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“The city committed to do better; it has now broken that commitment and done so without consultation or notice. In a sentence, it has chosen to save money over lives.” disappointing and embarrassing priorities meanwhile, the ABC majority that enabled this chants ‘Back to Basics. Back to Community’

I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied. Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...

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regulate the drug supply bsky.app/profile/ctvn...

City of Vancouver cuts sex worker safety planner position

“The optics are, ‘Oh, the police get everything they want,’” Vancouver police board member Lorraine Lowe said, shortly before she voted to endorse another $50 million be directed to the Vancouver Police Department From November: www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city

despite receiving eye-watering budget increases to the tune of defunding non-policing staff and services, the Vancouver Police Board can't manage to stay onside of meeting requirements required by the Police Act "The interval between any 2 consecutive regular meetings must not exceed 4 months"

You can’t find the right solution if you don’t understand the problem, as evidenced by comments of the BC minister of health. The BC NDP has abandoned the measures that are shown to save lives, like safe supply. The blood of YOUR loved ones is on THEIR hands. #bcpoli

this absolutely deranged statement of statements which includes a revisionist history of this government's commitment to mass social murder was released this morning, a day early its not a "toxic-drug crisis," its a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY this is disinformation news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

you can love people who use drugs while we're alive don't wait until we die #10years www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Listen for a moment at the way sound travels through the emptied back alley, and you can hear a city being hollowed out" Between the city and the toxic drug emergency: themainlander.com/2026/04/14/e... #drugsky

BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing Interview with Paul (@policeoversight.ca) & Matt (Our Streets) on Bill 11: themainlander.com/2026/04/13/i...

“The optics are, ‘Oh, the police get everything they want,’” Vancouver police board member Lorraine Lowe said, shortly before she voted to endorse another $50 million be directed to the Vancouver Police Department From November: www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city

Our lower mainland friends are organizing. Let's get behind them! #MutualAid #DTES #SexWorkerLed #FIFA2026

Missing from the convo about rising “hate” in Toronto is that we don’t count the routine police beatings, dog maulings, home raids, and killings of Black and Indigenous folks as “hate crimes” because that would require a reckoning with the nature of policing in this country.

🗓️Sat., April 18th, 4-8 PM 📍Vines Art Society (825 East Hastings Street) 🎟️ Tickets by donation (in advance or at the door) 😷 Masks mandatory (and will be available at the door) Feat. Jane Shi, Dana Belcourt, Nigel Hakeem, Mel Woods and many more! RSVP:

NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver themainlander.com/2026/02/24/a...

Highly recommend sw in the Vancouver area to donate gently used and well-maintained clothing to this. I donated a lot of my clothes and lingerie here when I was moving out of Vancouver and taking an extended break from sw. It will feel good helping out those in the community that need it the most ♥️

Call for clothing contributions for s*x workers in the DTES!! As we brace for the upcoming FIFA games in Vancouver, now is the time to start preparing support for our neighbors most impacted by policing and displacement. 1/5

Donations can be dropped of @ 647 E Hastings on April 18th, from 12 pm - 3 pm Stay tuned for future drop-off dates, updates and additional ways to support our mutual aid efforts. 5/5

With fewer community spaces to rely on, we anticipate that street-based s*x workers working in the DTES will be disproportionately impacted by VPD-led crackdowns during the games. 2/5

Christine Boyle’s bill puts tenancy rights in hot water Bill 11 will formalize a sub-categorization of tenancy rights for people in “supportive housing:" www.policeoversight.ca/p/christine-... #bcpoli #vanpoli

...fundamentally undermining the legislative process and vesting virtually unfettered decision-making power in the hands of politicians and contracted housing providers. Learn more and read @clasbc.bsky.social and Pivot's full statement: www.pivotlegal.org/clas_and_piv... 2/2

New from The Mainlander Editorial Collective: Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for the Woodward’s development themainlander.com/2026/04/05/w... #vanpoli

Ontario is facing a #ToxicDrugCrisis — and losing supervised consumption services will only make it worse. Your voice matters more than ever. Urge Premier @fordnation to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio...

