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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team
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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:
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 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
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Waterloo Region Drug Action Team
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
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