Premier Eby says changing DRIPA is 'non-negotiable' and will be pushed into law B.C. Premier David Eby says that changing the Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is "non-negotiable" and it will be pushed into law.

“For Premier Eby to suddenly say changing DRIPA is ‘non-negotiable’ and will pass this session is an absolute betrayal of everything DRIPA and of our evolving relationship with the NDP over the last decade” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip #bcpoli cheknews.ca/premier-eby-...

people use drugs. five people die from the toxic drug supply per day in BC, and many more people experience a range of nonfatal overdose and poisonings. we are in a time and place where saying we shouldn't set people up to die is 'advocacy'
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The RCMP, the spy and the betrayal of national chief George Manuel | CBC News A declassified copy of the RCMP Security Service's dossier on the precursor to the Assembly of First Nations reveals the use of spies, infiltration and physical and electronic surveillance targeting o...

State surveillance is part of a wider retaliatory scheme meant to silence. In my case the govt tracked my movements, social media infringements, etc b/c we filed a human rights case v the feds to help children. www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-security-infiltration-george-manuel-9.7145083

‘Systemic’ probe into B.C. police sexual misconduct announced by commissioner Complaints of sexualized conduct in municipal police departments in British Columbia have been frequent enough for police complaint commissioner Prabhu Rajan to launch his office’s first ever systemic...

"Complaints of sexualized conduct in British Columbia’s municipal police departments have been frequent enough for the province’s policing watchdog to launch its first systemic investigation into how forces deal with the problem."

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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

A look into how the RCMP set up a spy operation on Indigenous organizations in the 1970s by CBC's Brett Forester

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"prominent on the data regarding"

Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll Supervised consumption sites save lives

Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll via @sudubc.bsky.social @policeoversight.ca @carenotcops.bsky.social
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"The introduction of community police was described by one officer as “a public relations job” meant to “sell the department” to the public:"

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Excerpt from the new chapter in Policing Black Lives, “Against the Romance of Police Reform” out in Briarpatch: “Community Policing: Expanding the Carceral Web”. briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Centre of Recovery Excellence using health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety The Alberta government's Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers ...

Dr Lorian Hardcastle told me the way the Alberta government is using personal data for ‘research’ on people who use drugs could cause real harm:

“We're potentially targeting people for criminalization or involuntary treatment. The consequences are significant."
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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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paramedic-attended overdose events, all BC January 2026: 2,389

2,389 paramedic-attended overdose events in january 2026 is the second highest number of such events attended ever.

New BC daily record of nearly 300 overdose calls reported, 20 in Nanaimo NANAIMO - While fewer people died from toxic drugs in the province last year, there's been a troubling surge o...

As drug deaths decline, non-fatal overdoses/poisonings are shattering records, a decade into the crisis.

In 2025, B.C. paramedics responded to avg 108 drug OD/poisoning events per day.

Nov 19: 222
Jan 21: 256
Feb 25: 284

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Human Rights Commission to review RCMP investigation of John Furlong - APTN News "This complaint involves serious allegations of failure..."

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the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has found that the RCMP discriminated during their investigation into abuse by John Furlong, a former day school 'teacher' in Burns Lake, and CEO of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee

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as someone who would strongly support a city councillor like @seanorr.bsky.social distributing a predictable & regulated drug supply, i've never heard an inkling of this happening. Ken Sim's seeming inability to parse fact from fiction remains his primary mayoral trait
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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."

ABC Vancouver Promised ‘100 Police’ and ‘100 Nurses.’ Here’s a Fact Check | The Tyee We need bold policies supporting mental health and public safety, not marketing ploys.

ABC has always been a party of strategic lies
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VPD training facility pitch based on ‘incorrect information’: Justice Institute of B.C. The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

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Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use crimi... People and communities in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) have been profoundly impacted by the toxic drug crisis, which has driven a province-wide pu…

read the first peer-reviewed research paper using data P.O.W.E.R. collected and analyzed via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social:
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#drugsky #harmreduction @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @hracollective.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social

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

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how could interventions so peripheral to the toxic drug crisis have an evidence base to resolve it?? there is an evidence base showing that these interventions can increase harm and death, particularly while the supply is driving an emergency

In Vancouver's DTES, Harm Reduction Moves Forward Without Decrim - Filter In a small but sunny kitchen in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), a vat of cooked pasta and some surplus vegetables ...

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Latest from FHS PhD candidate @tsk.bsky.social and collaborators on the public health impacts of transitioning away from decriminalization practices on populations already facing multiple challenges.

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I realize it’s not easy or comfortable to think deeply and seriously about this mass death event that people don’t give a fuck about, but that’s your job.

Struggling to find the right words is appropriate.

Don’t repeat the government’s alibis for their murders

How Many People Are Overdosing at BC’s Hospitals? | The Tyee That data is key to knowing where supervised consumption sites are needed. The government won’t release it.

The Tyee asked the health ministry for an explanation as to why it was acceptable to withhold this data during a public health emergency that had killed thousands of British Columbians.

It’s been four weeks and we still haven’t heard back. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Majority text-based screenshot, reads: International Journal of Drug Policy Volume 150, April 2026, 105196 Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use criminalized drugs

new: open access research in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social illustrates some ways that policing in Vancouver has worsened the toxic drug crisis — including alarming examples of police blocking overdose responses & raiding a food donation tent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sfu-fhs.bsky.social

‘No one in our community is disposable’: Island Health and community call on North Cowichan to rethink sheltering sites – The Discourse. Designated overnight sheltering sites in Somenos marsh are ‘increasingly dangerous’, outreach groups say.

Island Health and local groups are urging North Cowichan to reconsider "uninhabitable" shelter sites in Somenos marsh.

Advocates warn that recent displacements are linked to health risks and a spike in overdoses. They’re calling for safer, accessible alternatives. #NorthCowichan #IslandHealth

Anti-Indigenous racism on rise in the Cowichan Valley, say local leaders Cowichan Tribes Chief Sulsulxumaat Cindy Daniels says her members are increasingly worried for their safety.

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