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We started DULF because we knew nobody was coming to save us, so we had to save ourselves. It worked. But right wing politicians made themselves famous off scapegoating us. The government de-funded us. The cops raided us. But our day in court is here. 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
October 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.

BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem

The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.

Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs
vancouversun.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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It is no longer a theoretical possibility that polluters could be held responsible in court — it is a real and rising legal tide, writes Senotor Rosa Galvez www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/25/o...
The ICJ’s landmark climate opinion is a turning point Canada can't ignore
It is no longer a theoretical possibility that polluters could be held responsible in court — it is a real and rising legal tide.
www.nationalobserver.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🚨B.C. is listening!🚨

The all-party committee on electoral reform wants your input.

Think every vote should count? Speak up for proportional representation!

Submit your feedback by July 25 at 2 PM PT: consultation-portal.leg.bc.ca/consultation...
LABC Consultation Portal
Welcome to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia's Consultation Portal. Participate in public consultations, submit feedback, and share your views on key legislative matters.
consultation-portal.leg.bc.ca
June 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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This is an incredibly powerful piece by Michele Landsberg [gift link] www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
I once embraced the Zionist dream. Now I’m protesting the genocide in Gaza on the streets of Toronto
My adolescent dream of a Jewish state committed to justice and equality has died a slow death.
www.thestar.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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In our Open Letter to @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP, 412 legal, human rights, diplomatic, international affairs, social justice, civil society, faith & labour leaders & experts make it clear: Canada must act to end genocide in #Gaza. 🧵1/10
Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...
www.alexneve.ca
June 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Greenpeace calls upon the international community to urgently uphold international law and ensure the immediate release of the #FreedomFlotilla humanitarian vessel the Madleen along with its crew.
Full statement: act.gp/43xylO2
#FreedomFlotilla
June 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Popular, effective, good for the economy - what's not to love?

The Overwhelming Case for a Wealth Tax via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
The Overwhelming Case for a Wealth Tax | The Tyee
Even a small tax on the richest could transform Canada.
thetyee.ca
June 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN

Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN
Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“It’s long past time we stop thinking about what we deserve from the Earth, and start thinking about what it deserves from us.”
May 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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There is no amount of screaming that will express how angry I am for the women of America right now, and no amount of caution I can issue fellow Canadians to never, EVER, take our abortion rights for granted. Eyes WIDE open. Never believe them when they say they won't do it. They will.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · May 14
BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.
May 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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when a person who has saved so many people's lives (and in many different ways) dies, something in all of us (and in all of you, whether you know or not) dies too

love drug users while we're alive

beautiful work ↓ by dan fumano

vancouversun.com/news/obituar...
'Boundless care and compassion': Trey Helten was on a mission to help others in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
"There is nothing to replace him." The sudden death of Trey Helten has shocked the Downtown Eastside, where he was widely known and loved.
vancouversun.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Ontario judge temporarily blocks provincial legislation shutting down 10 of the province’s 23 supervised consumption sites, giving groups time to mount constitutional challenge www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis
Ontario judge temporarily blocks shutdown of 10 drug-use sites
Despite the ruling, the province insisted it would go ahead with plans to convert nine of the sites to treatment- and abstinence-focused centres
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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ICYMI: @bethanylindsay.bsky.social and I tried to figure out exactly how much Canadian taxpayer money has been going to companies owned by Elon Musk. We found more than $400 million in government awards, transfer payments and rebates

theijf.org/elon-musk-pu...
Just how much public money is flowing from Canada to Elon Musk?
IJF analysis shows hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and subsidies for Trump ally’s companies
theijf.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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‘Racist and dehumanizing’: Judge slams RCMP, reduces sentences for CGL pipeline opponents

Police showed ‘racism directed towards Indigenous women’ in 2021 raid of Wet’suwet’en land defence camp, B.C. Supreme Court justice rules

indiginews.com/news/wetsuwe...
‘Racist and dehumanizing’: Judge slams RCMP, reduces sentences for CGL pipeline opponents
Police showed ‘racism directed towards Indigenous women’ in 2021 raid of Wet'suwetʼen land defender camp, B.C. Supreme Court justice rules
indiginews.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This was excellent (and terrifying).
New episode out! 🧪

The Trump administration has thrown the science world into chaos. We talk to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com and Jocelyn Kaiser at @science.org about what's going on.

On Spotify or wherever you listen 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...
The War on Science
open.spotify.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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BREAKING: Fuck ICE
January 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM