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"One of the best documentaries of the year!"
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Shot over five years, THE STAIRS (2016) is a deeply compassionate, prejudice-challenging portrait of habitual drug users at an urban health center staffed by both former and current users. ❤️🩹
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MY LATEST on the #drugpoisoningcrisis >
First supervised drug inhalation service in Ontario opens in Toronto amid rise in smoking-related OD deaths
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Honoured that The Stairs is on this list!
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Some lovely, familiar faces ❤️
We are excited to launch our innovative national U.S. campaign to promote #harmreduction in @nytimes! It comes at a pivotal moment in the #overdosecrisis as deaths top 100,000 and harm reduction is gaining credibility and momentum. LEARN MORE vitalstrat.org/3BlMVbz
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BREAKING: The city's medical officer of health, with support of Toronto Police, is recommending board of health request feds allow small possession of illegal drugs in Toronto - effectively decriminalizing personal drug use after a decades-long war on drugs that hasn't worked.
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How a Drug Policy Activist Spends Her Sundays @Kassandra_Fred nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyreg…
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We're delighted to introduce the new #Projectr Roku app (and new logo!). Get the app from the Roku channel store (bit.ly/3oeFvlX), link your device, and start watching on your TV. Apple and Fire TV apps coming soon. projectr.tv
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Excited to be on #TIFF21 Amplify Voices jury with impressive people and award $30K to fellow artists.
We have just announced the juries for our #TIFF21 awards.
Notable jury members include @Kaniehtiio Horn, @HsiungTiffany, Nicole Delaney, Andrew Kendall (@DepartedAviator), Esin Kücüktepepinar, Teresa Vena, and @CasparSalmon. See the full list at: bit.ly/3sr4AKD
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Trey Helten is sometimes in the news in his capacity as manager of an overdose prevention site.
But he's also an inspiration to many in Vancouver's DTES, having just marked five years drug-free. He was kind enough to speak with me about it:
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🎞 STREAMING: One of the great recent Canadian documentaries, THE STAIRS is a direct, intimate portrait of drug users in Toronto's Regent Park and their experiences with harm-reduction programs. Streaming free on @Kanopy with your @hfxpublib card: halifax.kanopy.com/video/sta…
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Canada's toxic drug crisis has killed more than 20,000 people since 2016. It can be difficult to comprehend the enormity of human loss.
A team at The Globe sought to memorialize those we have lost.
Here are the stories of 100 people who died in 2020.
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Sweet, lovely Kevin. Friendly & supportive during years of filming. Always a joy to see at Street Health, or around the neighbourhood. Miss you 💔
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Very detailed academic piece examining (among other things) Regent Park, Street Health and The Stairs.
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"Arresting individuals for simple possession of illicit drugs has proven to be ineffective.” - Canadian Assoc. of Chiefs of Police
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Excited that The Stairs is part of new @GhopperFilm platform, Projectr (@ProjectrMovies). An incredible catalogue of world cinema, many titles unavailable elsewhere. Site: projectr.tv
"Ten years have passed since my book, THE NEW JIM CROW, was published. It has been an astonishing decade. Everything and nothing has changed." nyti.ms/3agVp5S
Also in the latest @CinemaScopeMag, an essay by @MidLampFilms about Jafar Panahi’s THIS IS NOT A FILM.
The latest issue of @CinemaScopeMag features an insightful overview of the past decade in Canadian film, by @brofromanother.
All of these filmmakers are discussed in the @brofromanother decade summary Long Live the New Flesh: The Decade in Canadian Cinema cinema-scope.com/cinema-scop…