Bruce McGonigal A primary cause of BC’s catastrophic addiction experiment was the brutal censoring of criticism and the destruction of monitoring capabilities Our SFU team would have been able to demonstrate the effectiveness (and harms) of BC policies in 2021. Instead, my team all lost their

London Drugs has made the decision to permanently close its Woodward's store in early February 2026. This is due to persistent safety incidents at a store location that has never been profitable in its history. #vancre #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/lond…

My oldest friend died in a homeless shelter, OD from fentanyl. Watching his little girls throw dirt into his grave was the saddest thing I've ever seen. He needed treatment, and to be kept away from drugs. He got the opposite. I'm glad politicians are changing course, but the

And yet our journalists let them off the hook. Imagine if it was the Libs or Cons that did this. They’d be after their necks. And they say they’re unbiased 😂

Just heard yesterday that health care workers in TORONTO are instructed to give one way train tickets to Vancouver to those with severe addictions. Is there truth to this?? 🤯

No ad will dig YOU out of your nearly $12B deficit. 💸 #California, is roughly 7 times larger than BC and has a $3B deficit. And they just had 20,000 homes burnt to the ground. 12B is the equivalent of Cali being >80B in debt - don’t you understand? You have failed us.

🚨BREAKING: NDP DRUGS DECRIMINALIZATION POLICY PULLED They finally admit decriminalization FAILED. This acknowledgment took way too long. How many lives and neighbourhoods were sacrificed for this NDP IDEOLOGY? Will the NDP also ensure that decriminalization no longer applies

BC govt announces end of decriminalization, a 3-yr pilot project the Fed govt was unlikely to renew. Health Minister Josie Osborne said decrim intended to redirect ppl from criminal system into health care/treatment. But said tracking outcomes is "complex" and "challenging." So

Matt Elrod 🇨🇦 Measuring program performance & outcomes is project management 101. Nevermind unleashing a social experiment of this magnitude onto the population with no one checking to see if it's working. Also, uptake into what treatment?

Matt Elrod 🇨🇦 Symbolic re arrests-for-possession (only metric govt tracked apparently), but it restricted cops from protecting society from real decrim effects—massive public drug use, crime, shoplifting, vandalism, B & Es. Track that data & if goal was to get ppl in treatment, measure that.

What’s that? Minister says tracking outcomes is “complex”? I guess that’s what happens when your Govt implements dangerously ill-informed addiction policies, allows insiders to form related companies, and orders SFU to destroy decades of addiction data while eliminating our

Dr. Julian Somers I don’t believe they even enter data into PharmaNet in the community … caseworkers pick up product from Island Health “designated pharmacies” and go around injecting

100%.

Were the BC NDP were just OK then with people dying as a result?

Measurement was glaringly neglected in BC’s social experiment with drug decriminalization & “safe supply”, and would have identified intended & unintended effects years ago Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11617199/…

💥SCANDAL: BC Govt ordered deletion of a $40M, 20-year addiction study that contradicted their decriminalization push. Dr. Julian Somers' research proved housing security — recovery-focused homes — was key to beating rehab & relapse. Eby ignored the report, flooded streets with

Wiretap Media Global BC finally showing some courage to report facts. This story and deletion was posted in a media release nearly 4 years ago while it was happening kitsilanocoalition.org/blog/going-aga…

David Eby’s choice to cancel multiple long-term care projects means overcrowding in hospitals will continue. Ministry of Health data released at the end of last year showed just how overcrowded BC hospitals are. It also shows 10-15% of people in hospitals are waiting for an

Fair question, here’s why we landed here: - residents, business owners asked for more visible presence because of the violence - last year 75% of all violent crimes for the district happened with 2 blocks of Woodwards - 37 Robberies - 34 stabbings - 24 sex asslt - ~400

I find this really bizarre. Forget the anti-psychotics, the multiple reports of violence and violent ideation, the SSRIs mixed with street drugs, the seizure and return of firearms and the recently extant firearms license; forget the time spent on public posts in dark and