Unions Improve Social Well-Being Even For Non-Members

Just noticed, Headstones on tour with The Tea Party and Finger Eleven - skipping over Sask 😭😭😭. There’s an open date Nov 30, just sayin….

“When city workers confiscate personal belongings like tents and harm reduction supplies from people sheltering on the street, it increases their risk of non-fatal overdose and physical and sexual violence, according to a new study.” #bcpoli

When city workers confiscate personal belongings like tents and harm reduction supplies from people sheltering on the street, it increases their risk of non-fatal overdose and physical and sexual violence, according to a new study. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

“You can’t bomb the truth away” My full speech at Wembley Arena tonight, in London, to 12,000 people at the Together for Palestine concert, paying tribute to murdered Palestinian journalists and their bravery, and calling out the silence and complicity of Western media.

Despite some of the fear mongering rhetoric out there, This is a great program that keeps families together and ultimately makes communities safer ehrlo.com/about/whats-...?

"It should be obvious by now that neither Trudeau nor the carbon tax had any impact on your grocery bills. Corporate greed and government ignoring its regulatory responsibilities have." Enforce the regulations!

This guy cannot say the word union to save his life “Thank you to the hard working people of Saskatchewan and to the Unions that not only made this day possible, but who work every day to ensure workers get fair pay & can do their job safely” . See, it’s easy! #skpoli

“We want safe supply and end of prohibition,” said Samona Marsh, the president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). “Respect us. Respect the agency of the individual, [the] collective agency of the community.” Hero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This play resulted in a touchdown. @pifflespod.bsky.social @jgasson.bsky.social

Weapons, ok, but seizing drugs will actually make communities less safe because if you don’t replace it with something safer, gangs and organized crime will replace it with something stronger and more toxic. Plus, someone having drugs in their pocket is not a threat to public safety.

Every drug poisoning death is a policy decision. Rather than offer evidence based solutions to save lives, govts are cowardly choosing to continue failed prohibition policies. What is needed is a regulated drug supply of known content/dose, to keep people alive until they can get into treatment.

I no longer say that every overdose is a policy failure. Every overdose is a policy *decision*.

👉 The toxic, unregulated drug supply is what’s killing people, not decriminalization or harm reduction. 👉 Health-based approaches save lives, reduce crime, and make communities safer. 👉 Criminalization only drives people into unsafe spaces, increases stigma, and costs lives.

Prohibition is the Crisis. For over a century, drug markets have been controlled through ineffective law enforcement. Since the 1908 Opium Act, prohibition has forced trade underground, fueling contamination and organized crime, making everyone less safe.

End Prohibition, end the drug war #safesupply #safeconsumption #harmreductionsaveslives #skpoli #IOAD2025 Graphic courtesy of @hrca.bsky.social

“Prohibition forces consumers to buy unregulated substances from underground networks with little or no accountability. As a result, purity and content remains largely guesswork.” filtermag.org/overdose-pro...

Read this 👇 “These deaths—so many of which could have been avoided if banned drugs were legally regulated—are better described as “prohibition-related deaths.”” Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths” #IOAD2025 filtermag.org/overdose-pro...

We urge the federal gov’t to: 1️⃣Rescind Bill C-2. 2️⃣Reject forced “treatment.” 3️⃣Fund health, housing, harm reduction & Indigenous healing. 4️⃣Legislate equity-based public health. 5️⃣Meet HRNA Board in 30 days.

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

housing is the only solution for homelessness mayors of many municipalities: send the police police: we need more police general public: I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS IS GETTING WORSE homeless people: are you fucken kidding me homeless service provider: *awareness*

I think @pattyhajdu.bsky.social fucked up. Big time. Read the room, @mark-carney.bsky.social cause I don’t think people will be happy that you ordered mostly women back to do unpaid work. You’d better have some dynamic speaking points before the milk turns sour

Bad wages. Deteriorating working conditions. Increasingly higher cost of living. Doesn't matter if it's liberals or conservatives in charge. We're never allowed to get ahead. But sure. It's a "democracy". Great system.

“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”

Workers deserve better than a government that denies their right to fight for fair treatment. The federal government has no business interfering in the labour dispute between Air Canada and workers. This terrible decision by the Liberals undermines negotiations and hurts labour rights.

