Ruth Fox

At least 132 killed in Rio police raid, officials say The police operation targeting a criminal gang in a densely-populated area of Rio is the deadliest in the city.

Another one hundred and thirty-two people dead to protect the American-led war on drugs. 💔

The far-right is agitating for this in Canada. It’s never been more urgent to discuss full decrim and regulation of the supply.
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Institutionalization, detainment, incarceration—under the guise of “accountability”—is the violent weaponization of neoliberal deservingness culture.

Dressed up in language like “humane”, this is nothing more than an attempt to remove people from public view and punish those who won’t/can’t comply.

'Absolute garbage': Sask. physician blasts plans to add involuntary addictions treatment | CBC News Dr. Karissa Brabant, who works with homeless people and those suffering from addictions at a clinic in Moose Jaw, says forced treatment will fail and waste money.

This isn’t care, it’s containment.

It’s state sanctioned erasure of visible poverty under the language of compassion.

The same moral sleight of hand is happening in Canada, where involuntary “treatment” has been branded as “compassionate intervention”.

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Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go? Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused

Sharing this article again because it's the culmination of a few months of work from me - and people should be reading about it.

YouTube video by the fifth estate The dark side of private rehab | Full episode | the fifth estate

The dark side of private rehab facilities

High-priced and unregulated private rehab facilities promote themselves with slick websites promising idyllic settings and medical supervision. We find that's often far from reality.

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Manitoba premier criticizes other provinces over notwithstanding clause WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew took a swipe at governments in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec on Thursday as he announced a plan to have judges weigh in on the

"It's always the right wing that's using the notwithstanding clause and they're using it to play wedge politics. And however you feel about trans rights … the reality is this — we need to respect people's freedom." -Wab Kinew www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/man...

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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.

We started DULF because we knew nobody was coming to save us, so we had to save ourselves. It worked. But right wing politicians made themselves famous off scapegoating us. The government de-funded us. The cops raided us. But our day in court is here. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

YouTube video by CCSA / CCDUS Supervised Consumption Sites - What are they?

Today, more than ever, we must rely on evidence-based supports, like supervised consumption sites. They reduce harms, save lives and connect people with care.
Learn the facts about supervised consumption sites.
📋https://www.ccsa.ca/en/supervised-consumption-sites
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Comment: We are far from anything resembling 'endless accommodation' We must get a grip on this tragic humanitarian crisis from the point of view of the people living it.

“This is not “endless accommodation” — this is brutal, socially sanctioned neglect of extremely ill human beings, who are viewed with something far from compassion.”

A powerful counter to the moral entrepreneurs advocating for involuntary “treatment”.

#bcpoli

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"The rise in far-right politics brings the oppression of people who don’t fit into the ideal hierarchy. We have to stand up against the ultra-wealthy and powerful who want to pit us against each other so they can continue to profit from our suffering.“

I’ll be there!

Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2026 - United States Department of State The following is a Presidential Determination submitted to Congress today:   By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States; including section 706(1) ...

I must have missed this “Presidential Determination” piece of imperial American propaganda—it’s getting hard to keep up with the USA’s rapid descent into overt fascism.

A short 🧵

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Read the open letter from the Harm Reduction Nurses Association calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Government of Canada to show courage and act decisively to end preventable drug poisoning deaths.

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Edmonton’s crisis isn’t “addiction” .. it’s a poisoned supply. There is no decline in deaths. One is too many. Alberta’s gov’t lacks knowledge, ignores evidence & blocks harm reduction. Sympathy doesn’t save lives. Safe supply, SCS, & naloxone do. Every life lost is on failed policies, not people.

Edmonton's toxic drug supply 'the most potent' it has been in a very long-time: expert "The toxic drug supply is the most potent it's been in a long time and we're seeing a rise in carfentanil right now in the Edmonton area."

EJ piece on “potent drugs” & #ableg miss the point. This isn’t an “addiction” crisis, it’s a “toxic drug supply” crisis and people are being poisoned. Sympathy isn’t enough. We need safe supply, SCS, naloxone & harm reduction. Real action saves lives, not stigma.
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Not just Ontario is misrepresenting and downright lying. Alberta is too.

watch this.

#HarmReduction

#onpoli

Public health policy shouldn’t be determined by fake statistics or by ideology.

We’re asking Ford to take responsibility for the disaster we are facing in Chinatown due to the provincial decision to end supervised consumption.

People who use drugs deserve better. So does our whole community.

I Stopped Waiting for Rock Bottom and Started Living Again A guest post by Brandi Mac

I so wish I had known this back then .. maybe things would have been different.

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I’m very proud of the work we do at @hrna.bsky.social. Check out this thread to learn about two important initiatives we have taken on!

some day in the future, people will read the rulings of the cases that will be brought against governments for the preventable suffering that homeless people of the greater Toronto area will endure today, and say quietly to themselves “It didn't have to be that way. It was a policy choice.”

August is Overdose Awareness Month 💜. This is my empty chair reminder to all Erik is not just a statistic, he was a son, a brother, a friend, a young man with hopes and dreams. All our Someone’s deserve our governments to stop these draconian policies, the war on drugs has never worked.
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

It’s taken me some time to digest the Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets executive order that was dropped last Thursday.

On initial inspection, yikes. Upon closer inspection, fucking yikes.

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This isn’t about addressing homelessness or making people safer.

It’s a surveillance-carceral agenda that will lead to more dead, disappeared, or detained Americans.

So the wealthy Americans don’t have to see poverty?!

This is the weaponization of public health as another tool of a police state.

It’s cruelty beyond belief. If this doesn’t scare you, you’re not paying attention. This is the criminalization of human suffering.

Homelessness is not a crime. Public health doesn’t belong to the police. This sucks.

6-week old infant among 15 Palestinians in Gaza to die of starvation, medics say | CBC News A six-week-old infant is among 15 people who have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in t...

“6-week old infant among 15 Palestinians in Gaza to die of starvation, medics say…

For the first time since the war began, Palestinian officials say dozens are now also dying of hunger.”

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It’s a life-saving tool.

There, I just saved you the 2 minutes it would take to read this article and then the additional 2 minutes it would take to look up the evidence on supervised consumption services.

The adopted framing of “Victoria’s Downtown Eastside” is a shameful dog whistle.

#bcpoli

Frustration builds as province delays delivering new homeless hub | CBC News A London MPP is accusing the Ontario government of 'sitting on their wallets' instead of flowing funds for a badly needed 60-bed addiction treatment hub for London, a facility the province said would ...

it was a scam. Ford scammed you. this is straight up murder.

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Same fight, new arena: Mobilising expertise in times of regression As panic and geopolitics drive drug and bordering policy, harm reduction advocates find new ground at the UN — mobilising evidence, resisting disinformation, and taking the fight for rights to a globa...

I wrote about Fentanyl Czars, the Strong Borders Act (Bill C-2) and Canada’s appeasement policy with the Mad King™️ to the South.

And I wrote about how we at the @hrna.bsky.social are finding new strategies to fight back.

“Same fight, new arena” via the @idpc.net blog.

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