Corey Ranger
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He/him | Uninvited settler on stolen Quw’utsun Territory | Nurse |
#HarmReduction
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‼️ New ‼️ Evaluating the risk for nurses of fentanyl exposure and the harms of perpetuating exposure misinformation. From Serena Eagland,
@pattywilson.bsky.social
and me!
www.canadian-nurse.com/blogs/cn-con...
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Evaluating the risks for nurses of fentanyl exposure and the harms of perpetuating exposure misinformation
https://www.canadian-nurse.com/blogs/cn-content/2025/02/24/risks-for-nurses-of-fentanyl-exposure
about 1 year ago
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Kim Kelly
about 22 hours ago
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
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karen ward
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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
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Emily Fagan
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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/...
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Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows | CBC News
More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-coroner-people-dying-homelessness-9.7198587
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karen ward
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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
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karen ward
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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/...
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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/...
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Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows | CBC News
More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-coroner-people-dying-homelessness-9.7198587
3 days ago
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Jason Markusoff
6 days ago
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"
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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
8 days ago
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Jacqueline Antonovich
9 days ago
“'I would think that maybe a woman might like a larger package down there,' one 55-year-old manager in Southern California, who is into scrotal expansion." Some men will do anything except actually listen to what a woman wants.
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The Men Who Want to Supersize Their Testicles
How far would you be willing to go for bigger balls?
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a70848194/saline-testicle-inflation/
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9 days ago
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karen ward
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HRNA_AIIRM
12 days ago
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/
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Membership | HRNA/AIIRM
HRNA Membership Member Benefits and Reasons to Join Community of Practice Vote in elections for the Board of Directors and Annual General Meeting Contribute to national advocacy efforts th...
https://www.hrna-aiirm.ca/membership/
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HRNA_AIIRM
12 days ago
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
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karen ward
13 days ago
"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/...
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Saskatoon firefighters responded to 'staggering' 680 overdoses in April | CBC News
The new high mark of 680 surpasses the 509 responses in March of 2025 and happened the same month that Prairie Harm Reduction closed for good due to financial troubles. The numbers represent a more th...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-firefighters-overdose-crisis-supervised-consumption-drugs-9.7188729
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isabella zavarise
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“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...
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Vancouver mayor moves to block opening of downtown overdose prevention site
Vancouver Coastal Health plans to open site in June in building at 900 Helmcken Street
https://www.biv.com/biv-rss-linkedin/vancouver-mayor-moves-to-block-opening-of-downtown-overdose-prevention-site-12239530
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karen ward
13 days ago
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/...
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Overdose prevention site in downtown Vancouver gets new location — with mayor strongly opposed | CBC News
Vancouver Coastal Health’s chief medical health officer says the site is an "essential health service" needed to save lives, but Mayor Ken Sim says no meaningful consultation was done on reopening it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/overdose-prevention-site-downtown-vancouver-new-location-9.7188064
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The Tyee
13 days ago
“If we ignore it, then we’re sort of validating it too. It’s almost like complicity by not saying something.”
#CdnMedia
#canpoli
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White Supremacist Ideas Are Entering Canadian Media and Politics | The Tyee
An expert looks at a BC MLA’s use of a Nazi phrase and the National Post’s praise for a book favoured by white nationalists.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/05/06/White-Supremacist-Ideas-Canadian-Media-Politics/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Kevin M. Kruse
14 days ago
Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.
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karen ward
14 days ago
DON'T GIVE UP
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karen ward
14 days ago
they didn't kill it. they directed staff to try
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karen ward
15 days ago
#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...
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HRNA_AIIRM
15 days ago
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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De Facto Journalism Co-op
18 days ago
This International Workers’ Day, we're putting media back in workers’ hands. De Facto Journalism Co-op is a new non-profit of 6 worker-owners producing in-depth journalism focused on justice issues and systems of power. To get our first investigations next week, subscribe here:
defactomedia.ca
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Brishti Basu
18 days ago
This has been a long time coming. Join me and this rockstar team of journalists as we take charge of our own workplace. Our 1st article series launches on Monday with an investigation from
@godfrey.bsky.social
and
@emmaarkell.bsky.social
that we think will anger you into action. Sign up & follow!
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dustin
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HI HELLO happy International Workers' Day! i'm so excited to say this is finally happening! After so much time and energy with these wonderful friends, we're launching our non-profit worker-owned co-operative to do journalism the way we want to do journalism.
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karen ward
18 days ago
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...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
19 days ago
We’ve got the wrong priorities
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Ottawa announces up to $145-million in security funding for World Cup
Police say thousands of officers will be needed for biggest security operation in Vancouver and Toronto’s history
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-announces-up-to-145-million-in-security-funding-for-world-cup/
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Emily Lowan (she/her)
20 days ago
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.
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karen ward
20 days ago
a social media ban for kids is total surveillance for all.
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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P
20 days ago
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
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karen ward
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develop drug policy from this:
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The story isn’t that an
#Alberta
minister “admitted he was wrong”. It’s that he spread a false claim about supervised consumption sites—despite zero recorded deaths at these facilities—manufacturing consent to shutter life-saving services.
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/04/28/a...
