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Health Minister Patty Hajdu announced Thursday that the federal government is now accepting proposals for funding from community programs that work directly with drug users, and will be accepting those applications until Sept. 24.
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She said she believes the money will be put to good use, as addictions issues and specifically opioid-related harms and death have been on the rise, and have been “exacerbated” by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I had real hope that we were turning a corner,” Hajdu said. “But recently data has shown that opioid-related deaths are actually on the rise, and in fact, the pandemic has exacerbated people’s grief, and trauma, and substance use.”
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On Wednesday morning workers with Toronto-based AltoMaxx began their second day of searching for unmarked graves in the area near the former Fort Alexander residential school on the Sagkeeng First Nation, an Anishinaabe community about 120 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, that sits just next to the town of Powerview-Pine Falls.
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And while high-tech ground-penetrating drones flew over the site, community members and elders kept watch over a sacred fire that will stay lit day and night as long as the searchers continue their work and on the same spot where the work is being done.
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