Bill 11 would formalize a sub-categorization of tenancy rights for people in “supportive housing” #bcpoli www.policeoversight.ca/p/christine-...

Manitoba’s Bill 48 empowers police to target individuals of perceived drug intoxication and detain them for 3 days in solitary confinement. How does the expansion of involuntary detention and forced detox, made possible through Bill 48, deepen colonial harm? yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/care-no...

'Not like anything else': FIFA World Cup visitors warned of Vancouver's toxic drug supply for users https://vancouversun.com/news/world-cup-fans-warning-vancouver-toxic-drug-supply ⦸ @vancouversun.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Bill 11 would formalize a sub-categorization of tenancy rights for people in “supportive housing” #bcpoli www.policeoversight.ca/p/christine-...

Closing Supervised Consumption Services Will Cost Lives, Premier! The @rnao.ca “is urging Premier Ford to reverse this decision. For the sake of those at risk, nothing else will suffice.” Please sign this Action Alert urgently! #onpoli #cdnpoli rnao.ca/policy/actio...

For Immediate Release: “Harm Reduction Nurses Denounce Ontario Decision to End Supervised Consumption Services” Read the full statement here: www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/17/h... @rnao.ca @canadanurses.bsky.social #cdnpoli #onpoli #Ontario #HarmReduction #Nurses

We unequivocally denounce the Government of Ontario’s decision to end provincial funding for Consumption and Treatment Services and order site operators across Ontario to draft wind-down plans to close by June 13, 2026. Read the full statement: www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/hiv-leg...

Ontario’s decision to end funding for supervised consumption services marks a continued and dangerous backslide - as we previously warned. As highlighted by @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social in their statement, these services save lives. The #GCDP previous statement on the matter: tinyurl.com/z5tsb476

Our crises are shared. Today, P.O.W.E.R., the Surrey Union of Drug Users and Care Not Cops endorse and amplify the condemnation of SCS closures made by our colleagues in Ontario: www.policeoversight.ca/p/our-crises...

Our crises are shared. Today, P.O.W.E.R., the Surrey Union of Drug Users and Care Not Cops endorse and amplify the condemnation of SCS closures made by our colleagues in Ontario: www.policeoversight.ca/p/our-crises...

Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll via @sudubc.bsky.social @policeoversight.ca @carenotcops.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/our-crises...

Mike Massine, the use-of-force expert, is a police trainer at the Justice Institute. He recommends more training. "Excited delirium" is NOT A THING here's Massine's CV. www.ciddd.ca/documents/ex...

The Vancouver Police Department’s new training academy in the Woodward’s development on Hastings Street will likely save the building’s owner more than $170,000 a year in property taxes, CTV News has learned. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

(the "another" is an Edmonton cop turned councillor) bsky.app/profile/jonn...

Busts like this just mean the supply gets cut more and more people die

#PrinceGeorgeBC - Prince George Safe Streets Bylaw critiqued by University of Toronto sociology department chair www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/p...

I searched for any mention of this 0.3% figure online and couldn't find evidence the government publicized what seems like important context that could have defended the safe supply program but couldn't find it. I asked the government if they tried to publicize this fact and they didn't respond

10 years in and “there is no direction to collect that data.”

Every overdose death is a policy choice. #bcpoli (And thank you to @kwardvancouver.bsky.social for the tireless advocacy)

> Michael Massine - the former officer saying this is a use of force instructor who has taken on contract work $$ for police training... bsky.app/profile/ctvn...

"while non-profit landlords and policymakers have evoked notions of figurative ‘problem tenants’ to justify sweeping changes to supportive housing rights, these issues are a product of a broken system that has rarely prioritized...tenant safety" www.policeoversight.ca/p/carceral-h...