BC's Auditor General identified barriers to implementing life-saving overdose prevention sites. BC's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has taken the position that the govt's response to date is a human rights violation [2/2]
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from 2023 - 2025, the BCNDP rejected expanding access to a regulated supply - the primary recommendation by the BC Chief Coroner's Death Review Panel; the Office of the Public Health Officer & a Health Canada Excerpt Task Force on the crisis [1/2]
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Massive problem is an understatement. This is essentially a coup, replacing a democratically elected government with an unaccountable, undemocratic usurper.
Also, we pay your bills, fucker, and we require receipts.
its absolutely fucked that the police are standing behind the government minister while he announces this proposed legislation
Armstrong's Kill More Drug Users bill shot down on a technicality, which is a very positive outcome as it prevents the obscenity of a debate on whether or not drug users have a right to exist.
make Substance Use Disorders ineligible for MSDPR disability claims/benefits and automatically suspend the income assistance benefits of any recipient convicted of a drug-related offence. All of is to say, drug users have their/our own skin in this game, too!
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Your wish is my command - I just submitted a proposal to the BC Coalition of Orgs by/for PWUD that we do exactly that.
(Armstrong has also tabled another hateful screed disguised at legislation that seeks to close down current & prohibit any future supervised consumption sites/services
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The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.
Excellent piece on Health Canada's harmful and irrational opposition to the entire concept of compassion clubs - whether for unadulterated unregulated substances such as those DULF supplied it members or a legal substance like cannabis.
#dulf #safesupply
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ββ¦this scenario in which he found himself at the time he came to dieβ¦β
ββ¦bringing about the situation in which he diedβ¦β
Those are some Olympic-level linguistic gymnastics being used here to deflect blame from the police onto their victim. Cowardly & disgusting complicity.
Women don't even get an equal number of hours in their day, never mind equal pay.
#IWD2026
Happy International Women's Day to all the women who have survived men and their bullshit and carry on.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
donβt forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, youβre free
Ditto for women in film. So many great directors who had amazing first features & then pivoted to directing TV out of necessity.
As for writers: Toni Morrison, Agatha Christie, Susan Sontag, Sarah Schulman, Eden Robinson, Virginia Woolf, Patricia Highsmith, Patti Smith and probably Jane Austen
Just watched Ken Sim's news conference about the lies he told about Sean Orr (and, via Lenny Zhou, about all non-ABC councillors)
We are one press conference and a media availability in, yet no closer to answers or accountability. Sim took three questions and bolted from the mic π§΅
Almost like shutting down safe consumption sites and funneling money away from harm reduction and into abstinence grifting makes things less safe and increases harms. This is consistent with decades of data and was completely predictable.
premeditated mass murder by policy, committed by Premier Doug Ford and the government of Ontario
Oof.
yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)
Only one Liberal MP spoke out publicly against Carney's outrageous endorsement of the illegal US-Israel war on Iran:
Victoria MP Will Greaves. And it's a good statement.
Carney can't afford to eject even 1 MP from caucus so backbenchers have a little more leverage right now. #cdnpoli
I might be new here, but I think a city that fosters community, local business and arts festivals is a better one to live in than a city where, if you say it should be for anyone other than tesla-driving real estate investors, the mayor will call you a drug dealer.
Irony hits this dullard in the face like a baseball bat and he still won't get it.
Hard not to see this as deliberate political disinformation central to a key wedge issue targeted at a large voting block with potential language limitations early in a municipal election season.
In other words, lying on purpose so you can win.
Twice. #Vancouver
that's hundreds of thousands of people, and the airports are getting bombed, but okay!
There are also 555 dead and hundreds of wounded Iranians, just in case you wanna, you know, factor non-American lives into the cost-benefit analysis of this latest illegal US military operation,
βl've never felt this intensely confused. I always imagined I'd be filled with joy when khamenei finally dies. I don't. Not joy, nor sorrow, just anger and horror! It wasn't for the genocidal US and Israel to take him out. He was ours, to prosecute and bring to justice. Ours <bheanstripe: βThen why didn't you?β> βbecause every time we were getting close those same genociders would hijack our movements, and crush civil society with their sanctions, because the imperilist forcers with their regime change agendaβ Hadjar Homaei | ΩΨ§Ψ¬Ψ± ΩΩ Ψ§ΫΫ @xeegeex
βIt wasn't for the genocidal US and Israel to take him out. He was ours, to prosecute and bring to justice. Ours.β
βevery time we were getting close those same genociders would hijack our movements, and crush civil society with their sanctionsβ
βkhamanei's death should've been at the hands of those he oppressed, and the system should've been toppled by those who suffer under it, not by a predatory government in the west with evil intentions for the innocent civilians of the land. i am so worried glad he's dead but he'll just be replaced by someone else who either carries out the regime's will or the US/israel will move to install a puppet like the shah who still oppressed kurds and made our lives miserable, and that's if they don't try to take over the land entirely.β egg empress π₯ @backupweenie
βi cannot celebrate US/Isreali invasion at all. i want them out. and anyone who was sitting sitting here begging the US to bomb iran is guilty of innocent children dying. and over what? a regime that was the fault of the united states coup in the first place.β egg empress π₯ @backupweenie
βKhamaneiβs death shouldβve been at the hands of those he oppressed, and the system shouldβve been toppled by those who suffer under it, not by a predatory government in the west with evil intentions for the innocent civilians of the land.β
Simβs contempt for the citizens of Vancouver runs so deep that he canβt even be bothered to offer a passable non-apology apology for behaviour that in less grifty times would compel his resignation. This is a tantrum, not an apology. #vanpoli
Can think of nothing more cowardly than pressing a button to shoot a missile that will land dozens or hundreds of miles away. Little bottle of water next to your desk. "Yes sir" and all that shit. Walking around saluting each other. Fucking losers. Killers.
