A Legal Aid Ontario Duty Counsel lawyer sent us this dispatch from her vantage point on the front line of the opioid crisis that kills an average three Ontarians every single day. The criminalization of drugs has a wide range of consequences that lawyers who work in courthouses as Duty Counsel see firsthand.

A Legal Aid Ontario lawyer submitted this story about helping a poor pensioner named Dennis (name changed to protect privacy) get access to his hard-earned Canada Pension Plan (CPP) cheque that would help him live in dignity:

A Legal Aid Ontario lawyer wrote in to tell us this story about helping a young mother get her child out of danger. The names are changed to protect privacy.