Mutual Aid Katarokwi-Kingston

03/23/2026

Community members are calling on City Council to support funding for Kingston's consumption treatment center and harm reduction services. for more information check out Peer Outreach Empowerment Team Kingston - POET's page.

03/13/2026

This attack on the life-saving services of CTSs (consumption treatment centres) across Ontario, including the one here in Kingston, will have dire consequences.

There won't be an easy solution to fight this sudden announcement, but if we are to be successful, it will involve broad mobilization and utilize a variety of tactics, including collective acts of disruption.

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Harm reduction advocates call Ford government decision to end consumption site funding ‘cowardly’

By John Marchesan

Posted March 13, 2026 6:36 pm.

Harm reduction advocates say the Ford government’s decision to end funding for all supervised consumption sites later this year is “wrong” and “cowardly” and will lead to many more overdose deaths.

The Fred Victor Centre and South Riverdale Community Health Centre – the last two provincially funded sites in Toronto – were informed by the Ontario Ministry of Health on Friday that it would no longer be providing them with provincial funds as of June 13.

A letter sent to both Toronto sites says they have until April 10 to provide a wind-down plan as well as strategies to transition clients to other community-based treatment and recovery supports.

“The staff have just learned the news, and they are delivering it to staff and clients now who are understandably devastated,” said a spokesperson at the South Riverdale location, which operates

Harm reduction advocates say the Ford government’s decision to end funding for all supervised consumption sites later this year is “wrong” and “cowardly” and will lead to many more overdose deaths. The Fred Victor Centre and South Riverdale Community Health Centre – the last two provinci...

01/21/2026

Images courtesy of Katarokwi Street Medics

Tell Kingston City Council to fund a warming centre on cold winter nights!
Community advocates have created a document and email template for you to use.
We've been told by people who have spoken to the city that their current policy is to only open a center once temperatures hit a staggering -30C. This is unacceptable, inhumane and is putting people who are unhoused in serious danger of frostbite and other cold-related health complications. Everyone deserves access to safe, accessible sustainable shelter that meets their needs, and people deserve better than to be left out in the cold this winter. Please show your solidarity with people who are unhoused by sending an email today!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/145vXmUesm1Qk7TLDwfy36vesy0frlq3NY_LrAowijHA/edit?usp=sharing

12/10/2025

Israel works tirelessly to police and stifle Palestinian voices through propaganda, media blackouts, and enforcing the criminalization of free speech through violence. With ethnic cleansing intensifying under a so-called ceasefire, and as Western colonial narratives around Palestine continue to dominate the coverage of the genocide, it’s crucial that we think critically about the media we consume, and the narratives we use to make a case for solidarity with Palestinian liberation.

Chapter two discusses how narratives of the genocide often center the suffering of women and children. This focus on the most marginalized is seen to serve two purposes: engaging moral outrage by exposing Israel's depraved tactics of targeting the most vulnerable, and at the same time distancing Palestine supporters from the armed resistance movement. This strategy of the politics of appeal reinforces colonial narratives and plays on white supremacist tendencies of paternalism.

As Mohammed El-kurd writes, to “defang” Palestinians fighting for their liberation is to reduce them to a sympathetic stereotype, a monolith, a group in need of protection rather than lateral solidarity with a self-determined freedom movement. To act in solidarity we need to center and amplify Palestinian perspectives and stories. In Perfect Victims, El-Kurd calls on readers to interrogate our own tactics and the ways we may be reinforcing Israel's narratives.

Please join us for our Perfect Victims reading group, December 10 from 6:30-8:30pm at 99 York St. You can read the chapter by visitinghttps://mutualaidkatarokwi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/perfect-victims-mohammed-el-kurd-ch-2.pdf, but you’re still welcome if you don’t read.

RSVPs are appreciated but not required.

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