Speaking about the opioid crisis on CBC's Power & Politics

Most of the inmates present in this video have no conviction and the actions undertaken by prison staff are fully illegal. This is happening in Ontario — where all of @fordnation's "law and order" talk glosses over a justice system they've helped to break.

Ontario's lawyer said the Ford government isn't banning supervised consumption sites — they can simply move away from schools/daycares. The health minister's office tells me that's not true. She won't allow any sites to relocate. #onpoli #topoli https://t.co/0T0xfwGd6A

Do regular people understand what this means? Witnessed consumption isn't a harmless fix. Often ppl must make MULTIPLE TRIPS to the pharmacy in the SAME DAY — you can't travel, can't work, can't live far from the pharmacy. It ruins your life or you give up on safe supply.

Today, I launched an election campaign with members of the newly formed Ontario Coalition for the Rights of Homeless People (OCRHP). We demand that the next provincial government: 1. Commit to building the housing that Ontarians both need and that is their fundamental right.

While I certainly understand the importance of talking to US audiences about the negatives of tariffs, the major media outlets that cover Doug Ford daily - whose audiences make up the voters in the province he governs - have been repeatedly refused interviews for years. #onpoli

All these hot takes by conservatives who suddenly have an interest in the illicit fentanyl trade while they spent the last 5 years going after safe supply and compassion clubs! FYI we were trying to help people move away from their reliance on the illicit market!!! SMH

Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp

I need to be clear what is happening in Ontario ERs. I need to be clear I do not believe the Ford administration has faithfully served the public. I don't care how you vote. I just want you to know the reality ER patients know only too well. - 1/5

Breaking: Private investigators have been poking around two Toronto supervised consumption sites of late. Staff worried they were hired by the Ford government to bolster its arguments against the sites. They were right. #onpoli #topoli https://t.co/NstvzjDjmb

This is such a wild story from @jackhauen: The Ford government hired private investigators to scope out two supervised consumption sites as the province looks to fight a charter challenge on its legislation to ban the sites. https://t.co/cWjLzbhdEh #onpoli

For the last two weeks there have been private investigators trolling around supervised consumption sites in Toronto trying to gather info against them. Going in to businesses, reportedly taking photos. Rumoured to have been hired by a law firm hired by the Conservative party.

I have reversed dozens of overdoses on the front-line and been in casual contact with fentanyl many times. Police have the same overdose response training I do, which means that they should know that merely touching fentanyl won't result in an OD.

This is not accurate. Among the speakers were doctors and nurses, a lawyer and former Toronto mayor, policy experts and several folks who work in harm reduction, including one with a PhD in biochemistry from NY’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine

1/A trial in @JAMAInternalMed finds that when opioid-treated patients with pain volunteered for a trial encouraging taper, they tended to be tapered modestly, not a lot, without much real benefit or harm 🤷🏼‍♂️ This doesn't teach us much we didn't already know, but I will unpack it:

Thank you for naming me one of 12 of Toronto’s most inspiring women for 2024! Love being on this list with all these amazing women! Our city is lucky!! ❤️❤️❤️

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a crime. Don’t blame the victims by criminalizing them or taking away their human rights , use the humane policy solutions that we know work. Wellesley Institute

Amnesty International’s new landmark report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Full report, out now. #EndGazaGenocide

Remember this when he talks about closing supervised injection sites and people die if they do.

In Kitchener today,

This is false. The majority of people who recover from addiction do so without formal treatment. #ableg