As long as we continue to focus just on drugs as fuelling crises, we will see one type of drug fall and another one rise up in in its place. The real crises are the historic and current factors that place some populations at higher risk of harmful drug use than others.

The City of Winnipeg wants to build a new mega police station in the North End on the practice grounds for several youth sports teams. Michael Champagne says there are other location and the ideal choice would not interfere with other crime prevention mechanisms.

The Manitoba government recently changed how children in care are reported publicly, excluding the number of children who are 'voluntarily' placed in CFS. But Winnipeg activist Michael Redhead Champagne argues that this feels 'like politicking with our children's lives.'