Alex de Boer

Inspiring work.

21.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘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...

21.08.2025 02:12 — 👍 33    🔁 16    💬 6    📌 2

The Alberta govt wants drug users to know—you can get sober or get dead.
Even though total abstinence does not work for most people, families are being forced to make a choice: lock your loved one up in treatment or leave them to face the dangers of an unregulated drug supply.

04.06.2025 22:04 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This Saturday, April 5th, let's evict Ken Sim.
Vote for @copevancouver.bsky.social's @seanorr.bsky.social! Sean's a working class candidate, fighting for safe supply + real housing solutions.
All you need is ID & a prescription bottle will do. Vote 8am-8pm @ Carnegie Hall (or find a location online)

03.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

UN says it could take “$500 million over 10 years to clear” unexploded bombs from Gaza.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/hgeadw

23.01.2025 05:59 — 👍 246    🔁 116    💬 13    📌 10

Episode 20: Cut Off — Crackdown Podcast In 2015, Crackdown editorial board member, Jeff Louden, was on morphine pills for his chronic pain. When Jeff's doctor unexpectedly cut down his medication, he turned to the street to outrun dopesickn...

How about you stop passing the blame and hold the govt and the College of Surgeons and Physicians accountable for cutting people off their opioid meds in the 2010s and creating the toxic drug crisis we're in today? www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

23.01.2025 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Holding opioid manufacturers/distributors accountable but not the governments WHO REGULATE opioid prescribing and who CUT PEOPLE OFF their meds in the early 2010s (thus creating the toxic drug crisis) is absolute bullshit.

23.01.2025 18:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🇨🇦Join me in letting the Vancouver library's administrators know you disagree with this anti-Palestinian racism www.vpl.ca/contact/admi...

I am recommending they read Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which they can pick up at their local library.

19.01.2025 19:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Another troubling development in BC as Eby sends his mandate letter to the new Minister of Health.

20.01.2025 22:00 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 4

Here's the mandate letter. It shows Eby moving even further away from evidence on the efficacy of safe supply, which is supported by Dr. Bonnie Henry and former Chief Coroner, Lisa LaPointe. shorturl.at/PWpQ0

20.01.2025 22:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

https://shorturl.at/B827t

The BC NDP shutters the Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, then quietly gives new Health Minister mandate to "reduce the population level frequency of opioid prescriptions."

Govt cut offs (not Purdue) got us into this toxic drug crisis back in the 2010s: t.co/DY3X8ALjkv

20.01.2025 22:07 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0