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Project will connect safer supply projects and healthcare providers to share knowledge and best practices
LONDON, ON, June 28, 2021 /CNW/ - The overdose crisis continues to affect communities and families across Canada. Tragically, we have seen substantial increases in overdose deaths and related harms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government of Canada continues to support increasing access to safer supply services in communities across Canada to help prevent drug overdoses during the pandemic and beyond.
Today, on behalf of the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, Peter Fragiskatos, Member of Parliament, announced nearly $1 million for a project that will help support and build capacity in communities across Canada to provide safer supply services. This initiative will help increase access to pharmaceutical alternatives to the toxic illegal drug supply and prevent overdoses.
A group that represents Ontario construction companies is launching a campaign to raise awareness after a new report revealed construction workers made up nearly a third of opioid deaths among employed Ontarians in 2020.
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No, no, no, I’ll shovel snow, he said.
A few hours later, Kostuk and volunteer Gil Clelland went outside the Y’s Centre Branch on Waterloo Street in downtown London to check on him, but couldn’t see him or the shovel.
“A little while later, Brayden entered the building covered in snow and smiling. For the past three hours, he had shovelled the entire parking lot and all the sidewalks around the Y,” Clelland said.
Pellett was always trying to come in out of the cold, always trying to find his place with people.
“He was just trying to fit in everywhere he went,” his mother, Tanya Burke, says.