A new mural, designed and painted by harm-reduction workers, was unveiled in a Toronto alley on Thursday to honour unhoused and underhoused people whose lives have been lost.

The Wall of Remembrance features colourful hand prints on a brick wall on Callaghan Lane, behind Street Health, 338 Dundas Street E., a non-profit, community-based organization.

With the help of a grant from the Toronto Arts Council, Street Health and the non-profit Rittenhouse: A New Vision, which focuses on transformative justice, has supported a 10-week course for harm-reduction workers. The mural was created as the culmination of the course, designed under the guidance of Indigenous artist Joseph Sagaj.

Peter Martin, who facilitated the course, said on Thursday that the harm-reduction workers have been seeing d

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