Waterloo Region Drug Action Team
@wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social
Community-led effort to action solutions to Waterloo Region's drug poisoning tragedy. It's a crisis, not a spectator sport! Unfunded. Volunteer. Non-partisan. Honest. Find us on Insta at: @wrdrugactionteam
Lots of talk in Ontario - and a genuine absence of provincial interest in activating evidence-based solutions like... housing.
11/2024: "We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people."
- Premier Doug Ford
06/2025: Bill 6, jail and fines for folks in encampments
This morning:
11/2024: "We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people."
- Premier Doug Ford
06/2025: Bill 6, jail and fines for folks in encampments
This morning:
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Lots of talk in Ontario - and a genuine absence of provincial interest in activating evidence-based solutions like... housing.
11/2024: "We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people."
- Premier Doug Ford
06/2025: Bill 6, jail and fines for folks in encampments
This morning:
11/2024: "We are going to make sure we find proper shelter for these people."
- Premier Doug Ford
06/2025: Bill 6, jail and fines for folks in encampments
This morning:
Last night the Housing Ends Homelessness Act (Bill 28) was debated at Queens Park. The Bill sought a provincial strategy to coordinate and activate solutions to end homelessness within 10yrs. PC MPPs spoke against the Bill and is expected to die today in a formal vote.
cc: @ericwickham.ca
cc: @ericwickham.ca
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Last night the Housing Ends Homelessness Act (Bill 28) was debated at Queens Park. The Bill sought a provincial strategy to coordinate and activate solutions to end homelessness within 10yrs. PC MPPs spoke against the Bill and is expected to die today in a formal vote.
cc: @ericwickham.ca
cc: @ericwickham.ca
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The closure of the supervised consumption site has made the community less safe. With no place to go, people are using drugs on the street and closer to children. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Is Chinatown safer without a supervised consumption site? Neighbours say no | CBC News
Two months after Somerset West Community Health Centre closed its injection site, neighbours say they've witnessed a surge in public drug use.
www.cbc.ca
August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The closure of the supervised consumption site has made the community less safe. With no place to go, people are using drugs on the street and closer to children. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Last year at #AMO the province and a handful of radical mayors made a raging tragedy worse by defunding #CTS #SCS sites, benefiting no one. Lest we forget. #ProtectOntario
August 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Last year at #AMO the province and a handful of radical mayors made a raging tragedy worse by defunding #CTS #SCS sites, benefiting no one. Lest we forget. #ProtectOntario