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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying ‘have a nice day.’ That’s how it feels.” #VanPoli themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

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.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 3

International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs.

DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction

Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser:
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Wage Solidarity: Fight the War on Drugs

Every August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together around the world to take action on preventable overdose deaths and the legislated violence of drug policy. On August 31, We...

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Sep 5

hey it's a depraved betrayal of PHS's mission and constitution that the executive director of the Portland Hotel Services Society agreed to this and the board needs to address this at the AGM which just happens to be in a few weeks

dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · Sep 2

BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander

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

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.

themainlander.com

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · Sep 2

BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander

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

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.

themainlander.com

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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · Sep 3

"[O]ne BC Housing employee requested a personalised street sweep outside their Gore Street office to the City’s then-director of homelessness services, Sue Baker."

I don't even know what to say. The hatred from BC Housing and CoV towards unhoused people is truly disgusting. #vanpoli #bcpoli

tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · Sep 2

"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...

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.

themainlander.com

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Sep 3

they do this for everything. make people fight each other for the opportunity to BEG for it. to make you indebted, grateful

Travis lupick tweeted January 11 2017

" They want you to get out of the gutter, but only as far as your knees"
– Bruce Eriksen, founder, downtown eastside residents association

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · Sep 2

"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...

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.

themainlander.com

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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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

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.

themainlander.com

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e. @intheweedsktc.bsky.social · Sep 3

"But neither the City nor BC housing are able to confirm that a single person displaced as part of the Hastings decampment successfully secured housing that day."

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e. @intheweedsktc.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Some of these housing units potentially sat empty for lengthy periods during a housing crisis in order to make space for the people who were slated for decampment, in theory."

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e. @intheweedsktc.bsky.social · Sep 3

The machinations of a grotesque man and the soulless ghouls that conspire with him.
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d... "Correspondence shows that one nonprofit held more than 100 housing and shelter units empty for the week of April 3 to 7, 2023, the same week as the Hastings decampment."

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.

themainlander.com

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Sep 2

"Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying 'have a nice day.'"

"That's how it feels."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing

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.

themainlander.com

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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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

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.

themainlander.com

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P.O.W.E.R. @power1312.bsky.social · Aug 11

August 31. 12pm-3pm at Oppenheimer Celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3pm-6pm block party 300 block hastings

poster for international overdose awareness day - 12-3 oppenheimer for celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3p-6p block party 300 block hastings - logos for power, WAHRS, VANDU & CPDDW

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Spartacus Books @spartacusbooks.net · Jun 17

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 !!

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P.O.W.E.R. @power1312.bsky.social · Jun 17

thank you for sharing this @spartacusbooks.net

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Spartacus Books @spartacusbooks.net · Jun 17

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 !!

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · May 23

Canada signed a joint letter with the UK and France earlier this week condemning Israel's ethnic cleansing plan in Gaza, and threatening sanctions. The tone shift is welcome—but we're well past the time for joint letters. By @whosestreets.bsky.social
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Joint letters won’t stop a genocide. An arms embargo and sanctions on Israel could. - CCPA

It seems like possibly, maybe, the countries of the world could be finally willing to consider putting some real pressure on Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza. In a joint statement with the United K...

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · May 17

I missed this: BC is holding involuntarily hospitalized people - by definition among the most vulnerable - in solitary confinenent. This runs counter to Mandela Rules and, going by prior court rulings, Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www.mapleridgenews.com/home2/bcs-fi...

B.C.'s first involuntary care beds for incarcerated men open in Surrey

Ten beds are only for men being held in the custody at the Surrey pretrial centre

www.mapleridgenews.com

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · May 18

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David Eby Knows Better - BC Civil Liberties Association

The BCCLA condemns BC Attorney General David Eby for throwing human rights, civil liberties, and evidence under the bus by suggesting the state should be able to involuntarily detain and […]

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · May 18

the Mental Health Act was already being weaponized outside of its terms 'on paper' before this expansion, just as many forms of carceral discretion are in BC and beyond. Eby was the head of the BCCLA and of course knows this. He just doesn't care.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · May 17

I missed this: BC is holding involuntarily hospitalized people - by definition among the most vulnerable - in solitary confinenent. This runs counter to Mandela Rules and, going by prior court rulings, Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www.mapleridgenews.com/home2/bcs-fi...

B.C.'s first involuntary care beds for incarcerated men open in Surrey

Ten beds are only for men being held in the custody at the Surrey pretrial centre

www.mapleridgenews.com

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BC Civil Liberties Association @bccla.bsky.social · May 22

BCCLA is extremely disappointed and concerned that today Toronto City Council approved a Bylaw Amendment which broadly infringes democratic Charter rights without sufficient, tailored, and transparent justification.

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P.O.W.E.R. @power1312.bsky.social · Apr 30

we need non-carceral, harm reduction & culturally safe responses to violence
themainlander.com/2025/04/29/g... #drugsky

Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises

Community organizations amplify calls alongside women and gender diverse people in the DTES for freedom and safety from violence

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Apr 30

"[C]ommunity spaces close while police budgets grow."

"Displacement in the DTES, over-policing, and surveillance push women and gender-diverse people into greater violence and precarity—while stripping away the resources meant to keep them safe."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Housing

Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises

Community organizations amplify calls alongside women and gender diverse people in the DTES for freedom and safety from violence

themainlander.com

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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · Apr 29

"as intersecting and seemingly unending crises continue to become more urgent, the acuity and nature of this violence has changed in shape. Both the frequency of gendered violence and lack of remaining space for respite is alarming"

the mainlander.com/2025/04/29/gbv/

Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises

Community organizations amplify calls alongside women and gender diverse people in the DTES for freedom and safety from violence

themainlander.com

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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · Mar 28

New Review: Perfect Victims Spars with the Politics of Respectability

themainlander.com/2025/03/28/p...

Perfect Victims Spars with the Politics of Respectability

Mohammed El-Kurd’s new book, centred on the dehumanization of Palestinian people across the West, is an important re-evaluation of appealing to “empire’s stenographers”

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