Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"
Fun fact, Canada's first supervised consumption site, where people who use drugs can bring their own illegal drugs and use them while supervised without risk of arrest, was set up to reduce Hep C and HIV infections, not overdoses. www.catie.ca/prevention-i...
Supervised consumption services: An essential part of the spectrum of substance use services
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The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4d ago"The jobless boom has arrived," per WSJ
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...
Anatomy of a hush-up: How Health Canada buried the safe supply expert reviews
After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medic...
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Tara Mahoney nails it: "When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, & extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfolding around them." ricochet.media/media/canada... @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social
Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?
When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfo...
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This feeling is known to us our government has been working to make mass death acceptable to us. if the public is indifferent to thousands of people dying from our policies that’s a dangerous society This great article. maybe needs updating @vsmw.bsky.social www.readthemaple.com/b-c-s-pandem...
B.C.’s Pandemic, Drug Poisoning And Climate Deaths Are Linked
All of these crises can, should and need to be dealt with at once, because they all stem from the same source.
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theo@tboyblues.bsky.social · last wk.i feel like i’m going insane because my province is on fire again and every gov is dismantling climate policies and increasing fossil fuel use/development in the name of “affordability”. what is affordability when everything burns around you and you lose everything? there has to be a better way
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... An exciting, long awaited day. Hey @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social sounds like you have to write a new law. If you would like to consult with a few GENUINE experts on substance use disorders, we know a few. Hell, if you were feeling real bold we know a few patients too.
'Blanket' forced treatment of involuntary psychiatric patients unconstitutional, B.C. court rules | CBC News
Provisions in British Columbia's involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person's capacity to make health care decisions, are unconstitutional, the B.C. Suprem...
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I've been in court the last two weeks listening to the conclusion of DULF's constitutional challenge. Boy oh boy did we cover a lot of ground, but here's a pretty tidy summary of what they were arguing for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
DULF Founders’ Drug Law Charter Challenge Ends | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will wait months to learn if they face prison.
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I think it's really funny for ppl to be like "Emily Wilson's review of the oddysey just compared it to the source material she didn't analyze it Filmically" like yeah girl. she's the Odyssey translator. that is exactly what you would want and expect her review to do
The @dulfbc.bsky.social is in court, arguing Canada’s laws violate the human rights of users who are dying from toxic drugs. If successful, their case could open a pathway for safe supply. But if they lose, two activists face life imprisonment, reports Stephanie Harrington.
In a bid to transform Canada’s drug laws, Vancouver activists risk life imprisonment ⋆ The Breach
Two activists who sourced, tested, and distributed drugs could face life in prison. Their Charter challenge argues drug users have a right to a safer supply
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remember that DULF was busted ONE WEEK before the coroner's death panel recommended nonprescription safe supply. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
dustin@godfrey.work · last mo.as DULF dominated the news cycle, and as they planned their high profile raid, the VPD claimed in FOI responses that no emails about DULF were sent to or from several senior officers for two of those officers, that wasn't true @defactomedia.ca www.defactomedia.ca/vpd-emails-f...
the alberta referendum video is the most fascist slop I've ever seen in a canadian gov funded corporate video... they're spending millions of taxpayer $ for a public opinion poll to see if voters okay with the gov scapgoating immigrants & making racist policies, while telling people how to vote
James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived. We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.
“When you go to a drug service, there’s nothing on ketamine. They’re asking us the questions.” As UK government weighs harsher penalties, people experiencing ketamine-related harms like bladder damage have long lacked support—so they've built their own, reports Brooke Nolan:
As UK Debates Ketamine Status, Peers Are Building the Response
The government is weighing whether to increase penalties. For years, ketamine users experiencing harm have had to create their own help.
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NEW: Full report > Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years unicornriot.ninja/2026/then-th...
Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years - UNICORN RIOT
According to federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison -- the longest sentence...
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broke down laughing when eco said "dumas's novel is a machine that prolongs agony" - sounds like they were really into edging... speaking of edging...
every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
résumé : - je ne peux pas répondre à cette question - nous verrons cela à la cour en gros, le flic est venu dire que lors de l'intervention du SPAL, les policiers avaient affaire à de dangereux criminels de 13 à 17 ans la raison d'être de cette enquête du SPVM : blanchir le flic qui a tué Nooran
seugrof 🏴@seugrof.bsky.social · 2mo agoest-ce que le SPVM va arrêter le flic qui a abattu le jeune Nooran ? 🤔 ben non ! faut pas rêver ! le SPVM essaie de trouver des raisons pour lesquelles le flic aurait sorti son arme en ce jour fatidique #acab
why the fuck is the longueuil police arresting 11 fucking CHILDREN when there's video evidence of a cop murdering a 15-year-old? unlawful assembly my ass, just admit you're cowards hiding a murderer by demonizing non-white kids playing outside. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
11 youths charged after SPVM investigates moments prior to police killing Longueuil teen | CBC News
On Tuesday, Montreal police announced that 11 suspects are facing criminal charges following an investigation into the moments leading to the killing of 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi. The suspects were be...
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fuck soraya
Nicolas Marcotte@nicolasmarcotte.bsky.social · 2mo agoSoraya Martinez Ferrada demande des modifications au sondage, qui maintenant invite à retirer ou réduire des aménagements cyclables. Voici donc, en primeur, les résultats du 1er sondage retiré, ainsi que les cartes interactives du 1er et du 2e sondage. www.realisonsmontrealpourvrai.ca
moving to quebec wrecked my teeth because of the lack of floride in the water here 😢
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo one could have foreseen this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“People would often start out with tin cans.” Research documents respiratory harms among people without access to safer pipes using homemade devices to smoke crack cocaine. Participants' feedback led to development of a better pipe, reports Sydney Sauer:
UK Stimulant Pipe Program Tracks the Risks of Homemade Options
Respiratory harms result from use of makeshift pipes when safer ones aren't available. The research led to development of a better pipe.
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"She used to talk about the beach like it was a person. Her bond to the sunset, her bond to the water and the turtles….she was really into conservation, and into the soul, the spirit of conservation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike
Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike.
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hm... won't *someone* watch the bionicle movies with me?... 👀
[Translated from French] Quebec can no longer remain inactive The author sounds the alarm on the risks posed by long COVID and demands that Quebec inject money to finance research and treatments La Presse June 11, 2026 By Andréanne Côté stillcoviding.ca/en/news/queb... #health #COVID #LongCovid
Quebec can no longer remain inactive
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breaking up means that your letterboxd is now pvp enabled. any log outside of your usual tastes is a glowing weakspot in your quest for human affection and there is no star rating you can give Puss in Boots that both pleases the girl you met on hinge and will make your cinephile ex not laugh at you
this is so bad for so many reasons! cops shouldn't be able to go through your mail! it's going to punish lots of disabled people and cut off their safer supply. fucking surveillance state.
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy@dsdp.ca · 3mo agowww.readthemaple.com/carney-doubl... “Packages of the size that they’re talking about are not really large enough to be taking on the people they’re implying it for, but they are the size of people who are just trying to get access to the safest supply that they can."