The case is scheduled for the next two weeks and then one TBD week in 2026, likely happening in January or March.

DULF will be back in the BC Courts next week.
In case you're unfamiliar with court anyone is allowed to come and listen but you have to be respectful of the judge so sit quietly and stand and bow when everyone else does. You can bring water to drink but no snacks/ coffee, etc. Notebooks allowed.

I'll wrap with Nyx: "I've watched my coworkers die on the ground, friends die who leave behind children. This is gutting my community, killing everyone I know... If you're subject to this over and over again it becomes routine... for 10 years been screaming for help... that's fallen on deaf ears."

Somewhat surprised Crown doesn't seem to know much about ongoing crisis/ harm reduction. Ex: argued OAT made people use less drugs w/o seeming to understand OAT is drugs that people take maybe for the rest of their life. Or that Naloxone is given out/ can be taken home. Stuff like that.

Importantly — and this was stressed in friggen heartbreaking testimony — they were doing this while their friends, family and community members were dying in horrific, horrific numbers. The trauma they experienced/continue to experience is very clear. The crisis is continuing, 5 ppl/ day are dying.

Nyx and Kalicum are refuting this and arguing that they did everything they could at the time. Small errors in the study? They were learning how to write academic papers on the fly. Small flaws in communication with Health Canada? They're not lawyers and presented the info the best they could.

I'm still working out what the Crown's defence/argument is but so far it seems to be picking at the idea that DULF was genuinely trying to work with gov, or genuinely tried to put together studies that showed their compassion club was working by reducing harm caused by the illicit supply.

DULF lawyers are arguing shutting down the compassion club violates member's Charter Rights under section 7 (right to life, liberty and security) and section 15 (right to be treated equally under the law). Basically closing DULF puts marginalized folks at high risk of OD and death.

On Oct. 25, 2023 Nyx and Kalicum were arrested and charged with trafficking. On Nov. 7, 2025 they were found guilty of trafficking with intent to distribute.
That lets them issue a charter challenge of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which they did. That's why they're in court right now.

DULF tried to work with almost every level of gov, asking Health Canada to give them permission to buy, test and distribute drugs (denied), the province to give them permission to test drugs and run an OPS (granted), and for support from police (grey area, some officers said initiative was helpful)

DULF was collecting donations (legal) and buying heroin, cocaine and meth off the dark web (illegal). Once they had the drugs Vancouver Coastal Health worked with them to help rigorously test the drugs and label the drugs (legal), and DULF would sell the drugs at cost to members (illegal).

This club sold to 47 adult members and it seemed to work. After one year of operation members reported fewer overdoses, incidents with police, hospital visits, crime. There were no deaths.
Having a dedicated source of known potency and purity seemed to help stabilize people.

Background: More than 18,600 BCers have been killed by unregulated drugs since 2014. The gov has tried some harm reduction but thousands have still died. DULF decided to break drug laws, which they say were unjust, to provide pure, labelled drugs to high-risk users in a compassion club.

Hah! Excellent. Maybe all the more important as a vet med. Can't be mixing up the wounded pussy and the pussy wounds.

“They’ve eliminated the Renters Office, the Equity Office, living wage. They’ve stymied the Integrity Commissioner. They’ve voted against housing for women and children and shot down measures to protect kids from road violence,” says Clara Prager, member of Women Transforming Cities.

Protest at City Hall from 9 to 10:30 a.m. where parents will be changing baby diapers in protest of the budget which is proposing to cut social services, libraries, change tables and menstrual products, while giving police a 10 per cent budget increase.
People are pissed.