This is a billion dollar problem. I think it's important for everyone, at every level of government, to make decisions based on facts and evidence, not assumptions and feelings.

Very curious what "dignified and humane" involuntary mental health care looks like in the BC premier's eyes. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… Reminder that BC already has provisions for involuntary care, and its use is going up.

Not just for migrants. According to Agenda47, the detention camps are also for people who: Use drugs Suffer from mental illness Don't have a place to live

This was the entire goal of the San Francisco school board recall. To decrease the number of union employees & privatize our public schools Guess who promoted the recall? Guess who is benefiting from it? The hourly rates of $130, $105, $60 are way more than paraeducators make

The replies on this one, holy shit lol. I like to point out how normal it is that some drugs are regulated and dispensed legally because I think it’s important, but the fact that doing so makes anonymous trolls and some of the meanest people on this app Big Mad is a fun bonus.

forgot to post the other day

They will force people into backbreaking work for no wages and call it “work therapy” or, “job readiness training.” That’s not rehab. I have been sounding the alarm on this for quite awhile now. Basically, slave labor camps for what Trump & RFK Jr. see as a surplus population.

This is already happening in hundreds of shoddy, rehabs all across the United States right now & if Trump, RFK Jr or, the anti-homeless crew around Shellenberger are able to get enough power they will quickly, scale up this existing model. 2017 Article: salon.com/2017/10/15/the…

great! go get 'em Rob Miyashiro !

“recovery communities”

people dont have 'dignified and humane' housing or incomes. people can't access voluntary mental health care this isnt a serious discussion about social policy. you're going to get expensive bandaids: more police, more crisis

Today a pale poppy popped up in the pavement

Bea Arthur in Mos Eisley Cantina dancing with Greedo's cousin Frank from the Star Wars xmas thing.

to retain the party name omg. you'll always be the B-cups

surely you know that Last Door is deeply corrupt

"On November 13, 2023, less than four minutes into the awards ceremony for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the evening’s host, comedian Rick Mercer, was attempting a joke about Alice Munro when two young people quietly appeared next to him..." this opening sentence though...