Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Andrea Woo
Publication Date: February 24, 2025 - 07:00
Fate of B.C. safer supply program uncertain with witnessed dosing requirement
February 24, 2025
Juls Budau takes her prescription hydromorphone three times per day: a half tablet shortly after waking up, while making her morning coffee; another in the afternoon, while wrapping up work; and a third in the evening as she readies for bed.The Victoria resident says that this regimen has played an important role in helping her stop using the street drugs that she had once been dependent on. Picking up her prescription once a week means she is able to focus on her work as a research assistant, and on finishing her master’s degree in social work.
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A bill that would allow the Nova Scotia government to carve out a protected riding for the Acadian region of Chéticamp passed the committee stage Monday without changes, despite voter parity concerns raised by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.The legislation is in response to a Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling in November that said the Charter rights related to voting and the electoral representation of Acadians in northwestern Cape Breton were violated when the community wasn’t considered for protected riding status in 2019.The bill would allow the government to appoint a special...
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