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Nick Boyce

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Drugs, drug policy, etc... based in Ottawa, Canada. Comments are my own.

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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🙈🙉🙊 www.vice.com/en/article/d...
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The Art of the Ecstasy Pill
To artists Adam Fierman and Peter Andrew Lusztyk, ecstasy pills aren't just a good night out, they are cultural artifacts.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We’re already seeing increased public drug consumption after the closure of Somerset West SCS in Ottawa & several deaths of people connected to the South Riverdale site in Toronto, two sites that have already been forced to close by the Ford government’s disastrous policy change. #ONpoli #SCS
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#CND #CND68
Panel of speakers about land defenders Picture of title slide of presentation about harm reduction in Iran Group of presenters at side event about cocaine regulation DULF packaging
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thanks to @godfrey.bsky.social for this interview and no nonsense reporting :) #fentanyl #bordersecurity #tarrifs #cdnpoli
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Canada’s 3 minute statement during the General Debate in the plenary. 😕 Canada was 54th on the list and spoke in the afternoon session at 5:10pm. Scroll to 02:34: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b...
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CND68: Meeting 2
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs discusses all drug-related matters and adopts resolutions and decisions thereon. It brings substances under international control under the International Drug Control ...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
International Drug Policy Consortium member meeting ahead of the 68th Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Always good to start the week with forward thinking and lovely people. @idpc.bsky.social @candrugpolicy.bsky.social #CND68 #CND2025
Group photo of IDPC members IDPC members engaging in group discussionIDPC members engaging in group discussionPerson wearing a DULF hoodie looking over the Danube River
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adam greenblatt @greenblatt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
fentanyl as pretext for annexing canada is peak drug war
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Recent Federal announcements of $1.3billion for border security & $200million for RCMP; Alberta spending $23million on drones and sniffer dogs; Ontario investing in "Operation Deterrence"... #Canada #CDNpoli #CanadaNews #border #bordersecurity #borders #USA #tariffs #fentanyl #drugpolicy
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition - La Coalition canadienne des politiques sur les drogues on LinkedIn: Border Crackdowns Won’t Stop Fentanyl
We know that recent annoucements on “border security” spending was never really about fentanyl. But even if it were, prohibition and law enforcement have…
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Last fall [Alberta] announced $29million to buy drones & narcotic detection equipment & drug dogs for the newly created unit... plan was already being developed BEFORE border security became an apparent issue underlying trade action by the U.S. 👮🐕 medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... #CDNpoli
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New border security teams starting up with interdiction patrol units - Medicine Hat News
@MedicineHatNews The province will spend $15 million to upgrade weigh stations near provincial boundaries, including the commercial inspection station at Dunmore, to house new “interdiction patrol” un...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme: “We don’t have any data that suggests that there’s that number of fentanyl pills or products going south of the border" Government of Canada: Here’s an extra $200million and a fentanyl czar. #cdnpoli #fentanyl www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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RCMP Commissioner says ‘no data’ that fentanyl is moving south in mass quantities
Mounties in Ottawa say numbers from the U.S. customs agency do not differentiate between quantities of contraband crossing the border and what’s seized within border regions
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
2023 Health Canada report: federal government spent $433M on drug-related law enforcement (2017-2022) but $175M on prevention, treatment & harm-reduction initiatives combined. Recent $1.3B on border security & $200M for RCMP dwarf previous amounts. www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/02/27/h... #cdnpoli
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How Ottawa’s border security plan falls short
Experts say Canada’s border security investments target physical borders, when crime groups’ methods increasingly bypass them altogether.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
With the increasing visibility of poverty across Canada and a toxic drug crisis that shows no signs of ending, several provincial legislatures are resorting to policies like forced treatment to deflect attention away from their own failures that created these crises in the first place. #cdnpoli
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We all deserve to know what the human and financial costs of such performative tough-on-crime policies will be and how they will be funded. What will be cut to produce the billions of taxpayer dollars required to jail those who are poor and homeless? #cndpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Imposing life sentences on fentanyl offences will only lead to more poverty, addiction and devastation
Pierre Poilievre’s suggestion that mandatory life sentences are the solution to the toxic drug crisis is misleading and dangerous
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
@ottawapolice.bsky.social please read this: #fentanyl #methamphetamine #fearmongering #warondrugs #fentanylczar pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Police reports of accidental fentanyl overdose in the field: Correcting a culture-bound syndrome that harms us all
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The rhetoric and actions coming out of the Prime Minister's Office are deeply disturbing. Total ramping up of the "war on drugs" - the very thing that has created the "unregulated/toxic drug/fentanyl crisis". #fenatnylczar #cdnpoli #drugpolicy www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Former senior Mountie Kevin Brosseau appointed as Canada's fentanyl czar | CBC News
The federal government appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau as Canada's new "fentanyl czar" on Tuesday — a role created in part to soothe U.S. President Donald Trump's concerns about the northern b...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The mess & toxicity of the unregulated drug supply, driven by scheduling & enforcement. But spending $1.3B over 5yrs on border security+$200M for RCMP & a "FENTANYL czar", on top of Budget 2023 allocation to Canadian Drugs & Substances Strategy ($358.6M over 5rs) will fix it! Federal spending...1/2
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We are scapegoating drugs, and right now the drug of the day is fentanyl. We’re using that as a scapegoat and not talking about real issues such as housing, people’s well-being, environmental and climate justice [and the] racist, colonial and classist roots of drug policy. #fentanyl #cdnpoli
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🔊8min30sec Petra Schulz co-founded Moms Stop the Harm after her son died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. She weighs in on the government's plan to create a fentanyl czar @msthpetra.bsky.social @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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Why some worry a 'fentanyl czar' might do more harm than good | This is Toronto | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Petra Schulz co-founded Moms Stop the Harm after her son died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. She weighs in on the government's plan to create a fentanyl czar as part of negotiations with the U.S....
