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Kelsey Speed

@kelseyspeed.bsky.social
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PhD student in drug policy, structural violence, and health equity using intersectional, gender-based approaches at UBC she/her

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Redeye @redeyeradio.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Podcast up now: tiny.cc/hgte001 Kelsey Speed of the BC Centre on Substance Use on the re-criminalization of public drug use and possession through a public health lens. @power1312.bsky.social @kelseyspeed.bsky.social @tsk.bsky.social @cjphrcsp.bsky.social
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
new paper in the Canadian Journal of Public Health (@cjphrcsp.bsky.social) on who is violently excluded from the 'public' and sanctioned to die in the BC NDP-led decision to 'recriminalize' drugs link.springer.com/article/10.1... #drugsky @kelseyspeed.bsky.social
Decriminalization undone: Assessing the amendment to British Columbia’s decriminalization of personal drug possession framework

Special Section on the Public Health Response to the Overdose Crisis in Canada: Commentary
Published: 12 March 2025
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 26/01/2025
"Transform" is one word for this, @globalnews.ca. Others would be "violent dismantling of marginalized communities," "land seizure by developers," or "fascist urban takeover." Shameful bit of news propaganda, reprinting Ken Sim's every key message without critique. 1/
Vancouver to transform Downtown Eastside by pausing supportive housing, cracking down on crime
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P.O.W.E.R. @policeoversight.ca · 23/01/2025
New report sheds light on concerning RCMP and bylaw officer practices in the harbour city www.policeoversight.ca/p/nancops
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Alarming law enforcement trends in Nanaimo BC
New report sheds light on concerning RCMP and bylaw officer practices in the harbour city
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P.O.W.E.R. @policeoversight.ca · 31/12/2024
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P.O.W.E.R. DISPATCH #2
Update on our community-based reporting.
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P.O.W.E.R. @policeoversight.ca · 11/11/2024
*NEW* 10 community groups echo urgent call for national inquiry on settler-state police killings of Indigenous Peoples www.policeoversight.ca/p/10-communi...
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10 community groups echo urgent call for national inquiry on settler-state police killings of Indigenous Peoples
Community groups express solidarity with the demands made by nine families of Indigenous People killed by police for an inquiry to address this state of emergency across Canada.
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