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Mad Pride festival spreads beyond Parkdale
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Safe injection sites talks at next Board of Health meeting
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ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Historically, Mad Pride Toronto festival has been closely associated with the west end of the downtown and Parkdale in particular, but this year it’s hard to miss that the listing of Mad Pride events have migrated, largely, to the east end of Toronto’s downtown. Jeremiah Bach, with the Mad Pride Toronto Organizing Committee, said the shift is simply a case of spreading the annual event out across the city and not an exodus from the west end. “There have always been psychiatric survivors all over the City of Toronto whether it is Regent Park, St. James Town or any place between and we are looking to recognize that,” Bach said. “There are many communities of psychiatric survivors and mad people across the city so we wanted to give them a voice and a chance to participate.” Mad Pride, A Celebration of Madness, is an annual weeklong >>>bed, page 11
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COLOURFUL COSTUMES: Camila Rabiamski, 15, from the Cracovia Dance Ensemble performs a dance during the Polish Festival Sunday at the Chin Picnic at Exhibition Place. For more photos from the picnic, visit http://bit.ly/17RorGA
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Toronto’s Board of Health will be weighing the pros and cons of setting up a safe injection site similar to the Vancouver model, and possibly asking the provincial government to fund a pilot site in the city. That is the recommendation from a long-awaited report by the Toronto Medical Officer of Health, supporting the implementation of so-called supervised injection facilities in Toronto. The report is a response to Toronto’s eight-year-old drug strategy, which recommended looking into the viability of safe injection sites for heroine. Following the completion last year of a joint study by the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital, indicating Toronto should have at least three such sites, Medical Officer of Health Dr. David McKeown is recommending pushing forward. Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks has sat on the working group looking at ways to implement such a site. At this point, there are no recommendations as to a location for any site. “The issue for next week is not what location,” he said of the July 8 meeting of the Board >>>officer, page 6
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