“A new national study suggests Canadians generally view supervised consumption sites as beneficial and do not believe they have negative effects on communities or health systems.” #HarmReduction #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

canada obeyed in advance

I agree. You should read this.

After witnessing a man be detained & handcuffed by police, who also searched his bag, @michellegamage.bsky.social looked into what police can and can’t do when they detain, but don’t arrest someone thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

AND HOMES FOR ALL

The remake of just one of the movies she starred in made over a billion dollars last year alone, and she still died in poverty from an extremely preventable infection. We need universal healthcare or we don’t have basic human rights.

so without access to naloxone, in the five-year study period (2019-2024), the study estimates that over 60,000 people would have died here in B.C. 12,356 people did die. this is important article by @thatemfagan.bsky.social and I'm going to go on about it #BCpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

that is a memorial for someone who lived and died on the 900-block of Pandora Avenue the cost of the fencing cannot be measured in dollars

👀👀 “The course served both as a corrective to prior stigma-laden training and as a catalyst for deeper engagement with HR values and evidence-based practices.”

a profoundly moving and very sad story harm reduction is not about reducing harms of drug use, but the harms of drug 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒚 the practice of harm reduction builds justice and is love read it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Concurrently, Liberal and Conservative politicians will be going on tour to weaponize blame against marginalized groups” www.hilltimes.com/2026/06/03/i...

"The Laurentian Elite will have us pummelling each other for scraps while they hoard wealth and resources. Establishment news media are the mouthpieces for the ruling class, so they will be pushing to defund one group over another." mass homelessness benefits the ruling class. read! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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"uninhabitable" bsky.app/profile/thed...

hmmm maybe housing would have prevented this

guys I found permanent housing but I need some help with the deposit and groceries and basics if you can chip in, everything helps appreciate you so much e-transfer: [email protected]

326 calls that's one call every four and a half minutes over 24 hours. and the government's response is to watch and municipal electeds blame the dying people for their own policy failures it can only get worse #bcpoli

imagine hating on striking workers because they “already make too much money.” so interesting to see which jobs are seen as deserving of high wages

so this bench lacks armrests, has space dividers to prevent anyone from lying down AND it has jab-you-in-the-back-so-you-cannot-even-sit-comfortably things too, making it functionally useless as a bench

For the fifth year, deaths of people experiencing homelessness in BC are on the rise. I talked to the chief coroner and frontline workers about the factors they’re seeing contribute to this, and what needs to be done to prevent further deaths. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

don't worry the federal government is funding research to understand the impacts of the provincial government cutting funding to services that prevent people from dying

B.C. is NOT building the housing so the people deprived of housing are dying this is an important article by @thatemfagan.bsky.social look at this photo of a street memorial www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows 'These are all preventable deaths,' says founder of Victoria outreach group #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult"

It’s #NationalNursesWeek, and nurses don’t want pizza parties and a week of appreciation. We want a stable public health system. Safe and sustainable nurse-to-patient ratios. Real investment in retention, prevention, public health, and harm reduction. 🧵 #Nurse #nurses #harmreduction #healthequity

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To harm reduction nurses: thank you for the care, advocacy, and leadership you bring every day. If you’re looking for community and connection, we invite you to join the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. www.hrna-aiirm.ca/membership/

Today, on International Harm Reduction Day, we honour everyone working to keep people alive, safe, connected, and cared for. This work is hard. Many are carrying grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty. But we are stronger together, and none of us do this work alone. #harmreduction

"a surge that coincided with the closure of Prairie Harm Reduction's supervised drug consumption site." DON'T do two years of research to figure out this puzzler OPEN a Drug Consumption Space NOW #skpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“It would avoid us doing drugs in public, doing drugs around children, around elderly folks, just around people who don't want to be around drugs. Right now, we're on the street corners, we're on the sidewalk, and it's inhumane.” www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

story updated to include emailed statement from Health Minister @josieosborne.bsky.social and I summarize its implied message to the mayor as: "Tough beans. Simmer down." #vanpoli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“If we ignore it, then we’re sort of validating it too. It’s almost like complicity by not saying something.” #CdnMedia #canpoli

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

DON'T GIVE UP

they didn't kill it. they directed staff to try

#HarmReduction a petition to restore funding streams for Community-based treatment and harm reduction programs, and to interjurisdictional secretariat on harm reduction #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Supervised consumption sites are being closed and defunded across Canada. Join HRNA for a critical conversation with Tara Gomes, Gillian Kolla & Elaine Hyshka on impacts, misinformation, and the risks of policy driven by flawed research. 🗓️ June 11 at 12pm PST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

We’ve got the wrong priorities www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Politicians pushing social media bans for youth are avoiding the real work of regulating tech giants that surveil us and spread misinformation - shifting responsibility onto individuals instead of corporations. Protecting youth means creating a world worth looking up from the screen for.

a social media ban for kids is total surveillance for all.

Incredibly common explanations for disordered substance use: - I see no future for myself, there aren’t any jobs for people like me - This is the only way I can feel warmth and joy - This is the only way I can sleep through the nightmares - This is the only way I can stay awake and survive Etc

develop drug policy from this: