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CLAS and Pivot Condemn Province’s Continued Rollback of Tenant Protections On March 4, 2026, Minister Christine Boyle proposed sweeping new legislation to further erode the rights of tenants living in supportive housing, fundamentally undermining the legislative process and ...

On March 4, 2026, Minister Christine Boyle proposed sweeping new legislation to further erode the rights of tenants living in supportive housing...

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Officer says Myles Gray was restrained face-down for several minutes before death A Vancouver police officer has testified at a public hearing into the 2015 police-involved death of Myles Gray that Gray was handcuffed and hobbled, and struggled while being restrained face down by officers for several minutes before his body went limp.

A Vancouver police officer has testified at a public hearing into the 2015 police-involved death of Myles Gray that Gray was handcuffed and hobbled, and struggled while being restrained face down by officers for several minutes before his body went limp.

Carceral housing: Current conditions report Report back from P.O.W.E.R.'s outreach to DTES supportive housing tenants, Sept - Dec 2025

"while non-profit landlords and policymakers have evoked notions of figurative ‘problem tenants’ to justify sweeping changes to supportive housing rights, these issues are a product of a broken system that has rarely prioritized...tenant safety"
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B.C. man’s injuries after police altercation ‘looked like a hanging,’ hearing told A paramedic called to the scene where Myles Gray died during an arrest by several Vancouver police officers told a hearing the man’s injuries looked “like a hanging.”

B.C. man’s injuries after police altercation ‘looked like a hanging,’ hearing told

In about 3 minutes, the Mayor of Vancouver said “I spoke with Councillor Orr & apologized for my comments” 16 times. That was his answer to every question about why he claimed Sean Orr had handed out illegal drugs to people on the street during Christmas.

Caught making a 'set of lies,' Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim offers no answers Sim is refusing to explain why and how he came to falsely accuse a rival politician of handing out illegal drugs.

"Caught making a 'set of lies,' Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim offers no answers" as told by Dan Fumano via @vancouversun.bsky.social

#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre

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I don’t think anyone is going to be satisfied with these answers. Apologies for the lop sided video.

FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.

Mayor "Sim has stated that the displacement of unhoused people or people who rely on public space will not occur due to FIFA."

"The odds are that someone is being displaced in the Downtown Eastside as you read this."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Surveillance #SexWork #Policing #Sports #Drugs #Housing

the provincial government and the Minister of Public Safety @ninakrieger.bsky.social must halt this unlawful process immediately

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The Province has still not approve this training facility. Westbank was there but didn't take interviews. Chief Rai tapped Westbank founder Ian Gillespie on the shoulder and said, "Thanks for working with us."

The former London Drugs space at Woodward's could be used to foster community safety and cohesion. Instead, it is set to be used to turn Vancouver further into a Cop City, which will make things worse.
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VPD training facility pitch based on ‘incorrect information’: Justice Institute of B.C. The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

VPD training facility pitch based on ‘incorrect information’: Justice Institute of B.C.

the capture of drug policy by the academy and then by government is a disaster for all involved, particularly for objects of this research

the research is terrible too

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VPD training facility pitch based on ‘incorrect information’: Justice Institute of B.C. The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

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ABC's edge has always come by positioning themselves as the counter to completely fabricated forces, people, and ideas.

Wild and unsurprisingly ironic stuff from a guy whose personal branding on twitter includes: "Evidence-Based | Fight for Diversity & Democracy | When they go low, we go high!"

VPD training facility pitch based on ‘incorrect information’: Justice Institute of B.C. The Justice Institute of British Columbia is issuing a warning ahead of a Vancouver city councillor’s motion to ask for more than $1 million in funding for a new police training facility.

Putting a cop academy in the old downtown Woodwards Building is an affront to the legacies of real justice in the DTES and across Vancouver.

Bands of armed officers bring violence, not justice.

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They're basically calling the VPD liars.

I think this is the first time I’ve seen the JIBC (training institute for law enforcement, public safety, etc) warn of anything

Hearing on police-involved death of Myles Gray resuming after obscenity led to delay A public hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray resumes in Vancouver today, after a four-week adjournment triggered by an obscene remark and the subsequent resignation of counsel for the proceeding.

Hearing on police-involved death of Myles Gray resuming after obscenity led to delay

Police watchdog finds misconduct by two VPD officers in Tatyanna Harrison case B.C.’s police watchdog has found two Vancouver officers committed misconduct in their response to the disappearance of Tatyanna Harrison, a 20-year-old Indigenous woman who was reported missing on May 3, 2022.

Police watchdog finds misconduct by two VPD officers in Tatyanna Harrison case

In British Columbia, Drug Policy Rollbacks Are Limiting HIV Care "Accessing safer supply supported their adherence to HIV medications," said Ivsins. "It's a really important relationship."

"[R]ecriminalization is bringing back barriers to health care, including potential for HIV and hepatitis C prevention."

“It's like they purposely want us to crash and burn."

"Canada has been the only G7 country where HIV/AIDS prevalence is rising."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare

Latest from FHS PhD candidate @tsk.bsky.social and collaborators on the public health impacts of transitioning away from decriminalization practices on populations already facing multiple challenges.

#SFU #SFUFHS #pwus #ToxicDrugCrisis #Vancouver

"[T]hese ... political interventions are going to drive reliance on the unregulated market."

In Vancouver's DTES, Harm Reduction Moves Forward Without Decrim - Filter In a small but sunny kitchen in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), a vat of cooked pasta and some surplus vegetables ...

From the start, he said, what’s now being called a failed social experiment never prioritized the people who were actually dying.

How Many People Are Overdosing at BC’s Hospitals? | The Tyee That data is key to knowing where supervised consumption sites are needed. The government won’t release it.

Doctors told The Tyee it was vital to know how many people are overdosing while they are patients at B.C.'s hospitals. But when @michellegamage.bsky.social tried to get that data for @thetyee.ca, she was largely rebuffed, as health authorities cited patient privacy. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

"She gets frustrated over drug use being medicalized and harm reduction being co-opted by institutions, producing what she calls “Swiss cheese research” overly fixated on trauma"
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How Many People Are Overdosing at BC’s Hospitals? | The Tyee That data is key to knowing where supervised consumption sites are needed. The government won’t release it.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

The government is obscuring the nature of the problem, therefore robbing you of a good understanding of the value of proposed solutions.

“The public has the right to understand these things fulsomely so that we can have informed conversations about policy responses.”

In Vancouver's DTES, Harm Reduction Moves Forward Without Decrim - Filter In a small but sunny kitchen in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), a vat of cooked pasta and some surplus vegetables ...

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Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use crimi... People and communities in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) have been profoundly impacted by the toxic drug crisis, which has driven a province-wide pu…

read the first peer-reviewed research paper using data P.O.W.E.R. collected and analyzed via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social:
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#drugsky #harmreduction @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @hracollective.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social