Protesters march to City Hall draw awareness to overdose epidemic

Описание: Protesters participate in a rally and lie-in at City Hall to call on Mayor John Tory to acknowledge the overdose crisis in Toronto and the importance of safe injection sites like the one set up in Moss Park.

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Fighting back tears, Olympia Lynn Trypis stood in the rotunda of city hall and begged for better services for drug users, to save her life and the lives of her friends.

“In the last two years I’ve lost three of my really close friends and I am tired of having to go to funerals and not celebrating more birthdays. These people were beautiful souls,” said Trypis, 22, speaking to a crowd who had marched to City Hall, in memory of people lost to drug overdoses, or contaminated drugs.

The friends, all in their early 20s included advocate Brooklyn Rae McNeil, who died of an overdose last year.

“Unfortunately, I can’t bring back my friends, but I can try and save the ones that are still here,” Trypis said Monday.

Trypis had co-organized the rally, including a “die-in” where more than 70 people fell to the ground in the rotunda and called out the names of the dead.

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