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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.
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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.
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As London’s winter emergency shelters close, hundreds of homeless people perhaps more than ever are expected to move back along the river, streets and open spaces in the city.
Already, some people who got help at the innovative winter shelters are homeless again, and losing the gains they made, say leaders in battling homelessness.
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Outreach workers say they’re seeing more, new homeless people, and seeing homeless people spread out across the city far from downtown and east London.