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#LdnOnt Ward4 City Councillor, Ground Zero for our City’s drug crisis | Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to results Bob Proctor | Opinions my own

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Susan Stevenson

2 months

So very grateful to @lpsmediaoffice for their efforts to address the community safety concerns associated with #safersupply in #LdnOnt #OldEastVillage

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2 months

Breaking news: Ontario has become the second province in Canada to officially recognize the diversion of safe supply into our communities, fueling organized crime, drug overdoses, addiction, weapon offences, and violence. This acknowledgment is a crucial step toward addressing

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Susan Stevenson

2 months

Thank you @PierrePoilievre for visiting Lorne Ave Park in #Ward4 #OEV #LdnOnt this morning and for speaking about the much needed changes to current policies & programs that are creating a SERIOUS lack of safety in our communities. Focusing funding dollars towards recovery &

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1 year

“the benefits harm-reduction programs were supposed to bring to.. communities simply have not arrived. It’s cringeworthy to hear experts citing 15 year old research to the contrary…as if the view from their back deck isn’t an all-night opioid horror show”

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Chris Selley: Harm-reduction proponents need to acknowledge its failures

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Susan Stevenson

9 months

“Empathy for people in the clutch of addiction is noble, and finding ways to help them is a moral necessity. But destigmatizing the use of the drugs that are destroying their life is a profoundly mistaken approach.”

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Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake

Blue America needs to send a stronger, more consistent message that hard drugs should be shunned.

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3 months

“I feel compelled to speak out about the HARM “safe supply” is causing in MY COMMUNITY ( #LdnOnt ).” “Since the program started in 2016, patient deaths and infections have shot up, and prescriptions have been diverted to the streets.” #addictioncrisis

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Dr. Sharon Koivu: 'Safe supply' has only worsened the addiction crisis in London, Ont.

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

Thoughts on this #LdnOnt ?

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

For anyone triggered or upset by some of my opinions and posts, please know that I am aware that we do not agree on many topics. Inclusivity and diversity includes differences in thought, opinion and expression. If you are struggling with this, please remember that you can

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

It’s odd. My bags can be searched entering the hockey arena, legal items are banned on planes for safety reasons and legal products are prohibited from use in certain areas for health reasons. I will ask about related rules in the #LdnOnt shelters, hubs and supportive housing.

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wrl58

5 months

@somerspsych Here's the memo for the healthcare workers. What is wrong with this province? It's like living in clown world.

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

The needs of families and our communities must be made a priority. Londoners have had enough too. #LdnOnt

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National Citizens Coalition

4 months

Children are being exposed to FENTANYL in parks, playgrounds, and on their sports fields. These Liberal-NDP pro-hard-drug policies are insane, and completely out-of-touch with the needs of families, and our communities. 🤢

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10 months

“Is it rude to bring up Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness employees’ pay? Maybe. But I wouldn’t do it if they actually, you know, ended homelessness. Instead, by every measure, homelessness is the exact opposite of being ended.”

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This is the Halifax Examiner’s November subscription drive. Typically, in this space I give you a little story that explains why you should subscribe, but today I spent all my morning writing the...

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Susan Stevenson

1 month

“Homeless service providers often tout their effectiveness in terms of meals served, beds provided or classes offered, research has shown. However, NONE of these measurements REFLECT SUCCESS in terms of reducing homelessness. These are measures of outputs, not impact. Outputs

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Susan Stevenson

2 months

It’s been over a year of speaking up about the public safety concerns associated with safer supply. And two years of listening to people share their personal stories about its negative impact on the neighbourhood and/or their families. Grateful to see this shift. #LdnOnt #OEV

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Adam Zivo

2 months

How it started -> how it’s going. What a difference one year makes.

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

The facts need to matter in #LdnOnt I have NEVER suggested that shelter or services be DENIED to anyone It is the type of services that I am looking to discuss I do NOT support taxpayer funding to enable people in their addiction or sexual exploitation

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Former chair of city diversity committee resigns, calls out city councillor

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Susan Stevenson

2 months

“Police.. are finding 8-mg.. Dilaudids that are prescribed as part of #safersupply …(opioids prescribed to people with narcotic addictions)” “diversion… is affecting community safety” in #LdnOnt

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About half of opioids seized by London, Ont., police last year were prescribed Dilaudids | CBC News

Police in London, Ont., say roughly half of the opioids they seized last year were prescribed, indicating they're being diverted onto city streets.

