14 years ago, I was homeless, struggling with addiction, and eating Thanksgiving dinner alone on the streets. Today, I'm sober, married, and surrounded by family and love. The greatest gift isn't what's on the table. It's who's around it and being alive to enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving! ❤️🇨🇦

Former heroin user here. Never knew you could inject weed. Apparently, Fox News knows more about drugs than actual drug users. 😂

Congratulations to Navi Pillay. She also said during an applause for her recognition: "If you clap longer I might share this with TRUMP" LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

What’s next, feeding people to the lions? Turning executions into public spectacles is barbaric. Smh 🙄 America is nuts.

4/4 Not because he abandoned his Conservative values, but because he realized compassion, dignity and keeping people alive were never at odds with them. He didn't just change his opinion. He became an advocate for the very people he'd once dismissed.

3/4 He met the nurses, saw the care, the detox upstairs, and the connections to recovery. He walked in believing these places enabled addiction, he walked out understanding they save lives. Today, he's one of their biggest supporters.

2/4 I replied, “That's a dumb comment to make while holding your grandson. He might not be alive if one hadn't saved my life and connected me to recovery.” You should have seen his face when I said that. 😳 “Whoops. I didn't think that through.” So I arranged a tour.

1/4 Years ago, my lifelong Conservative father-in-law was holding his grandson when he said supervised consumption sites “just enable drug use.”

More police doesn't reduce addiction. More police doesn't reduce mental illness. More police doesn't reduce homelessness. More police doesn't reduce poverty. More housing,more healthcare,more treatment,more outreach, more resources & more support does. That's how you build healthier communities

“Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing technology they hope could one day save someone, even when no one is there to help. It's a wearable patch designed to detect dangerously high levels of fentanyl in the body and then automatically releases naloxone.”

I mean, there are some fentanyl programs that help people. Crosstown clinic continues to work for some as well.

You asked for age. Yes the percentage of people on safer supply hydromorphone was very low. Unfortunately, it also didn't help a lot of people.

I'm not too sure.

Why are Indigenous people now being subjected to levels of overt hostility and racism unseen in decades? One chief recently told me he was denied entry into a store for being “Indian”.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Wow

This majestic owl is hanging out in my backyard.

I could like this a million times... A pizza shop owner sees a homeless woman digging through his garbage for food. He brings her inside, heats up a slice and gives her water. Then he puts up a sign: If you’re homeless and hungry, come in. I’ll feed you. No judgment, just humanity at its finest. ❤️