Hamilton Opioids

• Hamilton endorses new safe consumption site on Barton Street

  Hamilton's council finalized an endorsement of a community organization's application to provide a safe space on Barton Street for drug users.

  Health

  Feb 23, 2023
  
• Hamilton board of health endorses application for new safe consumption site

  Hamilton's board of health has endorsed a community organization's application to provide a safe space where users can inject drugs in a supervised setting to avoid overdose.

  Health

  Feb 13, 2023
  
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• City receives letters of opposition to east Hamilton safe injection site location

  Statistics presented to the board of health on Oct. 19, show Hamilton had Ontario’s fifth-highest opioid-related death rate in 2020 at 29 per cent above the provincial rate.

  Health

  Nov 16, 2021
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• Hamilton police charge pair with string of gunpoint pharmacy robberies

  In early February, police had recovered stolen narcotics and other evidence related to the robberies while executing search warrants at four separate Hamilton residences.

  Crime

  Mar 4, 2021
• City urged to act to prevent closure of Hamilton’s Wesley Day Centre

  Wesley Urban Ministries has said it's being forced to close its day centre on Ferguson Avenue as of August 23, because the landlord isn't renewing its lease.

  Politics

  Jun 20, 2019
• Family members of Barton Street jail inmates call Kijiji ads mocking memorial crosses ‘hurtful’

  "It goes beyond ignorance. It's so disrespectful to the families," said Amy McKechnie, whose brother Ryan died from an overdose at the jail in 2017.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2019
• Hamilton seeks to operate its own safe injection site

  The board has also voted to seek full provincial funding of the consumption and treatment services site (CTS), estimated at more than $1.3 million.

  Health

  Mar 19, 2019
• Public health warns of Blue Heroin in Hamilton

  So far this year, Hamilton paramedics have responded to over 200 suspected opioid overdoses.

  Health

  Jun 22, 2018
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• City council approves supervised injection site negotiations, bike lane tribute

  Ward 2 Coun. Jason Farr stresses that this week's provincial offer of a temporary site on Rebecca Street gives the city six months to find a permanent solution.

  Politics

  May 10, 2018