For 15 years, knowledge keeper Wendall Williams has been nurturing a dream — to awaken a canoe that will carry members of the local community for healing journeys on the waters of the Salish Sea.
Ottawa funds pilots in Vancouver and Victoria to test models that help people avoid poisoned illicit drugs.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES New programs aim to combine expanded safe supply and supports. But implementation depends on the province’s commitment to expand drug options.
Photo by Jesse Winter.
A first-of-its kind safer supply clinic in Vancouver’s downtown will begin to offer flexible, individual-centred care to people who use a variety of substances as early as this spring.