Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 2, 2024

BC Conservatives Threaten Notwithstanding Clause If Courts Rule Involuntary Care Violates Human Rights
https://pressprogress.ca/bc-conservatives-threaten-use-of-notwithstanding-clause-if-courts-rule-involuntary-care-violates-human-rights

* Rustad threatens to override Charter of Rights & Freedoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms

#PublicHealth #addiction #populism #HarmReduction #SafeInjection #poverty
#demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #ProtoFascism

BC Conservatives Threaten Use of Notwithstanding Clause If Courts Rule Involuntary Care Violates Human Rights

BC Conservative leader John Rustad is threatening to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms if the courts rule against him

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 2, 2024

[Canada] BC Conservatives Scrub Right-Wing Culture War Policies, Rhetoric f. Website
https://pressprogress.ca/bc-conservatives-scrub-right-wing-culture-war-policies-rhetoric-from-platform-posted-on-partys-website

* John Rustad/BC Conservatives/proto-fascists
* removed sections on education, law and order, homelessness, drug policy

#PublicHealth #addiction #populism #HarmReduction #SafeInjection #poverty
#demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation

BC Conservatives Scrub Right-Wing Culture War Policies, Rhetoric From Platform Posted on Party’s Website

John Rustad’s BC Conservatives are quietly making edits to their party’s platform in the middle of an election

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 2, 2024

[Canada] Drug Policy Experts Say BC Conservatives’ ‘Dehumanizing’ Rhetoric About People Who Use Drugs is Going Too Far
‘They’re eliciting emotional reactions like disgust, fear and anger’
https://pressprogress.ca/drug-policy-experts-say-bc-conservatives-dehumanizing-rhetoric-about-people-who-use-drugs-is-going-too-far

#PublicHealth #addiction #populism #HarmReduction #SafeInjection #poverty
#demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #Poilievre #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation

Drug Policy Experts Say BC Conservatives’ ‘Dehumanizing’ Rhetoric About People Who Use Drugs is Going Too Far

‘They’re eliciting emotional reactions like disgust, fear and anger’

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 11, 2024

British Columbia Removes Harm Reduction Vending Machines
Experts say machines should not be used as political tool
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/11/BC-Removes-Harm-Reduction-Vending-Machine-Backlash

* harm reduction vending machines closed across B.C.
* Min. Mental Health/Addictions reviewing low-barrier distribution model
* BC Conservative leader John Rustad critiqued machines

British Columbia political sewer
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113041537834775065

#Canada #BritishColumbia #populism #BCconservatives #addiction #JohnRustad #SafeInjection #HarmReduction #PublicHealth

Following Backlash, BC Removes Harm Reduction Vending Machines | The Tyee

The province says it’s conducting a review. Experts say the machines should not be used as a ‘political tool.’

The Tyee
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 11, 2024

Reactions to New Brunswick premier Blaine Higgs' pledge to halt safe injection sites
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/i-m-gobsmacked-reactions-to-n-b-premier-s-pledge-to-halt-approval-of-more-safe-injection-sites-1.7034083

* populist shill, transphobe Blaine Higgs
* pledged to not approve safe injection sites; if re-elected consult w. communities about existing sites
* N.B.’s only safe injection has health-care workers onsite
* connects clients w. other services

Canada: education, transphobia
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110569134012529765

#Canada #NewBrunswick #BlaineHiggs #populism #SafeInjection #HarmReduction #PublicHealth

'I'm gobsmacked': Reactions to N.B. premier's pledge to halt approval of more safe injection sites

The head of New Brunswick's only safe injection site said she's very concerned after Premier Blaine Higgs pledged to not approve any more safe injection sites and to consult with communities about existing sites, if re-elected.

CTVNews
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 20, 2023

Tensions boil over at meeting on supervised injection site in Charlottetown
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-park-street-injection-site-july-2023-1.6911974

200 attended, most voicing opposition to PEI's proposal to add supervised injection site to Park Street shelter

Supervised injection site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_injection_site
* hygienic environment where people consume illicit recreational drugs
* reduce overdose deaths

These in Vancouver have been attacked by conservative politicians

#addiction #conservatism #PublicHealth #SafeInjection #populism #PEI

Tensions boil over at meeting on new supervised injection site in Charlottetown | CBC News

More than 200 people attended an often-tense meeting focused on adding a supervised injection site to the Park Street Emergency Shelter in Charlottetown.

CBC
BC Info BotApr 14, 2023
Global News BC: BC United leader calls for help for suffering downtown businesses in Kelowna, across the province https://globalnews.ca/news/9625300/bc-united-leader-suffering-downtown-businesses-need-help/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #downtownkelownaassociation #strugglingdowntowns #socialdisorder #safeinjection #Homelessness #KelownaCrime #MentalHealth #KevinFalcon #benstewart #leonavenue #Vandalism #BCUnited #Violence #tomdyas #Canada
BC United leader calls for help for suffering downtown businesses in Kelowna, across the province

BC United leader Kevin Falcon said it's incumbent on the provincial government to offer funding for small businesses that are struggling to survive in a 'very challenging time.'

Global News
thesuperpapagaiMar 15, 2023

Kinda shows a lot about #philadelphia leadership when a mayoral candidate is like "Eh, this idea works, but we're not gonna do it"

#PhiladelphiaInquirer #kensington #safeinjection

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-mayoral-candidates-casarez-elementary-school-20230314.html

Fifth graders from Kensington grilled nine mayoral candidates. This is what they asked of them.

People make a lot of promises, the Kensington elementary school students said, but they wanted details: How will you fix my school? How will you make my family’s lives better?

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nathanael NewtonMar 7, 2023

It's been a busy few days for the #FirstResponders in #Ottawa / #Ontario

They're significantly #overworked #understaffed and we really need to step up for them and demand that the government increase the #medschool spots, Fund #SafeInjection sites

https://youtube.com/live/WWYperUQHTk

Yesterday people were waiting as much as 4+ hours for code 3 pickups due to ambulance delays from the #OpiodEpidemic hitting Ontario these last few days..
There have been SO MANY ODs ITS INSANE.. Wait times are up all over the province due to lack of ambulances... #fentanyl

See discussion here:

https://reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/11kallb/a_woman_with_a_possibly_dislocated_hip_has_been/

#PublicSaftey #EMS #Canada #canpoli #onpoli #epidemic #ottawa #healthCare #healthcarenews

SCANNER FEED - Cloudy With a few Flurries *Updated 2023-03-07 at 9:24 PM*

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Lucas MartenJan 31, 2023

"Stuck In Time: Harm Reduction in the 21st Century"

My graduate thesis in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University. Please read, enjoy, and share!

http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/67823

#mastodon #science #writing #sciencewriting #nonfiction #thesis #johnshopkins #harmreduction #warondrugs #addiction #drugs #opioids #psychedelic #entheogens #police #policeviolence #policecommissions #taser #methadone #MAT #bones #grants #decriminalization #safeinjection #crime #massincarceration #history

STUCK IN TIME HARM REDUCTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY