'Heartbreaking': Seattle's homeless are getting sicker and shelters are struggling to keep up crosscut.com/2019/06/heartb…

"I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." - Toni Morrison

This is wild: seattletimes.com/seattle-news/c…

After 15 years, Seattle’s radical experiment in no-barrier housing is still saving lives crosscut.com/2019/09/after-…

I'm an ER Nurse in Seattle. Last night Seattle Police Department officers came to the ER to obtain a statement from an assault patient. One officer, Eric Whitehead, blatantly refused to put a mask on while standing in a high-traffic hallway. There were covid positive pts in nearby rooms. 1/

the number of human lives ended by drug policy in three provinces in 2020.

“We don’t do heroin — it’s fentanyl down here.” But on Wednesday, as B.C. entered its fifth year of the #DrugPoisoningCrisis, #DTES residents got tested drugs without toxic adulterants. thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/1…

I spoke to several families in B.C. about what they would like to see changed as the province examines its Police Act. They have strong views on the current oversight system: "(As) a watchdog, they’re like a toothless Chihuahua.” vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

The overdose crisis is getting worse everyday. Today staff at the Moss Park Injection Site reversed 14 overdoses. We are seriously concerned with the increase in overdoses and deaths. Government inaction at all levels are to blame.

I wish the public was in love with bupe the way they are in love with the idea of vivitrol. And I could publish a whole book on vivitrol horror stories, including patients trying to cut their shot or naltrexone impant out with a box cutter as well as OD deaths at the 25 day mark

"Simply put we are failing. With six people now dying every single day in our province, the status quo cannot be accepted" - B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe. The OD death toll: 201 people across B.C. last month. Six deaths per day. All preventable. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

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LONG THREAD: As many of you know I’ve been hospitalized for almost a month. Here is my side of what I experienced. Stigma and discrimination is alive and well in medicine unfortunately. Here is just some of what happened to me.

Organizers of a Vancouver compassion club say they will continue to distribute tested cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine despite a rejection from Health Canada, calling it the only way to save lives in the face of a toxic drug supply. cbc.ca/1.6568839

So important that this becomes available to anyone that needs it! Drug use should never be a death sentence. Fentanyl Patches Are Saving My Life. We Need to Make Them Accessible. filtermag.org/fentanyl-patch… via Filter | harm reduction journalism

Notes on Methodology: - These are not endorsements - We benchmarked against our Municpal Platform - We gave status quo (City under John Tory) a C grade - We analyzed public statements, platforms, and surveys (for candidates who submitted) moreneighbours.ca/2023-mayor-race

BREAKING: lawyers report detainees at SeaTac released. Thank you to all who protested with us last night. #NoBanNoWall #whenwefightwewin