Jason Mercredi keeps a manila envelope full of funeral cards close. He said the cards could paper his office walls twice over.

"You need those reminders of the people that have passed so that you keep fighting for the people that are living," he said…

Prairie Harm Reduction is a non-profit organization in Saskatoon, a sort of community centre offering services to vulnerable people. By the time Jason Mercredi became executive director in 2016, he had seen 120 clients die. There have been more deaths since then, and Jason predicts more to come, now that the opioid overdose crisis has settled into Saskatchewan. That's why Jason and his team worked so hard to open the province's first supervised consumption site last fall — and fought like hell when their funding fell though.