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DULF Founders 'Being Hung out to Dry,' Says Judge | The Tyee Arguments in the trafficking trial for providing tested drugs has ended, with a verdict due Nov. 7.

“As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD — which before was fine — suddenly was not fine.”

The drug trafficking trial of Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum ended Wednesday in a courtroom of supporters and legal observers. The DULF compassion club organizers learn their fate Nov. 7.

Supporters Cheer After Indigenous Land Defenders Avoid Jail | The Tyee Judge rejects the prosecutors’ call for more jail time for protesters arrested at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site.

STORY: Why a judge rejected prosecutors' call to give three Coastal Gas Link protesters jail time for breaching an injunction.
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Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats The city apologized for the harms caused by dismantling people’s homes at Moccasin Flats in 2022. Now they plan to dismantle it again.

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On Trial for a Radical Approach to Reducing Drug Overdoses in British Columbia The Vancouver duo behind the Drug User Liberation Front faces 40 years behind bars for drug trafficking. But this is no ordinary case.

If Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, are found guilty, they plan to appeal the decision and hope that there is an outpouring of public support. “After all, who can be against saving lives?”

From the US Border to Whalley & the Downtown Eastside: Drug Bust Stories Should Never be One-Sided Celebrations From the Surrey Union of Drug Users’ Research Committee & Police Oversight with Evidence and Research (P.O.W.E.R) at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users: It is not uncommon for reporters to simpl...

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What’s Wrong With Rehab? The lack of accountability in the “Alberta Model” for dealing with drug use By Euan thomson March 1, 2024 A A A On a frigid February night in Edmonton, I’m downtown with 4B Harm Reduction. The street outreach conducted by this non-profit society is time-tested—scour the city’s forgotten corners for people who need support. On any given shift, they might respond to drug poisonings, frostbite, heatstroke, hunger, fatigue-induced psychosis or the many barriers to accessing shelter. Mostly 4B aims to keep hope alive despite society’s structural neglect. Tonight we’ve gathered in an underground LRT station passageway. Beside us, a long stretch of yellow fencing separates us from a lone electrical outlet, a rare treasure in public spaces. The outlet was recently deemed too popular among the city’s unhoused citizens—hence the fence. Through slurred speech, Brandon Shaw fawns over my toque, which reads “Hoot ’n’ Blow” beside an owl logo. I offer it as a trade for his, but he declines. Someone later explains Shaw was afraid he’d picked up lice in the shelters. He was protecting me.

🧵 My story, "What's Wrong With Rehab?" won Gold for Long-Form at Alberta Magazine Awards last night!

Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social & all who shared expertise: Brandon Shaw, Esther Tailfeathers, @ehyshka.bsky.social, David Hodgins & recovery workers. 1/
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Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats The city apologized for the harms caused by dismantling people’s homes at Moccasin Flats in 2022. Now they plan to dismantle it again.

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DULF Founders 'Being Hung out to Dry,' Says Judge | The Tyee Arguments in the trafficking trial for providing tested drugs has ended, with a verdict due Nov. 7.

The club had 47 members, no deaths and the number of overdoses requiring naloxone declined by 2/3 during its operation.

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DULF Founders 'Being Hung out to Dry,' Says Judge | The Tyee Arguments in the trafficking trial for providing tested drugs has ended, with a verdict due Nov. 7.

Thanks to @thetyee.ca for getting this story out to a bigger audience. Some incredible comments by the judge during the closing arguments.

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Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

DULF showed us all the way. They were even acknowledged by the Premier as saving lives. Now the state is trying to punish them for it.
"In the recording, the [police] reply that this is 'great work that you’re doing' and that they are 'happy to assist in any way we can.'"

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"Everyone knew what was happening," judge admonishes Crown as DULF awaits trafficking verdict Justice Catherine Murray closed the trial with remarks that indicated sympathy for the accused and for the confusing behaviour of Health Canada, the Vancouver police and all other political entities d...

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W/ commentary from @garthmullins.bsky.social: “While two of our brave leaders are on trial, really it's the whole apparatus of Prohibition that should be on the dock. The war on drugs and the politicians and policy makers that maintain it are covered in blood—of our friends, loved ones & families.”

"Everyone knew what was happening," judge admonishes Crown as DULF awaits trafficking verdict Justice Catherine Murray closed the trial with remarks that showed sympathy for the accused and noted the confusing behaviour of Health Canada, the Vancouver police and all other political entities du...

