The Court ruled that BC's regime for providing psychiatric treatment to involuntarily detained people is unconstitutional. It's worth reading the full decision to appreciate just how harmful the current approach has been, and why reform is so desperately needed. www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/d...
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Community Legal Assistance Society@clasbc.bsky.social · 3w agoA Landmark Decision for Mental Health Rights in BC:
This sets an awful precedent. Now migrants know they have to stay quiet — or else.
12 international students at Calgary protest referred to CBSA office after status check | CBC News
A dozen people who took part in a weeks-long international student protest in northeast Calgary have been flagged as "being possibly inadmissible" and, according to an immigration lawyer, could be for...
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“A treaty is not charity from the Crown. It is the lawful resolution of a debt this province has carried, unpaid, for generations’”. cheknews.ca/opinion-trea...
Opinion: Treaties with First Nations are not secret ‘giveaways’
Caroline Elliott looks at the Modern Treaty our Nation is negotiating with British Columbia and Canada and sees loss, so let me offer a different starting point, and a richer story than the one Ms. El...
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"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." - Arundhati Roy www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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Absolutely brutal work by Mayor Sim and ABC. Overdose prevention sites save lives and connect people with resources that aid recovery. This is the ONLY OPS in the city centre open to the public. We need it. Our neighbours and community members need it. It's literally a matter of life and death.
Andrea Woo@andreawoo.bsky.social · 4mo agoSim's motion directing staff to "use all tools available" inc permitting, licensing, prev legal settlements, etc to prevent opening of OPS passes. Councillors Fry and Orr had tabled motions to defer Sim's motion until council could hear from others, inc VCH; both voted down.
We can be fierce champions of democracy & human rights in Iran while, at the same time, firmly rejecting unilateral & unlawful military action by one state against another. Both are, after all, grounded in the same values & the same vision for humanity. Both take us in the same direction.
We can (and should have, and must) defend human rights in Iran; without ripping up the UN Charter* — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
Rather than expressing seemingly unqualified “support” for the United States (and, one assumes, Israel), this could be a powerful moment to demonstrate that the Prime Minister’s belief in the role tha...
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"By ending the decriminalization pilot, the Province is failing to treat addiction as a public-health issue, not a criminal one, and is doubling down on policies that have already caused immense harm to First Nations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_deeply...
UBCIC Deeply Disappointed with B.C.’s Decision to End Decriminalization Pilot and Calls for Return to a Public Health Approach
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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.
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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...
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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
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.
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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
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“It’s long past time we stop thinking about what we deserve from the Earth, and start thinking about what it deserves from us.”
Michelle Cyca@michellecyca.com · last yr.For @thenarwhal.ca, I considered why people feel so entitled to parks. Public space! My tax dollars! Racism! Good news, I address all that here: thenarwhal.ca/bc-parks-fir...
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@aclu.org · last yr.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.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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This was excellent (and terrifying).
Science Vs@sciencevs.bsky.social · 2y agoNew 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...
