Derek Finkle
@DerekFinkle
Award-winning journalist with a focus on police and legal issues. Author of No Claim to Mercy, soon to be a documentary series, The Day Liz Disappeared.
Harm reduction “experts” claimed that overdoses and deaths would spike with the closure of Ontario’s overdose prevention sites. Two months later, we now see that they were wrong. nationalpost.com/opinion/derek-…
"There are clear signs across the country that the disproportional focus on harm reduction from the Trudeau era is being reconsidered. So is the argument posited by some activists that the only solution to drug encampments is more housing." nationalpost.com/opinion/derek-…
Mark Carney's new government needs to decide whether it wants to maintain federal support for supervised consumption sites. As @DerekFinkle explains in this article, that decision needs to be made soon. nationalpost.com/opinion/contro…
“A local organization called Action Sandy Hill sent a 10-page letter to Health Canada’s Controlled Substances Directorate, formally withdrawing its support for the community’s injection site. It calls the Sandy Hill injection site’s impact on the community ‘catastrophic.’”
Derek Finkle: Controversial drug injection sites among Carney's first challenges nationalpost.com/opinion/contro…
This Star article fails to mention that Toronto paramedic services data shows overdoses did not spike as a result of sites near schools closing, as activists had predicted. In fact, overdoses went down post-closures & are about 50% lower than last year. public.tableau.com/app/profile/tp…
NEW - I hit the streets with outreach workers who told me they're finding more needles and people in distress, and witnessing more public overdoses since four supervised consumption sites closed in Toronto. It did not take long for me to witness one myself thestar.com/news/gta/ontar…
The @fordnation knew it would be up to him, not the courts, to administer justice after the foreseeable death of Karolina Huebner-Makurat by shutting down all injection sites within 200 meters of schools & daycare facilities. Khalila will serve her hard time at Goodlife Fitness.
NEW: Worker at Toronto supervised injection site sentenced in connection with fatal shooting of Leslieville wife and mother Karolina Huebner-Makurat Khalila Mohammed is spared jail time. Given a conditional sentence and 100 hours community service globalnews.ca/news/11244329/…
My uncle, Carl, badass bass player, was in Martha and the Muffins. We recently talked about how often Echo Beach has been played during the NHL playoffs & Blue Jays games this spring. Thanks to Rogers, they can afford to sue for moral rights! theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/art…