“The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening. It seems like [Nyx & Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly was not fine.” -Judge 1/
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DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court Final hearings concluded today in the BC Supreme court in a crown case brought against the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF)

"In a province where five people per day die from the toxic and unregulated drug supply, not one member of the compassion club overdosed while using the DULF supply"

DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court:

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Potent new drug turning up in counterfeit pills in Greater Victoria Drug-checking service warns the synthetic opioid nitazene is showing up in counterfeit pills sold as oxycodone, percocet and hydromorphone.

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"The synthetic opioid nitazene ... is showing up ... in counterfeit pressed pills sold as oxycodone, percocet and hydromorphone."

A predicted harm of the BC Government's crackdown on safer supply prescribing.

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News release Campbell River RCMP urge public caution after 11 suspected overdose deaths in five weeks October 1, 2025 - Campbell River, British Columbia From: Campbell River RCMP On this page Content Contacts Content The Campbell River RCMP are issuing a public safety warning following a concerning rise in overdose deaths in the community. In the past five weeks, at least 11 people have lost their lives to suspected drug overdoses. “We are deeply concerned by the sharp increase in overdose fatalities,” said Insp. Jeff Preston, Detachment Commander of the Campbell River RCMP. “Each of these deaths represents a person with family, friends, and a future and we do not want to see this tragic trend continue.” The RCMP, in collaboration with local health authorities, is urging anyone who uses drugs or has loved ones who do to take extra precautions. “Our priority is to prevent further loss of life,” added Insp. Preston. “We are asking the public to share this message widely and help keep our community safe.”

Search warrants executed following drug investigation September 11, 2025 - Campbell River, British Columbia From: Campbell River RCMP Drugs and prohibited firearm seized in warrant execution Cash, drugs and gun seized from Campbell River residence On September 5, 2025, the Campbell River RCMP Street Crime Unit, with the assistance of several support and frontline units, Police Dog Services and the Island District Emergency Response team executed simultaneous search warrants at properties located in the 800 block of Homewood Road and the 800 block of Greenwood Road as part of a lengthy drug trafficking investigation. As part of the searches, police seized the following suspected controlled substances: 128 grams of Fentanyl; 140 grams of cocaine; 19 grams of crack cocaine; 47 grams of methamphetamine; 250 suspected prescription hydromorphone pills.

today is day 3,465 of B.C.'s public health emergency.

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Shelter is Survival - BCCLA takes the City to Court over daytime sheltering BCCLA alongside, three individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the City of Vancouver to challenge a number of Vancouver Bylaws that make it illegal for unhoused people to shelter outdoors during...

BCCLA's Litigation Director, Vibert Jack, responds to this report:

"This study confirms what we sadly already know, daytime sheltering bans kill. The cruel, inhumane and deadly practice of street sweeps must end now."

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A new research paper shows that an inability to access health and social services, as well non-fatal overdose, was a positively tied to street sweeps.

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‘Street Sweeps’ Increase Overdose and Violence Risks, Study Finds | The Tyee City workers in Vancouver have been confiscating tents and personal belongings from unhoused people since 2008.

Researchers quantified what people with lived experience have been saying for years: street sweeps harm people, increasing their risk of violence and overdose.
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Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

Safe Drugs and Two Faced
Vancouver Police on Trial

In April, police spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison wrote to Deputy Chief Howard Chow and offered him a thread of posts he’d composed for Twitter, now the X platform, highlighting nine stranger attacks that had resulted in arrests. There was a visually impaired senior who was punched in the stomach, a woman who was stabbed in the leg with a hypodermic needle. “If you want it, we can help post it to your account,” Addison told Chow. “Good talking points, if nothing else.”

look at this rot
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Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

Almost two years after police raided their compassion club and homes, Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are in court to fight drug trafficking charges.

@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

I have to repost this
In any reasonable world the entire VPD senior staff would be fired over these lies and clear election interference.

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

"The goal, DULF maintained, was to save lives."

Drug User Liberation Front "produced a peer-reviewed study that showed after about one year none of its compassion club members had died."

"Their trial is scheduled for the next two weeks."
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can you believe it? the cops lied!

The Vancouver police chief expressed approval of the compassion club before it was raided and its organizers arrested. They are now on trial for trafficking.

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Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

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