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DULF arrests consolidate worldwide response
The arrests of the compassion club organizers are creating international blowback. How did manoeuvring by politicians and police convince them the arrests were good strategy?
Euan Thomson
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Ready to take action for DULF?
With a flood of organizations worldwide showing solidarity with the compassion club while Vancouver Police continues criminalizing it, it's time to turn words into action.
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Vancouver Police arrest DULF organizers for saving lives
The arrests occurred on Wednesday, and the organizers were released without charge. Instead, VPD issued a press release in a dialect of doublespeak only police could pull off.
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Part 3 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
The unregulated drug poisoning crisis has proven to be fertile ground for disaster capitalism. Here, we'll examine the soils in Alberta that help it thrive.
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Part 2 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
Where there's smoke: reaching deeper into commercial interests of physician signatories to an open letter blasting safe supply.
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Part 1 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
A group of addiction doctors published a letter blasting safe supply, but their affiliations omitted commercial interests that may give a glimpse into their motivations.
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Formal complaint to Calgary Police Commission
A follow-up to revelations about Calgary Police Service conducting crime database searches of my name and deleting emails that should be held as public property.
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Remembering Vee Duncan
An Indigenous safe supply and housing advocate who spent years at the frontline of multiple convergent crises, Vee will be missed for their raw honesty and unrelenting love.
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UCP Chief Dale McFee to make an announcement: let's hope it's his resignation
McFee gleefully calls for a "a new approach that restores balance!" - meaning we can expect more of his butcher policing.
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Have you been virtually frisked by Calgary Police?
Have you organized or attended a protest? Have you been asking questions about "police business"? It might be time to conduct a Criminalization Health Check.
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Overdose Aware but in the dark about Alberta
Another International Overdose Awareness Day has come and gone. Whoever plans on listening is plenty aware of the problem, but what are we missing about its causes?
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The CurbSide Philosophy
A timely project by 4B Harm Reduction is pushing back against grifting alt-right media and fear being aimed at our unhoused neighbours by opportunistic police chiefs.