“We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years” One heck of a story www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The antidote to billionaire-dictated media is alive already in the form of grassroots, independent publications that build their work in line with the values of justice, equity, and the pursuit of liberation. ... Grassroots-funded journalism isn’t just a theoretical aspiration; it’s a practice."

My response to anything over the next two weeks

“Some people might say, you know, just give up, throw in the towel. But the people I just described, they don’t give up … I have to fight on like they fight on” This sounds like the kind of thing someone says before they’re ousted as leader from their party.

While the past year has brought successive tsunamis of criminalization, "our resistance has multiplied, deepened, and expanded to meet these waves of criminalization," as our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social points out in our latest "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter. Check it out here:

policy options: • prevent frostbite amputations with innovative treatment • prevent frostbite with housing for everyone

Coercion and involuntary treatment are harmful and criminalizing, even if they're happening at the hands of "caring" professions. This is why we've been organizing together with health care workers and providers committed to interrupting and resisting harm in the context of care. Learn more:

Statement and call to action from members of our Beyond Do No Harm Network—as they point out, coercion and involuntary treatment for substance use disorders violates the ethical obligations of their role as health care workers, "undermines human rights, and will increase, not reduce, harm":

📣 Media looking for an important story related to prisoner abuse, pharma lobbying, public sector profiteering & expert advocacy –– this letter has it all and more. I included the full letter along with the government's new Sublocade policy + BCCSU's 2023 guidance for comparison. Please run with it!

BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

almost 3,000 B.C. youths are involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act each year

We have faced down this threat twice already via public backlash. First time was under Kenney in 2021. They backed down. Second time was a UCP-city council alliance in 2024. They backed down again. Don’t let this seem inevitable. Start organizing — they do not have the support they project.

NEW Federal prisons are removing methadone and Suboxone opioid treatments, leaving only a patented once-per-month injection for prisoners. A large group of experts is raising serious concerns about harms to prisoners––and the corporate motivations behind the move. drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-...

“We will replace enabling continued drug use for the addicted with providing treatment and a means to recovery,” [Premier] Smith said. She is announcing that she will kill people in public because SHE WANTS TO She is terrorizing the entire neighbourhood, look

Read this 🧵 and article.

“The Alberta government has confirmed it will follow through with a longtime pledge to shutter Calgary’s only supervised drug consumption site.” Alberta’s ongoing policy of social murder. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development

I’ve never seen the two of them together in the same room before. Just say’n.

Long-acting buprenorphine injections (brand name Sublocade) are not “like a vaccine for overdose.”

NEW analysis in The Mainlander: The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership. themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...

What kind of guidelines have no listed authors and no references? 🤔

“The Lovejoy Trap is […] also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary “for the children.” It leapfrogs right over any discussion of the facts because it feels like life or death.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...

How a government treats freedom of information requests tells you whether they see themselves as working for the public or lording above the public. Government information BELONGS to the public. It should be free. It's not theirs to do with as they please. It's ours.

People will die in the facility. And i don’t think it would be preferable to conduct a pilot project that amounts to torture, Dr Krausz. people who use drugs are not lab rats. this is an outrageous suggestion.

The Mental Health Act is also under scrutiny in BC’s Supreme Court. Both sides of the court case have asked for a six month stay on proceedings, so there’s absolutely no reason to rush Bill 32 through without consulting those it impacts.

With any changes to a system so complex and consequential, you need a clear plan. The amendments under Bill 32 have been pulled together hastily, with minimal consultation and conflicting explanations of its intent.

YES. The government must not pass these amendments and I demand an explanation of the impacts of this “memo” to physicians because it has no meaning in law, so what are you doing www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/h...

Healthcare workers and people with lived experience have not been properly consulted on this legislation. Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy Vancouver, Doctors for Safer Drug Policy, Northern Peer Guardians, Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Care Not Cops...

But the Minister’s characterization of this bill is different from government records from 2005 until March 2025 that state that it allows anyone with authority to treat involuntary admitted patients—without defining who actually has that authority. 2005 guidance: www.bcmhrb.ca/app/uploads/...

For decades, Section 31(1) has been interpreted as deemed consent for involuntary treatment. Now, the Ministry of Health is arguing it is—and has always been— “a liability shield” for health care workers. cmha.ca/wp-content/u...

The BC Greens call on the Province to stand down Bill 32 until the Ministry of Health conducts proper consultation, can clearly demonstrate how this bill impacts the administration of involuntary treatment, and how it is intended to protect health care workers. #bcpoli

A review of the archaic Mental Health Act is currently underway – we should pause all legislation until it is complete. The government has not demonstrated the need for this change at this time. #bcpoli

This seems like a problem safe supply would fix.

Repost with a meme that still makes you laugh

The wild part is they’re mad about killing the two survivors and not the fact of the initial strike in the first place

Oh. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

So the guy selling COVID supplies to the government was hoping for more intense COVID waves, a direct outcome of policy decisions by a government he influenced through dozens of channels.

It may not happen soon, but Mitch Bradley should remember that he can be recalled to duty someday and court martialed for ordering murder.

"The register is the latest step in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to incorporate [magic beans] into federal government operations, which he has claimed will make the public service more efficient." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I am always suspicious about anything a government announces on a Friday and you should be too Read this 🧵

lmao

Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.

this is a public health intervention. DULF was doing Vancouver Coastal Health‘s job: providing drugs of known composition and potency as an alternative to the unregulated drug supply — because VCH wouldn’t. VCH‘s leadership should be the people on trial

The Beaverton has won the internet tonight. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

WHO BENEFITS

“Contaminated“ implies that there’s a product that’s made in conditions of quality control and afterwards altered and that is not what’s happening here. this is the evolution of a commodity of an unregulated industry for an unregulated market people call it Down

There are many reasons oppose BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. Not everything could be covered in a single statement. Today, let’s talk about some of the evidence + ethical implications of co-opting caring professionals + requiring them to violate their professional ethics. #bcpoli

care is not forced. read the full statement from @hrna.bsky.social & Doctors for Safer Drug Policy here: www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... bsky.app/profile/dsdp...

As explained in @crachtheswanky.bsky.social 54 with mom Angie and son B from @4bharmredux.bsky.social www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

Sign the community-led petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...