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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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YouTube video by dustin godfrey VPD arrest of Gurdeep Singh

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 - …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39500223/

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)?

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Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth Extended release buprenorphine is not

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BC Government Doubles Down on Forced Drug Treatment - Filter The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt ...

"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca

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importantly, it is not a real dx, even per BC Coroners Service, Alberta Coroner, Canadian Psych Association, the ICD-10, DSM-5, WHO, AMA, APA, US Natl Association of Medical Examiners,US College of Emerg Physicians & others. Many orgs never have had a stance or policy on a non-existent condition

Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth Extended release buprenorphine is not

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 is a choice to keep drugs unregulated. The government chooses to prohibit drugs, which allows for black markets to flourish, which creates a more potent and dangerous unregulated supply. The government could regulate drugs and undercut the unregulated market, but chooses not to.

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...

BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use 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.

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Incarceration is Not Compassionate Care — Moms Stop The Harm By Sarah Auger Sarah gave this talk at at Community Conversations: Drug Policy Alternatives for Alberta , on April 2, 2024. On December 19, 2022, I received the call that would tear apart the v...

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BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use 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.

some of us wrote this essay today before the announcement: themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b... | a lot of people brought attention to the violence of a bill similar to this in 2020: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020... | today's announcement was more sinister though

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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

i feel that. i worry too, not only about families, but also healthcare practitioners—i can foresee so much conflict about what constitutes best clinical practice. further cracks will be created in this already broken and violent system. and of course youth who use drugs will be most impacted.

the announcement was an incredibly incredibly disturbing misrepresentation of almost everything that was discussed. everyone deserves so much better. thanks for this thread

There is a lot here in this analysis. I am paying close attention to the removal of "deemed consent" from the Mental Health Act.

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