Dr Catherine Gray

Also ample evidence of this process on social media.

@guyfelicella This is true across Canada. Ottawa has the same issue- many of my pts come from towns and small cities around us. And we are a major catchment area for the north, and English-speaking Quebec. But the DTES absorbs pts from across Canada, which makes it unique.

The Downtown Eastside didn’t create this crisis. It was forced to absorb it. Thread 🧵👇

“Health-care professionals are often among the few individuals outside exploitative networks to encounter trafficked people—yet responses within health-care systems remain inconsistent”.

@KarmSumal @guyfelicella @iamkennethchan We’ve always agreed on that. So what are you doing to help in the community you’re from?

@guyfelicella @iamkennethchan So Vancouver shouldn’t house all of this? If that’s what you’re saying I guess we agree on that

Former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell on Downtown Eastside organizations. "We don't know where the money's going." "We spend a lot of money down there. It's not about the amount that we spend. It's about the results that we get." #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/down…

Inner cities across Canada are full of people from rural areas or smaller cities. And those places don’t look after their own, for whatever reasons It’s time they do. So many want to go home, but to a better home So be better 🇨🇦and look after your own- especially the children

Give the money directly to people there and half of them will leave within days/weeks. The rest will stay for the community, or to prey on the community. Make life more difficult for the latter. Trauma care for everyone left. The truth is- most are from away.

If you give that money directly to the people there, almost half will leave within days/weeks. Most want out. The rest want the community, or want to prey on the community. Make life challenging for the latter and things will improve Trauma care for everyone left.

In an incredible twist of sheer policy lunacy, Ontario Works and ODSP for people who are homeless doesn't include the usual $390-599/month - for shelter. We should allow them to save it up to pay for housing when secured. By @NCHetherington @DailyBreadTO thestar.com/opinion/contri…

@MarcotteNormand @guyfelicella @ZoeDodd Except in the long term safe consumption sites save money. So not sure why “cuts have to be made”? These closures are ideological policy, not fiscally responsible policy.

@guyfelicella @ZoeDodd Hard to agree or disagree, cuts have to be made, not easy to balance all this.

In the 9 months before supervised consumption sites shut down in March of 2025, emergency room visits dropped by 47%. After they were closed, all that progress was reversed with emergency room visits increasing to 67%. SCS were doing exactly what they intended to do.

Surprised and proud to be nominated, with @OmarMosleh, for a National Newspaper Award, while knowing there is no gala for the people we chronicled who rely on, or work at, safe consumption sites being shuttered by the Ford govt. A few more thoughts here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

@RussDiabo She’s a national hero. 🧸

@cg_dr Yes, Cindy Blackstock! On-Reserve discrimination of children in child welfare policy!

How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

@RussDiabo fncaringsociety.com/i-am-witness/b… We don’t need to go back to the 70s to find this stuff (ie).

@RussDiabo More recently didn’t they allegedly spy on teddy bears? Because children getting healthcare is threatening somehow?

Our tax dollars at work. Meanwhile my neighbourhood laundry $ shops happily snow washing.

Canada -the proud home of "snow washing". Extortion of the elderly, cybercrime, it goes on... But you go on - criminalize the unhoused and untreated, talk about that in your op-eds, close down services, rant about 'free' drugs. Your lack of courage is showing.

But yeah - its "white collar" crime. So short sentences if you get caught, + if there's enough proof. Banks have done it - you're in good company. Meanwhile I have pts doing close to life, for what? Breaching conditions, jaywalking, contempt of court...(i.e no shows). SMH

An oldie but a goodie: 5 Canadian lawyers accused of money laundering or suspicious financial transactions ctvnews.ca/canada/article… Who benefits from money laundering? - traffickers: of people (for sex, slavery/indentured labour, immigration, pedophilia), animals, organs, drugs.

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I’m alive because I was brought back to life at a supervised consumption sites. Without them: No recovery. No kids. No life. The drug supply today is even more toxic. Closing these sites doesn’t stop drug use, it stops people from surviving it. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…