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Submission on Safer Municipalities Act, 2024 – Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act, 2024
Read more: Submission on Safer Municipalities Act, 2024 – Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act, 2024In January 2025, CDPC made a submission to the Ontario government’s request for public comment…
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Getting to Tomorrow: 7 Actions to End the Unregulated Drug Crisis
Read more: Getting to Tomorrow: 7 Actions to End the Unregulated Drug Crisis(Le français suite) [scribd id=800617809 key=key-uQYIlnFiMn4QozNAsyU1 mode=scroll] Download Final Report (EN) In fall 2020, the Canadian Drug…
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Joint Factum Submission of CDPC, AIDQ, and HRNA for Supreme Court of Canada Appeal on Good Samaritan Law
Read more: Joint Factum Submission of CDPC, AIDQ, and HRNA for Supreme Court of Canada Appeal on Good Samaritan Law[scribd id=778188108 key=key-e0YT0R08tc0MZ7XTjbLi mode=scroll] Download the English Submission. Download the French Submission. Paul Wilson stayed…
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Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Review of Canada at 89th Session
Read more: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Review of Canada at 89th SessionIn collaboration with HIV Legal Network, CDPC made a submission to the 89th session of…
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Submission to the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 22: Controlled Substances Regulations
Read more: Submission to the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 22: Controlled Substances Regulations[scribd id=755345316 key=key-qIf235IJnvRkIHlLW4K3 mode=scroll] Download PDF On June 1, 2024, Health Canada published a Regulatory…
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67th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Decriminalization as a Public Health and Human Rights Approach to Drug Policy
Read more: 67th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Decriminalization as a Public Health and Human Rights Approach to Drug PolicyAt the recent 67th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Canadian Drug Policy…
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Submission to the HESA Committee Study on “Opioid Epidemic and Toxic Drug Crisis in Canada”
Read more: Submission to the HESA Committee Study on “Opioid Epidemic and Toxic Drug Crisis in Canada”The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition submitted a brief on January 10, 2024. The submission focused…
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Submission to Health Canada on a proposal to control the derivatives and analogues of 4-piperidone and its salts under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Read more: Submission to Health Canada on a proposal to control the derivatives and analogues of 4-piperidone and its salts under the Controlled Drugs and Substances ActThe Canadian Drug Policy Coalition made a submission that considered the existing legal framework, lessons…
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“Innovating Beyond Exclusively Medicalized Approaches” Policy Brief and Recommendations
Read more: “Innovating Beyond Exclusively Medicalized Approaches” Policy Brief and RecommendationsThe Canadian Civil Society Advancing Safe Supply Working Group is a coalition of national, provincial,…
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Submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights’ study on the decriminalization of homelessness and extreme poverty
Read more: Submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights’ study on the decriminalization of homelessness and extreme povertyIn fall 2023, CDPC and Pivot Legal Society made a submission to the United Nations…
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Human Rights and Decriminalization Done Right: Brief to Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Bill C-5, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Read more: Human Rights and Decriminalization Done Right: Brief to Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Bill C-5, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances ActOn October 19 2022, CDPC was invited to participate in a study on Bill C-5,…
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