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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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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FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities
The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.
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Mayor "Sim has stated that the displacement of unhoused people or people who rely on public space will not occur due to FIFA."
"The odds are that someone is being displaced in the Downtown Eastside as you read this."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Surveillance #SexWork #Policing #Sports #Drugs #Housing
NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver
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NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver
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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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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...
"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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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
"[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
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
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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."
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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The perfect gift for someone who has everything but an irreverent read about suicide and depression and the ways we fail debilitated people. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/551057...
"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
@davidebybc.bsky.social what the fuck dude. I know you're a liberal dressed as progressive, but what the fuck.
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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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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in summation, Eby’s involuntary treatment scheme is far, far worse than you thought
