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"I see people that get pushed around and picked on and stuff like that and have no voice for themselves, and I don't mind sticking up for them. That's my want right there." Read Jason Rondeau's final interview with @sharonnadeem.bsky.social We <3 you Jay www.policeoversight.ca/p/jays-final...
Jay’s final interview
Sharon Nadeem in conversation with the late Jason Rondeau
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A police department changing its press release AFTER THE FACT is a very, very, very serious matter - not least when it publicly attacked the journalist who reported its original contents. There are questions to answer here.
P.O.W.E.R.@policeoversight.ca · 6d agoNEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
NEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
Behind the police distortion of 2023 hate crime statistics
How VPD pushed the (false) claim that antisemitism was rising faster than other hate crimes in 2023
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New: Here’s what went down behind the scenes 2 years ago when Vancouver Police changed their press release to make it look like my reporting in @thetyee.ca was false, and then launched an attack on X. Thanks to @policeoversight.ca for asking me to write about this bizarre series of events!
P.O.W.E.R.@policeoversight.ca · 6d agoNEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
Lies, damned lies and VPD statistics.
P.O.W.E.R.@policeoversight.ca · 6d agoNEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
Just as well there aren't any candidates in the upcoming Vancouver election that recently used to work for the VPD....
P.O.W.E.R.@policeoversight.ca · 6d agoNEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
A conviction rate of just 1.43%: tracing BC's IIO investigations into police-involved deaths, killings and serious harm 78% percent of those convictions were for driving offences. ...And in BC, sexual assault by police is not considered "serious harm" www.policeoversight.ca/p/iio-and-th...
IIO & the illusion of police oversight in BC
A conviction rate of 1.43 per cent: Investigations in police-involved deaths, killings and serious harm from 2014 to 2021
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Statement from Connor Bildfell, president of the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. branch, on personal attacks on judges following last week's ruling re: the Drug User Liberation Front
NEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social www.policeoversight.ca/p/behind-the...
Behind the police distortion of 2023 hate crime statistics
How VPD pushed the (false) claim that antisemitism was rising faster than other hate crimes in 2023
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Really had to spread the $20 bills out to make the $3,000 seem huge bsky.app/profile/ctvn...
CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · last wk.Woman ‘openly consuming drugs’ in vehicle leads to Abbotsford police seizure
Another election, another police candidate running with Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party. The latest is a crime analyst who detected the pandemic-era spike in stranger assaults that became a major campaign issue in 2022. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
‘Unusual’ ties between Vancouver police, mayor’s party scrutinized as crime analyst joins campaign
For the second election in a row, a senior crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department has stepped away from her role to run in a partisan campaign—raising new questions about politicization wi...
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For the second election in a row, a senior crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department is running for city council in a partisan campaign—raising new questions about politicization within one of B.C.’s most powerful institutions. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
‘Unusual’ ties between Vancouver police, mayor’s party scrutinized as crime analyst joins campaign
For the second election in a row, a senior crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department has stepped away from her role to run in a partisan campaign—raising new questions about politicization wi...
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A Vancouver cop told DULF’s founders he would personally advocate for them. 2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes. www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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About 50 people crammed into the court room to hear the decision, which took Murray 10 minutes to deliver. Applause broke out as she stood, with people openly crying from relief, from happiness, from feeling like someone in power understood the urgency of the crisis.
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 2w agoJustice Murray declared part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional, and trafficking convictions for Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have been stayed. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
Justice Murray declared part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional, and trafficking convictions for Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have been stayed. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
DULF Wins Constitutional Challenge, Judge Applauds Their Work | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will avoid prison and Canada told to update its drug laws.