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

#LdnOnt ’s Safer Supply featured in this video. Are Londoners aware of what is happening in our city? It’s long past time to have serious discussions about the drug crisis facing our city and particularly our Old East Village. This is my Ward. This matters. CHANGE IS

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Laila Goodridge

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4 months

Trudeau-NDP so-called "safe supply" is fuelling addiction, death, crime & chaos. Conservatives will cancel this failed experiment and fund detox, treatment & recovery. Recovery is possible.

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

This June, #LdnOnt City Council will be asked to approve an “ALL-YEAR ALL-WEATHER” Encampment Strategy.🥺 ⛅️ ⛺️ 🌧️ ⛺️ 💨 ⛺️ ❄️ I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING an all-year all-weather Encampment Strategy. I would support an OUT OF THE PARKS, OUT OF TENTS & into RECOVERY FOCUSED

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Susan Stevenson

3 months

“You can provide all the harm reduction supplies you want, but it doesn't help people recover and get better and actually make a change in their life. This is a real opportunity to make a change in people's lives," said Chief Craig Ambrose First one in Ontario! #LdnOnt

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CTV London

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Premier cuts ribbon on addiction and mental health centre in Owen Sound

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

I believe we have a crisis in #LdnOnt . And it isn’t homelessness, it’s drugs. Yet we are not supposed to talk about it. Stop her from talking about it. The first step in solving a problem is to admit you have one. It’s okay to admit we have one; or at least it should be.

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1 month

'Almost as good as giving (addicts) cash': B.C. buries opioid report | National Post

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Adam Zivo: 'Almost as good as giving (drug users) cash' — Report slams 'safer supply' of free...

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Susan Stevenson

6 months

“Why are we always required to defend our character (no, we are not heartless) and intentions (no, we are not NIMBYs) when voicing normal concerns? Harm-reduction advocates invalidate our feelings when they tell us that unconscious bias and stigma are what drive our fear of

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Susan Khazaeli

6 months

@somerspsych The name “safe supply” is a misnomer. The whole industry around harm reduction is rife with double speak. And it’s dangerous and divisive. Please see my piece

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

Wrong. So wrong. On EVERY level #LdnOnt For all of you fighting so hard for their rights to be on our streets and in our parks, PLEASE join me in fighting to get them help and shelter instead.🥺

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Susan Stevenson

6 months

Dr Sharon Koivu, an addictions doctor based in #LdnOnt “said the consumption of safe supply drugs should be witnessed by medical professionals to ensure they cannot be diverted.” #AddictionCrisis

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B.C. mulling oversight committee amid pressure on drug diversion concerns | Globalnews.ca

Earlier this week, B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said RCMP had told him there was no evidence to suggest 'widespread diversion' of safe supply drugs.

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Susan Stevenson

8 months

“Keep in mind, too, that there are 1,700 shelter spaces in Edmonton, but at present fewer than 500 are occupied. There is no shortage of shelter spaces for those who want to use one.” #addictioncrisis

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GUNTER: Encampment shutdowns easily defended from rights, public-risk standpoints

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Susan Stevenson

9 months

“If supervised-consumption sites want public funds for running a federally illegal service, they need to actually save the lives they claim to save.”

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'Safe-injection' sites actually do no good at all

Mayor Eric Adams declared, “Overdose prevention centers keep neighborhoods and people struggling with substance use safe," but the evidence begs to differ.

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Susan Stevenson

2 months

#LdnOnt

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True North

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2 months

The number of hydromorphone pills seized by police in London has skyrocketed by 3,000% since the expansion of the city's 'safe' supply program in 2020. @ZivoAdam joins the show to discuss. Watch The Andrew Lawton Show:

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Susan Stevenson

11 months

Zoom in on this picture. This is a municipal parking lot in Old East Village. Where have all these needles and sharps containers come from? #LldnOnt #addictioncrisis #Ward4

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

Good morning #LdnOnt How are we doing on our goals of vibrant business districts and walkable neighbourhoods?

