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[Insiteful Vancouver @InsiteVan]

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[Amnesty International @amnesty]

A reminder: Hospitals are not, and should never be targets. Healthcare facilities must be protected.

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

“There’s something unique about some of these rural Appalachian communities that are very small,” Dr. Alexander Elswick told Filter.

“Everybody knows everybody, and anonymity is so much more of a concern.”

By @sydneyasauer:
https://t.co/pj4BT7mXTx

[COPE: Coalition of Progressive Electors @COPEVancouver]

ABC just voted to ignore the Integrity Commissioner and let Mayor Ken Sim completely off the hook for Misuse of Office & Harassing Conduct against Cllr @SeanOrr.

On October 17th, we're going to elect @builtjustice and get to work restoring integrity at City Hall.

[Insiteful Vancouver @InsiteVan]

Tonight-
Writers on the Drive series 7pm- Mon June 1st
Continental Coffee

#commercialdrive
@garthmullins

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Delaying the opening of a supervised consumption site in Yaletown doesn’t make the crisis disappear.

It means more overdoses.
More public drug use.
More people using alone.
More deaths.
More street disorder the community says it wants solved.

You cannot oppose the very services designed to reduce the harms and then act shocked when the harms continue.

The reality is this: ignoring a crisis doesn’t make it go away, it makes it worse.

So when these challenges continue across the neighbourhood, remember who fought against solutions when it’s time to vote.

https://t.co/qA5dK32BWq

[Russell Maynard @rusmaynard]

Canada MUST develop a robust non-market Housing sector. There is no other strategy.
@bcndp @gregorrobertson

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"The people most affected by the relevant conditions are often the very people excluded from treatment," writes Elizabeth Lore.

“The success of psychedelic medicine is amazing," says one expert. "It doesn’t get us off the hook for deeper social issues."
https://t.co/PGvv2jvBvX

[Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb]

Overdose prevention sites (OPS) are important pathways to effective drug treatment. By announcing an indefinite pause to new OPS in #Vancouver Yaletown, the right-of-left @BCNDP is moving from #HarmReduction to actual Political Assistance in Dying (PAiD)!
https://t.co/pZUpCDIxfH

[Amanda Burrows @BurrowsAmanda]

This is upsetting. People are dying from poisoned drugs. Overdose prevention sites save lives.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Supervised consumption sites ARE NOT the problem.
They’re part of the solution to reducing overdose deaths, open drug use, public disorder, and connecting people to treatment, healthcare, and recovery services.

Without them, people don’t suddenly stop using drugs, they just use more dangerously, more publicly, and more often alone.

So be careful what you celebrate when these services are delayed or shut down.
Because the consequences don’t disappear, they get worse.

[Insiteful Vancouver @InsiteVan]

We Demand: The Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants and Full Accountability for Israel's War Crimes

https://t.co/FKwl66vTcA...

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

An inspirational story of how harm reduction and recovery work together ...

In 2018, I worked at a clinic on the east side of Vancouver.
A mom came in worried about her son. He had just left a recovery treatment centre and moved back home, and she was terrified he would use again and overdose.
My colleague trained her how to use naloxone where a few days later she had to use it on him.

Afterwards, I helped him get back into another treatment center, and tonight he’s celebrating 8 years drug free. 🙌🏼 Woot woot!

This is why naloxone matters, this is why harm reduction matters, this is why second chances matter, this is why recovery matters.
And this is why you need both!

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

The importance of harm reduction.

Naloxone doesn’t “enable drug use.”

It enables people to stay alive long enough to recover.

500 kits taken in 2 weeks with zero overdose deaths last week.
That’s not ideology, that's lives saved.

[Global BC @GlobalBC]

A Vancouver SRO, operated by Atira, which receives most of its funding from the B.C. government, was recently kept open for months for only two tenants.

https://t.co/s7enmbgt7x

[Russell Maynard @rusmaynard]

Read this short article - how in the World is this country a Canadian ally? Why does Canada, again and again, protect Israel at the UN - why? Because these are explicitly @liberal_party & @CPC_HQ values.
Vote @NDP as the ONLY option to see change.

https://t.co/vP9WVAN2oQ

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

It’s a relief to hear the Prime Minister express some moral outrage over Ben-Gvir’s brutish behaviour, outrage which has been missing during Israel’s attack on Iran, bombardment of Lebanon and ongoing genocide in Gaza.

But strong words must be followed by strong action. Sanctioning individual ministers is not enough when this cruelty is mirrored in Israeli state policy. Close the loophole on arms sales, cancel the free trade agreement and use every tool in Canada’s diplomatic arsenal to end Israel’s impunity.

[Sarah Blyth - Gerszak @sarahblyth]

I know firefighters are happy that they dont have to deal with more overdoses in streets and alleyways attending to more dead bodies. We all work together including VPD. Also most ( amost all,) overdoses are reversed by ops before they arrive. We support the firefighters they work hard and have worked along side them throughout the past 10 years. We also deserve the same respect. Interestingly enough when anyone comes to visit our OPS across the polical spectrum they see what we do and they thank us. We do it for less resources than the city could. I know how much things cost after being on Park Board, PNE Board and many others - for years. We also do more than we were ever asked to. Find people housing, jobs, recovery, wound care, attend all kinds of emergency situations.

[SEAN ORR @seanorr]

New Orr Report is up: https://t.co/UduWHapyHy

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The Israeli military has detained hundreds of activists who sailed to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade.

In the face of unending genocide and impunity, they continue to challenge Israel, to keep the spotlight on ongoing genocide.

At least 11 Canadians are among those taken.

We're calling on the federal government to drop its usual kid gloves treatment of Israel and exert real diplomatic pressure to secure their immediate release.

https://t.co/XP0ZmSf1Hp

[Sarah Blyth - Gerszak @sarahblyth]

The question is have here is I know evicting people is not always easy tennants have rights as they should, not to mention if the tenants dont want to move for a variety of reasons. Moving people is obviously complicated. Its also hard to get yourself out of poverty these days. I have no idea what decisions we're made and how.