Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #bced #StrongStart

Happy #EarthDay 🌎
Yosemite Valley Daffodils
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We remember Marguerite Telesford. In 1987, Marguerite went out for a run and was killed by Scott MacKay.

$6 a day for 600,000 disabled Canadians. If you qualify.

The poverty rate for disabled Canadians is twice as high as someone w/o a disability.
27% of Canadians aged 15 yrs + over (or 8.0 million people) have one or more disabilities.

This is not an ‘investment’. #Budget2024

Effective immediately, I have resigned from Minister Kamal Khera Disability Advisory Group. I am deeply disappointed in what #Budget2024 provided for the Canada Disability Benefit.

Read my full letter here.

Huge thank you to the McCarthy family!!! ❤️

Seriously! More nonsense disguised as though it’s “policing”.

5 police officers are pinning down a petite woman when one male officer punches her with force. It’s sickening to watch.

She was face down on the ground + not moving when he punched her. #bcpoli

On May 28, #eHealth2024 Closing Keynote Tamara Taggart will share her journey to healthcare advocacy and why we must all become advocates for positive change - e-healthconference.com/blog/may-28-cl…

“It has been like watching a terminal illness for all these years take your child, and the world sits back and looks.”

Reporter ⁦Tyler Harper⁩ writes about Micheal Guy + his family, it’s a must read.

Listen to families, not politicians.
#bcpoli nelsonstar.com/local-news/bef…

A lot of these victims were teenagers + young men. #bcpoli
‘Since 2002, more than 200 former inmates have accused MacDougall of sexual assault and went on to sue either him, the province or both. About half of the cases have been resolved so far.’ theprogress.com/news/bc-jail-g…

⚖️The victims’ Charter rights were violated not only by MacDougall’s sexual assaults, but also by the province for its “systemic negligence” allowing the abuse to occur over so many years, the claim alleges.

Jails are not Charter-free zones.
#bcpoli vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

I hate everyone who failed this man. I hate the people making excuses. I hate every single policy maker in the history of this country that caused this. I hate that ableism teaches *us* that we're the burden not the godawful system that leads to this.

cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

They're calling it a 'segregated' school playground.

On Global BC News at 11: How parents say a BC school board bungled the design of what was supposed to be an accessible playground.

Troy Charles has the story tonight.
#bced

How widespread is the issue of sexual abuse of children in Indigenous communities?
Charges against a chief in Manitoba are bringing up a topic that is often the elephant in the room. The sexual abuse of children in our families and communities

aptnnews.ca/videos/how-wid…

“You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.” 👇🏼

#CallItFemicide
#bcpoli
#BCLaw
#KeepWomenSafe

A former Western University student filmed himself having sex with an-18-year-old woman without informing her that he was recording their encounter and then posted the video on Snapchat.
The man, who is now a 21-year-old sports agent in Montreal with 15 clients, was recently…

Women who are abused often suffer injury to their head, neck, and face.

bwss.org/a-conversation…

#WorldHealthDay2024