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From Councillor Plante’s office:
Mark your calendars for September 16th from 12pm to 7pm, as we’re bringing you the first ever Sandy Hill Food Truck Festival! Osgoode St will be bustling from Henderson Ave to Chapel St with food trucks serving up a variety of eats. Whether you have specific dietary needs or love trying new flavours, there will be something for everyone. Get ready for music and lawn games such as life-sized Jenga at Francojeunesse, and above all, lots of food! In partnership with the University of Ottawa, and the University of Ottawa Student Union, join us for a day of great food, music, games, and community vibes!
À vos agendas : le tout premier festival des camions de cuisine de rue de la Côte-de-Sable aura lieu le 16 septembre, de midi à 19 h! Une grande effervescence régnera dans la rue Osgoode – entre l’avenue Henderson et la rue Chapel – où des camions serviront une vaste sélection d’aliments. Vous avez un régime alimentaire particulier ou aimez essayer de nouvelles saveurs? Vous trouverez assurément votre compte! En plus de toute cette nourriture, musique et jeux sur pelouse (dont un Jengagrandeur nature à l’école Francojeunesse) seront aussi au rendez-vous! Joignez-vous à nous lors de cette journée communautaire mémorable, organisée en partenariat avec l’Université d’Ottawa et le Syndicat étudiant de l’Université d’Ottawa et remplie de nourriture, de musique et de jeux!
If you need safety, security and/or medical support, in this service area, you can call the SHCHC directly.
The safe consumption room and washrooms are currently unavailable at SHCHC. They continue to offer the following services:
Referrals are being made to the following social service partners for safe consumption and washrooms:
| Safe Consumption Site and washroom locations | Days | Time |
| Ottawa Public Heath – Supervised Consumption Services 179 Clarence St. |
Monday to Friday | 9 am to 5 pm (last call 4:30pm) |
| Ottawa Inner City Health – ‘The Trailer’ at Shepherds of Good Hope 230 Murray St. |
7 days a week | 24 hours |
| Centre 454 – washrooms and drop in | 7 days a week | 8am-3pm
except Wednesdays – 8am -1pm |
Councillor pitches website to track troublesome ‘frequent flyer’ properties | CBC News
Should Ottawa create a website for problematic properties? | Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan | Live Radio | CBC Listen
Dealing with ‘problematic properties’ (ctvnews.ca)
Downtown Ottawa is chafing under needles and crime (breakingneedles.com)
Somerset West centre opens temporary outdoor drug consumption site | Ottawa Citizen
Supervised injection site closures come amid spike in overdose calls | CBC News
Services strained with two supervised consumption sites closed | Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa overdose crisis: Supervised injection site at Sandy Hill CHC offline due to recent ‘health and safety issue’ | CTV News
Sandy Hill and Somerset West supervised injection sites suspended | Ottawa Citizen
Rattrapage du 28 février 2024 : Saison hivernale morose pour les stations de ski, et retour sur le conseil municipal spécial de Gatineau (radio-canada.ca) Commentaires de Conseillère Plante à 4 min. 20 sec.
Rattrapage du 28 février 2024 : Saison hivernale morose pour les stations de ski, et retour sur le conseil municipal spécial de Gatineau (radio-canada.ca) Commentaires de Louise Lapointe, Présidente de l’ACS, à 2 min. 08 sec.
As drugs overwhelm this downtown block, is safer supply the problem or the solution? | CBC News
Drug-paraphernalia debris a parent’s worst fear: mother
Toddler taken to hospital after putting needle in her mouth | CBC News
Growing concerns around the toxicity of the unregulated drug supply | City of Ottawa / Préoccupations croissantes au sujet de la toxicité de l’approvisionnement en drogues non réglementées | Ville d’Ottawa
Have your say on the City of Ottawa’s draft Waste Plan | City of Ottawa / Partagez vos réflexions sur la version provisoire du Plan de gestion des déchets de la Ville d’Ottawa. | Ville d’Ottawa
Overdose crisis: 22 suspected overdose deaths in Ottawa in January | CTV News
Building a path to stability: new transitional housing to help 170 unsheltered families | City of Ottawa / Tracer une voie vers la stabilité : de nouveaux logements de transition pour aider 170 familles non hébergées | Ville d’Ottawa
Animal tranquilizer in street drugs raises alarms | CBC News
City opens overflow beds in Britannia as downtown shelters fill up | CBC News
Keys, phone, naloxone: In downtown Ottawa, the antidote to opioid overdoses has become an item some people won’t leave home without – The Globe and Mail
Two Ottawa health centres to deliver ‘safer alternate response’ pilot | Ottawa Citizen
State of emergency declared in Pikwakanagan due to opioid crisis | Ottawa Citizen
Does Ottawa need a safe inhalation site for drug users? | Ottawa Citizen
Downtown drop-in centre hopes washroom sensors help prevent overdose deaths | CBC News
Inhaling drugs surpasses injections in Ottawa, and experts want new tools to fight it | CBC News
How Ottawa’s public health unit wants to fight the fentanyl crisis | Ottawa Citizen
The human side of Ottawa’s fentanyl crisis | CBC News
She called 911 during a break-in scare, but says the operator left her feeling helpless | CBC News
What’s really in Ottawa street drugs? New machines will find out | CBC News
Sandy Hill daycare closes citing safety concerns | CBC News
