Philippe Lucas
Working With You for a Better Victoria

By Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist June 5, 2009
 
 
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Times ColonistJune 2, 2009
 
 
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Special thanks to Gillian Maxwell, community activist and spokesperson for the Insite Community Safety Campaign in Vancouver, BC for her input on this article.
British Columbia has been leading the hemisphere in drug policy reform for years. The most recent civic elections confirm this point, and demonstrate the power of effective policy advocacy and public education.
In […]

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Insite Ruling on Right to Health Care Cited
A Victoria defence lawyer is arguing that the charter rights of a homeless heroin addict were violated when he was arrested with a needle in his hand in a secluded parking lot off Herald Street in June 2006.
Wayne Charters was poised to inject 0.3 millilitres of morphine into […]

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Times Colonist Editorial
Friday, September 19, 2008
 
The needle exchange — or the absence of one — is just another symbol of this community’s near total failure to deal with the escalating problems of addiction, mental illness, homelessness and crime.
There has been a massive leadership vacuum as disorder and despair have been allowed to overwhelm […]

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