Yes to this

I don't believe for a second that Ottawa Police won't use this as an opportunity to expand their powers and demand more money and resources come budget time in 2023. They already have been.

Haha. Here's another Conservative MP, adding to the list of things that didn't require the Emergencies Act. This time it's when the RCMP hosed down protesters at APEC. I was there, and let me tell you, the Reform Party were no allies.

🧵 Another person in our community died today. 💔 I knew him. 💔 I had been helping him and his partner for the last few months. They were trying to exit out of homelessness. They were supported by outreach teams who had gotten them into a motel. #yyj

Harm Reduction Warrior Princess (they/them) I. Weber So sad. They should be fighting for a safe supply. Keep us alive while we sort out some of our issues. R.I.P Liv

If you care about kids staying alive (& well!) you should not write or promote uncritical forced treatment articles (good research suggests in-patient & abstinence-based treatment both *increase* risk of overdose death).

You and CBC News could have used your platform to focus on what we want, on the need for safe supply, the amazing work that Drug User Liberation Front is doing, how #harmreduction is saving lives, and the importance of challenging perceptions on drug use… NOPE.

Please vote for me! So I can donate $10,000 from Scotiabank to the YWCA's Housing For Single Mother led families program. You can vote once per day from each of your devices, family outside Canada - you can also vote. ywcavan.org/women-distinct… YWCA Metro Vancouver

Yikes this article - also does anyone know what on earth this is referring to? There is NO way that many #safesupply studies even exist? "Julian Somers of SFU’s centre for applied research in mental health and addiction reviewed 839 safe-supply studies for the committee..." 🧐

.The Fifth Estate - Did you not hear kids when they told you what they need? Or parents when they said "there are no services." You fixated on locking kids up for their own good. No reporting on provinces where they actually do that. Your narrative runs over the facts.

.CBC News has so little investigative journalism muscle left. It is so disappointing to see it spent like this. If this approach been taken to a doc on COVID, it would have been pulled due to the harm its anti-science views would have caused.

One April morning, I ODed on opioids & benzodiazepines. I don't remember the day, except little flashes: An ambulance. A wheelchair. My worried / pissed-off ex. Frank's voice, telling me I'd be ok (RiP Frank). This photo on my phone from 4:23pm that day captures the feeling

Great… now cops can tell me to take my mask off cause Adrian Dix & Bonnie Henry 🤡 say I don’t need one anymore. How about protections for mask wearers?

Abstinence advocate using nasty language, blame, scapegoating of drug users at BC's Select Standing Committee on Health (drug toxicity and overdose crisis) in Tuesday presentation from Westminster House Society - a drug rehab centre. #Thread 🧵with quotes CW

Sick of hearing from the same Vancouver Fire Rescue Services that would drive around the #DTES in their red Ford F-150 yelling at people over the megaphone to “stop using drugs”. They don’t give a shit about public safety, they just don’t want to be bothered when they’re frying up their steaks