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

Residents…deal with the litter of used needles, pipes, condoms, vomit, feces & more… Yet, because these incidents & litter don’t happen at the centres, they aren’t counted as…caused by the facilities & their operations. But they should be; they must be

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LILLEY: Harm reduction programs unleash untold harm on neighbours

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Susan Stevenson

25 days

“I’ll be very frank, I’m not sold on these safe injection sites that are in neighbourhoods and needles are all flowing around — it’s a haven for drug dealers,”. “Let’s get these people the SUPPORT THEY NEED and BUILD MORE DETOX BEDS,” the premier said.

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Doug Ford hints at changes around safe injection sites as municipalities urge help for mental...

With Premier Doug Ford hinting provincial moves are afoot to restrict supervised drug consumption sites, municipalities say more help is needed on mental health, addiction and homelessness.

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Susan Stevenson

3 months

#LdnOnt Safer supply advocate admits kids likely use diverted opioids | National Post

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Adam Zivo: Safer supply advocate admits kids likely use diverted opioids

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2 months

“You cannot treat addiction with more drugs," she stressed. "You have to treat addiction with treatment and recovery." She believes that safe supply programs, as currently designed, are perpetuating harmful patterns of drug use under the guise of compassion. "We have legitimized

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Adam Zivo

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When Dr. Jenny Melamed, a Surrey-based addiction physician, heard that British Columbia was going to expand access to "safer supply," she knew it was going to be a disaster. Her concerns were quickly vindicated. Article by @lfahunt .

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

To my fellow #LdnOnt City Councillor, There is an ideological spectrum. Although I strongly disagree with many of your comments, I RESPECT your right to say them. FYI - your social media comments have zero impact on what I say and do. ZERO.

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

London could be first 🥰 #ldnont #homelesscrisis

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How to Solve Homelessness - SMERCONISH

We’re left with a catch-22, where cities and citizens are locked in a relentless cycle of being forced to accept the unacceptable.

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

A few candid thoughts on the hubs and their locations. I want to see decentralized services that are focused on recovery in #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

9 months

Merry Christmas!!! May peace and hope be with you today and always!! #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

2 years

“The changes needed are not hard. With gun allegations, there should be no bail. And perhaps it’s time to start keeping track of the records of judges and justices of the peace who release these accused on bail?” #ldnont #shooting #bailreform

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Joe Warmington

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WARMINGTON: Yet another innocent person shot by gunman on bail | Toronto Sun

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

There is a person in this wheelchair under the blankets. There are people sleeping in tents outside of a city funded shelter for sex workers. A public school in this photo. Is this truly the best that we can do? I cannot accept the unacceptable. What about you? #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

So much frustration……. So much sadness…….. So much wrong. What we are doing isn’t working. Not for this area of the city. It’s not okay. It’s not okay. It’s just not. #LdnOnt #SadStateOfAffairs

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

Every night there is commotion in the #LdnOnt Municipal Parking lot in #OEV that this family’s home backs onto. The funding for Ark Aid to provide homeless services MUST come with a commitment to address the significant and ongoing concerns in the back parking lot.

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

THANK YOU @CityofLdnOnt @lpsmediaoffice and everyone else who played a role in the encampment clean-ups that happened this Thursday & Friday in the #OEV municipal parking lots and on sidewalks. I received so many messages of gratitude!! You made a difference & brought hope.

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Susan Stevenson

1 month

Given the urgent crisis facing our cities, I think we need more conversations with the public about what services are currently being provided with taxpayer money and what the results have been. As municipalities ask for more funding (there is only one taxpayer), it’s critical

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Adam Zivo

1 month

A disgruntled Torontonian emailed me these photos, which were taken behind Regent Park Community Health Centre, just now. This is what "harm reduction" looks like in practice.

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Susan Stevenson

11 months

One year ago tonight, I was elected as the Ward 4 City Councillor 🥰🙌 THANK YOU to everyone who helped me get here. Together we can make our city better. #LdnOnt #Ward4 #citycouncil

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Susan Stevenson

3 months

It was 14 years ago that we celebrated what we knew would likely be your last Father’s Day…. Yet your love and advice still inspires me and encourages me. And I know that you are still my biggest fan. ❤️

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

“IDA pharmacy manager told RCMP patients are given up to 28 hydromorphone pills per day "which equated to approx. $440 or $480 a day" if resold.” $440/day $13K/month $158K/year per person ? 274 Londoners on SS $120K/day $3.6M/month $43M/year #LdnOnt ??

