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Ontario’s Factum is available to download at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f6jcp2knf1tfk01aq8ya1/Factum-Respondent-HMKRO-18-MAR-2025.pdf?rlkey=d3jwzvv9ufhmsoopzqk4rjs7i&st=kyql27g5&dl=0 

This info sheet provides an overview of the Community Care and Recovery Act – Ontario legislation that will lead to the shutdown of supervised consumption services in Ontario.

This backgrounder provides information about the constitutional challenge to Ontario’s Community Care and Recovery Act launched by The Neighbourhood Group Community Services and two individual applicants who argue that the closure of Consumption and Treatment Services Sites in Ontario violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Ontario’s Record is available to download at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fv4s949zzdcf40e4ka7ay/AA7v4zQieSPnbZc2wKLhjdE/Ontario’s%20evidence?rlkey=2jad0jvlgrd41ol36owos0vh5&subfolder_nav_tracking=1&st=qm1g7sh9&dl=0

The Applicants Record is available to download at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fv4s949zzdcf40e4ka7ay/AN8KkRJWAshef9DCNHLltKk?rlkey=2jad0jvlgrd41ol36owos0vh5&st=1i1062rk&dl=0 

Overdose mortality and the legitimacy crisis facing policing have propelled momentum for drug law reform. Yet, resulting reforms and associated protections are often functionally undermined by enforcement practices and the legal environment faced by people who use drugs. To explore this tension, we conducted a community-based study in Ontario, Canada. Our findings show that people’s … Read more

The HIV Legal Network and HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (“HIV Coalition”) intervene jointly in this case to address the direct, deadly, and disproportionately adverse impact of ss. 2 and 3 of the Community Care and Recovery Act, 2024, S.O. 2024, c. 27, Sch. 2 (“impugned provisions”) on the rights of diverse communities of … Read more

Everyone — including people who have been detained — has a right to the highest attainable standard of health and to healthcare that is at least equivalent to that which is available in the community, whatever their immigration status. The current system — which allows for indefinite and punitive detention without comprehensive oversight — fails … Read more

DECEMBER 10, 2024 – Toronto, ON – Today, The Neighbourhood Group Community Services (TNGCS), located in Toronto’s Kensington Market, has taken legal action against the Community Care and Recovery Act, which was recently passed in the Ontario Legislature as part of Bill 223. The Act will force the closure of at least 10 supervised consumption … Read more

People living with HIV in Canada still live under the threat of ongoing criminalization; Canadian Government’s decision to abandon law reform efforts met with disappointment and anger November 28, 2024 – Ottawa, ON — With World AIDS Day approaching on December 1, and as a 2025 federal election looms, the Government of Canada has communicated … Read more

This statement can be attributed to the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario, and the HIV Legal Network. November 27, 2024 — Toronto, ON | We are watching with grave concern as the Government of Ontario attempts to force through radical legislation that will eliminate life-saving supervised consumption services (SCS) and … Read more

Advocates denounce the Government’s deliberate choice to legislate an increase in deaths, public drug use, and healthcare costs by eliminating supervised consumption services This statement can be attributed to the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Drug Strategy Network of Ontario, HIV Legal Network, and Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. November 20, 2024 – Earlier this week, … Read more

Ontario’s new restrictions on supervised consumption services will result in more death during a worsening drug poisoning crisis; dead people cannot enter treatment. This statement can be attributed to the HIV Legal Network, the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, and Area (ACCKWA), Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Drug Strategy Network of Ontario, DIY Community Health … Read more

For immediate release Aussi disponible en français : The Government of Canada knows that law reform is needed but has yet to act in Parliament — and the world is watching as international advocates gather at AIDS 2024 in Munich The following statement can be attributed to the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization July 16, … Read more

With supervised consumption services under attack in Canada, this report details an evidence-based response to scaling up life-saving services for people who use drugs For immediate release Thursday, May 30, 2024 — Toronto — The HIV Legal Network is sharing new evidence that underfunding and the strict regulations imposed on supervised consumption services (SCS) are … Read more

May 28, 2024 – For immediate release – The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected sex workers’ request to intervene and participate in Kloubakov v Canada, a case concerning the constitutionality of sex work laws based on sex workers’ Charter rights. The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform (CASWLR) is a coalition of 23 … Read more

Ottawa, ON | April 29, 2024 – On the eve of the tenth anniversary of her son Danny’s death from unregulated drugs, Petra Schulz, co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH), will testify before the federal Standing Committee on Health (HESA) today on the “Opioid Epidemic and Toxic Drug Crisis.” Since MSTH’s founding in 2016, … Read more

Today, in a major win for human rights — and LGBTQ+ rights, in particular —, the High Court of Justice in Dominica struck down two sections of the country’s Sexual Offences Act (SOA) that criminalize same-sex intimacy. This welcome decision in the constitutional challenge, launched by a gay man who must remain anonymous for his … Read more