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On Nov 17, North Cowichan displaced ~75 unhoused residents from Lewis Street encampments to a marsh without the promised Ramada shelter open or toilets available. NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

Swept off Lewis Street and Into North Cowichan’s WetlandsA street sweep on November 17 during a disease outbreak forced unhoused residents into Cowichan’s wetlands. 80 overdoses followed in the next 24 hours.open.substack.com

VPD claimed no emails went "to or from" senior cops about DULF ahead of their Oct 2023 raid But emails sent to 2 officers were included in evidence in the resulting trial How did police justify not revealing those emails? By saying the officers were only CC'd www.defactomedia.ca/vpd-emails-f...

VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrueFreedom-of-information advocates say force's non-response likely broke BC’s transparency law — and ask if Vancouver police should undergo ‘greater scrutiny’ for public transparencywww.defactomedia.ca

EVENT: "Canadian Healthcare: When Provinces Go Rogue" Join us next Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern for a panel discussion focused on what happens when provinces go rogue with their healthcare policies? Should the federal government step in? Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

as DULF dominated the news cycle, and as they planned their high profile raid, the VPD claimed in FOI responses that no emails about DULF were sent to or from several senior officers for two of those officers, that wasn't true @defactomedia.ca www.defactomedia.ca/vpd-emails-f...

VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrueFreedom-of-information advocates say force's non-response likely broke BC’s transparency law — and ask if Vancouver police should undergo ‘greater scrutiny’ for public transparencywww.defactomedia.ca

what if we just made sure people had access to housing and healthcare and then we can have a talk about involuntary whatever. Let's see where we're at after actually fulfilling our obligations before making everything carceral to satsify some moralist impulse.

Here are 10 stories from last week about policing, freedom of info, overdose prevention, & legal systems. Check them out in the thread below, or all together here in our latest Post Facto newsletter: www.defactomedia.ca/newsletter/p...

POST FACTO: Hospital OD secrecy, a 'rubber stamp' police board, consumption site survives vote13,000 paid hours for suspended cops. Police corruption tied to Olympic drug case. Class action over separatist data leakwww.defactomedia.ca

Studies on the effectiveness of "supply-side" drug policy: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... dev.opioidactioncenter.com/resource/iu-... reuter.it-prod-webhosting.aws.umd.edu/sites/defaul... Folks reading this probably know the facts, just a reminder that Trump policy is vibes. Cruel vibes.

Impact of supply-side policies for control of illicit drugs in the face of the AIDS and overdose epidemics: investigation of a massive heroin seizureMore than 93% of the nearly $500 million spent annually on Canada's drug strategy goes toward efforts to reduce the illicit drug supply. However, little is known about the effectiveness of this strategy. On Sept. 2, 2000, Canadian police seized ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Happy to share our new review paper on management of injection drug use-associated endocarditis, including recommendations from a multidisciplinary group in Canada Incl. integrating substance use care in hospital and not requiring abstinence as a condition for surgery onlinecjc.ca/article/S082...

Management of Infective Endocarditis Secondary to Injection Drug Use: Practical Recommendations for Clinicians From a Canadian Working GroupThe management of drug-use associated endocarditis (DUA-IE) has historically been piece-meal with variable involvement of multiple specialties – cardiology, addictions medicine, infectious disease, su...onlinecjc.ca

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Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020–2021 | AJPH | Vol. 113 Issue 7Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose event...ajph.aphapublications.org

thetyee.ca/News/2026/07... “The response from our health authorities to this drug crisis — that has been the biggest public health crisis that has faced Canadians and British Columbians in our history — has been anemic at best and potentially furthering harms at worst." - Dr. Jess Wilder

How Many People Are ODing in BC Hospitals? It’s Still a Mystery | The TyeeThe Tyee just lost our last FOI appeal. Here’s what we can tell you.thetyee.ca

Onto Item I1. Council Member Motion: BC Rent Bank. Loughton moves it and adds an amendment. This whole thing is in response to this horrifying provincial news that will for sure for sure increase homelessness everywhere.

B.C. rent bank network says it can't continue without provincial funding commitmentThe province has provided no firm commitment to funding beyond the spring of 2026 to the program, which provides interest-free loans to help people cover rent and avoid eviction.www.timescolonist.com

I just published Eyes in the Sky: What Vancouver’s New Police Drones Mean for Your Charter Rights medium.com/p/eyes-in-th...

Eyes in the Sky: What Vancouver’s New Police Drones Mean for Your Charter RightsOn June 10, 2026, the Vancouver Police Department announced that it has become the first police service in Canada to launch a “Drone as…medium.com

“The homeless are not Other. They are Us. They are rights bearers no less entitled than any other Canadian citizens to the full benefit and protection of the Charter,” [the ruling] stated. powerful story by @ericwickham.ca