VPD was aware of the intense public interest – and also of the “fear and anxiety” news of stranger assaults was causing in 2022. VPD issued at least 52 releases mentioning stranger assaults, but provided no updated data about the frequency of these crimes. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

The Alberta govt wants drug users to know—you can get sober or get dead. Even though total abstinence does not work for most people, families are being forced to make a choice: lock your loved one up in treatment or leave them to face the dangers of an unregulated drug supply.

This Saturday, April 5th, let's evict Ken Sim. Vote for @copevancouver.bsky.social's @seanorr.bsky.social! Sean's a working class candidate, fighting for safe supply + real housing solutions. All you need is ID & a prescription bottle will do. Vote 8am-8pm @ Carnegie Hall (or find a location online)

UN says it could take “$500 million over 10 years to clear” unexploded bombs from Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/hgeadw

Holding opioid manufacturers/distributors accountable but not the governments WHO REGULATE opioid prescribing and who CUT PEOPLE OFF their meds in the early 2010s (thus creating the toxic drug crisis) is absolute bullshit.

🇨🇦Join me in letting the Vancouver library's administrators know you disagree with this anti-Palestinian racism www.vpl.ca/contact/admi... I am recommending they read Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which they can pick up at their local library.

Another troubling development in BC as Eby sends his mandate letter to the new Minister of Health.

The BC NDP shutters the Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, then quietly gives new Health Minister mandate to "reduce the population level frequency of opioid prescriptions." Govt cut offs (not Purdue) got us into this toxic drug crisis back in the 2010s: t.co/DY3X8ALjkv