WHAT IF YOU COULDN’T JUST REPORT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED? WHAT IF YOU HAD TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT EACH PERSON WHOSE LIFE WAS ENDED BY ALBERTA’S DRUG POLICY FAILURES?

This collection of six images contains over one thousand entries to represent the people we have lost to drug poisoning (overdose) in Alberta.

In 2020, 1,343 people died, and this number continues to rise at an alarming rate. There were 1,026 eaths in the first 8 months of 2021, the worst year on record to date.

We won't forget. We won’t stop fighting FOR THE PEOPLE WE LOVE. 

This project is a collaboration between Moms Stop the Harm and the University of Calgary. Some of these statements are about the people we love who have died and others we created to represent what we imagine these people meant to the people they left behind and those who loved them. Thank you to everyone who contributed a remembrance.