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karen ward
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once called « Canada's only public intellectual »

drug policy researcher & advisor ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer

institute for the history of possible futures

https://free-futures-society.org/
“Most people who take prescription opioids must now take them under the supervision of a pharmacist,” is the subhead, a statement that is false in a very important way.

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New safe supply rules take effect in B.C., with mixed reactions | CBC News
Most people who take prescription opioids as an alternative to illicit drugs must now take them under the supervision of a pharmacist. Some worry the move will push people back to toxic street drugs, ...
www.cbc.ca
January 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Hi. shit remains bleak and I have a bill to pay this week so I can live indoors, and I need to ask for help. Please if you can pitch in, I greatly appreciate it

e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com
two spider men pointing at each other in front of a museum
Alt: two spider men pointing at each other in front of a museum
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Rescinding decriminalization was a profound betrayal of every principle that the BCNDP claims to hold.
January 5, 2026 at 5:52 AM
call the fentanyl czar
TRUMP: Colombia is very sick too. Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, and he's not gonna be doing it very long

Q: So there's will be an operation by the US in Colombia?

TRUMP: Sounds good to me
January 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
They’re right below us
January 4, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Uh

“Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment with the think-tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute“

JFC people.
January 4, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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This excellent film may start a little slow, but stick with it. It's a powerful short documentary about neo-colonial exploitation in the digital economy.
An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems.

Here is as gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
if cocaine was legal the economies of the nations of South America would rival those in the north
January 4, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Find your local UCP MLA Recall Petition and sign it for my birthday. #HonourTheTreaties
January 4, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Stolen from / volé de Reddit.
January 4, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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January 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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I’m with Petro!😏
January 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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"They use us to avoid addressing their own problems."
Colombian President Petro commenting on the US;

“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
January 4, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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I don’t think we’re asking the right questions
January 4, 2026 at 3:23 AM
im standing here talking with Dawnn, by the Sun Building on Pender, and she says Ok I gotta tell you about the shit that went on—

then BANG! and a huge cloud of blue in the street

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Don’t dispose of the cyan cartridge in the road
January 4, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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The war on drugs has always been a campaign of terror against the racialized and a scapegoat for the criminal imperialist drug traffickers in the intelligence community.
BC Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko misrepresents self as “Canadian Shadow Minister of Addiction” in American War on Drugs propaganda video, actively promoties U.S. administration narrative, does some treason, middle name Kay
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.

CINEMATIC
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Not one country summoned US ambassador.
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Folks need to understand this. Under snuff capitalism, they don't need to manufacture consent. It's raw, bare power openly declaring its intent to kill, relishing its criminality. Regardless of your law, morality, "consent."
January 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
earlier, I get on the bus. most seats are occupied but I see a free one across from the middle doors

I greet the driver, turn and there on the ground in the centre of the aisle is a five dollar bill

“So nobody wants this fiver? It’s not worth the effort? Will people think that you’re poor?” I ask
January 4, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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Worth noting that even as Trump bombs Venezuela to unilaterally seize Maduro on domestic US charges, the ICC judges who voted to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan face such severe US banking sanctions that they are for all intents and purposes excluded from modern life.
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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A tale of two neighbours.
January 3, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
www.bostonreview.net
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM