Derek Finkle @DerekFinkle
Investigative journalist immersed in various legal issues, including injection sites. Epic family law saga, The Rift & the Grift, now out in serial format. derekfinkle.substack.com Toronto, Canada Joined November 2010-
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@sitkamedia @guyfelicella Activists argued that closing injection sites in Ontario would lead to mass death in the streets. If fatal ODs had gone up, Guy would have blamed it on closures. Yet ODs going down has nothing to do with the closures, says Guy. The disruption of supply routes? Way more likely.
@CorsMaddy @guyfelicella @Vote4ABC Given how much Guy posts during the work day, you'd think his employer would be pretty dismayed – unless, of course, it's part of what is expected from him. He's here to lecture about his lived experience & spread the gospel of his employer, not learn from anyone else's.
@CorsMaddy I guess Guy doesn't know that in Toronto, only about 10-20% of monthly visits to our only remaining injection site are for supervision. The rest are to pick up supplies to be used offsite – on the sidewalk, on public transit, in libraries, parks, schoolyards and laneways.
According to @therundowntvo, Karolina Huebner-Makurat was killed by "a stray bullet" – not drug dealers shooting at each other in front of an injection site. Nor do site clients buy fentanyl from armed dealers, they have "pre-obtained drugs." This sanitized language is offensive
Ontario has cut funding for supervised consumption sites and is shifting to HART Hubs, a move critics say will cost lives. @emmapaling, Martin McIntosh (@hivaidsconnect) & @AdamZivo (@nationalpost) tell @JeyanTVO how closures are affecting communities. youtu.be/H-M3yfBUy_Q?si…
That the federal government now refers to it as an “illegal drug crisis” as opposed to a “toxic drug crisis” is indeed intentional & clearly intended to signal a change in approach. What exactly that is remains to be seen but it clearly involves border security initiatives.
We’ve come such a long way on this issue over the past three years. Big kudos to @DerekFinkle for his groundbreaking reporting debunking harm reduction narratives around consumption sites.
I guess the @OntarioNDP doesn’t know that only 10 to 20% of monthly visits to Toronto’s Kensington injection site are for supervision. The vast majority of visits in 2024 were to pick up “supplies to be used off site” in places like public libraries. So, yeah, they are.
A public library is not a supervised consumption site.
"Bertrand first discovered Lisa had consulted a lawyer 16 months into their marriage. He read an email she’d received from a divorce lawyer known for playing hardball. When he read "we need to find a way to get him out of the house,” he lost his breath.” derekfinkle.substack.com/p/the-rift-and…
Chapter 1 of my heart-wrenching, 9-part epic, The Rift & the Grift, is now out. “The Beginning (of the End)” features the story of how Bertrand Tissot and Lisa McCabe met in Toronto. It wasn't long before their whirlwind romance took a strange, dark turn. derekfinkle.substack.com/p/the-rift-and…
Activists pilloried a study about the closure of an Alberta injection site because it was produced by a provincially funded research group despite getting $1.4 million in federal funding last year to study the same thing in Ontario but with weaker data. nationalpost.com/opinion/derek-…
@COPEVancouver @seanorr @builtjustice That's funny because it's the "progressive" councilors in Toronto who did pretty much the same thing to protect Councilor Chris Moise. x.com/integrity_to/s…
City Council decides to pay 55% of Chris Moise’s legal fees FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON — May 21, 2026 — Seventeen months after the initial integrity complaint was filed against Councillor Chris Moise for conduct unbecoming of a City official, Toronto City Council voted
@P43215 @guyfelicella One person can't be responsible for all of this crime and disorder within 250 meters of an injection site.
When pro-injection site social media influencer @guyfelicella blocks people, he says it's not because he lost an argument. It's for the good of his mental health. But when people block Guy, guess what? It's because they were losing the argument.
@P43215 @guyfelicella Something tamer like a McGill professor’s children witnessing sex acts on the sidewalk near an injection site.
@85roblems @ryantompkins_ @guyfelicella Seatbelts are rarely effective when you’re recklessly driving your car at high speeds towards a concrete wall. nationalpost.com/opinion/derek-…
@P43215 @guyfelicella Yes, intoxicated people masturbating in front of children beside an injection site is definitely creepy. I’m sure you will be interested in the latest from Dr. MacKenzie. montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-eds…
@P43215 @guyfelicella Guy’s shitposting here generates revenue, it’s not a hobby. He views highlighting his boundless hypocrisy as “creepy,” but pressuring his girlfriend to rob a bank & steal a rental car for a drug binge in San Fran only for her to return solo to face the criminal charges isn’t?
@melrod42 The opinion article you cite agrees with the CEO of the Victoria shelter, Dr. MacKenzie, Larry Campbell & Dr. Vigo. Your take on mandatory treatment is not universally accepted by experts in the field. Your ideology consistently twists you up in knots. canadaland.com/podcast/1241-b…
"When families raise these concerns, they are often dismissed as privileged, alarmist or insufficiently compassionate...When children are frightened walking through their own neighbourhoods, this isn't moral panic. It's a legitimate developmental concern." montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-eds…
@melrod42 The CEO of the biggest shelter in Victoria is saying this subset will need (involuntary) care for the rest of their lives, but you insist on imagining what that care won’t solve, as if you know. Injection sites won’t solve the opioid crisis either, yet you still support them.
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