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The farmers' protest has been a significant event, with thousands of farmers from over 100 villages in Noida and Greater Noida blocking highways on February 8, demanding higher compensation for lands acquired by the government. The protests have been marked by disruptions to traffic and heightened security measures, including the deployment of heavy-duty bulldozers, backhoe machines, riot control vehicles, and water cannons at the Delhi-Noida border.

As the number of overdoses rise in Ontario, there are calls by municipal and health-care leaders for the provincial and federal governments to do more to stop the crisis.

Belleville, Ont. was hit with 23 over the course of two days this past week. In Guelph, there were seven drug poisonings Thursday. In Hamilton, officials warned paramedics had seen a rise in suspected drug poisoning where some "required three or more rounds of naloxone administration."

Groups working to reduce the harm caused by illegal drug use on P.E.I. say their work is being hindered by misinformation, some of which is promoted by Charlottetown city councillors.

Members of the Native Council of P.E.I. and PEERS Alliance who are involved in harm reduction say their staff have found themselves the target of anger over drug addiction in the province.

"Many of them have received death threats, as well as other threats of violence toward them and of harassment," Bradley Cooper, chief policy analyst of the Native Council of P.E.I., told Island Morning host Mitch Cormier during a live panel discussion on harm reduction.

“For those who have been using fentanyl, their tolerance is such that even maximal doses of Dilaudid (hydromorphone) have little effect except withdrawal management,” says the review. “This leads people to continue to use street fentanyl, as the Dilaudids do not approximate the effect they get from fentanyl.”