Last night I went to the B.C. Housing led meeting on the “Tiny Home Village” proposed on 20th Street in New West. The meeting was filled with coordinated attendees who came to spread misinformation drilled into them by the bigoted chaos agents known as NWP in #newwest. Some of the misinfo incl: 1/
Never went out to other healthcare teams in the 'hood either
This week's cover @thelancet.com
This is such an important point: the toxic drug crisis is not an issue of the DTES or of Vancouver, the plurality of deaths occur in towns across BC. It's easy to ignore when you assume it's just some group of "others" dying on the street. But it's not. It's your neighbours. Dying in their homes.
Unlike most travel boycotts, which tend to fizzle over time, Canadians show no sign of relenting on a national movement that cost the U.S. $4.5 billion in 2025.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
I mean looks like Marfans to me
...and make the bond a bonus amount for TFSA annual limit!
BC warns of increase in drug poisonings, shifts in unregulated supply Vancouver - The BC Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) Harm Reduction and Substance Use Services Team is warning the public of a recent increase in drug poisonings across BC. Novel substances in the unregulated drug supply are putting people who use substances at greater risk province-wide. Opioids like fentanyl are now often mixed with medetomidine, a potent sedative used primarily by veterinarians, that can cause low heart rate (bradycardia), changes to blood pressure and prolonged sedation. It can also potentially make people feel very sleepy or go unconscious, increasing the risk of drug poisoning. As a response, BCCDC has issued a province-wide drug alert BC has experienced high and increasing paramedic-attended overdoses in recent months. At the same time, detections of medetomidine have increased in drug checking samples and law enforcement seizures. Medetomidine was detected in 38 per cent of opioid samples tested by the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) in November 2025. Non-fatal drug poisoning can cause brain injury from lack of oxygen and other harms. Even though the BC Coroners Service data shows that deaths are not increasing, the increase in non-fatal drug poisoning is a cause for serious concern.
Responding to a drug poisoning If you are responding to a drug poisoning or overdose event: Call 9-1-1 A drug poisoning or overdose is a medical emergency. Stay with the person and follow instructions from the 9-1-1 call-taker. Follow the SAVE ME steps to respond to an opioid poisoning (overdose). Check for breathing and give breaths if the person is not breathing normally. Brain injury can happen within minutes without oxygen. Giving breaths provides oxygen until the person can breathe on their own. Use naloxone Naloxone only works on opioids but is safe to give even if the overdose is caused by other substances like medetomidine, which is a non-opioid depressant. Since medetomidine is usually found with opioids, giving naloxone can restore breathing and will not cause harm. If at any time there is no pulse, start CPR with rescue breathing and compressions. Use an automated external defibrillator (AED) if available. Safer substance use If you use substances, there are things you can do to be safer: The safest option is to avoid unregulated opioids, as they may contain medetomidine. Ask a health care provider about opioid agonist therapy (OAT) and use drug checking services. Don’t use alone. Visit an overdose prevention site or take turns with a buddy so there is someone who can respond in the event of an emergency. If you do use alone, consider using the Connect app by Lifeguard. It prompts you to turn off an alarm and sends a notification to BCEHS dispatch if you don’t. Carry naloxone and know how to use it. Sign up for drug alerts by texting the word JOIN to 253787 (ALERTS).
The BC Centre for Disease Control is warning of an increase in drug poisonings across B.C. due to changes in drug supply.
My story from Dec on veterinary sedative medetomidine, detected in 38% opioid samples tested by BCCSU in Nov (gift link)
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1ce6625...
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
#newwest
The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
B.C. health authorities tried for four years to create a heroin compassion club whose members could purchase a regulated version of the drug without a prescription, an effort to reduce toxic-drug deaths that was ultimately derailed by political blowback
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e0c398c...
We're going to see a lot of folks with permanent disability (and therefore in need of even more supports) because of this...
Toxic drug combinations, increased street homelessness, poor nutrition and severely under resourced community health services is a lethal combination
Ive seen more amputations in the last two years than in my first ten years of practice combined
#dtes #bcpoli #vancouver Something I think has been under reported and under appreciated recently is the horrific rise in severe and chronic wounds in inner-city areas...
Source?
More about RFK Jr.'s colonialist medicine.
The study team describes period before universal vaccination-at-birth in 2027 as a "unique window of opportunity".
In a sense they're right. It's a unique window of opportunity for a wealthy country to experiment on citizens of the global south.
Here’s where you can pick up the first Freshet newspaper in New West:
Zesty Lemon Clothing
Yum Donuts
New West City Hall
Queensborough CC
təməsew̓txʷ CC
Moody Park Arena
New West Public Library
Tourism New West
Goodway’s Specialty Foods
Groove Cat Books and Records
Greens and Beans Deli
#newwest
A hometown newspaper returns for New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities, BC
#coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #burnaby #newwest #newwestminster #localnews #newspaper #saveourlocalnews #journalism #reporters #democracy
Long-acting buprenorphine injections (brand name Sublocade) are not “like a vaccine for overdose.”
P.s. like RFKJ , the author of this (presumably, anyway, since there's no authors listed) also doesn't have a license to practice medicine in BC
What is the next "czar" is an RFK JR type and puts out a piece of paper saying "actually vaccines are kinda meh" .... Would we just accept that?
Agree or disagree, I hope people realize that this is just a piece of paper with Government logo on it; it's not legislation, it's not a peer-reviewed paper or clinical guideline; it's one random dudes thoughts and it's frankly insulting to assume that clinicians should accept it at all
What kind of guidelines have no listed authors and no references? 🤔
The FIFA Peace Prize is most correctly viewed as some of the world's most corrupt people recognizing what the world's most corrupt men values most: fake recognition based on lies
I've seen way more people inappropriately denied or cut off from funding than I have the opposite over the last 15 years
Another clinical practice that I have to learn about (let alone provide feedback on) from the newspaper as opposed to any health agency
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
