I feel like the right to a safe consumption site, is the same as the right to a safe abortion clinic.
They shouldn’t have to risk their lives because they want to do something you don’t agree with.
Healthcare is healthcare
whether you like it or not.
#mybodymychoice
#saveoursites
The Online Safety Act threatens net plurality.
ORG calls on the government not to centralise power in monopoly Big Tech. We need measures to introduce competition, so users can choose platform experiences they can trust.
Write to your MP #SaveOurSites ⬇️
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The government must change the categorisation of sites under the Online Safety Act to protect net plurality.
Small and well moderated sites should be exempt from these duties to stop them from closing or blocking UK users.
Tell your MP to #SaveOurSites ⬇️
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Wikipedia are going to court over the Online Safety Act!
Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.
We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it. #SaveOurSites
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Competition makes for a safer Internet.
We urge Ministers to exempt small community sites that are at little risk of hosting harmful content and not force them to collapse under the weight of disproportionate duties.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites ⬇️
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We're posting live on X and Instagram. HIV is covering Bluesky platform. Show your support: #SaveOurSites!
We'll be posting live as the session begins today. Join us to show support: #SaveOurSites
2/2 These are NOT “drug dens” This is NOT a uniquely 🇨🇦 problem.
@canDrugPolicy@bsky.social
@hivLegalNetwork@bsky.social …
#saveOurSites …
"a national emergency, not a political debate."
The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians weighs in on supervised consumption services - merci CAEP!
#YesToSCS #SaveOurSites #ONpoli
Full statement: caep.ca/wp-content/u...
We look forward to seeing you at the debrief. Got questions? Want to know more? Join us at 12:00 pm today.
#SaveOurSites
Government of Ontario counsel is arguing that a health service is not immune from closure just because it has benefits.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
If having a consumption space is too much to bear, not sure how they'll handle public deaths and public drug use. #saveoursites #harmreductionispublichealth #CTSsaveslives #CTScourtchallenge #saveCTS #ONpoli
Toronto Public Health Counsel: since 2015, the death toll in Toronto due to toxic drug crisis is the equivalent of six Dash 8 airplanes crashing at Billy Bishop airport every two months.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
Counsel for Toronto Public Health continues: safe consumption sites are a necessary response to the current health crisis being caused by toxic drugs in Canada.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
Posting this again:
Street Health in Toronto is hiring grief counselors in anticipation of the impact of Ontario's Community Care and Recovery Act taking effect.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
Counsel for former Toronto mayors Barbara Hall and John Sewell - who have both been very supportive of this Charter Challenge - is now up to intervene.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
This will be today’s thread for live-updates from the courthouse in the Charter Challenge to the Ontario law that will force many safe consumption sites in the province to close by the end of this month.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli
Woof! Dark times my friends! We need to turn the car around IMMEDIATELY
#saveoursites #YestoSCS
AC is now reading past statements made by #Ontario government officials about their desire to eliminate harm reduction and safe consumption services.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
AC: It is crystal clear that this law is meant to frustrate the federal law.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
Just received this photo of HIV Legal Network Co-Executive Director Janet Butler McPhee at today's rally! Thank you @tngcommunityto.bsky.social !
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
“Save our sites or fill your morgues.”
“People are afraid. People are very, very scared.”
Follow the latest from inside the court c/o @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social + @tngcommunityto.bsky.social
#SaveOurSites #CTSsaves
Court is back in session with the lawyers for @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and the two individual applicants presenting further arguments.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
AC: Section 15 is about substantive equality and protects people who - due to certain disadvantages - experience laws that appear to be "neutral" much differently.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
Applicant's Counsel: if you close alternatives to public consumption, you push consumption back into the public domain.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
This is incredibly important! Follow live updates here for the legal challenge looking to strike down Ford’s cruel and unscientific policy of shuttering any supervised consumption site within 200m of a school or daycare. #harmreduction #saveoursites
Applicants lawyer says that the correct question is whether Ontario’s law exacerbates risk to people who use drugs. The answer is yes, "unequivocally.”
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
In contrast, Ontario did not call one expert regarding the efficacy of SCS in Ontario.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
We have prepared a backgrounder on this Charter Challenge, including a Glossary of Terms. Find it here:
www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/backgro...
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
Applicants lawyers now focusing on the major harm to service users that would be caused by relocation. Even if possible, moving could make sites inaccessible to clients. 90% of clients are experiencing homelessness and can't just jump in a car to get to another CTS.
#SaveOurSites #CTSontario
