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it's not delivery. it's digiornalist justice, drugs, housing, health co-founder/member: @defactomedia.ca / defactomedia.ca work in The Guardian, Globe & Mail, Tyee, Filter, The Maple also at @debriefcomms.ca they/them/thembo

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 29/09/2026
huge victory for DULF — also a great day to support @defactomedia.ca which has excellent coverage of this case
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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It has been over 11 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 93 calls to action. Since then, 14 of them have been completed. That is just 15%. In over a decade. www.indigenouswatchdog.org/2026/09/01/t...
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TRC Calls To Action Status: September 1, 2026 - Indigenous Watchdog
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really good news. Safe supply has been proven to save lives and this was one of the most high profile cases trying to make it happen
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dustin @godfrey.work · 30/09/2026
5(2) is unconstitutional in part because 56 doesn't offer a real safety valve for non-medicalized safe supply
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Trudi @trudiagogo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This decision made me a bit teary today. It's a huge step in the right direction.
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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A breakdown of today's BC Supreme Court verdict in favour of @dulfbc.bsky.social — what's in it and what it all means — is now up at defactomedia.ca Read below ⤵️
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 29/09/2026
Canada’s drug policy violates its Charter, BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled on Tuesday, by making it de facto illegal to run a compassion club providing tested illicit drugs. Read the full breakdown of her decision, by @godfrey.work: www.defactomedia.ca/breaking-dul...
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BREAKING: DULF founders’ trafficking charges thrown out in BC Supreme Court ruling on constitutional challenge
Justice Catherine Murray applauds Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, declares a section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
Working on a brief on this today, subscribe to @defactomedia.ca's newsletter to get it in your inbox at www.defactomedia.ca#/portal/ and if you feel like you can support our work, a paid membership would also be so appreciated!
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 29/09/2026
We have a full story from Dustin on the DULF decision coming up Subscribe to the De Facto newsletter to get it as soon as it's out: www.defactomedia.ca/newsletters/ bsky.app/profile/godf...
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we have lost so many people while police & politicians created a spectacle, raided DULF, stopped the expansion of an alt to the toxic supply, and put its co-founders through the needless consequences of this process that took years. DULF saves lives bsky.app/profile/godf...
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking news from the DULF trial, where two founders of a drug compassion club in B.C.had previously been found guilty of trafficking but their lawyers started a constitutional challenge. The judge issued a ruling today in that constitutional challenge. A previous story: thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
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DULF Founders’ Drug Law Charter Challenge Ends | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will wait months to learn if they face prison.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 29/09/2026
Holy smokes, a constitutional earthquake in the Safe Supply debate
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Tessa Rowland @tessarowland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ahhhh INCREDIBLE!!!! what amazing news 🖤 if you haven't already, read dustin's great accounting from yesterday of how VPD turned against DULF and turned DULF towards this constitutional challenge: www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAJOR verdict this morning in the constitutional challenge brought forth by DULF founders. Published yday, read Dustin's deep-dive into how drastically Vancouver Police, who were initially supportive of DULF, flipped their script amid changing political tides: www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Richard Dal Monte @richdalmonte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, big win for DULF. Kudos to @godfrey.work and @defactomedia.ca for following this story.
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 29/09/2026
This is, without a doubt, the correct decision. I expect the ghouls who were eagerly anticipating the chance to celebrate lengthy prison sentences for Kalicum and Nyx will have extremely normal reactions to this.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
this is a huge decision. story coming for @defactomedia.ca
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
"You selflessly put yourselves to the side for this cause, and that's something most people wouldn't do. For that, I applaud you. You should be proud of yourselves," she says to Kalicum and Nyx. "You put your lives on hold for many valuable years, and I can see this process has is worn you down."
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
"I can see that there's some emotions here." she is thanking counsel, saying they are skilled, impassioned and committed to the case.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
she's directing parliament to address these issues, and she won't give a 12-month pause on declaring it unconstitutional — opting, instead, for six months — because we are in a public health crisis.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
and there was no real avenue for DULF to get approved to operate legally through s. 56 of the CDSA. she finds s. 7 of the charter was violated and that declaring s. 5(2) of the CDSA is unconstitutional.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
i'm in BC Supreme Court waiting to hear the ruling from Justice Catherine Murray, who is making findings: a non-medicalized safe supply program is desperately needed, the DULF compassion club didn't cause any harm, and there wasn't any licit supply for DULF to access
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 28/09/2026
A Vancouver cop told DULF’s founders he would personally advocate for them. 2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes. www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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P.O.W.E.R. @policeoversight.ca · 28/09/2026
“I’m happy to take you for a coffee,” Heard told Kalicum [DULF's co-founder] on May 23. Just four months later, Heard would notify sergeant Mike Cheah, the lead investigator on the DULF file, that he was recommending Wilson approve the investigation plan: www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/09/2026
@defactomedia.ca heroes www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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dustin @godfrey.work · 28/09/2026
with a decision expected tomorrow in the constitutional challenge against DULF's criminal charges, i did a deep dive for @defactomedia.ca into internal VPD documents to look at how their relationship with DULF changed so dramatically www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
people can also subscribe to De Facto Radio at the podcast emporium of their choosing if they wanna listen to it on their own time!
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Trudi @trudiagogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did you know @defactomedia.ca launched a radio program on Vancouver co-op radio? Add these investigative journalists to your weekly listening diet: coopradio.org/shows/de-fac... #Vancouver #BC
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De Facto Radio - Vancouver Co-operative Radio
Interrogate power. Highlight truth.
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
read this www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve... bsky.app/profile/defa...
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dustin @godfrey.work · 28/09/2026
and while DULF's lawyers argued the VPD should have simply gone to DULF to tell them to shut down rather than charging them, records show VPD had to convince prosecutors to approve charges — and they expended considerable resources trying to get more serious charges
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dustin @godfrey.work · 28/09/2026
a senior officer met with them in Aug 2021 and while he preferred a legal compassion club, he also didn't exactly discourage them from running one without legal approvals that same officer was the one who recommended approving an investigation into the compassion club two years later
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dustin @godfrey.work · 28/09/2026
with a decision expected tomorrow in the constitutional challenge against DULF's criminal charges, i did a deep dive for @defactomedia.ca into internal VPD documents to look at how their relationship with DULF changed so dramatically www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
defactomedia.ca
How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Public Safety Canada report here explicitly conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism: www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pb...
“Intended outcome