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Alberta minister admits supervised consumption claim was wrong
An Alberta minister who appeared to make a bombshell revelation last week in the legislature about the dire state of the province’s supervised consumption sites is now admitting he was wrong. Critics ...
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/04/28/alberta-minister-supervised-consumption-claim-wrong/
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B.C. Green Caucus
21 days ago
Today in Question Period MLA Botterell asked: 1. What is the status of the Mental Health Act review, a year after it was announced 2. How are health professionals supposed to respond to "clinical guidance memos" that read as if they've been scrawled on the back of a napkin.
#bcpoli
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MLA Botterell on the Mental Health Act review, and involuntary treatment “clinical guidance memos”
YouTube video by BC Green Caucus
https://youtu.be/dJ04fYP7WwA
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karen ward
22 days ago
wow.
#SafeSupply
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karen ward
22 days ago
the worst thing about this is that the government has legalized the wildly abusive everyday practices of supportive housing operators, management and staff. that's 813 evictions in less than three years! 🧵
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Pivot Legal Society
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UPDATE: Bill 11 has passed. BC’s Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) has now been amended to: expand landlords' power to order arbitrary evictions; allow landlords to lock tenants out of their homes; and... 🧵1/5
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Elaine Hyshka
26 days ago
On Tuesday, Alberta's Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Rick Wilson told the Alberta legislature that he personally watched someone die in a supervised consumption site (SCS). This statement is demonstrably false and constitutes disinformation.
#ableg
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karen ward
26 days ago
October 28, 2025 speed cameras, overdose prevention services and bike lanes are harm reduction interventions the purpose of removing them is to cause harm
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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karen ward
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social housing units built by year in Canada, 1972-2010 - by number of units - as % of all housing built
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“The Province is partnering with law enforcement, scientists and health researchers in a groundbreaking pilot project, which uses advanced robotic and AI technology to fight the toxic-drug crisis” I'm not joking, this is a real government announcement
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
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Disrupting the illicit drug trade with first-in-Canada technology
Track and Trace initiative to improve intelligence, save lives
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026PSSG0033-000432
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RNAO
about 1 month ago
🚨FACTS: Supervised consumption sites: ✅prevent deaths ✅reduce ER visits ✅connect people with care. Closing them is dangerous. EVERYONE: Urge Premier Ford to reverse this decision:
RNAO.ca/policy/actio...
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Private jet: funded ✅ Life-saving supervised consumption services: defunded ❌ What are we doing here folks?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario government buys $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford's use | CBC News
The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-private-jet-9.7167824
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A somber and important read. “What I see is a lot of people who don’t understand why so many others think they’re not worth it. And they’re just trying to survive day-to-day.”
#bcpoli
nelsonstar.com/2026/04/14/w...
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‘We’re losing family’: Mournful event in Nelson marks 10 years of toxic drug crisis - Nelson Star
A small gathering of people remembered friends lost during the last decade
https://nelsonstar.com/2026/04/14/were-losing-family-mournful-event-in-nelson-marks-10-years-of-toxic-drug-crisis/
about 1 month ago
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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy
about 1 month ago
pressprogress.ca/bc-health-ex...
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BC Health Experts Say the Province Has Solutions to the Toxic Drug Crisis. 10 Years In, Policies Still Ignore The Evidence.
“We have this bizarre dichotomy where everybody agrees that this is a health issue, but the majority of the resources…goes to law enforcement.”
https://pressprogress.ca/bc-health-experts-say-the-province-has-solutions-to-the-toxic-drug-crisis-10-years-in-policies-still-ignore-the-evidence/
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karen ward
about 1 month ago
every person in this province should be it doesn't have to be this way people aren't dying from drugs, but from drug POLICY
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'We are full of rage today,' says Prince George rally organizer - Loved ones rally across B.C. to mark 10 years since toxic drug crisis was declared an emergency
I’m a CBC reporter based in Prince George. I’m at the intersection of highways 16 and 97 beneath the Mr. PG statue, where 594 purple crosses have been displayed, representing the number of lives lost....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/british-columbia-10-year-of-toxic-drug-health-emergency-9.7163577?ts=1776200786038
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karen ward
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you can love people who use drugs while we're alive don't wait until we die
#10years
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Vancouver drug users' rally calls for an 'end to this farce' 10 years into state of emergency | CBC News
A rally organized by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) on Tuesday commemorated those lost to the toxic drug crisis 10 years after a public health emergency was declared in B.C. over a s...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-area-network-of-drug-users-rally-10-years-emergency-9.7164143
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A moment of silence, then cries for change - Loved ones rally across B.C. to mark 10 years since toxic drug crisis was declared an emergency
The rally at the B.C. Legislature stopped for a moment of silence to remember those who have died in the crisis. People were encouraged to shout out the names of loved ones they have lost, before fall...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/british-columbia-10-year-of-toxic-drug-health-emergency-9.7163577?ts=1776202313046
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karen ward
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"Every death in this crisis is a policy choice. This province once led the way on harm reduction. Now, it is failing to show the leadership needed to save lives.” --
@jervaler.bsky.social
political bravery is what's lacking in this government, and that's what this emergency demands
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dustin
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harm reduction entirely relegated to an afterthought, not one mention of safe supply or prescribed alternatives. it's hard to distinguish this opinion from the BCNDP party line
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