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[Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb]

@soapboxvan @RM2074125449497 @power1146624 @bcndp @InsiteVan @bccoroners The Roxy at 932 Granville is actually a Safe Consumption Site for alcohol.

[Soapbox @soapboxvan]

@RM2074125449497 @sqwabb @power1146624 @bcndp @InsiteVan @bccoroners Are you sure you're not talking about walking past the Roxy on a Friday night?

[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

[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

[Insiteful Vancouver @InsiteVan]

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

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@garthmullins

[Amanda Burrows @BurrowsAmanda]

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

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Horrific videos from Gaza have been circulating for hours after israel struck a residential building.

I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the image of children’s bodies torn apart (again) or the fact that it’s barely considered newsworthy because the children are Palestinian.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

Thanks for confirming that Zionists are racists.

[Terrill Tailfeathers @Terrilltf]

Get Zionism out of Canadian politics. Now.

[COPE: Coalition of Progressive Electors @COPEVancouver]

It's been almost 100 days since Lenny committed to have integrity and make a Chinese-language apology on WeChat for spreading disinformation about Sean Orr there.

Still waiting, @LennyNanZhou

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

It’s crazy to see an elected official just deliver on every campaign promise.

[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.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Another clip from my interview with @mehdirhasan. It's important to remember that a lot of people want to see Canada as a country that stands up to the US.

But the details matter. They really do.

[Russell Maynard @rusmaynard]

“Americans should feel ashamed”

What Cubans Really Think About Trump

Mr. Seal investigates how Trump’s push to “take Cuba” ties into a nearly 70-year campaign against the island’s Communist government. “Americans should feel ashamed,” he argues.

https://t.co/33VrdfGLl5

[Russell Maynard @rusmaynard]

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

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Counterpoint: They should be tried for war crimes, as should this author.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

They’re still murdering journalists in Gaza.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One of the more asinine liberal Zionist talking points is that you are technically allowed to criticize Israel, BUT it veers into antisemitism if you place more emphasis on Israel's abuses than on abuses in other countries.

If you believe Israel is worthy of disproportionately high levels of support, then you must necessarily also concede that it is worthy of disproportionately high levels of criticism.

You cannot simultaneously claim that it is appropriate and normal for the United States to be gifting billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel, AND that Americans should pay no more attention to Israel's humanitarian abuses than those seen in places like Sudan or the DRC.

You cannot simultaneously claim that it is right and good for the governments of the western world to unite behind Israel's relentless warmongering and provide it with myriad forms of military support, diplomatic cover and mass media apologia, AND claim it is a sign of prejudice against Jews for you to place more emphasis on Israel's acts of military aggression than on those of Russia.

You cannot simultaneously claim that it is fine and correct for western governments to be aggressively stomping out free speech that is critical of Israel in the name of combatting "antisemitism", AND insist that we should pay as much attention to the Israel lobby as we give to the lobbyists of nations like Qatar.

You can't make support for Israel absolutely central to the foreign and domestic policies of my nation's government, AND tell me that Israel should not be a special focal point of my scrutiny and opposition. You can do one or the other with logical coherence, but you can't do both.

It's fine if you want to try to argue that Israel is a super duper mega important ally whose fate is inseparable from the fate of my own country, but you don't get to then turn around and also tell me I should place no more emphasis on its violence and abuses than on those of nations like Iran or North Korea. That's not a thing.

If my rulers are going to insist on supporting Israel's nonstop wars, assaulting my free speech rights in order to defend Israeli information interests, and allowing obscenely powerful lobby groups to manipulate my government for the benefit of Israel, then Israel is going to receive a disproportionate amount of attention from me, because there is no other nation on earth for whom all of these things are being done.

There is no logical argument that I should do otherwise.

[Russell Maynard @rusmaynard]

@Israel: Defence Minister has said he is committed to the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory. https://t.co/G2mUbhjdmD

[Ska-T @Ska_Tpodcast]

Hard to believe It's been over 12 years since my last Podcast,
But most of the episodes are still archived here on Citr Radio:

https://t.co/gHoeRISrPS

#ska #reggae #vancouver