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Woman traded safe-supply drugs daily outside pharmacy in Prince George, B.C., RCMP warrant says |...

RCMP in the northern B.C. city of Prince George spent 10 days last month mounting a surveillance operation on a woman who allegedly stood outside a downtown pharmacy each morning trading illicit...

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

#ldnont has a drug crisis. Addicts need access to treatment and THEN into long term supportive housing. As a City Councillor, I don’t want to hear about sandwiches and water bottles…. City Council has power and responsibility at a much higher level.

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Are London's street drugs getting more potent or more toxic? Turns out it's a little of both | CBC...

Drug users say the city's supply of street opidoids is becoming cheaper and more powerful, but health officials disagree, saying tolerance to the drug is at an all-time high and dealers are cutting...

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

“It’s insanity” “Staff were also instructed to ignore obvious signs of drug dealing, and to admit patients and visitors even if they were suspected of bringing in, or dropping off, illicit substances.” I have been hearing terrible stories in #LdnOnt

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Adam Zivo: 'We've absolutely lost control' to drug users, desperate B.C. hospital nurses say

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

EVERY day I receive messages like this. It’s NOT right. This area pays the SAME property tax rate as the rest of the city. I cannot be silent. #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

“Often, her posts appear to be simple questions about accountability.” “I haven’t shared anything that….they haven’t publicly posted. I’m not attacking anybody. I’m having a conversation that is LONG overdue.” #LdnOnt #AddictionCrisis

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Time for Coun. Susan Stevenson to stop 'online one-sided attacks': Agencies

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Susan Stevenson

3 months

“I feel compelled to speak out about the harm “safe supply” is causing in my community” “Since the “safe supply” program started and expanded, the harms experienced in Middlesex-London have escalated substantially, beyond the rates experienced in the rest of the province”

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National Post

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Dr. Sharon Koivu: 'Safe supply' has only worsened the addiction crisis in London, Ont.

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Susan Stevenson

1 month

"Look, we all have compassion for people that are struggling with these issues,” he told CTV News on Tuesday. “But there also has to be… respect and dignity for others that are using these public spaces.”

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CTV Kitchener

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Guelph mayor calls out public drug use in city

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

#LdnOnt A new holistic approach available to anyone in the community: private room, private bathroom, three meals per day, recovery activities, peer support and formal services. Up to 45 rooms could be funded for less than $450K per year. $833/mth

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Recovery Community Centre Provides Support and Encouragement at London Centre of Hope - Ontario...

A handwritten sign on client Jacklyn Knight’s wall at the Recovery Community Centre (RCC) reads, ‘I am confident, and I am happy.’ The Salvation Army Recovery Community Centre in London brings people...

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Susan Stevenson

2 months

“When you have people that are homeless, that’s one situation,” he said. “But when you have people that are unlawful and are creating situations, and obviously impacts on communities, that’s another.”

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Growth in homelessness outpaces services in Lambton County

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

#LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

From Ontario to Toronto: “Under NO circumstances will our government EVER support your request, which would only: • add to crime • and public drug use • while doing NOTHING to support people struggling with addiction.”🔥 #LdnOnt 👂

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

Please do not dismiss people with the lived and living experience of RESIDING in the neighbourhood of #LdnOnt ’s “safer supply” program. Their panic isn’t moral, it’s visceral; for their physical, mental and financial health. Their reality isn’t up for debate. #SaferSupply

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Samuel Trosow

5 months

Thank you for your thread and link to this must read paper. As a city councillor in #LdnOnt your analysis of moral panic and moral entrepreneurs helps me put our debates about safe supply and homelessness into clear perspective. It really hits home.

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

⁦ @realsarahbee ⁩ sharing her thoughts on my having raised serious concerns about: #LdnOnt using TAXPAYER MONEY to FUND the EMPOWERMENT of female SEX WORKERS ***Again, this is NOT about whether we should serve these vulnerable women. It’s about HOW we serve them.