B.C. Auditor General finds two harm reduction programs ineffectively implemented – My East Kootenay Now
‘Deficiencies’ in overdose prevention programs: auditor general | CBC News
Housing and homelessness in Finland – Vancouver Island Mental Health Society
No evidence of widespread diversion of B.C. safe-supply drugs: Officials and RCMP | Globalnews.ca
B.C. premier downplays safe-supply diversion concerns | CTV News
Prince George RCMP drug seizures ignite safe supply debate | CBC News
Opiate from BC’s ‘safe supply’ being sold by organized crime: RCMP | National Post
Alberta’s request to introduce new tracking method for safer drug supply rejected by Ottawa | CBC News
A surge in open drug use has sparked difficult debates in cities across Canada – The Globe and Mail
Red Deer council passes motion asking province to close overdose prevention site | CBC News
Neighbours suing supervised injection site linked to fatal shooting of Toronto mother | National Post
Tent encampments result of ‘persistent failures’ of government: federal advocate | National Post
Un opioïde « 25 fois plus puissant que le fentanyl » inquiète les autorités sanitaires | Radio-Canada
NP View: The safer supply farce is unravelling | National Post
B.C. acknowledges problems with safe supply, looks to expand it anyway | National Post
Stem the diversion ‘catastrophe’ by making safe supply drugs traceable | National Post
BC knows “safer supply” isn’t working. They’re expanding it anyway | National Post
Court’s shaky logic puts open drug use above rights of general public | National Post
Eby underscores ‘fundamental’ disagreement with B.C. chief coroner on safe supply | CBC News
Itinérance à Lachine | « La présence, c’est de la prévention » | La Presse
Whitehorse’s downtown safety plan promises much, but some wonder if it will deliver | CBC News
Yukon gov’t to decentralize some support services downtown, as part of safety response plan | CBC News
Harm reduction missionaries block my community’s path to safety | National Post
March 27, 2024
Committee approves spending plan for federal affordable housing funds | City of Ottawa
February 28, 2024
Rattrapage du 28 février 2024 : Saison hivernale morose pour les stations de ski, et retour sur le conseil municipal spécial de Gatineau (radio-canada.ca) Commentaires de Conseillère Plante à 4 min. 20 sec.
February 9, 2024
Growing concerns around the toxicity of the unregulated drug supply | City of Ottawa / Préoccupations croissantes au sujet de la toxicité de l’approvisionnement en drogues non réglementées | Ville d’Ottawa
February 7, 2024
Ottawa’s draft Waste Plan | City of Ottawa / Partagez vos réflexions sur la version provisoire du Plan de gestion des déchets de la Ville d’Ottawa. | Ville d’Ottawa
February 6, 2024
Building a path to stability: new transitional housing to help 170 unsheltered families | City of Ottawa / Tracer une voie vers la stabilité : de nouveaux logements de transition pour aider 170 familles non hébergées | Ville d’Ottawa
November 6, 2023:
The Sandy Hill Community Liaison Committee is a collaborative effort between 5 different stakeholder groups. In a partnership between Action Sandy Hill, the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the City of Ottawa, with the support of facilitators from Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR), Sandy Hill community members brought together to discuss the impact of the toxic drug supply and overconcentration of frontline social services in Sandy Hill.
The committee is representative of the broad community, with 5 representatives from each of the 5 stakeholder groups: business representatives; direct service providers; housed residents; people with lived or living experience and indirect services providers.
The Chair of the ASH Community and Social Services Committee sits on the SHCLC as a housed resident representative.
The SHCLC will provide insights, make connections, put forward recommendations, exchange information and offer suggestions to support the safety and wellbeing of all members of and services in the Sandy Hill community. Specific goals will be agreed upon by the SHCLC in its strategic planning for the short, mid and long term.
The SHCLC functions on the basis of consensus. There are 5 levels of consensus for each individual:
1. I say an unqualified yes.
2. I accept the decision.
3. I can live with the decision.
4. I do not fully agree with the decision, however, I will no block it and will support it.
5. I wish to express a dissenting view.
These different levels of consensus will allow the committee to come to comprise and understanding, while ensuring that one or two dissenting views will not stop the committee from moving forward, while they will be noted. If there is an entire stakeholder group with a dissenting view, then further compromise is needed and the action, strategy, etc. will not move forward.
The governing documents, grant proposals, advocacy efforts, and strategic priorities have been developed based on this consensus method.
Governing documents, meeting notes, projects, committee members, contact information and events are avaialble on the SHCLC website!
Hi all,
On behalf of the Action Sandy Hill board (Sandy Hill’s Community Association), please see attached a letter [and Annex] concerning the proposed post-Panda event at the Sandy Hill Arena.
Sincerely,
Kendra Eyben
ASH Board Member
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