Harm Reduction

Posted: December 3, 2024

Mapping colonial harms – new report

Released December 3, 2024 Social emergencies relating to deaths caused by suicide, violence, drug misuse/poisoning, community fires, and/or health-care services have been declared in northern First Nations in Manitoba and, in some communities, multiple times. While the definition …

Category: Aboriginal issues, Child Welfare, colonialism, economic well-being, Harm Reduction, Manitoba Research Alliance, Mental Health, MMIWGTS+, racism, Rural Health, social exclusion, women, youth Tags: Elizabeth Comack, Jonathan Meikle

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Posted: August 24, 2023

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August 25, 2023 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba research, published in 2017 in collaboration with Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, suggests that the costs of the landfill search for Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are dwarfed by …

Category: Aboriginal issues, Child Welfare, colonialism, Harm Reduction, Homelessness, Indigenous, inequality, Landfill, MMIWGTS+, Press Release, racism, safety, Uncategorized, violence, women

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Last Updated: March 30, 2023

Why Don’t We Just Care?

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Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 30, 2023 By Elizabeth Comack In “A Tale of Two Sentences” (March 18, 2023 Winnipeg Free Press) Dean Pritchard reports on the stories of two men who were facing similar …

Category: Aboriginal issues, colonialism, Crime, Harm Reduction, Homelessness, Incarceration, Indigenous, inequality, Manitoba, Mental Health Tags: Elizabeth Comack

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Last Updated: March 1, 2023

Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites

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By Thomas Linner,

Category: Harm Reduction, healthcare, Safe consumption site, Uncategorized Tags: Manitoba, Thomas Linner

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Last Updated: June 7, 2021

Supervised Consumption Site…

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CCPA Manitoba Presentation to Standing Policy Committee on Protection, Community Services and Parks in support of the tabling of the Supervised Consumption Site in Winnipeg report June 7, 2021 – presented by Molly McCracken

Category: Harm Reduction, healthcare, Manitoba, Safe Consumption Tags: Ellen Smirl, Molly McCracken