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

I left the Teen Challenge Canada 2024 Gala Banquet with a huge smile on my face and a tender heart. Simply in awe of the testimonials of lives changed and freed from addiction! The Men’s Choir was fantastic - and it’s difficult to imagine that some of these men were living on

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

The most important thing is that there's a long-term plan on how to provide the needed affordable social housing. Without that, homelessness is a mission impossible. Shelters should be for very short stays, & there should always be a route..out of shelters

London wants to eradicate homelessness. Here's how Finland is doing it | CBC News

A successful Finnish plan to eradicate homelessness is one London may want to consider as it works to redesign housing and health services.

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Susan Stevenson

1 month

Asmara Coffee House: fresh organic coffee, roasted on-site! ☕️ Open Monday-Friday from 7-7, Saturday 7-4 700 York Street. ☕️ Support our local #LdnOnt small businesses!! ❤️🙌😋 #Ward4

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

“50% of diversion is from “safe supply”” …….. #LdnOnt

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Laila Goodridge

@LailaGoodridge

5 months

At Health Committee today, the President of @BCPoliceChiefs admitted that 50% of hydromorphone diversion is from "safe supply" despite the NDP-Liberal government continuing to downplay the harms. @YaaraSaks shut down this failed experiment now!

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

#LdnOnt Let’s be the change.

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

Listen and let me know that you think of my answers to some great questions. Looking forward to being invited back as part of a panel discussing homelessness #LdnOnt

@CrossBorderPod

Cross Border Interviews with Chris Brown

@CrossBorderPod

1 year

CROSS BORDER INTERVIEWS: @CityofLdnOnt Councillor @StevensonLDN 📽️ Watch On Youtube: 🎧Listen: 💻 Website: #localgovernment #Municipality #CrossBorderInterviews

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

I’m a HUGE fan of murals. And I love all of them in #OEV and the stunning mosaics… NOW let’s address the problem. The needles, the feces, the garbage, the encampments, the open drug use, the erratic and violent behaviour, the CRIME, the VANDALISM….the lack of safety #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

11 months

Salvation Army Centre of Hope runs 107 emergency shelter beds on funding of $1.9M/year from #LdnOnt . It could run 45 recovery beds with funding of < $450K/year. With stays now 12-18 months instead of 6 weeks, I want to explore options to increase both funding and services.

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Susan Stevenson

1 year

I’m honoured to officially be a Director on the Ontario Association of Police Services Board (the leading voice of police governance in Ontario). Happy to represent @lpsmediaoffice and @CityofLdnOnt on @OAPSB #ldnont

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

#LdnOnt Encampments are NOT going to be allowed in either of the Old East Village business district Municipal Lots. Rapid enforced protocols will be implemented in the locations identified. See news video and story below👇🏻

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Daryl Newcombe

4 months

First look at London’s updated rules and restrictions for homeless encampments. Restricted locations, pets on leashes, a fire ban, and an age restriction, are some of the rules unveiled as part of London’s updated Encampment Strategy on Tuesday. #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

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Reinvigorated and most importantly REFOCUSED on addiction RECOVERY and treatment for #LdnOnt HART Hubs will not offer “safer” supply. No supervised drug consumption… No needle exchange programs… Thank you @SylviaJonesMPP ❤️🙌

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Daryl Newcombe

19 days

Slow rollout of homeless hubs reinvigorated by $378 million provincial plan that’s based on London’s approach #LdnOnt

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I believe it’s important to share, in their own words, the current plight of those who live & work in this area of #LdnOnt #OEV This is one of the 15 designated locations in our city where encampments are not allowed & are pro-actively enforced. **Solutions are being explored

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#LdnOnt City Council voted NOT to refer an extension for funding @SafeSpaceLondon beyond May 31/24 The motion failed 7-7 Looking forward to seeing this important commercial corner with an exciting business venture attracting customers to this amazing business district #OEV

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

I received this message from a senior lady who lives nearby. This is her walking route to the shops and restaurants and bus stops. We are funding this homeless shelter with her tax dollars. The funding for it is NOT “precarious”. In fact there was a commitment to this

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“tired of the “gaslighting” and “ad hominem” attacks used by safer supply activists, which had created a “chilling effect” on addiction discourse. Although she “expects to experience personal attacks,” she said she “owes it to the people……to speak up.”

