Kensington Market residents call for action after 2 die of suspected overdoses in public park – CBC

“He was very kind.

The two men appear to the latest casualties of the overdose crisis gripping Canada’s largest city.

By May of this year, there were 215 opioid-related deaths in the city, according to preliminary data from Toronto Public Health.

According to a survey conducted in April, there were 7,347 people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, 742 of whom were staying outdoors.

Those include opioids like carfentanil, etonitazene, isotonitazene, and etizolam.

The Ford government pulled its funding in 2019, and it’s since survived solely on donations from the community and social service organizations.

She said the city has increased its efforts to reach people living outside, opened new supervised injection sites in shelters and offered drug checking services so people can test their drugs.

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