tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ
@tsk.bsky.social
"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca
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BC Government Doubles Down on Forced Drug Treatment - Filter
The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca
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Last week, BC NDP Premier Eby made misleading claims about Sublocade.
A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable.
Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...
A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable.
Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...
Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
Extended release buprenorphine is not
themainlander.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Last week, BC NDP Premier Eby made misleading claims about Sublocade.
A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable.
Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...
A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable.
Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...
Reposted by tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ
It is a choice to keep drugs unregulated. The government chooses to prohibit drugs, which allows for black markets to flourish, which creates a more potent and dangerous unregulated supply. The government could regulate drugs and undercut the unregulated market, but chooses not to.
Health authorities linking spike to their own failure
Health authorities linking spike to medetomidine, a veterinary anesthetic that is among the latest substances being added to the ever-changing street-drug supply. By some estimates, it's up to 200x more potent than xylazine.
Nov surge does not appear to correspond with a similar increase in deaths.
Nov surge does not appear to correspond with a similar increase in deaths.
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It is a choice to keep drugs unregulated. The government chooses to prohibit drugs, which allows for black markets to flourish, which creates a more potent and dangerous unregulated supply. The government could regulate drugs and undercut the unregulated market, but chooses not to.
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POWER members responded to at least four drug poisonings in a 2.5 hour window on Nov 19.
The driver of these drug poisonings is prohibition. The unpredictability of the drug supply is entirely predictable — the federal, provincial & municipal policies in place ensure it bsky.app/profile/andr...
The driver of these drug poisonings is prohibition. The unpredictability of the drug supply is entirely predictable — the federal, provincial & municipal policies in place ensure it bsky.app/profile/andr...
You may have heard about a spike in toxic drug poisoning events in BC last month. Turns out we broke several records, nearly a decade into drug crisis: 222 paramedic-attended calls in a day, 1,251 in a week. Van firefighters responded to 54 drug calls in a day
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
Spike in B.C. overdoses linked to veterinary additive in street drugs
Over a 36-hour period beginning Nov. 18, more than 80 people suffered illicit drug poisonings in a few blocks on Vancouver Island
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
POWER members responded to at least four drug poisonings in a 2.5 hour window on Nov 19.
The driver of these drug poisonings is prohibition. The unpredictability of the drug supply is entirely predictable — the federal, provincial & municipal policies in place ensure it bsky.app/profile/andr...
The driver of these drug poisonings is prohibition. The unpredictability of the drug supply is entirely predictable — the federal, provincial & municipal policies in place ensure it bsky.app/profile/andr...
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Agree or disagree, I hope people realize that this is just a piece of paper with Government logo on it; it's not legislation, it's not a peer-reviewed paper or clinical guideline; it's one random dudes thoughts and it's frankly insulting to assume that clinicians should accept it at all
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Agree or disagree, I hope people realize that this is just a piece of paper with Government logo on it; it's not legislation, it's not a peer-reviewed paper or clinical guideline; it's one random dudes thoughts and it's frankly insulting to assume that clinicians should accept it at all
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There is a lot here in this analysis. I am paying close attention to the removal of "deemed consent" from the Mental Health Act.
NEW analysis in The Mainlander:
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
BC NDP Aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is a lot here in this analysis. I am paying close attention to the removal of "deemed consent" from the Mental Health Act.
Reposted by tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ
NEW analysis in The Mainlander:
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
BC NDP Aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
NEW analysis in The Mainlander:
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
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On Nov 17, North Cowichan displaced ~75 unhoused residents from Lewis Street encampments to a marsh without the promised Ramada shelter open or toilets available.
NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social
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NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social
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Swept off Lewis Street and Into North Cowichan’s Wetlands
A street sweep on November 17 during a disease outbreak forced unhoused residents into Cowichan’s wetlands. 80 overdoses followed in the next 24 hours.
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
On Nov 17, North Cowichan displaced ~75 unhoused residents from Lewis Street encampments to a marsh without the promised Ramada shelter open or toilets available.
NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...
NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...
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"We can’t prescribe or police our way out of this crisis. We need housing, we need a regulated, safer supply, we need to bolster our voluntary treatment options:"
globalnews.ca/news/1155470...
globalnews.ca/news/1155470...
B.C. group pushes back against involuntary care, saying it will criminalize people | Globalnews.ca
The B.C. government announced last week that if passed, the bill's current language around involuntary care would make it clearer and more concise.
globalnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"We can’t prescribe or police our way out of this crisis. We need housing, we need a regulated, safer supply, we need to bolster our voluntary treatment options:"
globalnews.ca/news/1155470...
globalnews.ca/news/1155470...
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As DULF's compassion club was forced to close, its operators worked to get its 43 members legal Rx alternatives, successfully transitioning only 2 or 3 – a point that piqued the interest of the judge, who asked about the barriers to safer supply programs
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Legal safer supply programs inaccessible to most, B.C court hears
Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were convicted of trafficking earlier this month for having operated an illicit-drug compassion club
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As DULF's compassion club was forced to close, its operators worked to get its 43 members legal Rx alternatives, successfully transitioning only 2 or 3 – a point that piqued the interest of the judge, who asked about the barriers to safer supply programs
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
"strengthening access" to apprehension and indefinite detention
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The premier and the health minister have a press conference at noon to talk about "strengthening access to involuntary care" 😐
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"strengthening access" to apprehension and indefinite detention
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Reposted by tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ
no one involved in this case disputes DULF has saved many lives. shutting down initiatives to prevent consumption of poisoned drugs leads to more preventable deaths. sad to see the law used as a cudgel to justify killing people through government inaction & indifference
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
no one involved in this case disputes DULF has saved many lives. shutting down initiatives to prevent consumption of poisoned drugs leads to more preventable deaths. sad to see the law used as a cudgel to justify killing people through government inaction & indifference
an unexpected and momentary sense of hope listening in to the people's filibuster against the 2026 budget that threatens to hollow out the city further
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
an unexpected and momentary sense of hope listening in to the people's filibuster against the 2026 budget that threatens to hollow out the city further
the cop city budget
vancouver is set to spend half a billion on policing next year (probably more): www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city
vancouver is set to spend half a billion on policing next year (probably more): www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city
Vancouver’s Cop City Budget
Next year’s municipal budget is set to allocate half a billion dollars toward policing.