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we have lost so many people while police & politicians created a spectacle, raided DULF, stopped the expansion of an alt to the toxic supply, and put its co-founders through the needless consequences of this process that took years. DULF saves lives bsky.app/profile/godf...
godless dustbin 👻@godfrey.work · 2w agoBREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
Thank goodness we have the judicial branch to provide sober second thought on these matters because, as detailed in the linked piece, the ‘serve and protect’ bunch were not interested in doing either. How much taxpayer money was wasted on this boondoggle? #BCpoli www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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🔥VICTORY FOR DULF & HARM REDUCTION!🔥 BC’s Supreme Court threw out the convictions of DULF’s co-founders, finding their community-led safer supply model saved lives and did not undermine public safety. Parliament has 6 months to create a viable legal pathway. https://ow.ly/p6Ph50ZSZxv
Canada: Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge
The Court argued that by criminalising DULF's community-led compassion club, which saved lives, reduced harms and did not affect public safety, the current legal framework violated fundamental rights.
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Ken Sim has done fuck all on prevention and this position is an incoherent mess. They did what they had to because all the politicians failed to do anything.
pressprogress.ca/key-parts-of... “Recent reporting has uncovered that the VPD inspector who at one time enthusiastically worked with DULF was the same person to approve an investigation into the group once political tides had turned.”
Key Parts of Canada’s Drug Laws Found Unconstitutional as Judge throws out Charges Against Founders of Vancouver ‘Compassion Club’
Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) co-founders won’t go to jail as BC Supreme Court judge rules CSDA violates members’ “right to life and security”
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“The Vancouver Police Department, having been briefed by #DULF all along about what they were doing and why, should have gone to DULF and advised them to shut down, if they thought the public concern was getting too hot,” Dickson argued. www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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VPD misinformation campaign on drug seizures reflect efforts to have it both ways on decriminalization www.policeoversight.ca/p/vpd-misinf...
VPD misinformation campaign on drug seizures reflect efforts to have it both ways on decriminalization
Vancouver - never ceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ and other Coast Salish people
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VPD misinformation campaign on drug seizures reflect efforts to have it both ways on decriminalization www.policeoversight.ca/p/vpd-misinf...
VPD misinformation campaign on drug seizures reflect efforts to have it both ways on decriminalization
Vancouver - never ceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ and other Coast Salish people
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“I’m happy to take you for a coffee,” Heard told Kalicum [DULF's co-founder] on May 23. Just four months later, Heard would notify sergeant Mike Cheah, the lead investigator on the DULF file, that he was recommending Wilson approve the investigation plan: www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
defactomedia.ca
Public hearing into Myles Gray’s death at hands of VPD officers set to resume after lengthy delay
Public hearing into Myles Gray’s death at hands of VPD officers set to resume after lengthy delay
A public hearing into the beating death of Myles Gray by Vancouver police in a Burnaby backyard will resume Monday after a five-month delay.
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There have been four drug alerts issued in northwestern Ontario in less than a week, one of which is linked to a surge of more than 60 drug poisonings in the Kenora area over two days www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Northwestern Ontario sees 4 drug alerts issued in less than a week after overdose surge | CBC News
There have been four drug alerts issued in northwestern Ontario in less than a week, including one linked to a surge of more than 60 drug poisonings in the Kenora area over two days. Here's what we kn...
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Sharing this again, on the anniversary of my dad's death from an accidental drug overdose. thetyee.ca/Culture/2024... @thetyee.ca
What My Dad Taught Me about Grief, Art and What Makes a Life | The Tyee
He died of an accidental drug overdose. It changed how I perceive the world.
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In an adapted excerpt, Riley Yesno writes that Indigenous communities, through housing projects and community land trusts, challenge the colonial system by returning to models that incorporate indigenous values and which are rooted in collective responsibility and community. www.briarpatchmagazi...
Care Not Cops hosts grassroots networks in the colonial city of glass NEW in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social: www.briarpatchmagazine.com/care-not-cops
Care Not Cops hosts grassroots networks in the colonial city of glass — Briarpatch Magazine
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This weekend, Care Not Cops will be hosting its 4th annual convergence, Speculative Abolition: Art, Documentation and Medico-Legal Disruption, dedicated to anti-carcerality in health care.