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New BC daily record of nearly 300 overdose calls reported, 20 in Nanaimo NANAIMO - While fewer people died from toxic drugs in the province last year, there's been a troubling surge o...

As drug deaths decline, non-fatal overdoses/poisonings are shattering records, a decade into the crisis.

In 2025, B.C. paramedics responded to avg 108 drug OD/poisoning events per day.

Nov 19: 222
Jan 21: 256
Feb 25: 284

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Human Rights Commission to review RCMP investigation of John Furlong - APTN News "This complaint involves serious allegations of failure..."

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the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has found that the RCMP discriminated during their investigation into abuse by John Furlong, a former day school 'teacher' in Burns Lake, and CEO of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee

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as someone who would strongly support a city councillor like @seanorr.bsky.social distributing a predictable & regulated drug supply, i've never heard an inkling of this happening. Ken Sim's seeming inability to parse fact from fiction remains his primary mayoral trait
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The Province has still not approve this training facility. Westbank was there but didn't take interviews. Chief Rai tapped Westbank founder Ian Gillespie on the shoulder and said, "Thanks for working with us."

ABC Vancouver Promised ‘100 Police’ and ‘100 Nurses.’ Here’s a Fact Check | The Tyee We need bold policies supporting mental health and public safety, not marketing ploys.

ABC has always been a party of strategic lies
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VPD training facility pitch based on ‘incorrect information’: Justice Institute of B.C. The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

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Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use crimi... People and communities in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) have been profoundly impacted by the toxic drug crisis, which has driven a province-wide pu…

read the first peer-reviewed research paper using data P.O.W.E.R. collected and analyzed via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social:
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#drugsky #harmreduction @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @hracollective.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social

NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver

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how could interventions so peripheral to the toxic drug crisis have an evidence base to resolve it?? there is an evidence base showing that these interventions can increase harm and death, particularly while the supply is driving an emergency

In Vancouver's DTES, Harm Reduction Moves Forward Without Decrim - Filter In a small but sunny kitchen in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), a vat of cooked pasta and some surplus vegetables ...

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Latest from FHS PhD candidate @tsk.bsky.social and collaborators on the public health impacts of transitioning away from decriminalization practices on populations already facing multiple challenges.

#SFU #SFUFHS #pwus #ToxicDrugCrisis #Vancouver

I realize it’s not easy or comfortable to think deeply and seriously about this mass death event that people don’t give a fuck about, but that’s your job.

Struggling to find the right words is appropriate.

Don’t repeat the government’s alibis for their murders

How Many People Are Overdosing at BC’s Hospitals? | The Tyee That data is key to knowing where supervised consumption sites are needed. The government won’t release it.

The Tyee asked the health ministry for an explanation as to why it was acceptable to withhold this data during a public health emergency that had killed thousands of British Columbians.

It’s been four weeks and we still haven’t heard back. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Majority text-based screenshot, reads: International Journal of Drug Policy Volume 150, April 2026, 105196 Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use criminalized drugs

new: open access research in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social illustrates some ways that policing in Vancouver has worsened the toxic drug crisis — including alarming examples of police blocking overdose responses & raiding a food donation tent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sfu-fhs.bsky.social

‘No one in our community is disposable’: Island Health and community call on North Cowichan to rethink sheltering sites – The Discourse. Designated overnight sheltering sites in Somenos marsh are ‘increasingly dangerous’, outreach groups say.

Island Health and local groups are urging North Cowichan to reconsider "uninhabitable" shelter sites in Somenos marsh.

Advocates warn that recent displacements are linked to health risks and a spike in overdoses. They’re calling for safer, accessible alternatives. #NorthCowichan #IslandHealth

Anti-Indigenous racism on rise in the Cowichan Valley, say local leaders Cowichan Tribes Chief Sulsulxumaat Cindy Daniels says her members are increasingly worried for their safety.

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VPD arrest of Gurdeep Singh YouTube video by dustin godfrey

i was behind the exclusion line & there was certainly physical violence and abuse meted by VPD officers, including the beating of a Punjabi senior who was confused about what was happening
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‘Very Little Value’: Judge Frustrated by Health Canada at DULF Trial | The Tyee Justice Catherine Murray said witness Eric Costen appeared to be ‘guessing’ in his responses on the stand.

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UBCIC Deeply Disappointed with B.C.’s Decision to End Decriminalization Pilot and Calls for Return to a Public Health Approach Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"By ending the decriminalization pilot, the Province is failing to treat addiction as a public-health issue, not a criminal one, and is doubling down on policies that have already caused immense harm to First Nations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
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Sharing this study we did, released in the Fall, charting the impacts of drug possession & trafficking laws in ONT on health, shifts in enforcement/prosecutions & people’s perspectives on what's needed at this juncture to overhaul Cdn drug laws #drugsky #onpoli @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social y.social

B.C. First Nations groups say they were shut out of decision to end drug decriminalization pilot Health Minister announced Wednesday that the province is ending its three-year, first-in-Canada pilot program

First Nations groups say they’re disappointed to be excluded from BC’s decision to end its drug decriminalization pilot, given the policy’s disproportionate impact on Indigenous people
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B.C.'s drug decriminalization threshold based on police input: Bennett Drug users in B.C. who possess up to a cumulative 2.5 grams of illicit drugs for personal use will not be arrested or charged next year.

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No Evidence of Steady ‘Flow’ of Fentanyl into the US | The Tyee Experts say Trump is using overdose deaths for political gain.

“It’s a very old political strategy"
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"They talk about it like it's an overdose crisis when in fact it's basically genocide": The experiences of Indigenous peoples who use illicit drugs in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood - PubMed Indigenous Peoples who use illicit drugs (IPWUID) are disproportionately represented among toxic drug poisoning deaths in Canada. These drug-related harms are framed by the historical and ongoing trauma related to settler colonialism and are acutely visible in Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside - …

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Canada's Complicity in Illegal U.S. Military Strikes: When "Public Health" Drug Policy Meets Extrajudicial Killings  - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition Since September 2, 2025, the U.S. military has killed at least 57 civilians in international waters, in strikes that international law and human rights authorities have condemned as illegal.1 Evidence...

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WOW Statement: End the Global War on Drugs WOW Statement: End the Global War on Drugs Every August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together around the world to take action on preventable overdose deaths and the legislate...

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Going to the root: harm reduction to combat racism and imperialism Addressing toxic drug supply through harm reduction principles is necessary to challenge racism, exploitation, and imperial power

the drug war is international and so too must be drug war resistance and divestment
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why something has to be so obscured....

confusing info in the announcement- they seem to be saying that police officer 'interactions' were replaced w correctional & probation officer interactions, incl. longer sentencing for people who meet the criteria for this program (criteria which doesn't necessarily include a history of violence)?