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Opioid Crisis

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Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation declares substance use emergency April 25, 2023 Chief of the northernmost First Nation in Yukon says her community isn’t immune to the addictions crisis.   Read more.
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‘21 seconds’: Anatomy of the police shooting that killed Josephine Pelletier April 4, 2023 ASIRT clears Calgary police tactical officers in 2018 basement barricade incident   Read more.
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First manslaughter charge laid in Yukon in relation to overdose death April 3, 2023 Jared Skookum has been charged with manslaughter in the April 2022 death of Stephanie Pye.   Read more.
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First Nation in Yukon declares state of emergency following double homicide March 16, 2023 The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun made the declaration on March 14.   Read more.
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Bennett backs supervised consumption sites day after Manitoba bill on licensing them March 15, 2023 "We want to make sure that nothing is increasing the barriers to people getting harm reduction," said Bennett.   Read more.
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Report details a decade of deaths and injuries connected to Alberta’s child welfare system March 3, 2023 Alberta’s Advocate for Children and Youth has released 10 years of disturbing statistics. The new...   Read more.
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Yukon’s substance use emergency declaration ‘just blank words’ says advocate February 2, 2023 Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee declared the emergency last January in response to a spike in drug overdose deaths.   Read more.
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‘These deaths were preventable’: First Nations people make up 15% of drug overdoses in B.C. February 2, 2023 The chief coroner in British Columbia says 11,000 people have died from an overdose since...   Read more.
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Another tragic year for opioid-related deaths in the Yukon December 20, 2022 17 of 25 people who died of opioid-related deaths this year were Indigenous    Read more.