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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 8d

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"The synthetic opioid nitazene ... is showing up ... in counterfeit pressed pills sold as oxycodone, percocet and hydromorphone."

A predicted harm of the BC Government's crackdown on safer supply prescribing.

#bcpoli

Potent new drug turning up in counterfeit pills in Greater Victoria

Drug-checking service warns the synthetic opioid nitazene is showing up in counterfeit pills sold as oxycodone, percocet and hydromorphone.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 7d

today is day 3,465 of B.C.'s public health emergency.

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Campbell River RCMP urge public caution after 11 suspected overdose deaths in five weeks
October 1, 2025 - Campbell River, British Columbia
From: Campbell River RCMP

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The Campbell River RCMP are issuing a public safety warning following a concerning rise in overdose deaths in the community. In the past five weeks, at least 11 people have lost their lives to suspected drug overdoses.

“We are deeply concerned by the sharp increase in overdose fatalities,” said Insp. Jeff Preston, Detachment Commander of the Campbell River RCMP. “Each of these deaths represents a person with family, friends, and a future and we do not want to see this tragic trend continue.”

The RCMP, in collaboration with local health authorities, is urging anyone who uses drugs or has loved ones who do to take extra precautions.

“Our priority is to prevent further loss of life,” added Insp. Preston. “We are asking the public to share this message widely and help keep our community safe.”

Search warrants executed following drug investigation
September 11, 2025 - Campbell River, British Columbia
From: Campbell River RCMP

Drugs and prohibited firearm seized in warrant execution
Cash, drugs and gun seized from Campbell River residence
On September 5, 2025, the Campbell River RCMP Street Crime Unit, with the assistance of several support and frontline units, Police Dog Services and the Island District Emergency Response team executed simultaneous search warrants at properties located in the 800 block of Homewood Road and the 800 block of Greenwood Road as part of a lengthy drug trafficking investigation.

As part of the searches, police seized the following suspected controlled substances:

128 grams of Fentanyl;
140 grams of cocaine;
19 grams of crack cocaine;
47 grams of methamphetamine;
250 suspected prescription hydromorphone pills.

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BC Civil Liberties Association @bccla.bsky.social · Sep 9

BCCLA's Litigation Director, Vibert Jack, responds to this report:

"This study confirms what we sadly already know, daytime sheltering bans kill. The cruel, inhumane and deadly practice of street sweeps must end now."

Shelter is Survival, Learn More: bccla.org/campaign/she...

Shelter is Survival - BCCLA takes the City to Court over daytime sheltering

BCCLA alongside, three individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the City of Vancouver to challenge a number of Vancouver Bylaws that make it illegal for unhoused people to shelter outdoors during...

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BC Civil Liberties Association @bccla.bsky.social · Sep 9

A new research paper shows that an inability to access health and social services, as well non-fatal overdose, was a positively tied to street sweeps.

Read the report : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 27d

Researchers quantified what people with lived experience have been saying for years: street sweeps harm people, increasing their risk of violence and overdose.
My latest for @thetyee.ca
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‘Street Sweeps’ Increase Overdose and Violence Risks, Study Finds | The Tyee

City workers in Vancouver have been confiscating tents and personal belongings from unhoused people since 2008.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 3d

ken sim accepting the endorsement of the Vancouver police union on October 5 2022

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Investigative Research Council @investigativerc.bsky.social · 2d

Safe Drugs and Two Faced
Vancouver Police on Trial

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

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P.O.W.E.R. @power1312.bsky.social · Aug 21

look at this rot
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

In April, police spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison wrote to Deputy Chief Howard Chow and offered him a thread of posts he’d composed for Twitter, now the X platform, highlighting nine stranger attacks that had resulted in arrests.

There was a visually impaired senior who was punched in the stomach, a woman who was stabbed in the leg with a hypodermic needle.

“If you want it, we can help post it to your account,” Addison told Chow. “Good talking points, if nothing else.”

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

Almost two years after police raided their compassion club and homes, Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are in court to fight drug trafficking charges.

