Federal Health Minister Tony Clement says the Vancouver-based supervised injection site
“undercuts the ethic of medical practice and sets a debilitating example for all physicians …

The government is appealing a May 27, 2008 British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that
the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act should allow for medical exemptions so …

Background The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) supported the opening of the
supervised injection site in 2002 as a re search project, not as a concept, and that support …

As summer ran its course in Vancouver, a 3-year experiment to provide heroin addicts with a
medically supervised injection site neared its scheduled Sept. 12 expiration. Canada's …

Canada's federal government has once again failed to shut North America's only authorized
supervised injection facility: Insite. A majority ruling issued by the BC Court of Appeal on 15 …

British Columbia's highest court has halted the Canadian Government's plans to close Insite—
North America's only government-sanctioned safeinjection site for drug users. In a ruling on …

On 15 January 2010, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the province's highest appellate
court, held that Insite, North America's irst supervised injection facilty, was a provincial …

“We will continue to support treatment and recovery programs that get addicts off drugs and
help them recover drug-free lives,” she said. She also chastised Liberal Leader Justin …

Harm reduction for injection drug users started with community-based programs to provide
clean needles and has grown to include supervised injection facilities. Such services have …

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered Canada's federal Minister
of Health to grant Insite, North America's irst supervised injection site, an extended …