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Thread on what I've seen as a journalist for @thetyee.ca this week at DULF's constitutional challenge. They're arguing closing their compassion club put marginalized people at risk of overdose and death.
Explainer article coming early next week.
Explainer article coming early next week.
Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Thread on what I've seen as a journalist for @thetyee.ca this week at DULF's constitutional challenge. They're arguing closing their compassion club put marginalized people at risk of overdose and death.
Explainer article coming early next week.
Explainer article coming early next week.
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Let’s be clear: Israel has no “right to isolate” Gaza.
The Global Sumud is challenging an illegal siege, which uses starvation as a weapon of war. CBC's framing erases that reality and launders a crime against humanity.
#SumudFlotilla #Gaza
The Global Sumud is challenging an illegal siege, which uses starvation as a weapon of war. CBC's framing erases that reality and launders a crime against humanity.
#SumudFlotilla #Gaza
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Let’s be clear: Israel has no “right to isolate” Gaza.
The Global Sumud is challenging an illegal siege, which uses starvation as a weapon of war. CBC's framing erases that reality and launders a crime against humanity.
#SumudFlotilla #Gaza
The Global Sumud is challenging an illegal siege, which uses starvation as a weapon of war. CBC's framing erases that reality and launders a crime against humanity.
#SumudFlotilla #Gaza
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The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) says a B.C. provincial housing task force is allowing the "government to dodge accountability for systemic failures."
www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...
www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...
B.C. housing task force is failing vulnerable residents: SUDU
Surrey Union of Drug Users calls out provincial government over housing safety
www.surreynowleader.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) says a B.C. provincial housing task force is allowing the "government to dodge accountability for systemic failures."
www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...
www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b...
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Jackie Dives’ photographs depict ordinary moments.
This radical mundanity invites people to see the toxic drug crisis differently. 📸
This radical mundanity invites people to see the toxic drug crisis differently. 📸
In Everyday Moments of Crisis, Intimacy and Care | The Tyee
Jackie Dives photographs people surviving grief and the toxic drug supply.
thetyee.ca
March 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Jackie Dives’ photographs depict ordinary moments.
This radical mundanity invites people to see the toxic drug crisis differently. 📸
This radical mundanity invites people to see the toxic drug crisis differently. 📸
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Think the tariffs are bad? Keep you eye on what really matters -- how corporations will use this moment to profiteer, and how our govenrment doesn't seem to care enough to stop them.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/ok-but-wha...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/ok-but-wha...
Ok, but what about profiteering?
A sober reminder of what's actually at stake in the Canada-US tariff war
noraloreto.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Think the tariffs are bad? Keep you eye on what really matters -- how corporations will use this moment to profiteer, and how our govenrment doesn't seem to care enough to stop them.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/ok-but-wha...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/ok-but-wha...
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So Mayor Sim wants to clear the streets of homeless people but also wants to halt construction of new supportive housing.
Well, ahead of by-election, political terrain is getting clearer. Sim going hard for the attack the homeless vote. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Well, ahead of by-election, political terrain is getting clearer. Sim going hard for the attack the homeless vote. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Vancouver mayor rejects new supportive housing projects, promises ‘crackdown’ in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver’s mayor intends to reject any new social housing projects proposed in his city.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
So Mayor Sim wants to clear the streets of homeless people but also wants to halt construction of new supportive housing.
Well, ahead of by-election, political terrain is getting clearer. Sim going hard for the attack the homeless vote. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Well, ahead of by-election, political terrain is getting clearer. Sim going hard for the attack the homeless vote. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...