Nick Boyce

The Art of the Ecstasy Pill To artists Adam Fierman and Peter Andrew Lusztyk, ecstasy pills aren't just a good night out, they are cultural artifacts.

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We’re already seeing increased public drug consumption after the closure of Somerset West SCS in Ottawa & several deaths of people connected to the South Riverdale site in Toronto, two sites that have already been forced to close by the Ford government’s disastrous policy change.
#ONpoli
#SCS

Panel of speakers about land defenders

Picture of title slide of presentation about harm reduction in Iran

Group of presenters at side event about cocaine regulation

DULF packaging

#CND
#CND68

Thanks to @godfrey.bsky.social for this interview and no nonsense reporting :)

#fentanyl
#bordersecurity
#tarrifs
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PROHIBITED!!!

Hmmm. the link should be publicly accessible. I'll try and find someone to extract the clip. In the meantime, here is a text version... may not be word for word and hopefully you can read it.

No easy way to scroll directly to other statements, but this list of speakers order may help guess where roughly to scroll to - each speaks for ~3 minutes.

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CND68: Meeting 2 The Commission on Narcotic Drugs discusses all drug-related matters and adopts resolutions and decisions thereon. It brings substances under international control under the International Drug Control ...

Canada’s 3 minute statement during the General Debate in the plenary. 😕

Canada was 54th on the list and spoke in the afternoon session at 5:10pm. Scroll to 02:34:

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Group photo of IDPC members

IDPC members engaging in group discussion

IDPC members engaging in group discussion

Person wearing a DULF hoodie looking over the Danube River

International Drug Policy Consortium member meeting ahead of the 68th Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Always good to start the week with forward thinking and lovely people.

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@candrugpolicy.bsky.social

#CND68 #CND2025

AHAHAHAHA

fentanyl as pretext for annexing canada is peak drug war

.... all not only a colossal waste of resources that won't fix anything but takes away from investments that would, and will further endanger an already toxic and deadly unregulated drug supply. 🫨 Governments are scapegoating fentanyl to distract from dealing with the failures of social policy.

Canadian Drug Policy Coalition - La Coalition canadienne des politiques sur les drogues on LinkedIn: Border Crackdowns Won’t Stop Fentanyl We know that recent annoucements on “border security” spending was never really about fentanyl. But even if it were, prohibition and law enforcement have…

Recent Federal announcements of $1.3billion for border security & $200million for RCMP; Alberta spending $23million on drones and sniffer dogs; Ontario investing in "Operation Deterrence"...

#Canada #CDNpoli #CanadaNews #border #bordersecurity #borders #USA #tariffs #fentanyl #drugpolicy

New border security teams starting up with interdiction patrol units - Medicine Hat News @MedicineHatNews The province will spend $15 million to upgrade weigh stations near provincial boundaries, including the commercial inspection station at Dunmore, to house new “interdiction patrol” un...

Last fall [Alberta] announced $29million to buy drones & narcotic detection equipment & drug dogs for the newly created unit... plan was already being developed BEFORE border security became an apparent issue underlying trade action by the U.S. 👮🐕
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RCMP Commissioner says ‘no data’ that fentanyl is moving south in mass quantities Mounties in Ottawa say numbers from the U.S. customs agency do not differentiate between quantities of contraband crossing the border and what’s seized within border regions

RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme: “We don’t have any data that suggests that there’s that number of fentanyl pills or products going south of the
border"

Government of Canada: Here’s an extra $200million and a fentanyl czar.

#cdnpoli
#fentanyl

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Exactly. Plus many of the harm responses are necessary because law enforcement and supply interdiction drive the volatile and toxic unregulated supply

How Ottawa’s border security plan falls short Experts say Canada’s border security investments target physical borders, when crime groups’ methods increasingly bypass them altogether.