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Adam Zivo: Doctors fed up with activists gaslighting them over 'safer supply'

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4 months

IF we all agreed that #LdnOnt encampments are NOT what we want, would we see: • social service agencies asking for tents, tarps and sleeping bags? • an all-year all-weather Encampment Strategy coming to Council? • food deliveries, garbage pick ups and portable toilets

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Kelly Ziegner

4 months

@CBCLondon I think we all agree that encampments are not what we want for people and our community.

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To be perfectly clear on my stance. I fully support provincially and federally funded services in #LdnOnt for the homeless/addicted that are decentralized and recovery-oriented in focus. I do not support putting homeless/addiction services that are required across the city in

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“Drug trafficking, in all its forms, devastates lives and jeopardizes the well-being of our entire community.” In addition to the illegal cocaine trade, THE DIVERSION OF SAFE SUPPLY, particularly hydromorphone, IS A GROWING CONCERN. For the past six months, our Guns and Gangs

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2 months

DRUG ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS SEE 50 PEOPLE CHARGED 30 guns and approximately $789,000 worth of drugs seized LONDON, ON (July 15, 2024) – Between January and July of 2024, members of the London Police Service Guns and Gangs Section, with the assistance of members of various other

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Susan Stevenson

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“The Saskatchewan Health Authority will no longer be providing crack pipes.” “Will no longer be providing bags full of needles.” #Recovery #AddictionCrisis

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Scott Moe

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6 months

There is no such thing as safe use of illicit drugs. Yesterday at the SARM Convention I spoke to how our government will focus all of our resources and opportunities on providing a recovery oriented system of care.

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In the process of coming to this conclusion, the Integrity Commissioner did not adhere to the Code of Conduct for Members of Council Complaint Protocol and found me in breach of the Code of Conduct prematurely and without due process. In the Code of Conduct for Members of

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CTV London

9 months

Integrity Commissioner recommends sanctioning Councillor Stevenson for social media post: Read the report here

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#LdnOnt

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Laila Goodridge

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2 months

Back in February, Dr. Andrea Sereda of London InterCommunity Health Centre claimed that taxpayer-funded opioids are being diverted "out of caring and compassion". The Liberal-NDP approach is fuelling crime, chaos, drugs and disorder in our communities.

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“Homelessness is not a fundamental problem of housing. It’s a problem of enabling addiction and untreated mental illness, both of which lead people to give up on work, lie, steal, cheat their families and friends, and live on the street, where they turn to petty crime to sustain

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Michael Shellenberger

5 months

The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is Also The Key To Ending It The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. "What if there is a bed available in the Gospel Rescue Mission, but Ms. Johnson, a person, doesn't

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I receive messages like this EVERY day. As their City Councillor, I get to continue to be a voice for them. Advocating for solutions that address: • over-saturation of services in OEV and • the tremendous need of those living on our streets WITHOUT jeopardizing the welfare

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5 months

The honour was mine!!! ❤️🥰🙌 #RCC2024 #AlbertaRecoveryModel

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Adam Zivo

5 months

So glad to have met @StevensonLDN today! She has shown remarkable integrity and bravery as a city councillor in London. Her commitment to protecting her low-income residents from crime and opioid diversion is really admirable. ❤️

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#LdnOnt

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Chris Selley

19 days

Imagine a world where harm reduction advocates hadn’t responded to neighborhood concerns with “research says what you say is happening isn’t happening.”

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5 months

Sometimes you have to be controversial to get results. Recovery oriented care rather than palliative type care. I’d love to have the conversations - how can we work together to truly care for people? #LdnOnt

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T Wolf 🌁

5 months

I say controversial things that make people uncomfortable. But it's necessary. Why? Because recovery as a solution to our drug crisis was on life support. No more. Recovery is here to stay. Now, let's work together to save San Francisco. @LondonBreed @SteveAdami @garrytan

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In #LdnOnt there are ONGOING problems in the #OEV business district that are not being addressed in a meaningful way: - bodily fluids and needle clean ups several times a day - unable to access the doorway of the property almost every day - unable to rent the property and/or

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“When new electric buses were added in 2020, Edmonton’s then mayor, Don Iveson, said they were “particularly efficient financially.” But by last November, more than half of the city’s electric buses needed spare parts and most weren’t fit to be on the road.” #municipalbudget

