In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, at Ground Zero of the opioid crisis, once-controversial Insite is now just one small part of a tragic landscape
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Election 2015: Four weeks in the life of a country
Life, death and politics in the first four weeks of the federal election campaign
The science is in. And Insite works.
Top researchers gather to learn how Vancouver’s safe injection site has made B.C. a medical world-beater—and a political pariah
Denis Coderre vs. Ottawa on supervised-injection sites
Emmett Macfarlane examines the looming showdown between Montreal and Rona Ambrose on supervised-drug-injection facilities
Justin Trudeau, safe injection facilities and scary drugs
Is it time to ban alcohol and cigarettes too?
Health care workers may be immune to unemployment
Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more
The politics of the heroin addict
Rona Ambrose and Pierre Poilievre just say no
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside gets new lease on life
Signs of hope and renewal in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood
The ecstasy and the agony
If the government makes it impossible make pure MDMA, is it really surprising when dirty MDMA hits the market?
Another year’s federal politics in 12 chapters
Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet’s powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill—twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories. But for our purposes here, in this second annual stocktaking of the year just ending, it’s the 12 calendar months that matter. Pick just one political story for each page, and 2011’s kaleidoscope might just take a turn from jumbled to intelligible.