Institutions across Canada have increased access to tools, guidance, and training to support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, as outlined in the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.”
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dustin @godfrey.work · 25/09/2026
all the dogs out in their best rain costs today
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I promise that you will not expect what Ken Sim is looking at in this new ad he put out
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watch a woman get arrested and dragged away after quietly speaking about Flock at a city council meeting. This comes just before experts will speak to the Senate today about ALPR Read more here: www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/09/2026
but again: to do what? David Eby doesn't seem to have much reason to govern
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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/09/2026
Bill C-39, like a number of things the federal government is doing, feels like an expensive legal bill for the government to settle issues the courts long ago settled
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
News: an Edmonton man arrested with a workshop for 3D printing handguns had a handwritten note about Bill C-21 that made reference to the Montreal Polytechnique shootings. TBD what the judge makes of it. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...
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Edmonton man to be sentenced for 3D gun printing operation; police seized note referencing Montreal mass shooting
Roy Tucker was arrested for the cache of 3D printed gun parts in his home. The sentence he ultimately receives, though, could depend in part on what a judge thinks of a page of handwritten notes found...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Jersey has fined a huge data center in New Jersey over $1 million for installing and operating 62 large gas powered generators without state permits. This comes as other data centers, like Elon Musk's facilities in Memphis, pollute communities with unpermitted turbines and face no consequences.
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NJ fines data center $1 million for illegally powering facility with gas generators
Gov. Mikie Sherill said it was the largest fine handed out to a data center in state history.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/09/2026
and none of them particularly meaningful except the things they won't actually do
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Most breathtakingly cynical move? Kenney ran a kamikaze candidate and became UCP leader in an election that involved voter fraud. Then he was replaced by Danielle Smith who dumped the Wildrose and crossed the floor to join the Conservatives.
The guy who broke BC's economy is now breaking the law in a sneaky and cynical attack on democracy.

He's forcing an election two years ahead of the legislated date purely to exploit a pending leadership change in the main opposition party. It's the most breathtakingly cynical move I have ever seen in Canadian politics.

Hopefully BC voters will demonstrate that they refuse to be manipulated by punishing Eby and his incompetent, ideologically obsessed government.
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raincoast.bsky.social @raincoast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The truth about Hamas and the hostages youtu.be/sS1XLSEnjyE?...
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The truth about Hamas and the hostages
YouTube video by Zeteo
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GenderQueeries 🇨🇦 @genderqueeries.ca · 23/09/2026
Transgender radio DJ quits on air from Virginia station ‘It has been the most traumatic work experience I’ve ever had, and that is saying something.’ www.advocate.com/media/trans-...
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Transgender radio DJ quits on air from Virginia station
‘It has been the most traumatic work experience I’ve ever had, and that is saying something.’
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good times: Eby takes questions from just 3 reporters following his election spiel Love it. Love that for us. Bodes extremely well. Just excellent #bcpoli
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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/09/2026
and yet there's a definitely non-zero chance he loses to no-one!
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1960
DOOMSDAY IS DUE IN YEAR 2026
--The Republican, 14 Dec 1960
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