Our fight continues after an Ontario Court reaches a disappointing decision on prison-based needle exchange programs.

Simons et al. v Minister of Public Safety et al.

In December 2019, our counsel Dan Sheppard (of Goldblatt Partners LLP), will explain to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice how a refusal to permit effective access to prison needle exchange programs will disproportionately and unconstitutionally harm individuals along lines of sex, race, and “disability”—in particular, women, Indigenous people, and people who use drugs.

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember and fight for those we have lost to a senseless war on drugs. Read Pivot Legal Society's statement. #EndOverdose

In light of the federal government’s failure to meaningfully reform drug policy, provinces like B.C. can and must take legal steps to effectively (“de facto”) decriminalize simple possession by re-directing police resources away from its criminal enforcement.

Pivot Legal and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition successfully defend the right to harm reduction and health care

Justice Mosley agreed with our arguments and dismissed CABA’s application, citing directly from our submissions. In his decision

Because of stigma, our social safety net is often inaccessible to people who need it.

The judgement cited Pivot's submissions arguing for the removal of this harmful provision