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

We are organizing the third annual Care Not Cops abolitionist health convergence! Interested in presenting at Unsettling Empire in Care Work: Toward abolition, liberatory harm reduction & disability justice in Vancouver this November? Apply here: forms.gle/7ydxNA9W9pbP...

“It’s not the institutions that push these policies forward, it’s the people.” briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

"Our findings speak to the dangers of political decisions that restrict access to harm reduction services within the context of the current unregulated drug poisoning crisis."

Advocates and unhoused people say bylaw officers told residents, with little to no warning, that they had to pack up their entire campsite and move to a different part of the tent city. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

“We’ve lost a lot of lives:” the impact of the closure of North America’s busiest supervised consumption site on people who use substances and the organizations that work with them via @ulethbridge.ca researchers: rdcu.be/epM3G #drugsky

My fam has lost 3 young men to substance use in the last 2 1/2 yrs. My son (Dec 2022), My cousin (June 2023) my other cousin (yesterday). They were twins, & both close to my son. We don't talk enough about the devastation that is left in the wake of untimely & tragic deaths. It has a domino effect

per usual—as the political class creates spectacle from the toxic drug crisis, @crackdownpod.bsky.social shows us the intimate realities. important new episode: www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi... ft. @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social @4bharmredux.bsky.social

The Strong Borders Act would allow "Canada Post to open mail based on vague criteria [and] law enforcement to get IP addresses w/o a warrant ... police will be able to ask digital service providers to hand over data voluntarily and protect them from being sued ..." www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

By me: Black communities in 2020 did not march for months,risking arrest & tear gas, to receive apologies & platitudes, nor did they plead for more Black officers, bodycams, yet another “community policing” program, or long discredited programs of mass criminalization www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

do tenants in supportive housing know that a coalition of Supportive Housing Operators are asking the government to “remove supportive housing from the Residential Tenancy Act”

Jeremy Omand of the Gastown Residents Association appears to grab, force person to the ground in video www.policeoversight.ca/p/jeremy-oma...

this is a bad article—for one, CEOs of private services, cops, church reps, and condo owners are inappropriately the only sources—and when it veers into interpretation it leaves out important histories of exclusion & conflates a single opioid with wide-ranging social issues bsky.app/profile/theg...

the Mental Health Act was already being weaponized outside of its terms 'on paper' before this expansion, just as many forms of carceral discretion are in BC and beyond. Eby was the head of the BCCLA and of course knows this. He just doesn't care. bsky.app/profile/mehl...