School liaison officers give lots of presentations, but they may not share them. I've posted them all here. Records also include new stats and revelations like Oak Bay PD saying it's fine to interview students at school without notifying parents. www.needsmorespikes.com/blog/slo-rec...

Download SD61 school liaison officer presentations — Needs More Spikes

School liaison officers give a lot of presentations to students, but they don’t make them available. You can download them here.

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“Manitoba opens first supervised drug-use site in Winnipeg after prolonged delay” There’s a lot of problematic framing here that really shouldn’t have made it to print. But… Great to see a provincial government resisting moral panic to address the crisis. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Manitoba opens first supervised drug-use site in Winnipeg after prolonged delay

Province partnered with Indigenous health non-profit to establish the facility, which faced community pushback and political opposition

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My latest piece! ✍🏽 “A country is not a corporate portfolio. Indigenous rights are a critical line of defence against unchecked corporate power. When the elements of life that we depend on are treated as assets to be unlocked, everyone and everything, except the investor, becomes expendable.”

The Hill Times@hilltimes.com · 5d ago

Opinion: Nations face difficult decisions with this government: partner on a project, but be left with financial debt and stranded assets if it fails; deny fast-tracked projects and tie up scarce community resources on litigation and front-line confrontation. www.hilltimes.com/2026/08/10/c...

Hell yeah. ““The best way I can describe it is it looked like a Studio Ghibli movie,” Correa said. “It was their boat, and they were all out and about roaming around on it.”” www.sacbee.com/news/article...

A ghost ship with a crew of cats? Empty boat near Tacoma beach full of mews

The Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.

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What a time to be alive. “In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”. The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

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RIP to Filter Mag (@filtermag.bsky.social). We’re losing one of the most important voices in harm reduction journalism. At a time when mis- and disinformation increasingly shape public policy, Filter consistently chose truth-telling. I’ll miss you. #HarmReduction filtermag.org/a-statement-...

A Statement About Filter

Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.

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Stop what you’re doing and read this. #cdnpoli #harmreduction #safesupply

Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 5d ago

SCOOP It took nearly two years, but I finally obtained 650 pages of internal correspondence detailing the steps Health Canada took to disappear the Expert Advisory Group reports on medicalized safe supply and compassion clubs. drugdatadecoded.ca/how-health-c...

Zuckerberg claims that an AI assistant orders baking supplies for him and his kid. Ok. Note he doesn't say it orders all the groceries, just the superfluous ones. And how much time do you think his human assistants spend fixing the mistakes his AI ones make? I'm guessing it's not inconsiderable.

404 Media@404media.co · 6d ago

"The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta.

Thanks to Premier Eby and Minister Greene for acknowledging this for the emergency that it is. We cannot accept wildfire seasons as ‘normal’ and must act with urgency to address the immediate threats and long term consequences of climate change. #bcpoli

David Eby@davidebybc.bsky.social · last wk.

We've declared a provincewide State of Provincial Emergency as the new, fast-moving Bald Range wildfire forces thousands of people from their homes in the Summerland area.   At every step, we're focused on ensuring that emergency crews have the tools they need to protect people and communities.

This CAEH report on homelessness has, I think, the right basic diagnosis but whatever your preferred mechanism I think people aren't grappling with the magnitude of the affordability problem at the bottom end of the market. caeh.ca/news/homeles...

A very important read from @michellegamage.bsky.social 📣 “This is a monumental victory for everyone who has experienced treatment under this health-care regime and it validates that people don’t lose their rights the moment they enter the health-care system” #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

BC’s Involuntary Care Practices Are Unconstitutional, Court Rules | The Tyee

The province is an outlier when it comes to how it has detained people for involuntary mental health treatment.

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same in B.C. as has been noted. the policy responsible for this shift is DRUG PROHIBITION because that’s why we have an unregulated drug supply

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2w ago

First responders like VanDyke, emergency physicians and front-line workers are seeing a perplexing trend in Toronto: while overall opioid overdose deaths have dropped in the last two years, non-fatal opioid-related EMS calls are spiking this year to some of the highest levels since 2021.

BC's Mental Health Act violates Charter rights (sections 7 and 15), court finds: You can't assume an involuntarily hospitalized person lacks capacity to consent or withhold consent to treatment. Win for disability rights activists: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... ht @ivacheung.com

HOLY SHIT. We finally have a ruling on the Mental Health Act deemed consent constitutional challenge in BC. The judge ruled in favour of the plaintifs—the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. Deemed consent is unconstitutional. This is HUGE. www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... @jacksonployal.com

Absolute crash out from Musk after he’s presented with the reality that many, many people fucking hate him

There is almost always an Alberta equivalent to political stories about the Trump administration. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fixer says former Alberta justice minister hired him to get reporter's phone logs | CBC News

A self-described political fixer says a former Alberta justice minister hired him to obtain a reporter's phone logs.

