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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Addendum 10

See also A1 cont'd 2/, 3/ above

Relentless targeted/attacked by the Conservative Party of Canada, other conservatives, and billionaire Chip Wilson / Pacific Prosperity Network's propaganda/attack populist media "Vancouver Is Dying", Insite saves lives, and engages an underpriviledged population (largely abandoned by gov. - see A above) with public health services.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A10 cont'd

* Insite does not supply any drugs
* medical staff present to provide addiction treatment, mental health assistance, & first aid in event overdose/wound
* Insite recorded 175,464 visits in 2017

Comment: Insite saves lives, and engages an under-priviledged population (largely abandoned by gov. - see A6 cont'd, above) w. public health services.

#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #Insite #VCH #addition #PublicHealth
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A10 cont'd 2/

* Insite relentlessly targeted/attacked by
Conservative Party of Canada (incl. populist shill Pierre Poilievre - see preceding Addendae)
other conservatives
billionaire Chip Wilson & his Pacific Prosperity Network's propaganda/attack populist media "Vancouver Is Dying"

#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #Insite #VCH #addition #PublicHealth #neoconservatism #populism #ConservativeParty #KenSim #ABCVancouver #PierrePoilievre #ChipWilson #DefundBillionaires #PacificProsperityNetwork