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Nate Crompton @natecrompton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Immense support for BC nurses in Vancouver today — they’ve given a 72-hr strike notice, set for Thurs if an improved offer is not made. If anyone tries to tell you BC’s coffers are empty, remind them that Eby & BC NDP have still haven’t reversed Gordon Campbell’s corporate + income tax cuts. ✊🏼🌱
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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm at the BC Nurses' Union picket line in front of Vancouver General Hospital. Nurses across the province are currently engaged in a work-to-rule strike, refusing overtime and non-nursing duties. @pressprogress.ca
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/07/2026
The World Cup has brought glitz and glamour to Vancouver, but as the city seeks to show its best side to the world it has also led to early-morning raids and more aggressive policing of people experiencing homelessness and drug problems in the city's Downtown Eastside, locals have told Reuters.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement New editorial from three members of @vancouvertenants.bsky.social themainlander.com/2026/06/18/a... #vanpoli
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Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
With October’s municipal election approaching, organizers with the Vancouver Tenants Union advocate for firmer opposition to displacement from progressive city councillors.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: themainlander.com/2026/05/29/c... "The Health Minister has capitulated to the ideology of criminalization and containment"
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Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Care Not Cops, Pivot Legal, BCCLA & BCNUSJ call for action on the 10-year long toxic drug supply emergency
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Nate Crompton @natecrompton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is gold
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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This council: life saving overdose prevention? Nah. Life saving cooling kits? Nah. Food delivery robots flooding our sidewalks? Oh heck yeah dude
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Vancouver never saw police budgets decrease after the increases associated with the 2010 Winter Olympics:" themainlander.com/2026/02/24/a...
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FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities
The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
sharing a short reflection I wrote about working in the toxic drug crisis—which was formally declared 10 years ago today in BC. see those who can make it at Oppenheimer this evening themainlander.com/2026/04/14/e...
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Emergency decade
One worker's reflections between the city and the toxic drug supply crisis.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New on The Mainlander Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group "We do not need a police super-complex in the heart of our neighbourhood." themainlander.com/2026/04/20/v... #vanpoli
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Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
No cop city anywhere - from atlanta to vancouver, cities are being militarized against their inhabitants. themainlander.com/2026/04/20/v...
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Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing Interview with Paul (@policeoversight.ca) & Matt (Our Streets) on Bill 11: themainlander.com/2026/04/13/i...
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INTERVIEW | Inside the BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing
The Mainlander sits down with Matt Tarasoff (Our Streets) and Paul Henry (P.O.W.E.R., Our Homes Can’t Wait) to talk about the BC NDP’s Bill 11 – the Residential Tenancy Amendment Act (2026). The Bill,...
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for Woodward’s via @themainlander.bsky.social "It was not a surprise when London Drugs left Woodward’s in February, but rather the finale of a prolonged panic-fueled campaign" themainlander.com/2026/04/05/w...
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Editorial | Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for Woodward’s
There are urgently needed alternatives to turning the building into training grounds for cops.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
New from The Mainlander Editorial Collective: Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for the Woodward’s development themainlander.com/2026/04/05/w... #vanpoli
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Editorial | Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for Woodward’s
There are urgently needed alternatives to turning the building into training grounds for cops.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New in The Mainlander: Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark themainlander.com/2026/04/01/t... @vancouvertenants.bsky.social #vanpoli
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“This community has been a refuge against developer greed:” Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark
“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating,” shares Nikki, a tenant living with her family in the Broadway Plan area.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NEW: Analysis from Marilou Gagnon on Health Canada's rejection of compassion club models in the context of the DULF case themainlander.com/2026/03/09/c... #drugsky
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Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters.
Compassion clubs have resurfaced in recent years as a response to the toxic unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia (BC), and more specifically the need for community-based safer supply programs a...
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#BoycottUSA @madlove.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ThE OnLy dEmOcRaCy iN ThE MiDdLe eAsT 🤡
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Too many people think that the current aggressions of US-Israel is a conspiracy to "distract from Epstein files." Waging sadistic wars is actually proof of - not a distraction from - Epstein files. Imperial violence is inseperable from sexual violence: organized, systemic crimes against humanity.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?
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Nate Crompton @natecrompton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I love how incredibly specific this lie is I'm trying to picture them in the writing room and riffing until they landed on this one 🎄❄️🎅
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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Province has still not approve this training facility. Westbank was there but didn't take interviews. Chief Rai tapped Westbank founder Ian Gillespie on the shoulder and said, "Thanks for working with us."
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver themainlander.com/2026/02/24/a...
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FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities
The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Last week, BC NDP Premier Eby made misleading claims about Sublocade. A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable. Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...
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Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
Extended release buprenorphine is not
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan themainlander.com/2025/12/08/h...
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Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan
Academics:
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dustin @godfrey.work · 05/12/2025
there's a certain type of guy — Julian Somers, Daniel Vigo, David Eby — whose work starts off at least somewhat on the right side of history before cynically turning to politics of moral panic the minute they get some semblance of power
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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 05/12/2025
