Residents of the DTES are enduring the worsening intersection of extreme heat, lack of shade, an unpredictable drug supply, and the housing crisis.
Support groups running hydration stations in the community for the next two summer months:
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We're currently getting an update on the Urgent Mental Health and Substance Use Service Enhancements Program. Remember the 100 cops 100 nurses? This is the nurses part, which has now become 35 FTEs of various stripes to support Car 88 and PACT-like teams.
FIRST UNITED rejects all calls for involuntary treatment. Read the full statement from the Social Justice Committee of FIRST UNITED here: https://t.co/CYZyuToDfb #bcpoli#dtes
Two Vancouver Police Department officers have been charged with assault in connection with an off-duty incident alleged to have taken place last December.
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Watch Dr Terri Aldred facilitate a discussion with Elder Bruce Robinson, Dr Michael Dumont, & Dr David Tu about #PrimaryCare clinic models that meaningfully weave together traditional #Indigenous approaches with western medicine. @KilalaLelum#NIHM2024 https://t.co/EwPDT6RFkg
A study of British Columbia's deadly heat dome in 2021 says the risk factor most strongly associated with dying during those sweltering days was whether that person was receiving income assistance.
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#UPDATE: The B.C. government is rejecting Dr. Bonnie Henry's call to expand the province's safer supply program.
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Important reporting from @JenStDen on recent efforts by police to curtail press freedoms. The examples in this story should worry everyone — not just reporters.
'Arresting Reporters Is a Crude Form of Censorship' via @TheTyee https://t.co/BNTwlm8xii
Shameful. If it wasn't already clear, this conviction solidifies the fact that politicians and the courts have no intention of addressing the drug poisoning through either decrim or safe supply. The loss of life continues.
Two Vancouver drug policy activists have been criminally charged after police raided a "compassion club" their group was using to sell tested, illicit street drugs last year.
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