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

opioid agonists are not vaccines

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A very important read for anyone who gives a shit about the rights, dignity and wellbeing of youth in this province.

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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...

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City's 'Uplifting the DTES' Plan Academics: "Any plan that limits social housing is unacceptable"

"This plan is fundamentally inadequate: it fails to provide affordable housing, worsens existing crises and threatens the wellbeing of the neighbourhood’s current residents."

Academics: plans to gentrify the Downtown Eastside will worsen the homelessness crisis.

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

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

An important community and patient perspective.

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#bcpoli #harmreduction

The government’s response to the emergency has always been disinformation: a comms strategy made of lies

from the get

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City's 'Uplifting the DTES' Plan Academics: "Any plan that limits social housing is unacceptable."

"[D]isplacement, colonialism, and developer greed."

"[C]urrent plan to 'uplift' the Downtown Eastside will fail to provide affordable housing to those that need it."

"[L]ong line of attempts to speed up the gentrification of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Drugs

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...

Downtown Eastside, Vancouver BC:

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan /
Academics: “Any plan that limits social housing is unacceptable”

https://themainlander.com/2025/12/08/hundreds-of-academics-sign-letter-against-citys-uplifting-the-dtes-plan/

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan Academics:

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan

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Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan Academics:

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan

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"Youth and children are consistently weaponized as anecdotes ... by politicians to elicit emotion while neglecting to fund and implement evidence-based practices. Youth and young people have bodily autonomy, and they deserve healthcare and treatment options that respect this autonomy with dignity."

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.

NEW analysis in The Mainlander:

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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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.

"This is not treatment, it is trauma."

Involuntary treatment is "convenient cover for the BC government to avoid confronting the ongoing housing and toxic supply crises in BC by invisibilizing those disproportionately impacted."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Housing #Incarceration

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.

@davidebybc.bsky.social what the fuck dude. I know you're a liberal dressed as progressive, but what the fuck.

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.

Politicians and media have worked in tandem to reinforce involuntary treatment narratives as interventions to prevent deaths and overdoses experienced by youth:
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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.

Forced treatment is a traumatizing experience that erodes trust in the caregivers who youth have trusted and in the medical system and other health practitioners.

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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.

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in summation, Eby’s involuntary treatment scheme is far, far worse than you thought

there's a certain type of guy — Julian Somers, Daniel Vigo, David Eby — whose work starts off at least somewhat on the right side of history before cynically turning to politics of moral panic the minute they get some semblance of power

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

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.

NEW analysis in The Mainlander:

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.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...

VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club A historic Charter challenge begins today at the BC Supreme Court, brought forward by the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF).

"Charter challenge begins today at the BC Supreme Court, brought forward by the Drug User Liberation Front."

"Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users [..] stands in firm solidarity."

"DULF's compassion club worked. DULF saves lives."
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Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC Over the past year, a resurgence of nationalism in Canada and internationally has allowed governments to paper over economic injustice.

New on The Mainlander

Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC:

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Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty DULF's Charter challenge will begin on Nov. 24.

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