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sturko plays on fear and misinformation again. “Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border, compared with almost 9,600 kilograms at the border with Mexico” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...
Screen shot of post from Elenore Sturko showing misinformation about fentanyl trafficking from Canada to the US
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My comments on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social about recent police drug “busts” in Newfoundland Canada (12 minutes) www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnpoli
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Canada’s public safety minister said less than 1% of illegal immigration & less than 1% of #fentanyl entering the United States comes from #Canada yet Canada is spending $1.3 billion including two helicopters and 60 drones to increase “border security” due to Trump’s tariff threats. 🙄😡 #cdnpoli
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
[WEBINAR] Decriminalization Across Movements: explore the history of criminalization faced by various communities, hear firsthand accounts from those directly affected by these policies & examine how grassroots movements and coalitions have worked together. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Supreme Court of Canada hearing Tuesday will hear arguments on the powers of police to arrest people at the scene of a drug overdose, and whether a 2017 law, known as the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, is clear about those powers. www.richmond-news.com/national-new...
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Harm reduction advocates hope high court will 'clarify' Canada's 'Good Samaritan' law
Harm reduction advocates say a case before Canada's high court will test the current Good Samaritan law that protects people from arrest after they call 911 asking for help for someone who has overdos...
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
BC gov repealed Bill 34, a small but hard-fought victory against politically-driven laws and policies that inflict harm upon those made most vulnerable by oppressive systems. #BCpoli @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @hrna.bsky.social Read the full joint statement: drugpolicy.ca/for-immediat...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
RCMP Inspector James Cooke: “That's a constant game of trying to catch up with new and emerging drugs.” So what brings this game to an end? Hint: Not more scheduling and more toys for police ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
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Criminal networks are shifting from fentanyl imports to Canadian-made product | RCI
Border seizures are down, the street price is down — and Canadian-made fentanyl has gone global
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Edit: Canada chooses not to invest 1.3 billion in housing and social supports; favours scaling up “war on drugs” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Ottawa proposes 24/7 surveillance of Canada-U.S. border, new 'strike force' to stave off tariff threat | CBC News
The federal government is promising a suite of measures to disrupt the flow of fentanyl and strengthen 24/7 surveillance of the Canada-U.S. border — including outfitting the RCMP with helicopters, dro...
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Readers of Poz (@pozmagazine.bsky.social) have voted Alexander McClelland’s Criminalized Lives as Best in Literature for 2024! Congratulations @alexmcclelland.bsky.social! See all the winners here: www.poz.com/article/poz-... Find Criminalized Lives here: www.ubcpress.ca/criminalized...
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POZ Awards 2024 / Winners
Here are the winners as voted by POZ readers!
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Concerned about #homelessness, #encampments and public drug use? Under #DougFord in #Ontario, the “solution” is getting scary. Check out a short video on instagram from Shane… www.instagram.com/reel/DDfoBWk...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Doug Ford government lies: “The federal government’s approach of legalizing dangerous drugs for use in our communities has failed and it needs to end.” There’s no legalization; only partial decriminalization for <2yrs only in BC. This is unethical in so many ways. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Watch today’s legal challenge to Ontario’s hostile and harmful legislation prohibiting #CTS sites and more, hosted by @tngcommunityto.bsky.social with @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social ++ (13min) www.cp24.com/video/2024/1...
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Legal action against supervised consumption site legislation
A social services agency is announcing legal action against the Ford Government's legislation to close some supervised consumption sites.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Meet Harold, the leader of his local Community Watch, whose views on drugs are rooted in moralising and ignorance just like the UK’s drug policy. (3m40s) youtu.be/-l3BZ2aqjLM?...
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Don't be a Harold: Support Drug Reform
YouTube video by Transform Drug Policy Foundation
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#Naloxone, #Narcan is an effective antidote to #opioid poisoning or #overdose. It is NOT an antidote to Canada's toxic drug crisis - that would be a legal, regulated supply. Marcus Gee has been reporting on the "toxic drug crisis" for years but often misses the mark.
