the drug war is international and so too must be drug war resistance and divestment briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca filtermag.org/bc-governmen...

Last week, BC NDP Premier Eby made misleading claims about Sublocade. A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable. Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...

It is a choice to keep drugs unregulated. The government chooses to prohibit drugs, which allows for black markets to flourish, which creates a more potent and dangerous unregulated supply. The government could regulate drugs and undercut the unregulated market, but chooses not to.

POWER members responded to at least four drug poisonings in a 2.5 hour window on Nov 19. The driver of these drug poisonings is prohibition. The unpredictability of the drug supply is entirely predictable — the federal, provincial & municipal policies in place ensure it bsky.app/profile/andr...

Agree or disagree, I hope people realize that this is just a piece of paper with Government logo on it; it's not legislation, it's not a peer-reviewed paper or clinical guideline; it's one random dudes thoughts and it's frankly insulting to assume that clinicians should accept it at all

There is a lot here in this analysis. I am paying close attention to the removal of "deemed consent" from the Mental Health Act.

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...

On Nov 17, North Cowichan displaced ~75 unhoused residents from Lewis Street encampments to a marsh without the promised Ramada shelter open or toilets available. NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

"We can’t prescribe or police our way out of this crisis. We need housing, we need a regulated, safer supply, we need to bolster our voluntary treatment options:" globalnews.ca/news/1155470...

As DULF's compassion club was forced to close, its operators worked to get its 43 members legal Rx alternatives, successfully transitioning only 2 or 3 – a point that piqued the interest of the judge, who asked about the barriers to safer supply programs www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"strengthening access" to apprehension and indefinite detention bsky.app/profile/sobi...

no one involved in this case disputes DULF has saved many lives. shutting down initiatives to prevent consumption of poisoned drugs leads to more preventable deaths. sad to see the law used as a cudgel to justify killing people through government inaction & indifference

an unexpected and momentary sense of hope listening in to the people's filibuster against the 2026 budget that threatens to hollow out the city further

the cop city budget vancouver is set to spend half a billion on policing next year (probably more): www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city

from the judgment: these are the institutions of Vancouver. police abruptly raiding the successful project as DULF was transitioning members off to close down; the Health Ministry sanctioning more death based on moral panic; a health authority without resistance drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...

Full article is up. “There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.” Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

"Justice Murray repeated several times that Nyx and Kalicum’s intent was clear: they sought to save people’s lives in the face of a public health emergency."

Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking. Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution. “There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.” @pressprogress.ca

📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣 But WAIT! Not so fast… drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...

Saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drug use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last month. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis

“The optics are, oh, the police get everything they want.” Here’s my story on the Vancouver Police Department asking for a $50 million increase to their 2026 budget while others city departments are facing challenges — and how at least one board member seemed aware of the conflict it would create.

"When BC authorities declared these mounting deaths a public health emergency, mainly exploiting the situation to push the same, tired teetotal interventions that created this mess, it was just too much to stomach" #drugsky www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com

The order that protected Moccasin Flats is an important human rights precedent toward the decriminalization of people living outdoors—but a new injunction has been handed down "Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats" www.policeoversight.ca/p/prince-geo... @bccla.bsky.social

#BREAKING: Sleydo' Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko will not serve prison time after a BC Supreme Court judge handed them a suspended sentence in Smithers court today for their role in opposing the #CoastalGasLink pipeline conflict. More to come in @thetyee.ca. #bcpoli

“What does it say to Canadians, to international observers and to Indigenous people, that victims of this hideous racism will be sent to jail to serve further time, notwithstanding this misconduct.” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Judge: “The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening… It seems like these two [gestures to defendants Nyx and Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly is not fine.”

Jeremy and Erys kept people safe with their actions. Politicians who prevent access to safe alternatives to toxic drugs are the ones who should be charged. #DULF founders are heroes to me and many other moms!

> Read about how DULF's co-founders discussed their compassion club with the VPD. VPD reps offered their support for the project. Then the VPD abruptly raided the compassion club and arrested its co-founders: thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

VPD has zero credibility in reporting violent crime statistics. By selective & sensational use of stats, they helped their friends get elected to city council. Now Task Force Barrage is out of gas & VPD wants more money. dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

Bombshell reporting by my @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social colleagues here This reflects very poorly on the Vancouver Police Department, which isn't being forthcoming about questionable assault numbers continually promoted ahead of the last municipal election www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

they do this for everything. make people fight each other for the opportunity to BEG for it. to make you indebted, grateful

"housing freezes" are a cruel policy that sees people prioritized for housing based on electoral interests. they are part of an explicit process of dehumanization @natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered: themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs. DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser: chuffed.org/project/dulf...

NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

"housing freezes" are a cruel policy that sees people prioritized for housing based on electoral interests. they are part of an explicit process of dehumanization @natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered: themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

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...

@sudubc.bsky.social is 🎯. and Eby's cynical plan for coerced hospitalization (aka "involuntary treatment") is another way his government is dodging accountability for its failure to respond honestly and effectively to the unregulated drug deaths emergency

The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) says a B.C. provincial housing task force is allowing the "government to dodge accountability for systemic failures." www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...

We are 9 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days into BC’s declared public health emergency of toxic unregulated drugs.

Nobody has ever had fentanyl/opioid toxicity from casual, secondhand smoke exposure, let alone overdosed. I have seen every report. I am even in direct contact with the people doing the tests in the buildings in Vancouver! And they were worried about this info being misinterpreted, which it has been

it takes well over 20 paragraphs to get to @ryanmarino.bsky.social challenging the idea of second hand fentanyl toxicity after setting the stage with these opening paragraphs

Aboriginal Front Door facing provincial cuts. Please take a minute to support our call to restore funding beyond September 2025. Thank you! as a link chng.it/MQDwwZGSK6

This new legislation is terrifying—not just because of the environmental destruction these laws will accelerate, but because of the ways our sovereign rights get watered down to “economic reconciliation,” a mere assimilation into a failing economy built on our dispossession and genocide.

Police interference w/ harm reduction services is a growing crisis. Surveilling services, arresting clients & other abuses cause service avoidance, violate peoples right to healthcare & highlights urgent need for binding non-interference policies. @filtermag.bsky.social @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social

‘Recriminalization’ is part of a deathly policy maze designed to kill people who use drugs www.policeoversight.ca/p/recriminal...

“We cannot rely on assumed goodwill,” says Sabelli. “In our work, we have seen numerous attempts by non-profit housing providers to circumvent the RTA precisely to carry out unfair and unjust evictions." clasbc.net/bc-tenant-ri... #vanpoli