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BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
NEW analysis in The Mainlander: The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership. themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...
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BC NDP Aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I just wrote a letter urging the Provincial and City governments to purchase the 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer site for community uses rather than gentrifying market condos. You can write a letter too: share.nwmd.social/s/p7r32R7G #vanpoli #vanre #chinatown #keefer
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Tell Premier Eby and Mayor and Council to Acquire 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer
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Pivot Legal Society @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What it means: The SCC affirmed that ODs are a medical event – not a policing opportunity. When police arrive at the scene, no one is to be arrested for, charged with, or convicted of drug possession. Read the decision here: decisions.scc-csc.ca/.../en/item/...
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Pivot Legal Society @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
BREAKING WIN for PWUD: Supreme Court of Canada rules against the Saskatchewan government and police attempt to claw back the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act in R v Wilson. Pivot argued, and the court agreed, the law protects against simple possession convictions, charges, AND arrests at ODs.
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"In a province where five people per day die from the toxic and unregulated drug supply, not one member of the compassion club overdosed while using the DULF supply" DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court: themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky
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DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Final hearings concluded today in the BC Supreme court in a crown case brought against the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF)
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P.O.W.E.R. @policeoversight.ca · 02/09/2025
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International Overdose Awareness Day commemorated in B.C. as hundreds continue to die of toxic drugs | CBC News
The day is being marked with ceremonies across B.C. on Sunday, as the province continues to lose more than 100 people each month due to unregulated drugs, amid a public health emergency declared nine ...
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"housing freezes" are a cruel policy that sees people prioritized for housing based on electoral interests. they are part of an explicit process of dehumanization @natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered: themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"When exactly, the novel asks, does playacting become metamorphosis?" Read Grace Linden's review of "Audition" by Katie Kitamura: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The Unsettled Self | Los Angeles Review of Books
Grace Linden reviews Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
.‪@natecrompton.bsky.social interviews Andrew Witt about documentary as form and photographing L.A. in a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-pe…
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈
Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“No employer should be able to silence any worker for challenging injustice.” Solidarity with #KatherineGrzejszczak! cupe.on.ca/cupe-ontario...
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CUPE Ontario leaders pledge solidarity with York Region paramedic fired for support of anti-war rally - CUPE Ontario
TORONTO – Leaders of Ontario’s largest union have unanimously condemned the firing of one of their fellow executive board members, vowing to support the dedicated frontline paramedic who spoke out on ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Mark Carney just committed Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence—more than double NATO’s target. No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
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Military spending groupthink and Canada’s left
The vast majority of Western politicians have boxed themselves into too much of a corner after having demonized Russia to such an extent to really raise serious questions about the need for increased ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It is no longer enough to condemn. Canada must end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza by halting arms exports, imposing sanctions, and recognizing Palestine. The time for words has passed. It is time to act.
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For the Palestinian people, it is one minute to midnight: Canada must radically change its approach
If it does not want to remain complicit in Israel’s crimes, Canada must immediately apply all means of political and economic pressure at its disposal. There are many things it could do, including rec...
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Spartacus Books @spartacusbooks.net · 17/06/2025
Excited to be carrying @power1312.bsky.social work on gender based violence in dtes! Come check out the zine section - best way to collect critical local updates !!
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The new Mexican film 1938 tells the story of the nation’s historic expropriation of the oil industry. Jacobin sat down with director Sergio Olhovich to talk about the long-awaited project — finally realized with the support of the AMLO administration.
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1938 Shows a People Taking Control of Their Economy
The new Mexican film 1938 tells the story of the nation’s historic expropriation of the oil industry. Jacobin sat down with director Sergio Olhovich to talk about the long-awaited project — finally re...
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Public support. 61% Unions 44% big bus Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data from me & Adam Reich In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. lnkd.in/g3bq5DGv
Trends in American sentiment towards labour unions and big businesses 

both were 47% in 2012

 now American support of labour unions at 61% 

But  big businesses has cratered to 44%
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/04/2025
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia. “They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21/05/2025
Happy Wednesday
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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David Eby Knows Better - BC Civil Liberties Association
The BCCLA condemns BC Attorney General David Eby for throwing human rights, civil liberties, and evidence under the bus by suggesting the state should be able to involuntarily detain and […]
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
JUST IN: Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social’s first motion has passed unanimously. He was elected to fight for fully-funded public services. And that's exactly what he's doing. We'll keep fighting until we win 7-days-a-week libraries in every neighbourhood of Vancouver. #FightForVancouver #vanpoli
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Vancouver Public Space Network @vpsn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Great to see this motion pass unanimously at Council. Fantastic way to honour Trey Helten!
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 14/05/2025
Advocates accuse Doug Ford's government of targeting the homeless with its new Bill 6. It "doesn’t actually solve homelessness, it just punishes people," says @dianacmcnally.bsky.social.
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Advocates Accuse Ford Government of Targeting the Homeless with New Bill
Bill 6
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NPR @npr.org · 13/05/2025
The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.
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UnitedHealth Group abruptly replaces CEO Andrew Witty, deepening a terrible year
The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.
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