@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

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Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · Aug 22

I have to repost this
In any reasonable world the entire VPD senior staff would be fired over these lies and clear election interference.

Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · Aug 21

two scandals here: VPD fuelled panic over stranger attacks even as they fell dramatically in 2022, and then refused to release records about them for 14 months, which is against the law

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · Aug 21

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"The goal, DULF maintained, was to save lives."

Drug User Liberation Front "produced a peer-reviewed study that showed after about one year none of its compassion club members had died."

"Their trial is scheduled for the next two weeks."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Drugs

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

thetyee.ca

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

can you believe it? the cops lied!

tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · 2d

> Read about how DULF's co-founders discussed their compassion club with the VPD. VPD reps offered their support for the project. Then the VPD abruptly raided the compassion club and arrested its co-founders:

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

thetyee.ca

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 1d

The Vancouver police chief expressed approval of the compassion club before it was raided and its organizers arrested. They are now on trial for trafficking.

In the recording, the officers reply that this is “great work that you’re doing” and that they are “happy to assist in any way we can.”

The court heard Kalicum sent emails to Heard, then-police chief Adam Palmer and then-interim chief Fiona Wilson, in which he’d give updates on DULF and highlight how DULF and the VPD shared the same goals of keeping people safe.

Wilson even followed DULF on Twitter and said in an email to Kalicum that she takes an interest in anything that can be done legally to save lives and thought the organization’s Twitter account could be a good source of information.

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Megaphone Magazine @megaphonemagazine.com · 6d

THE 2026 HOPE IN SHADOWS CALENDAR IS HERE 💥 This year's theme — Humour—is a collection of images that spark light and laughter! With over 115 participants and 1500+ submitted images, the top 13 images are guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

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Paula Carlson 🇨🇦 @thepaulacarlson.bsky.social · 6d

The 2026 #HopeInShadows calendar is here!!! ❤️
Get 'em while they're hot + support our low-income photographers + vendors!

Cover shot winner by vendor Martin Verna, who sells outside Bean Around the World @ Main + Broadway. Stop by + say hello and congrats! 🥳
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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 2d

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF's Trafficking Case Begins via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

thetyee.ca

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

“To reduce deaths, Nyx and Kalicum decided to buy drugs, test them and sell them at cost to 47 compassion club members who were over 18 and already using unregulated substances, meaning they were at high risk of overdose and death…This strategy worked.”

Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 2d

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF's Trafficking Case Begins via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

thetyee.ca

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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · 2d

> Read about how DULF's co-founders discussed their compassion club with the VPD. VPD reps offered their support for the project. Then the VPD abruptly raided the compassion club and arrested its co-founders:

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

thetyee.ca

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · Sep 13

Notice how easily, how seamlessly this conversation moves from forced treatment to euthanasia. (Aka state sanctioned murder.) Once you systematically dehumanize people, “involuntary lethal injection” just seems the next logical step to “cleaning up” our streets.

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · Sep 12

Every time Robert Tanguay speaks I remember the flawed report that he was a part of. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta

Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning ...

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · Sep 13

As city columnist for the Edmonton Journal, I wrote often about the crisis of homelessness. I was naive. For years, I thought people wanted to help those living on the street. It took me ages to realize that many people just wanted the homeless gone, someplace away, out of sight and out of mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · Sep 12

Vancouver Police Department expecting to be over budget by nearly $8 million: report

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

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P.O.W.E.R. @power1312.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Salaries and benefits were over budget by 2.8 per cent, or $5,154,536 at Q2, and the trend is projected to continue"

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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Vancouver Police Department expecting to be over budget by nearly $8 million: report

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · Sep 11

A legitimate political system would not let police budget themselves. The VPD are defunding all of our necessary public services while making our city more violent. Safety comes from meeting people's needs, and spending $8mil on housing would create more safety than police ever could.

#vanpoli

isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Vancouver Police Department expecting to be over budget by nearly $8 million: report

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Vancouver Police Department expecting to be over budget by nearly $8 million: report

The Vancouver Police Department is projecting to be over budget by the end of the year by nearly $8 million, according to a report heading to the police board Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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