite’s future Vancouver Observer- Jenny Uechi Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will begin hearing the case for continued operation of Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site. Proponents call it a life-saving health facility, while critics view it as … Continue reading →

This letter from our President, Gwen Landolt, was sent, as well, to the Globe and Mail. Letter to the Editor Ottawa Citizen 1101 Baxter Road Box 5020 Ottawa, ON K2C 3M4 Your editorial in support of the Vancouver drug injection … Continue reading →

Burnaby recovery centre doesn’t compromise with addiction: By Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun May 5, 2011 Theologians will advise you can’t parley with the Devil and remain unscathed and neither, according to the operators of Burnaby’s Charlford House, can you trifle … Continue reading →

Here is the link to watch DPNC Executive Director, David Berner, on Alberta Prime Time TV, discussing the possibility of opening “safe” injection sites in Edmonton and Calgary: http://www.albertaprimetime.com/SearchResults.aspx?sr=safe%20injection%20sites

FROM DPNC BOARD MEMBER, AL ARSENAULT Portugal is hardly the resounding success that the drugs liberalising lobby would have us believe Sir, That fewer young people are trying drugs in Portugal may be the case (“Radical drug law could be … Continue reading →

THE IDENTICAL LETTER WAS SENT AS WELL TO THE GLOBE AND MAL April 18, 2011 Letter to the Editor The National Post 300 – 1450 Don Mills Road Don Mills, Ontario M3B 3R5 Fax 416-383-2305 Dear Sir, The leaders of … Continue reading →

From the desk of DPNC Board member, Andy Bigras When Nick Bala started chemotherapy, he asked his doctor for something to help with the nausea and vomiting that followed each treatment. After about four months, Bala asked his doctor for … Continue reading →