The Mainlander

The Mainlander is dedicated to local politics and social struggles on unceded Indigenous territory in Vancouver, BC

[The Mainlander @MainlanderNews]

“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating,” shares Nikki, a tenant living with her family in the Broadway Plan area.

https://t.co/uVo2yPc8iB

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

With Vancouver’s municipal election just over a week away, a new poll, done exclusively for CityNews and OMNI TV, suggests a tight race for mayor, with Green Party candidate Pete Fry holding a one-point lead over incumbent Ken Sim among decided voters
https://t.co/hw0DxLtIlv

[International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy]

The BC Supreme Court’s ruling in the @DULFBC case marks a significant development in Canadian drug policy and constitutional law. Such a historic win for people who use drugs.

Check out the evaluation of the compassion club at the link below:

https://t.co/VrIi1R8vHV

[dustin @dustbobgod]

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.

https://t.co/cAQubw3gPU

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

Call us crazy but not sure you should get murdered for an act of theft

[Nathan Crompton @natecrompton]

It's almost as though David Eby should have reversed Gordon Campbell's corporate and income tax cuts...

[claire @clairelzbeth]

polling below 30% will have you posting shit like this

[zupa grochowa @Grochowa2]

but yeah, keep screaming about foreign interference from China

[Béton Brik @osipbrut]

Ken Sim’s big moral lesson here is that if you or yours have been dispossessed in the past, it’s not possible to dispossess anyone else. In completely unrelated news, Ken Sim has been unflinching is his support for the state of Israel before and after Oct 7

[saying arigato at uniqlo checkout @bovineflu]

my communications advisers are telling me to very prominently and repeatedly mention my opponent's easy-to-remember slogan in my campaign video. they also said i should include shots of merchandise with the slogan emblazoned on it

[Spencer Powell @Beefshaver]

ABC passed a bylaw so they could pay city staff less. How did that make the city more affordable for them? They promised to double social housing and instead they froze new supportive housing and scrapped modular housing for a gallery that isn't being built.

[Kali Rufus-Sedgemore @kalismethy313]

Death is a policy choice you are making by not giving dignity and a safe place to use #harmreduction

[The Mainlander @MainlanderNews]

from 2021:
The “Vancouver Model” of Decriminalization Will Set a Dangerous Precedent for Drug Users Across Canada
https://t.co/VTazG4HMXt

[The Mainlander @MainlanderNews]

the "Decriminalization" model in question
https://t.co/Iy4jJVpmYq

https://t.co/T9Q2FnQGw5

[Denise Meikle @SalonOrigins]

So the CMAJ just published its look at BC's decriminalization pilot.
Police encounters for possession dropped 39%. That part worked.
But overdose deaths and hospitalizations? No different from provinces that changed nothing. Ontario's deaths fell 25%. Ours fell 19%.
We were told this would save lives. It didn't. @KahlonRav @Dave_Eby #recoveryovermanagement

[The Mainlander @MainlanderNews]

Another police officer who believes we're a couple of drug busts away from winning the war on drugs
https://t.co/PdH65uCnZ3

[Elenore Sturko @elenoresturko]

The same pro-drug, anti-police activists who backed DULF's taxpayer-funded dark-web drug trafficking have published a taxpayer-funded report on undocumented drug seizures utilizing unreliable data from self-reports & interviews of individuals who were paid to participate.

The report's conclusions — there was an upward trend in police drug seizures without arrest during BC's decriminalization pilot and a significant association between police drug seizures without arrest as well as increased odds of experiencing an overdose — should be ignored given that the report itself indicates the data may be biased.

It is way past time for David Eby & the NDP to defund all drug legalization activist groups and redirect those taxpayer dollars to treatment & recovery services.

https://t.co/9nyRVYloAl

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

Police drug seizures increased during the first year of British Columbia’s drug decriminalization pilot project, according to a study released Wednesday by Simon Fraser University (SFU). https://t.co/L5oaT3PcdL

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Looks like @chwknews has removed the online story about the 11-year-old who went to the hospital because she was allegedly exposed to fentanyl smoke near a supportive housing building. The editor’s note says “new information was received. Fraser Valley Today is reviewing the details and will provide an update once the information has been verified.”

I sure hope so. Far be it from me to question the health condition of a child, but I did have questions when I saw how this story was being exploited.

Many conservative politicians and pundits really went to town on this story, and I’m sure they’ll want to correct themselves if it turns out to be untrue.

I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR UPDATE @CHWKNEWS

[Crackdown podcast @crackdownpod]

🚨NEW EPISODE!!🚨

Garth & Sam dig into Canada’s rotten history of police accountability. Are our systems failing? Or are they doing exactly what they were built to do?

https://t.co/56tLTnGBHo

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

BC Conservatives are being told to call First Nations people "Indians."

A new BIV piece reveals the directive came directly from leader @KerryLynneFindl's office. 🧵👇(1/6)

[Nathan Crompton @natecrompton]

Immense support for BC nurses in Vancouver today — they’ve given a 72-hr strike notice, if an improved offer is not made.
If anyone tries to tell you BC’s coffers are empty, remind them Eby & BC NDP have still haven’t reversed Gordon Campbell’s corporate + income tax cuts✊🏼🌱

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

The funniest possible outfit you can say this sentence while wearing