Frontline workers and community groups call for reinstatement of low barrier DTES wound care clinic Community inclusion and the decentralization of care is needed during dual toxic drug and housing public health crises: www.policeoversight.ca/p/dtesclinic

opioid agonists are not vaccines themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...

Kinda noteworthy stuff cheknews.ca/cp-newsalert...

The lawyer for a senior British Columbia RCMP officer says his client intends to plead not guilty to assault charges laid after an alleged off-duty altercation in Abbotsford in July. 

VPD Officer Was Quietly Investigated over an Abusive Relationship with Teen A police watchdog report does not reveal the officer’s name or the school where he met the teenage girl. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

School liaison officer...

"BuT wHO wiLL pRoTEcT yOU iF yOu cuT tHe pOLiCe buDgEt? ALsO, wE sHoULd pUT coPS iN hiGh sCHooLs aGaiN."

Read this 🧵 and article.

All Cops Are Fucking Pieces Of Shit

the only people who want police in schools are the police. read this thread

"The BC Human Rights Commissioner, in her November 2025 statement, was unequivocal: the toxic drug crisis is a human rights violation driven by toxic supply, structural inequities, and systemic discrimination, not by voluntary use of substances." idpc.net/news/2025/12...

“From the RCMP down to the VPD, we know that there’s a misogynistic culture, or a racist culture or a defensive culture. We see it time and time again, through either lawsuits being filed, inquiries or reports looking into it,” @bccla.bsky.social's McDermott said. 10/

Last year, CBC revealed 1/3 of Ontario police suspensions involved allegations of domestic violence & sexual assault. In 2020 the federal govt settled a $100m class action lawsuit against RCMP by past employees for gender-based discrimination, harassment & assault. 9/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

...and former VPD Sgt. Dave Van Patten, who worked in HR when Cst. Nicole Chan accused him of sexual assault and blackmail, before she took her own life. 8/ thetyee.ca/News/2023/02...

...former VPD Sgt. Keiron McConnell admitted to sexually harassing five women, three of whom were his former students at local colleges... 7/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There is a pattern of domestic violence and sexual assault allegations against police in Canada, McDermott notes. Like former VPD Sgt. Jim Fisher, accused of forcibly kissing two teenage girls under 18, witnesses to a sex exploitation investigation... 6/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This cannot be reformed.

Why do we want police officers in our schools?

In late Nov. researcher @kwardvancouver.bsky.social pointed me to an OPCC investigation summary into now ex-VPD officer’s abusive relationship with a teenage girl. They met when he made a policing presentation at her high school & she expressed interest in being a cop. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... 1/

VPD Officer Was Quietly Investigated over an Abusive Relationship with Teen A police watchdog report does not reveal the former officer’s name or the school where he met the teenage girl. #cdnpoli #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

i am sorry but how is it NOT a crime to groom a child as a police officer? why wasn't this creep charged! it's still sexual interference even if he waited till her birthday to rape her

The story is all sorts of messed up.

A brief mention of an abusive relationship between a Vancouver police officer and a teen he met at school in a recent watchdog report shows a need for more transparency around the identities of officers who commit misconduct, says a civil liberties advocate. @kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

Politicians and media have worked in tandem to reinforce involuntary treatment narratives as interventions to prevent deaths and overdoses experienced by youth: themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...

care is not forced. read the full statement from @hrna.bsky.social & Doctors for Safer Drug Policy here: www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... bsky.app/profile/dsdp...

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

What kind of guidelines have no listed authors and no references? 🤔

"The Minister of Health has been clear in her comments in the legislature that it is not the government’s intention to expand involuntary treatment through Bill 32." Carefully chosen words one supposes, because just days later... www.healthjustice.ca/blog/bill32 #bcpoli

An important community and patient perspective. themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v... #bcpoli #harmreduction

www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... Tomorrow’s government announcement doesn’t sound like will be just about adults with concurrent disorders. Not that those folks don’t have rights too, and not that forced substance use treatment is any more effective in that population. We Refuse.

"Youth and children are consistently weaponized as anecdotes ... by politicians to elicit emotion while neglecting to fund and implement evidence-based practices. Youth and young people have bodily autonomy, and they deserve healthcare and treatment options that respect this autonomy with dignity."

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 boils down to: people are still dying in huge numbers. Whatever was being done wasn’t enough. Calculations from the province say a fraction of people who could benefit from these programs are able to access them.” @michellegamage.bsky.social was on CBC’s Front Burner podcast. Listen here.

INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT and restrictions on accessing prescribed alternatives and more police are the government’s recently announced measures.

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...

I am astonished that there’s no comment from the municipal government that ordered the encampment eviction or from the law enforcement agencies that constantly claim to be working to prevent people from dying AND this happened during cheque week THIS IS LINKED TO POVERTY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Long-acting buprenorphine injections (brand name Sublocade) are not “like a vaccine for overdose.”

there's a certain type of guy — Julian Somers, Daniel Vigo, David Eby — whose work starts off at least somewhat on the right side of history before cynically turning to politics of moral panic the minute they get some semblance of power

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...

the OPIUM would not have killed people. C @danalarsen.bsky.social

that's not even touching the ethics of giving ANYONE a nonremovable pharmaceutical injection that lasts A MONTH, based on the idea that at a certain point in time they could not give consent there's no justification for that, not when a daily medication exists that's chemical incarceration

This guidance document is instructing medical professionals to harm children. It is brazenly unlawful as well as wildly unethical cc @dsdp.ca @hrna.bsky.social @power1312.bsky.social

A cowardly rush through the legislature. And for what?

VPD apprehend more than 4,000 people per year under the Mental Health Act www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/h...

"The refusal campaign on Monday said about 90 doctors and nurses have affirmed they have a moral obligation to refuse violent and unsafe practices like involuntary [treatment of substance use disorders.]"

More than 70% of the calls we receive are from women looking for safe care. From mobile STBBI testing to interpretation, safer sex supply delivery, and connecting people to trusted providers — these services fill a critical gap. Help make Healthcare Without Fear a reality: swanvancouver.ca/donate

from Sept 2024 - 17 community groups oppose expansions to forced treatment: www.policeoversight.ca/p/16-organiz...