It s been 20 months since Barrie health officials sent an application for a consumption and treatment services (CTS) site in Barrie to Ontario s Ministry of Health. Twenty months later, they re still waiting for an answer.
Apparently without friends or family, the 61-year old lay dead in her London flat for more than two years before finally being discovered – and when neighbours raised the alarm, they were repeatedly ignored. How could this happen?
Coming Of Age
Colin had waited so long for this moment, he was going to make the most of it…
Although Colin was born in 1948 and all his friends were in their early seventies, he was looking forward to the eighteenth anniversary of his birthday on February the twenty-ninth, 2020.
“So, what are we going to do to celebrate?” he asked Oliver, his grandson who was due to be eighteen at the beginning of the month.
“Celebrate?”
“Yes – our eighteenth birthdays. What do eighteen-year-olds do nowadays to mark the occasion?”
“Why don’t you take your grandfather to the Magpie and Parrot and buy him a pint?” suggested Oliver’s mum, Shannon.