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MUNICIPAL WORLD

@MunicipalWorld

8 months

ICYMI: Municipal leaders across the country say that local governments have a crucial role to play in #ReducingEmissions , and tackling #transportation #emissions is a key part of that effort. @Ibrahimdaair #LocalGov

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5 months

“Not that anybody not hooked on drugs would ever dare to go there. It should be called Crystal Meth Park. Or Fentanyl Gardens. The tents, the garbage, the syringes, the zombie-like people who hang out there, the unexplained fires and blasts make it a no-go zone for families. It’s

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Joe Warmington

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5 months

Clarence Square Park's tent city now has semi-permanent admin office | Toronto Sun

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5 months

I have some hugs to hand out #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

4 months

This is what I support for #LdnOnt !! • help end homelessness • promote recovery • lobby for addiction treatment centre • get people off the street and get them healthy

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T Wolf 🌁

4 months

Recovery from addiction works. Thank you all for your support. @salvationarmysf @TheWayOutSF @DarrenNorton20 @CeddieHussle @bigcregg @RichardBClean @BayAreaCouncil

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“physicians have often been afraid to openly criticize safer supply because harm-reduction activists aggressively try to “cancel” such critics. “We all heard these stories. One doctor even told me that his daughter was being harassed in her high school…””

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Adam Zivo: Addiction experts accuse minister of ignoring 'safer supply' diversion crisis

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Susan Stevenson

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Thanks to everyone who came out to the Ward 4 Community meeting to hear my presentation on the homeless/addiction crisis facing our city. And a big thanks to the administrative and community centre staff who were there to support me!! So very appreciated!! #LdnOnt

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Spending another two days in Toronto for @AMOPolicy ’s Homelessness Symposium. I am here to connect with other municipalities, hear from the experts and challenge the narrative. This is a top priority in our city and the #1 issue in my ward. It’s time for change. #ldnont

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Susan Stevenson

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Happy Mother’s Day!!!!! #LdnOnt I have been spoiled this year with an amazing brunch at Paradigm Spirits at @100Kellogg And the most beautiful flower arrangement ever from Grow & Bloom Co. I also had the pleasure of taking my Mom to see Million Dollar Quartet at the

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Susan Stevenson

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Will those prescribing safer supply opiods in #LdnOnt look at moving to a supervised program? Or testing for illegal drugs other than the prescribed opiods in order to reduce the diversion that poses a safety risk to our community?

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CTV London

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'Diverted safe supply is being resold into our community': London police confirm drug diversion a growing concern

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9 months

Such a fun evening of holiday cheer with the @ldnpoliceboard and the amazing leaders at @lpsmediaoffice and @LdnPoliceAssoc #LdnOnt

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Happy to see social media being leveraged to advocate and bring awareness to this crisis. #LdnOnt

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Ontario’s Big City Mayors

@ONBigCityMayors

1 month

ICYMI yesterday we launched our 'Solve the Crisis' campaign, addressing the humanitarian crisis happening on our streets. Visit to find out how you can be part of the solution. #solvethecrisis

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Susan Stevenson

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On Sunday afternoon, a resident in my #LdnOnt ward walked me through the remainder of several encampments in his neighbourhood. These photos show only a portion of the largest one. I have requested a clean up through Many children play in these

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Susan Stevenson

5 months

#LdnOnt I support this letter. @jcclondonon

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Susan Stevenson

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Voice of “lived experience” #LdnOnt

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Susan Stevenson

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“Paul Van Meerbergen, the area’s councillor, said more police funding is necessary to improve response times.” I agree 💯 #LdnOnt

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Business owners in southwest London 'frustrated' by lack of police response amid frequent thefts |...

Some small business owners at a commercial corridor in southwest London, Ont., say they've had thousands of dollars worth of equipment and tools stolen in recent months, and despite filing police...

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People are dying because they are addicted to TOXIC & ILLEGAL DRUGS. The people on our streets who are tragically trapped in addiction are someone’s son/daughter, brother/sister, mother/father, etc. A tent and a sandwich is failing them. I think #LdnOnt is ready for a recovery

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Oh, and it’s even worse today🥺 Sidewalk completely impassable Taxpayer funded #LdnOnt shelter run by one of the leaders of the 2022 hunger strike that led to the community winter response that led to the whole of community system response…….

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