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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · 14d

glad that this story is being read & recognized Euan, thank you for shining a light 🙏🏽

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · 25d

without seeing the presser this post is v Rob Shaw coded lol

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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 29d

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Vancouver Police Department expecting to be over budget by nearly $8 million: report

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · Sep 9

VPD has zero credibility in reporting violent crime statistics. By selective & sensational use of stats, they helped their friends get elected to city council. Now Task Force Barrage is out of gas & VPD wants more money. dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

City claims Vancouver has hit a 23-year low in violent crime | News

The City of Vancouver and Mayor Ken Sim are celebrating a reported 23-year low in violent crime, dating back to 2022, when records began.

dailyhive.com

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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · Aug 21

Bombshell reporting by my @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social colleagues here

This reflects very poorly on the Vancouver Police Department, which isn't being forthcoming about questionable assault numbers continually promoted ahead of the last municipal election
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare

Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

www.ctvnews.ca

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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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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:
chuffed.org/project/dulf...

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...

chuffed.org

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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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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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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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lisa-steacy.bsky.social @lisa-steacy.bsky.social · Aug 21

VPD was aware of the intense public interest – and also of the “fear and anxiety” news of stranger assaults was causing in 2022. VPD issued at least 52 releases mentioning stranger assaults, but provided no updated data about the frequency of these crimes. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare

Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

www.ctvnews.ca

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

we really, really don't need to dignify voices like this. the video is full of problematic conjecture; including exaggerations about naloxone.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Aug 17

@sudubc.bsky.social is 🎯.

and Eby's cynical plan for coerced hospitalization (aka "involuntary treatment") is another way his government is dodging accountability for its failure to respond honestly and effectively to the unregulated drug deaths emergency

Anna Burns @annaburns.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) says a B.C. provincial housing task force is allowing the "government to dodge accountability for systemic failures."

www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...

B.C. housing task force is failing vulnerable residents: SUDU

Surrey Union of Drug Users calls out provincial government over housing safety

www.surreynowleader.com

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Anna Burns @annaburns.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) says a B.C. provincial housing task force is allowing the "government to dodge accountability for systemic failures."

www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...

B.C. housing task force is failing vulnerable residents: SUDU

Surrey Union of Drug Users calls out provincial government over housing safety

www.surreynowleader.com

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Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are 9 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days into BC’s declared public health emergency of toxic unregulated drugs.

karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Aug 1

so, this is bad. but

why aren't the Medical Health Officers making a public announcement telling people who use nonprescription Xanax to visit a community clinic for a prescription?

because this is “ALERT for the inevitable consequences of our failure and we're doing nothing about it”

!! Drug Alert !!

VCH and Fraser Health have issued a drug alert.
White XANAX bar sold in Vancouver tested positive in Burnaby for an unknown benzodiazepine and ADB-BUTINACA, a synthetic cannabinoid.
Dosing and effects may be significantly different than Xanax (alprazolam). ADB-BUTINACA may cause nausea, vomiting, hallucinations and decreased level of consciousness.

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · Jul 30

seems more like the city is divided between who is being sanctioned to die or be further excluded; the economic beneficiaries; and a third group set to enjoy the spectacle

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nobody has ever had fentanyl/opioid toxicity from casual, secondhand smoke exposure, let alone overdosed. I have seen every report. I am even in direct contact with the people doing the tests in the buildings in Vancouver! And they were worried about this info being misinterpreted, which it has been

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · Jul 22

it takes well over 20 paragraphs to get to @ryanmarino.bsky.social challenging the idea of second hand fentanyl toxicity after setting the stage with these opening paragraphs

The presence of second-hand fentanyl smoke is so severe at some British Columbia supportive housing facilities that workers cannot escape “substantial exposure,” even if they stay in their offices and don’t venture into hallways or tenants’ rooms.

That is the among the findings of tests conducted at 14 British Columbia supportive housing facilities, results that contributed to the province’s decision to form a working group aimed at tackling safety issues — including second-hand fentanyl exposure.

However he cautioned against overreacting to the threat of absorbing fentanyl or fluorofentanyl through the air, since the opioid does not suspend in an airborne fashion and any particles in the air must be carried through wind or physical motion.

“It would take a lot of physical powder to be in the air for someone to inhale a significant amount,” Marino said.

“For someone who’s not using drugs, not ingesting anything in any way, the risk of a second-hand exposure, toxicity, overdose, whatever you want to call it, from fentanyl is pretty close to zero.”

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clivingstone71.bsky.social @clivingstone71.bsky.social · Jun 17

Aboriginal Front Door facing provincial cuts. Please take a minute to support our call to restore funding beyond September 2025. Thank you! as a link chng.it/MQDwwZGSK6

This campaign needs you now

Calling on governments: Restore funding to the Aboriginal Front Door Society past Sept.

chng.it

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janelle 𓆝𓆞 @janellelapointe.bsky.social · Jul 18

This new legislation is terrifying—not just because of the environmental destruction these laws will accelerate, but because of the ways our sovereign rights get watered down to “economic reconciliation,” a mere assimilation into a failing economy built on our dispossession and genocide.

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Jul 18

Canada’s new fast-track laws are sidelining Indigenous consent and gutting environmental protections—then calling it “reconciliation.”

@janellelapointe.bsky.social breaks down why Indigenous communities—and everyone else in Canada—must reject this false promise.

breachmedia.ca/canadas-new-...

Canada’s new fast-track laws double down on false promise of ‘economic reconciliation’ ⋆ The Breach

A swathe of new legislation across Canada threatens to weaken Indigenous rights and environmental protections

breachmedia.ca

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Liam Michaud @liammichaud.bsky.social · Jul 17

Police interference w/ harm reduction services is a growing crisis. Surveilling services, arresting clients & other abuses cause service avoidance, violate peoples right to healthcare & highlights urgent need for binding non-interference policies. @filtermag.bsky.social @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social

Police in Ontario Increasingly Obstruct Harm Reduction Service Delivery

Police surveillance and interference block life-saving care as the province becomes more hostile to harm reduction, our study shows.

filtermag.org

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

‘Recriminalization’ is part of a deathly policy maze designed to kill people who use drugs

www.policeoversight.ca/p/recriminal...

‘Recriminalization’ is part of a deathly policy maze designed to kill people who use drugs: P.O.W.E.R.

Hearings for the legal challenge against recriminalization are open to the public from July 21st through July 23rd

www.policeoversight.ca

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · Jul 15

“We cannot rely on assumed goodwill,” says Sabelli.

“In our work, we have seen numerous attempts by non-profit housing providers to circumvent the RTA precisely to carry out unfair and unjust evictions."

clasbc.net/bc-tenant-ri... #vanpoli

BC’s Proposal to Strip Tenant Rights in Supportive Housing is a Betrayal to Renters - CLAS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2025 Unceded territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations – The Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)...

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Care Not Cops @carenotcops.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are organizing the third annual Care Not Cops abolitionist health convergence!

Interested in presenting at Unsettling Empire in Care Work: Toward abolition, liberatory harm reduction & disability justice in Vancouver this November?

Apply here: forms.gle/7ydxNA9W9pbP...

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