The numbers of deaths each month remain high enough to only be described as a crisis, a tragedy, and a total failure of public policy and authorities’ response.
At the Dr. Peter Centre, about 96,000 meals per year are served to people who don't have the privilege of always knowing where their next meal is coming from.
"I left the Liberals because of their incremental change agenda on the environment," Merner said. "And they still have the same kind of incremental change agenda on health care."
The film, which receives its Canadian premier October 7, takes viewers inside a network of underground healers, sharing news of a promising if controversial treatment for problematic drug use.
In a first for Canada, London Drugs recently completed a successful test of new technology that could help bridge this gap between urban and rural access to medicine.
The cooperatives would function similar to buyers clubs of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, letting members procure pharmaceutical opioids as safer alternatives to illegal drugs found the street.
