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On the block on Overdose Awareness Day

Students at the University of Victoria will soon have access to drug checking on campus as part of a pilot project aimed at preventing overdoses.

Students will be able to have their illicit drugs checked at special pop-up booths, or via an anonymous drop box.

An Edmonton man experiencing homelessness is asking a judge to find the City of Edmonton liable for seizing and disposing of his personal belongings during an encampment cleanup two years ago.

The city’s police chief says his strategy is pushing down crime rates, but unhoused people say they’re being harassed.

VicPD asked the government not to release data showing how its officers used force between 2022 and 2024. The government agreed, but they were overruled by the privacy commissioner. The data shows Vic...

Advocates are urging UVic to expand drug-checking services following the death of Sidney McIntyre-Starko

A group of health-care workers has set up a pop-up drug checking facility at the University of Victoria this week, in an effort to pressure UVic to install a permanent drug checking facility in the wa...

An unhoused couple says the city lacks a transparent, accessible, retrieval process for belongings seized by bylaw.

By Nora O’Malley

Background In January 2023, British Columbia (BC) implemented a three-year decriminalization pilot to reduce harms of drug criminalization and address stigma toward people who use drugs. In May 2024, ...

After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medic...

Provisions in British Columbia's involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person's capacity to make health care decisions, are unconstitutional, the B.C. Suprem...

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Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will wait months to learn if they face prison.

Podcast Episode · Crackdown · July 22 · 48m

As the province prepares to open an involuntary care facility in Prince George, organizers held an open house to hear from social workers, Indigenous peoples, and people who have lived with addictions...

A street sweep on November 17 during a disease outbreak forced unhoused residents into Cowichan’s wetlands. 80 overdoses followed in the next 24 hours.

VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Green Caucus has issued a statement following the recent BC Coroner’s report on deaths due to overdose: “It’s been over ten years since the toxic drug […]

Freedom-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 transparency

BC Family Doctors believes that health policy must be shaped by clinical evidence, informed by physician expertise and responsive to community needs. We recognize that while the government plays a rol...

Freedom-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 transparency

13,000 paid hours for suspended cops. Police corruption tied to Olympic drug case. Class action over separatist data leak

More 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 ...

The 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...

Responding to Police in Health Service Settings: Know Your Rights, Protect Your Clients is a practical resource for health service providers in British Columbia seeking to reduce police interference i...

Recent policy changes mean that treatment for addiction is becoming less accessible to those who are incarcerated.

Metro Vancouver is warning that thousands of planned units won’t get built.