This letter from our President, Gwen Landolt, was sent, as well, to the Globe and Mail. Letter to the Editor Ottawa Citizen 1101 Baxter Road Box 5020 Ottawa, ON K2C 3M4 Your editorial in support of the Vancouver drug injection site (May 7, 2011) appears to be based on the advocacy research provided by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS rather than on an objective appraisal of the site.

Burnaby recovery centre doesn’t compromise with addiction: By Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun May 5, 2011 Theologians will advise you can’t parley with the Devil and remain unscathed and neither, according to the operators of Burnaby’s Charlford House, can you trifle with addiction. So in this 15-bed Stabilization and Transitional Living Residence for women — the mouthful Fraser Health bureaucrats invented to avoid calling it a recovery centre — there are

Here is the link to watch DPNC Executive Director, David Berner, on Alberta Prime Time TV, discussing the possibility of opening “safe” injection sites in Edmonton and Calgary: http://www.albertaprimetime.com/SearchResults.aspx?sr=safe%20injection%20sites