Aubrey's Run to End Toxic Drug Death Happening Now

March 01, 2023 by Guest User

Moms Stop the Harm BC Member, Jessica Michalofsky is training to run across BC during the months of May and June of 2023. After running around the BC Ministry of Health Building for six weeks this past winter, Jessica decided to redirect her focus. Jessica will begin her run in Nelson, BC where her son Aubrey lived and died. “I decided to put my focus somewhere else and so for the run across BC, my focus is more on the people involved, people who use drugs, their families and young people….I feel like we need to band together” (The Northern View).

STILL DYING FOR ACCESS in Alberta!

October 19, 2022 by Angela Welz

In Alberta people are DYING FOR ACCESS to harm reduction, safer supply and evidence based treatment.

In February of 2022, Moms Stop The Harm and Albertans for Evidence-Based Drug Policy joined in solidarity with people who use drugs in rallies and vigils held in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge for the many lives lost to drug poisoning deaths. Nothing has been done since that time and in fact the Alberta government has made matters incrementally worse and the deaths continue to ravage communities and Albertan families.

Update - Paper Petition to the Government of Canada

October 05, 2022 by Angela Welz

Please consider helping by doing a petition!

In November of 2019, Moms Stop The Harm members launched a petition urging the Government of Canada to take action on the drug poisoning and overdose crisis.

This was all during the time of COVID lock downs, but our members took heed and completed petitions and sent them to their MPs who then presented them in the House of Commons, thereby sending our urgent message to the federal government!

You can find out more information here on how you can help us continue this important work by reading more below.

IOAD Awareness Day 2022 - suggestion ACTIONS

July 18, 2022 by Angela Welz

Please consider helping by doing a petition!

In November of 2019, Moms Stop The Harm members launched a petition urging the Government of Canada to take action on the drug poisoning and overdose crisis.

You can find out more information here on how you can help us continue this important work by reading more below.

MSTH is sending MP's to summer school this year

June 27, 2022 by Angela Welz in Public Health Emergency, Drug poisoning crisis

The House of Commons is taking a summer break and MPs are heading back to their homes until September 19th, 2022 when the HoC resumes.

On June 1st, 2022, MP Philip Lawrence (Conservative), who represents the riding where I live in Ontario, voted NO to sending Bill C-216 to the Standing Committee on Health for further evaluation. This got me thinking; Lawrence should really be hitting summer school over the next couple of months to better educate himself on the national public health emergency that is the toxic drug and overdose crisis.

I decided to give MP Lawrence his first assignment: READ THE BOOK Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis by Benjamin Perrin. I bought a copy and delivered it in person to his constituency office; while Lawrence was still in Ottawa, his chief of staff received it and my request for them both to read it this summer. I told him I'd be expecting their reports before they head back to session in the fall.