www.policeoversight.ca
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the cop city budget
vancouver is set to spend half a billion on policing next year (probably more): www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city
vancouver is set to spend half a billion on policing next year (probably more): www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city
from the judgment: these are the institutions of Vancouver.
police abruptly raiding the successful project as DULF was transitioning members off to close down; the Health Ministry sanctioning more death based on moral panic; a health authority without resistance
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
police abruptly raiding the successful project as DULF was transitioning members off to close down; the Health Ministry sanctioning more death based on moral panic; a health authority without resistance
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
from the judgment: these are the institutions of Vancouver.
police abruptly raiding the successful project as DULF was transitioning members off to close down; the Health Ministry sanctioning more death based on moral panic; a health authority without resistance
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
police abruptly raiding the successful project as DULF was transitioning members off to close down; the Health Ministry sanctioning more death based on moral panic; a health authority without resistance
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
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Full article is up.
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Full article is up.
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
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"Justice Murray repeated several times that Nyx and Kalicum’s intent was clear: they sought to save people’s lives in the face of a public health emergency."
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Justice Murray repeated several times that Nyx and Kalicum’s intent was clear: they sought to save people’s lives in the face of a public health emergency."
Reposted by tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Reposted by tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ
📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣
But WAIT! Not so fast…
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
But WAIT! Not so fast…
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣
But WAIT! Not so fast…
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
But WAIT! Not so fast…
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
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Saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drug use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last month.
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis
The Supreme Court of Canada Wants You to Call 911 if Someone Is Overdosing | The Tyee
Police can’t arrest a person for drug possession if they call for help and stick around, a new ruling finds.
thetyee.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drug use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last month.
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis
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“The optics are, oh, the police get everything they want.”
Here’s my story on the Vancouver Police Department asking for a $50 million increase to their 2026 budget while others city departments are facing challenges — and how at least one board member seemed aware of the conflict it would create.
Here’s my story on the Vancouver Police Department asking for a $50 million increase to their 2026 budget while others city departments are facing challenges — and how at least one board member seemed aware of the conflict it would create.
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“The optics are, oh, the police get everything they want.”
Here’s my story on the Vancouver Police Department asking for a $50 million increase to their 2026 budget while others city departments are facing challenges — and how at least one board member seemed aware of the conflict it would create.
Here’s my story on the Vancouver Police Department asking for a $50 million increase to their 2026 budget while others city departments are facing challenges — and how at least one board member seemed aware of the conflict it would create.
"When BC authorities declared these mounting deaths a public health emergency, mainly exploiting the situation to push the same, tired teetotal interventions that created this mess, it was just too much to stomach" #drugsky
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
On Trial for a Radical Approach to Reducing Drug Overdoses in British Columbia
The Vancouver duo behind the Drug User Liberation Front faces 40 years behind bars for drug trafficking. But this is no ordinary case.
www.thenation.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"When BC authorities declared these mounting deaths a public health emergency, mainly exploiting the situation to push the same, tired teetotal interventions that created this mess, it was just too much to stomach" #drugsky
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
The order that protected Moccasin Flats is an important human rights precedent toward the decriminalization of people living outdoors—but a new injunction has been handed down
"Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats"
www.policeoversight.ca/p/prince-geo... @bccla.bsky.social
"Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats"
www.policeoversight.ca/p/prince-geo... @bccla.bsky.social
Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats
The city apologized for the harms caused by dismantling people’s homes at Moccasin Flats in 2022. Now they plan to dismantle it again.
www.policeoversight.ca
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The order that protected Moccasin Flats is an important human rights precedent toward the decriminalization of people living outdoors—but a new injunction has been handed down
"Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats"
www.policeoversight.ca/p/prince-geo... @bccla.bsky.social
"Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats"
www.policeoversight.ca/p/prince-geo... @bccla.bsky.social
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#BREAKING: Sleydo' Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko will not serve prison time after a BC Supreme Court judge handed them a suspended sentence in Smithers court today for their role in opposing the #CoastalGasLink pipeline conflict.
More to come in @thetyee.ca. #bcpoli
More to come in @thetyee.ca. #bcpoli
RCMP Violated Charter Rights During CGL Arrests, Court Finds | The Tyee
Indigenous land defenders found guilty of criminal contempt may receive shorter sentences due to ‘extremely serious,’ ‘racist’ conduct.
thetyee.ca
October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#BREAKING: Sleydo' Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko will not serve prison time after a BC Supreme Court judge handed them a suspended sentence in Smithers court today for their role in opposing the #CoastalGasLink pipeline conflict.
More to come in @thetyee.ca. #bcpoli
More to come in @thetyee.ca. #bcpoli