Can we stop pretending now that the liberals are anything other than a neo-liberal right wing govt with pretty much zero daylight between them and the cons ?

How embarrassing - NIMBY group is worried about the building code? No one’s buying it. www.discovermoosejaw.com/articles/com...

This is flat out discrimination, and a charter violation. I hope someone challenges this. Shame on the council for falling for nimby fear-mongering and extra shame on the one councillor who compares family support housing to a sex offender hostel. discovermoosejaw.com/articles/des...

Hey @sickoscommittee.org we got a 1-1 tie Riders vs Elks

massive investment in accessible social housing to guarantee homes for all is the solution to mass homelessness substance use and psychiatric injury are CONSEQUENCES of housing deprivation, not causes people become homeless because the RENT IS TOO HIGH theconversation.com/why-involunt...

🚨 The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point. Sanctions are urgently needed to force Israel to end its genocidal, forced starvation of 2 million people. Send an urgent message demanding that Carney and Anand sanction Israel now: www.cjpme.org/tell_carney_...

Please help get this account some legs. Concerned, healthcare professionals, speaking out against involuntary care.

FACTS. Also replace Vancouver with EVERYWHERE.

Ok, REALDistrict and Mosaic stadium , you have a real opportunity here, please don’t screw it up. #chappelroaninsask #yqr #yxe

So much drug discourse is in bad faith. A radio show asked me to explain the reports about secondhand fentanyl smoke. I explained that it’s not a risk for fentanyl toxicity, & the response was “so you don’t think fentanyl causes problems?” & “so if someone smokes in my face nothing bad will happen?”

Even though fentanyl can be deadly, & is driving record overdoses, fearmongering about it & spreading misinformation is not helpful & actually causes more harms. I’ve given up most of my adult life trying to reduce fentanyl overdoses so nobody takes it more seriously than me. I wrote this 3 yrs ago:

great 🧵 below. This is why they always need to make fentanyl sound more scary and dangerous than it actually is, to help justify these harmful policies.

Do people know healthcare workers use fentanyl more than almost any other medicine? In a liquid form that would be substantially more likely to aerosolize? And it’s never been a problem? Even in the factories where they make it without ventilators? People would have been dropping like flies all over

Important PSA👇

Every time a cop pretends that they had a medical crisis because they were “exposed” to fentanyl, they make people who use drugs, their families, and their communities less safe.

this is Canada's drug policy.

Weird how the thing that many doctors, peers, social workers, people who use drugs, and many others warned would happen, is now indeed happening. Might want to start listening and follow evidence over ideology. #skpoli pay attention

“We can give wraparound care, safe consumption sites, drug testing strips, but in the end, until we deal with that drug supply, people won’t stop dying.”

"Supervised consumption sites. . . exist to minimize chaos in places where chaos usually rules: sidewalks, parks, alleyways, and public bathroom stalls" - Reason Foundation. "The services offered at SCSs are simple, consistent and rooted in practicality." Read on: tinyurl.com/yp4cmx97

this is a good article by @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social but I want to add more context: the safest place to use unregulated drugs is at a safe consumption site. the next safest place is in public view. the least safest is indoors alone. furthermore, “problematic” to whom? and YIKES

“I would choose fatally overdosing over ever having to be involuntarily detained and institutionalized again. That is something I will avoid at all costs.” Meanwhile, AB+BC make room for thousands of forced institutionalizations per year. 💔 vancouversun.com/health/does-...

“The PTSD I live with — not as a result of being mentally ill, not as a result of being a substance user, but as a result of what I endured in treatment for those conditions — is so severe that my quality of life continues to be exceptionally poor.” -Nicole Luongo vancouversun.com/health/does-...

San Francisco has spent the last 3 years undoing any evidence-based drug policy in order to appease a very vocal group of uneducated but rich, fascist, right-wing losers (Sacks, Tan, Tandler, Shellenberger, etc). As everyone with understanding of this topic warned, San Franciscans are dying bc of it

Well, well, well. #skpoli #yxe #yqr nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Peep our guest article for #SupportDontPunish with @drugdatadecoded.ca If you missed our first ever webinar (in preparation for SDP), the recording will be up soon. Huge thanks to our speakers, it was 🔥 drugdatadecoded.ca/reclaim-coll...