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Vancouver Drug User Advocates Denounce Government Plans for Involuntary Treatment

Vancouver Drug User Advocates Denounce Government Plans for Involuntary Treatment

Bad social remedies may go away, but they never truly die. Involuntary treatment for drug users is one such zombie…

1 month ago

The Pandora Encampment is a Pressure Cooker About to Explode

The City of Victoria has manufactured a humanitarian crisis by concentrating homeless people in a single block, and it's about…

4 months ago

Hereditary Chiefs Rise in Defence of Douglas Treaties

Have a glance into the rift between hereditary indigenous leaders and Indian Act band councils, and the complex politics fuelling…

4 months ago

An Outreach Worker Called the Police on My Neighbour After a Drug Overdose

Sometimes outreach workers do the dumbest things, like calling the cops on a mentally ill person who just had an…

6 months ago

Busy Saturday: Four Events, about Disability Benefits, Rights of Foreign Students, Drug Policy, and Palestine

Okay, I've attended no less than four events in town today, and I'm not about to write a whole piece…

7 months ago

Friends of Centennial Square Rally to Save Fountain

Somehow they don't like the idea of demolishing the fountain to make way for a splash park. Especially since it's…

9 months ago

Eating Disorder Advocates Rally at Legislature

I covered VIVED's rally last year. Since then it's been a rocky year for them in the political arena, and…

9 months ago

Hundreds March for DULF in Vancouver

About three hundred supporters of the Drug User Liberation Front rallied in downtown Vancouver at the call of the Vancouver…

12 months ago

Postmortem: Aubrey’s Run Across BC

You've read about how big a success Aubrey's Run Across BC was. Now come read for a look behind the…

1 year ago

Jessica Michalofsky Ran 900 km Across BC for a Safe Drug Supply

How far would you go to advocate for a cause? Jessica Michalofsky went quite far indeed, both literally and figuratively.

1 year ago

Are you protesting social injustice?

Whether you're denouncing police brutality or government overreach, clamouring for a safe drug supply or affordable housing, defending homeless encampments or fighting off the colonial invader, advocating for the disabled or racial minorities, pursuing either legal or extralegal means of retaliation, you'll find plenty of interest within these pages by a fellow insurrectionist butting heads with a callous society and a corrupt system. Come misbehave with the rest of us!

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