Today, the Speaker ruled Armstrong's bill out of order and struck it from the order paper
He also put her at the bottom of the list for private members' business #bcpoli
At #CND69, govs rejected US attempts to strip the proceedings from addressing the #2030Agenda.
The (unprecedented) early vote signals support for global drug policy debates to be rooted in rights and development.
More on the #CNDBlog:
https://cndblog.org/2026/03/plenary-monday-morning-session/
Fraser Health "says those who need overdose prevention services can use the Abbotsford Mobile Overdose Prevention Site at 1670 Riverside Road, from 12pm - 6pm, 7 days a week."
76 residents of Abbotsford died from drug policy last year.
this is abandoning people to die
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Graph showing the number of deaths pending investigation from 2019 to 2024. In total, there were 3,244 deaths pending investigation as of January 2026 – without counting 2025. 2023 and 2024 contained the highest numbers at around 1,200 each.
Cause of death statistics are now missing 2024, which were available in the dashboard until recently.
The Alberta government has removed Cause of Death statistics for the entire year 2024 from its dashboard.
Fortunately, I reported on this in January, before the data were removed: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...
The government hadn't yet reported 2025. The latest year available is now 2023. 1/
“As B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner, I feel it is important to speak out about how this continually unfolding tragedy is a violation of human rights and the result of systemic discrimination.”
bchumanrights.ca/resources/pu...
‘Mass Death on This Scale Is Incomprehensible’
“Are we going to let [this crisis] continue indefinitely? Because it won’t change by itself”
An important read from @kwardvancouver.bsky.social and @michellegamage.bsky.social
#bcpoli
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You can blame Alberta for spreading the myths BC has now internalized to allow so many to die, but this is foremost a crisis of leadership.
(And, those myths were conceived in BC, then funded, incubated and nurtured in AB, and exported back to BC.)
Vancouver your MAYOR spread a fake rumour into Chinese-language media that a city councillor recently sold drugs on a street corner.
You are led by someone ready to divide the community over libellous fabrications as MAYOR.
Don’t let this have a single day of refuge outside the news cycle.
“there is no evidence of acute medical conditions resulting from passive exposure to fentanyl or methamphetamine (such as from touching contaminated surfaces or inhaling second-hand smoke)”
this is the second consecutive cheque issue day that has set a *New Record* for overdose calls in the province.
nanaimonewsnow.com/2026/02/27/n...
‘Alberta model should be the Canadian model’: Barrie mayor praises Alberta on how provinces handle homelessness
Barrie Ontario’s mayor is Alex Nuttall and he apparently likes seeing unhoused people lose their limbs to frostbite amputations, and other horrors.
In case you need it
Email officeofthemayor@barrie.ca
Phone 705-792-7900
All health care workers deserve to be fairly compensated
But we need to be clear: this 22% increase will not likely increase access for Albertans by expanding services, it is for increased compensation
Where is the plan to increase access?
#abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
April 16, 2024
@godfrey.bsky.social
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“It definitely speaks to policy being driven by electioneering, vote-mongering, that kind of thing, as opposed to following the evidence,” he said. “It also speaks to this kind of general unwillingness to defend their own policies when they’re perhaps viewed as controversial by some people.”
while the BCNDP was caving to the diversion moral panic and severely limiting its safe supply program, the public safety ministry was acknowledging in budget preparation documents that hydromorphone only accounted for 0.3% of VPD drug seizures by weight
This is an outrageous scandal that cont to have profound consequences.
Five people die every day
A forever emergency
A mass murder based on public policy built of lies
get angrier
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
wow this is a huge deal
wow
WOW
Harm reduction services, including syringe service and fentanyl testing programs, are proven to save lives.
As a federal court recognized, people with substance use disorder have a right to these services under disability law.
"According to reports from the community, the coalition and a site visit by The Discourse, the sites appear to be surrounded by pooling water and there is evidence that other sections were at one time impacted by rainfall."
words to the city from @nurseranger.bsky.social :
People who were living in tents on the street were displaced to a marsh.
thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...
I told you this would get unthinkably worse, that the unregulated drug supply would only get more volatile & dangerous, that this nightmare would never end until government makes the necessary market intervention & replaces the entire drug supply with regulated substances accessible throughout B.C.
‘No one in our community is disposable’: Island Health and community call on North Cowichan to rethink sheltering sites
@thediscourse.ca
#bcpoli
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“Anti-Indigenous racism on rise in the Cowichan Valley”
“From posts and comments on social media, to remarks made by fellow shoppers in local stores, to being shouted at from passing vehicles, the negativity directed at our citizens is unfounded and wrong”
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...
You can also demand:
-A community Housing Justice meeting be convened that includes encampment residents and others affected by the issue at hand
You can also write a letter to the editor in the local news + tell these decision makers that you, a voter, does not support forced displacement.
You can advocate for immediate action by emailing council@northcowichan.ca demanding:
-alternative sheltering/camping options be made available NOW
-funding for local outreach and support teams
-ceasing any further sweeps/displacements
Local residents should reach out to their city councils, reject their false dichotomy of “displacement or status quo” and demand solutions that are grounded in human rights and evidence.
We can all be safe. We can all have a home.
We must advocate a better way forward—if you are uncomfortable with visible poverty then put your energy towards:
-pushing for more shelter spaces
-advocating for universal basic income, rental supplements, rental market controls, modular housing
-improving the material conditions for everyone
It doesn’t have to be this way. We can create safety for everyone in our communities.
Housing is a basic human right.
There are solutions that are “more humane, and healthier than addressing homelessness through the lens of criminal justice.”
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
Also lol at this faux-outrage. Good work to the medical health officer.
“I was a bit surprised that we did receive that letter and didn’t have an opportunity to have a dialogue with the chief medical health officer in advance of receiving it and in advance of it becoming an issue in the media,”