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Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4w ago

So not only was the Trump administration trying to get the phone records of the NY Times reporters who reported on Trump's Qatari jet -- but also tried to obtain records from those reporters' relatives, including one journalist's mother. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

In a statement to CTV News, Othman Mekhloufi, a spokesperson for Armstrong said: “This government is diverting funds from people with real disabilities and giving them to addicts.” @jenstden.bsky.social @rachelgilmore.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Disability Alliance calls on B.C. MLA to resign, citing ‘harmful’ comments

An organization that advocates for people with disabilities is calling on a B.C. MLA to resign following comments she made about those receiving disability assistance.

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The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 8mo ago

As the far-right party OneBC implodes, accusations are flying across social media — and many of them involve a 22-year-old Vancouver man and OneBC staffer who once claimed to work for the Donald Trump administration and has posted a variety of antisemitic and white nationalist content online.

We are grateful to co-host this upcoming webinar on Thursday August 13th, 2026, at 12pm PST with @hrna.bsky.social and Caitlin Shane, staff lawyer at @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social. REGISTER HERE: tinyurl.com/3da7j4p2 #bcpoli #harmreduction

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy@dsdp.ca · 4w ago

We are grateful to co-host this upcoming webinar on Thursday August 13th, 2026, at 12pm PST with @hrna.bsky.social and Caitlin Shane, staff lawyer at @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social. REGISTER HERE: tinyurl.com/3da7j4p2 #bcpoli #harmreduction

I think politicians should have to work outside or with open windows when the air quality is low. I think politicians should have to live beside data centers. I think politicians shouldn't be allowed to use air conditioning. I think politicians live in bubbles and it's literally killing us.

this is about the government's policy on witnessed safe supply from @bcfamilydocs.bsky.social this is a big deal #bcpoli

Doctors for Safer Drug Policy@dsdp.ca · last mo.

tinyurl.com/yhr9hf2h The @bcfamilydocs.bsky.social rightfully calls out the political interference in our important area of practice. @davidebybc.bsky.social and the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social have forced us to choose between doing what is clinically indicated for our patients and their moralizing.

so what is being done to address this dangerous new component in the unregulated drug supply? bsky.app/profile/nurs...

Corey Ranger@nurseranger.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨Province-wide drug alert in BC🚨 The BCCDC has issued an alert due to an increase in drug poisonings. “Opioids/down now often contain the sedative medetomidine.” Poster: towardtheheart.com/assets/uploa... Alert: towardtheheart.com/alerts #bcpoli

there are as many overdose events as there were in 2023, but fewer deaths the unregulated supply has changed dramatically. and causing profound long-term harm not dead is not enough #SafeSupply #bcpoli

Vancouver Is Awesome@viawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

Rob Shaw: NDP can't say why overdose deaths are falling in B.C.

Cool that so many Canadian office holders and governmental orgs not only refuse to leave the CSAM sewer owned by an openly white nationalist, they refuse to even diversify their posting so people can at least get the same crucial info on all the other socials.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last mo.

X and xAI have been accused of not only building toxic AI “nudify” tools but also of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials.

I am telling you people: Everyone leaves X and conservatives don’t have anyone left to yell at so they start yelling at each other and everyone gets depressed

“A new national study suggests Canadians generally view supervised consumption sites as beneficial and do not believe they have negative effects on communities or health systems.” #HarmReduction #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

A study asked what Canadians think of safe injection sites, here’s what they said

A new national study suggests Canadians generally view supervised consumption sites as beneficial and do not believe they have negative effects on communities or health systems.

ctvnews.ca

canada obeyed in advance

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Experts say move signals greater political interference into public health and will exacerbate opioid overdose crisis

I agree. You should read this.

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is a really thoughtful -- and thought-provoking -- commentary, and you should read it #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

After witnessing a man be detained & handcuffed by police, who also searched his bag, @michellegamage.bsky.social looked into what police can and can’t do when they detain, but don’t arrest someone thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

What Are Your Rights When Police Detain You? | The Tyee

Two advocates warn detentions and bag searches are ‘common.’ Here’s what police are and aren’t allowed to do.

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