Carolyn Bennett

• More doctors across Canada should prescribe safer drugs to reduce overdoses: minister

  Carolyn Bennett said a guidance document by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia could be very helpful in other provinces and territories.

  Health

  Jul 20
  
• Federal government announces program to fight opioid poisoning in Edmonton

  The federal government will spend more than $1 million to fight opioid poisoning in Edmonton.

  Health

  Jul 12
  
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• Federal government has no plan on safe drug supply to reduce overdoses, MP says

  NDP MP Gord Johns said the federal minister of mental health and addictions Carolyn Bennett has been vague on how she would deliver safe opioid supply.

  Health

  Jul 12
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• ‘In a crisis’: Deaths of Indigenous women in Winnipeg spark calls for safe housing

  'There's been so many losses, it seems like we're in a perpetual state of grief.'

  Crime

  Jun 27
• Health Canada proposes new vape crackdowns on sale and ingredient disclosure

  This proposed regulations mean vaping product manufacturers would have to disclose information to Health Canada about sales and ingredients used.  

  Health

  Jun 17
• ‘Exciting opportunity’ ahead for ministers to tackle mental health, homelessness: expert

  Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen said that he and Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett "will be very closely aligned.''

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2021
• Canada election results: Toronto—St. Paul’s

  Global News is projecting Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett has been re-elected for another term in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul's.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2021
• Peepeekisis Cree Nation, federal government reach settlement in colony specific claim

  Peepeekisis Cree Nation Chief Francis Dieter said the settlement was reached after decades of denials and opposition by the government and the judicial system.

  Canada

  Aug 11, 2021
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• Lack of consequences for Carolyn Bennett is par for the course for the Liberals

  If a Conservative behaved the way Carolyn Bennett did this week, the Liberals would be satisfied with nothing less than a resignation. And they’d be right, Rob Breakenridge says.

  Commentary

  Jun 26, 2021
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• Bennett faces call to resign after linking JWR residential school tweet with pension eligibility

  'UBCIC is deeply disturbed and disgusted by the extreme callousness, spite, and ignorance you have shown through the racist message you sent to MP Jody Wilson-Raybould on Twitter.'

  Politics

  Jun 25, 2021