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glad that this story is being read & recognized Euan, thank you for shining a light 🙏🏽

without seeing the presser this post is v Rob Shaw coded lol

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

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...

City claims Vancouver has hit a 23-year low in violent crime | News The City of Vancouver and Mayor Ken Sim are celebrating a reported 23-year low in violent crime, dating back to 2022, when records began.

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...

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

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
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they do this for everything. make people fight each other for the opportunity to BEG for it. to make you indebted, grateful

Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.

"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...

Wage Solidarity: Fight the 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 legislated violence of drug policy. On August 31, We...

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:
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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.

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...

Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.

"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...

Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.

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...

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

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...

we really, really don't need to dignify voices like this. the video is full of problematic conjecture; including exaggerations about naloxone.

@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

B.C. housing task force is failing vulnerable residents: SUDU Surrey Union of Drug Users calls out provincial government over housing safety

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.

seems more like the city is divided between who is being sanctioned to die or be further excluded; the economic beneficiaries; and a third group set to enjoy the spectacle

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

This campaign needs you now Calling on governments: Restore funding to the Aboriginal Front Door Society past Sept.

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 in Ontario Increasingly Obstruct Harm Reduction Service Delivery Police surveillance and interference block life-saving care as the province becomes more hostile to harm reduction, our study shows.

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: P.O.W.E.R. Hearings for the legal challenge against recriminalization are open to the public from July 21st through July 23rd

‘Recriminalization’ is part of a deathly policy maze designed to kill people who use drugs

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BC’s Proposal to Strip Tenant Rights in Supportive Housing is a Betrayal to Renters - CLAS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2025 Unceded territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations – The Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)...

“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

muted oranges, greys and reds over a static grey. details of convergence (available in full via link) in white text. green and white care not cops logo on right side

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...

🙏🏽♥️ thank y'all for going deep and sharing your important and personal experiences with us all

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

“It’s not the institutions that push these policies forward, it’s the people.”

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simply no mention that Keith Humpreys is on the board of Indivior...the company with a patent and contracts with local health authorities on the medication under review to be used more often under forced treatment expansion. ok then

"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."

"she had to pick a new name" in a story about literal Inuit identity fraud and stealing of resources centred on a person whose relatives/ancestors actually had their names banned in many regions under Empire...ok then