2023 Health Canada report: federal government spent $433M on drug-related law enforcement (2017-2022) but $175M on prevention, treatment & harm-reduction initiatives combined. Recent $1.3B on border security & $200M for RCMP dwarf previous amounts.
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/02/27/h...
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With the increasing visibility of poverty across Canada and a toxic drug crisis that shows no signs of ending, several provincial legislatures are resorting to policies like forced treatment to deflect attention away from their own failures that created these crises in the first place.
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Opinion: Imposing life sentences on fentanyl offences will only lead to more poverty, addiction and devastation Pierre Poilievre’s suggestion that mandatory life sentences are the solution to the toxic drug crisis is misleading and dangerous

We all deserve to know what the human and financial costs of such performative tough-on-crime policies will be and how they will be funded. What will be cut to produce the billions of taxpayer dollars required to jail those who are poor and homeless?
#cndpoli
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Two Ottawa officers sent to hospital after exposure to fentanyl, meth Two Ottawa police officers were hospitalized last week after they were exposed to fentanyl and crystal meth in separate incidents.

Highly suspect…

#fentanyl
#methamphetamine
#fearmongering
#warondrugs
#fentanylczar

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Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say the risk is 'extremely low' Police officers regularly report being poisoned or overdosing after encountering trace amounts of fentanyl on the job. Experts say it's not happening.

And please read this one too, @ottawapolice.bsky.social

www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1...

Police reports of accidental fentanyl overdose in the field: Correcting a culture-bound syndrome that harms us all

@ottawapolice.bsky.social please read this:

#fentanyl
#methamphetamine
#fearmongering
#warondrugs
#fentanylczar

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Former senior Mountie Kevin Brosseau appointed as Canada's fentanyl czar | CBC News The federal government appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau as Canada's new "fentanyl czar" on Tuesday — a role created in part to soothe U.S. President Donald Trump's concerns about the northern b...

The rhetoric and actions coming out of the Prime Minister's Office are deeply disturbing. Total ramping up of the "war on drugs" - the very thing that has created the "unregulated/toxic drug/fentanyl crisis".

#fenatnylczar
#cdnpoli
#drugpolicy

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2023 budget allocation is HALF what was spent over 5yrs of CDSS (2017-18 to 2021-22) $741.66M across ALL pillars (prevention; treatment; harm reduction; enforcement). Enforcement = more than all other pillars combined; drives need for harm reduction spending; takes away from prevention/treatment 👮

The mess & toxicity of the unregulated drug supply, driven by scheduling & enforcement. But spending $1.3B over 5yrs on border security+$200M for RCMP & a "FENTANYL czar", on top of Budget 2023 allocation to Canadian Drugs & Substances Strategy ($358.6M over 5rs) will fix it! Federal spending...1/2

We are scapegoating drugs, and right now the drug of the day is fentanyl. We’re using that as a scapegoat and not talking about real issues such as housing, people’s well-being, environmental and climate justice [and the] racist, colonial and classist roots of drug policy.

#fentanyl
#cdnpoli

Why some worry a 'fentanyl czar' might do more harm than good | This is Toronto | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen Petra Schulz co-founded Moms Stop the Harm after her son died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. She weighs in on the government's plan to create a fentanyl czar as part of negotiations with the U.S....

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Petra Schulz co-founded Moms Stop the Harm after her son died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. She weighs in on the government's plan to create a fentanyl czar

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@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social

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Screen shot of post from Elenore Sturko showing misinformation about fentanyl trafficking from Canada to the US

Sturko plays on fear and misinformation again.

“Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border, compared with almost 9,600 kilograms at the border with Mexico”

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Yup…

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My comments on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social about recent police drug “busts” in Newfoundland Canada (12 minutes)

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Public safety minister McGuinty speaking on CBC

Public safety minister McGuinty speaking on CBC

Public safety minister McGuinty speaking on CBC

Canada’s public safety minister said less than 1% of illegal immigration & less than 1% of #fentanyl entering the United States comes from #Canada yet Canada is spending $1.3 billion including two helicopters and 60 drones to increase “border security” due to Trump’s tariff threats. 🙄😡
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