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In the News

"Speak the truth even if your voice shakes."

As a social justice advocate I believe in using my voice to bring awareness to issues people wish to remain blind to. I have been very vocal about failures of our mental health system in Ontario and community interference and opposition to a proposed Supervised Consumption Site in Barrie. Thus I have been in the news a lot lately. Here are some of the ways I have been using my voice in my community.

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At Issue: SCSL advocates for a Supervised Consumption Site in Barrie's downtown

February 11, 2021

A round table discussion about the importance of a Supervised Consumption Site in downtown Barrie

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Mom who lost son to tainted drugs disgusted by business-led push to move potential supervised consumption site

February 11, 2021

Christine Nayler says she's on a mission to get a supervised drug consumption site set up in Barrie, Ont., after her son's death. But the local business improvement area is spending $28,000 on a lobbying firm with the goal of having the site moved away from the downtown core, where Nayler and others say it's needed most.

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‘People are dying’: What does it take to get a supervised-consumption site?

January 21, 2021

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit and local organizations are poised to apply for provincial funding. But the process is long and complicated — and there’s no guarantee of success

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