No one needs to die’: says grieving mother at awareness photo shoot for the opioid crisis
It was an emotional scene as family and friends who have lost loves ones in…
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B.C. Minister of Mental Health takes a walk through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has been called ground zero in Canada’s opioid crisis. APTN News went…
Tobique First Nation hopes banishment will force drug dealers to move on
Increasingly, Indian Act bands are turning to an ancient form of justice called banishment to…
Safe haven ‘Little’s Place’ open in Surrey and ready to help women get off the streets
In March of 2018, Atira Women’s Resource Society began demolishing the abandoned Motel Hollywood in…
Conviction of Cree man for selling fish an infringement of treaty rights, say First Nation leaders
Indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan are calling the recent government sting of a Canoe Lake Cree…
Education program offers glimmer of hope amid Blood Tribe opioid crisis
Receiving her certificate in customer service and sales is a moment Lori Eagle Plume has…
Expanded health services, including access to pot needs to be considered says doctor as Blood Tribe opioid crisis continues
On the Blood Tribe reserve in Alberta, witnessing an overdose has become a daily occurrence…
Does pot legalization put Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society back in business?
The Overdose Prevention Society is hoping the legalization of marijuana puts the organization back…
Ian Campeau and wife Justine talk about what turned them to medicinal marijuana
Ian and Justin Campeau talk about her battle with breast cancer, and the standard medical drugs that pushed them towards medicinal marijuana.