Notice how easily, how seamlessly this conversation moves from forced treatment to euthanasia. (Aka state sanctioned murder.) Once you systematically dehumanize people, “involuntary lethal injection” just seems the next logical step to “cleaning up” our streets.

Every time Robert Tanguay speaks I remember the flawed report that he was a part of. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

As city columnist for the Edmonton Journal, I wrote often about the crisis of homelessness. I was naive. For years, I thought people wanted to help those living on the street. It took me ages to realize that many people just wanted the homeless gone, someplace away, out of sight and out of mind.

Vancouver Police Department expecting to be over budget by nearly $8 million: report

"Salaries and benefits were over budget by 2.8 per cent, or $5,154,536 at Q2, and the trend is projected to continue" bsky.app/profile/isab...

A legitimate political system would not let police budget themselves. The VPD are defunding all of our necessary public services while making our city more violent. Safety comes from meeting people's needs, and spending $8mil on housing would create more safety than police ever could. #vanpoli

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...

“our best friend, Mayor Sim”

The Vancouver Police Department continues to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Mayor Ken Sim’s security detail. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

"Salaries and benefits were over budget by 2.8 per cent, or $5,154,536 at Q2, and the trend is projected to continue" bsky.app/profile/isab...

End the Global War on Drugs

It’s grimly ironic that DULF could fall short of an adequate legal defence for the equivalent of a police chief‘s salary. GIVE WHAT YOU CAN 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/the-most-urg...

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...

"The findings echo a February 2024 statement from Canada’s Federal Housing Advocate, who described forced encampment evictions, including “street sweeps,” as a #humanrights violation and urged all levels of government to halt the practice." @victoria.ca @saanichbc.bsky.social

vancouversun.com/news/study-l... bsky.app/profile/kwar...

hmmmmmmmmmmn

⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/hars...

"Street sweeps:" The municipal government-enforced confiscation of personal belongings among unstably housed people who use drugs in Vancouver: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @carenotcops.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

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...

"War on Drugs everywhere is a deliberately punitive war that destabilizes communities, blocks access to care, and maintains colonialism and capitalism through carceral systems of police & prisons & borders & gentrification & involuntary treatment." www.weavingourworlds.ca/wow-statemen...

A long overdue admission from Maclean's.

they figured nobody would notice or give a shit because DRUGS

"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...

“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/...

join us for an evening of solidarity with our friends at Stop the Stack YYC. Sept 1 2025 | 5pm pst sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @hracollective.bsky.social

"That’s why organizations...call for the government to step in and regulate all drugs, setting enforceable standards to make sure substances are pure and have a predictable potency" thetyee.ca/News/2025/09... via @michellegamage.bsky.social

Donate your day's wage as a concrete action to fight the war on drugs and help Weaving Our Worlds raise $10,000 in 2 weeks to defend the Drug Users Liberation Front. Why? See link below. #IOAD2025 #SolidarityForever chuffed.org/project/dulf...

Training people to administer naloxone and distributing over 250 naloxone kits (in a matter of few hours!) could very well save many lives. Yet there's so much more we can do.

The @hrna.bsky.social are still awaiting a response from @mark-carney.bsky.social. Wondering if the PM has any plans for #IOAD2025.

The question is not whether allowing access to regulated drugs is the right thing to do. The question is whether enough collective will can be mustered to overcome the carceral bureaucracy keeping regulated drugs out of reach. DULF can do it –– with your help. drugdatadecoded.ca/the-most-urg...

New piece with Tia Dafnos in @breachmedia.ca: The emergency RCMP unit called "CIRG" that invaded Wet'suwet'en territory is now a permanent force called CRU. Through access to information records, we learned they have a special role to play in policing resistance to Bills 14 and 15.

join us for an evening of solidarity with our friends at Stop the Stack YYC. Sept 1 2025 | 5pm pst sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @hracollective.bsky.social

A notorious RCMP unit will be at the forefront of enforcing new laws in British Columbia that fast-track resource projects. @shirip.bsky.social and Tia Dafnos reveal B.C. will deploy the unit as it deregulates environmental laws and overrides Indigenous rights. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

a man is suing Kamloops RCMP over an incident when he was 15 years old in which an officer deliberately hit him while he fled on his bike www.thebind.ca/p/kamloops-r...

“The VPD sent out at least 52 news releases referencing stranger assaults in 2022 more than doubling the number issued the previous year. This strategy coincided with a mayoral race that saw law-and-order candidate Ken Sim promise to significantly increase the police budget if elected.” WHOA

Over the past year, HRNA has been hard at work advancing our mission: promoting the advancement of harm reduction nursing through practice, education, research, and advocacy. We’re excited to share two big education updates that bring us closer to our goal. #harmreduction www.hrna-aiirm.ca/about/

there is nothing preventing this from happening again next year. #vanpoli

look at this rot www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Police fear mongering in an election year to get more funding?? Say it ain’t so.

At this point, the VPD should be registered as a political lobbying group and all press releases they send out should be treated the same way as any other lobbying group's.

🧵 to link this @ctvvancouver.bsky.social scoop about police manipulating news, public sentiment and elections to similar stories and findings. What CTV found is not even close to an isolated incident, though it does capture a lot of scandals all at once. 1/

FOI docs obtained by CTV News regarding the #Vancouver Police department's refusal to release data showing big drop in 2022 stranger attacks supports ‘speculation police had been politically motivated to “fear-monger” the public into supporting Sim,’ who promised to raise VPD budget.

Woah, read this. “‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare” #bcpoli

Shoddy record keeping, obstruction, and playing with numbers to create "fear and anxiety." No correspondence between the police chief and the mayor? Sure, why not. And FOI request processing stalled out, as emails are deleted. The Vancouver Police Department, everyone! #cdnfoi

Three years and four FOIs later, here's everything we know about the stranger assault scare that gripped Vancouver in an election year – as the attacks were dramatically decreasing in frequency, unbeknownst to voters. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...