Nate Crompton

Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters. Compassion clubs have resurfaced in recent years as a response to the toxic unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia (BC), and more specifically the need for community-based safer supply programs a...

NEW: Analysis from Marilou Gagnon on Health Canada's rejection of compassion club models in the context of the DULF case

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ThE OnLy dEmOcRaCy iN ThE MiDdLe eAsT 🤡

Too many people think that the current aggressions of US-Israel is a conspiracy to "distract from Epstein files."

Waging sadistic wars is actually proof of - not a distraction from - Epstein files. Imperial violence is inseperable from sexual violence: organized, systemic crimes against humanity.

Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran.

Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.

Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.

These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?

Does anyone really believe that?

I love how incredibly specific this lie is
I'm trying to picture them in the writing room and riffing until they landed on this one 🎄❄️🎅

The Province has still not approve this training facility. Westbank was there but didn't take interviews. Chief Rai tapped Westbank founder Ian Gillespie on the shoulder and said, "Thanks for working with us."

NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver

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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:

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

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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

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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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...

I just wrote a letter urging the Provincial and City governments to purchase the 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer site for community uses rather than gentrifying market condos. You can write a letter too: share.nwmd.social/s/p7r32R7G #vanpoli #vanre #chinatown #keefer

What it means: The SCC affirmed that ODs are a medical event – not a policing opportunity. When police arrive at the scene, no one is to be arrested for, charged with, or convicted of drug possession. Read the decision here: decisions.scc-csc.ca/.../en/item/...

BREAKING WIN for PWUD: Supreme Court of Canada rules against the Saskatchewan government and police attempt to claw back the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act in R v Wilson. Pivot argued, and the court agreed, the law protects against simple possession convictions, charges, AND arrests at ODs.

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:

themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky

International Overdose Awareness Day commemorated in B.C. as hundreds continue to die of toxic drugs | CBC News The day is being marked with ceremonies across B.C. on Sunday, as the province continues to lose more than 100 people each month due to unregulated drugs, amid a public health emergency declared nine ...

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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.

NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander

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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.

"housing freezes" are a cruel policy that sees people prioritized for housing based on electoral interests. they are part of an explicit process of dehumanization

@natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered:

themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

The Unsettled Self | Los Angeles Review of Books Grace Linden reviews Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”

"When exactly, the novel asks, does playacting become metamorphosis?" Read Grace Linden's review of "Audition" by Katie Kitamura: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

.‪@natecrompton.bsky.social interviews Andrew Witt about documentary as form and photographing L.A. in a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-persists-what-remains/

Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

CUPE Ontario leaders pledge solidarity with York Region paramedic fired for support of anti-war rally - CUPE Ontario TORONTO – Leaders of Ontario’s largest union have unanimously condemned the firing of one of their fellow executive board members, vowing to support the dedicated frontline paramedic who spoke out on ...

“No employer should be able to silence any worker for challenging injustice.” Solidarity with #KatherineGrzejszczak!
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Military spending groupthink and Canada’s left The vast majority of Western politicians have boxed themselves into too much of a corner after having demonized Russia to such an extent to really raise serious questions about the need for increased ...

Mark Carney just committed Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence—more than double NATO’s target.

No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.

Looking forward to this one! Mine will be on Saturday in P518 at 16:00, “Worker Control, Autogestion, and Factory Struggles in Post-‘68 France”

For the Palestinian people, it is one minute to midnight: Canada must radically change its approach If it does not want to remain complicit in Israel’s crimes, Canada must immediately apply all means of political and economic pressure at its disposal. There are many things it could do, including rec...

It is no longer enough to condemn. Canada must end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza by halting arms exports, imposing sanctions, and recognizing Palestine.

The time for words has passed. It is time to act.

Excited to be carrying @power1312.bsky.social work on gender based violence in dtes! Come check out the zine section - best way to collect critical local updates !!

1938 Shows a People Taking Control of Their Economy The new Mexican film 1938 tells the story of the nation’s historic expropriation of the oil industry. Jacobin sat down with director Sergio Olhovich to talk about the long-awaited project — finally re...

The new Mexican film 1938 tells the story of the nation’s historic expropriation of the oil industry.

Jacobin sat down with director Sergio Olhovich to talk about the long-awaited project — finally realized with the support of the AMLO administration.

Trends in American sentiment towards labour unions and big businesses both were 47% in 2012 now American support of labour unions at 61% But big businesses has cratered to 44%

Public support. 61% Unions

44% big bus

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data from me & Adam Reich

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.

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This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia.

“They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.