Timothy Slaney News Today

Alberta advocates are asking the federal minister of mental health and addictions to intervene following a court ruling that allows supervised consumption…

Earlier this month, the Blood Tribe sent an alert to its members warning of a particularly poisonous batch of opioids making its way through the community. While it has led to deaths, others are raising their voices to light a way forward.

  CALGARY -- After prosecutors failed to show up at a court hearing for a man accused of operating an illegal supervised drug consumption site in a Lethbridge park, the charges against him have been dismissed. Timothy Slaney, one of the members of the volunteer-run Overdose Prevention Society and organizer of the pop-up facility in Galt Gardens, was facing 17 infractions of city bylaws for holding activities on city property without a permit. However, when the court proceedings were schedu...