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Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ontario government was/is aware of the massive harms, including the deaths of Ontario residents, arising from their radical, fact-free zest for defunding #CTS sites as per Ontario Auditor General. Full report: www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/a...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Excellent interview with @lorrainelamchops.bsky.social about posters that have gone up on bus shelters and the side of buildings in Toronto, regarding the future closure of Safe Consumption Sites. ~7min www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Statement from @candrugpolicy.bsky.social, Drug Strategy Network of Ontario, @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social
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Government of Ontario Attempting to Force Through Deadly Drug Policy Bill - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
This statement can be attributed to the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario, and the HIV Legal Network. November 27, 2024 — Toronto,...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ontario fast-tracking drug consumption site bill, skipping public hearings. Because they already know there is ZERO justification and that their decision will increase deaths, public drug use and health system strains and costs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario proposes fast-tracking drug consumption site bill, skipping public hearings | CBC News
The Ontario government is proposing to push through a bill that would close 10 supervised consumption sites without holding any public hearings, a move advocates and opposition critics say is anti-democratic.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“Police should instead support things like compassion clubs, where members can get reliable drugs, and advocate for drug law reform.” - DJ Larkin @candrugpolicy.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
But I thought diverted safer supply prescription hydromorphone was the problem.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/ontario-back...
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Ontario’s Harmful Backslide: A Threat to Lives and Canada’s Legacy in Harm Reduction
The Global Commission on Drug Policy is deeply concerned about the legislation tabled in Ontario, “Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act”, which threatens to dismantle nearly half of the province…
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Beeta Senedjani of @candrugpolicy.bsky.social on Newstalk 1010 talking about Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones who claims that no one will die when the Ford Government closes Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario. Tune in at the ~22 min mark. www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...
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Jim gets to the bottom of where you go at work - The Jim Richards Show | iHeart
<p><br>- Is not drinking the same as being a vegan when it comes to how people respond when you tell them? <br>- Where do you go if you have to poop at work? <br>- Beeta Senedjani, Canadian Drug Polic...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Great piece from @dianacmcnally.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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What you need to know about people sleeping in tents in parks — they have nowhere else to go
For those of us on the front-lines, we truly have nowhere to refer people. We’ve given up on searching for shelter beds because they’re full. Same with voluntary detox and
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Ontario’s internal warnings over supervised consumption site ban predict hospitalizations, death | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Ontario’s internal warnings over supervised consumption site ban predict hospitalizations, death Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The calling out of Doug Ford’s deadly policy decision continues to mount, like the bodies have under his watch. opseu.org/news/save-ou...
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Save Our Sites or Fill Your Morgues: Unions Release Joint Letter Urging Ford Government to Reverse Deadly Closures of Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – On Wednesday afternoon, provincial union leaders released a joint letter calling on Premier Ford and Minister Sylvia Jones to reverse course on the announced closur...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
“The recent attacks on @DULFBC are political.” www.drugdatadecoded.ca/p/letter-fro...
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Letter from five members of DULF's compassion club
In response to the arrest of Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum and the raids of two homes and the DULF office, five members of DULF’s Compassion Club pilot project wish to share the following statement.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
January to July 2023: 1,104 Albertans died. Suing pharma won’t stop these deaths. Commentary in this piece from @mbellefontaine.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Article fails to mention: Vast majority of “opioid deaths” are from illicit unregulated drugs. Prohibition not pharma is kills people. Just distraction from not supporting harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, safe supply, decriminalization www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Alberta moves to strengthen legislation before proposed opioid class-action lawsuit
The legislation would make pharmaceutical consultants subject to potential legal action, clarify a definition of opioid products and amend a formula to calculate damages
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Proposed new limitations to the decriminalization pilot launched just 8 months ago: prohibiting drug use in most public spaces, targeting people experiencing homelessness, hollowing out decriminalization’s intent & exacerbating many harms decriminalization aims to reduce thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023...
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Why Did BC Step Back on Decriminalizing Drugs? | The Tyee
The province introduced legislation that may sabotage their own work. Here’s a better way forward.
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
The truth about the response to the toxic drug crisis in Canada is that we’ve never scaled up any of the evidence-based interventions — harm reduction or treatment — to address the true level of need in our communities. nationalpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/national...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
“The question is, who do you get mad at?” DJ Larkin, executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition on why a previously proposed Barrie bylaw amendment criminalizing the support of unhoused people is going to the United Nations. www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-101...
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DJ Larkin, the executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition-why a previously proposed Ba...
<p>DJ Larkin, the executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, tells Moore In The Morning why a previously proposed Barrie bylaw amendment criminalizing the support of unhoused people i...
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Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The UN submission comes as Barrie city council considers next steps on the public space bylaw amendment. There is currently no public date for a council vote on the bylaw. www.barrietoday.com/local-news/o...
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Group putting Barrie's poverty measures on United Nations' radar
'Our governments should be working to make people safer, not putting them at further risk,' says Canadian Drug Policy Coalition official
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