tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026BC RCMP replaced the head officer they fired with a former commander of C-IRG whose policing plan included surveillance of people opposed to pipeline expansion www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/c... bsky.app/profile/ctvn... 1127
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026$1000 fine for alleged street vending. the cruelty is the point. www.policeoversight.ca/p/prefifa-po... bsky.app/profile/poli... #vanpoli 086
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026new: open access research in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social illustrates some ways that policing in Vancouver has worsened the toxic drug crisis — including alarming examples of police blocking overdose responses & raiding a food donation tent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sfu-fhs.bsky.social 045
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Karen Fry's promotion of an intervention that makes the crisis worse just two months ago to city hall—we're nearly ten years into a public health emergency... globalnews.ca/news/1140302... 021
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025kind of thought he deserved an award for this amazing disguise he put together tho no? 130
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025from the judgment: these are the institutions of Vancouver. police abruptly raiding the successful project as DULF was transitioning members off to close down; the Health Ministry sanctioning more death based on moral panic; a health authority without resistance drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-... 052
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025type of politician that he is: present in the legislature to vote for increased displacement and expanded police powers bsky.app/profile/avil... 100
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025so Pierre Poilievre is standing with this guy & threatening to fire bureaucrats who he doesn't like www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6868767 bsky.app/profile/andr... 045
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025sorry but this is a *depraved* update. cops and bylaw are stamping people they displace with happy faces in Kelowna bsky.app/profile/powe... 165
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025is it a non-sentient substance ravaging places or is it our decisions to actively re-produce drug prohibitionist policies??? editors in dominant media gonna continue to refuse to let this emergency be covered honestly 051
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025new 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 087
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025RAAC (so-called “rapid access addiction clinic”) at St. Paul’s in Vancouver - an example of social murder in practice bsky.app/profile/tsk.... #drugsky 21210
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025i spoke w @michellegamage.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about how drug war politicians want you to talk about fentanyl instead of prohibition — while they entrench militarized borders & attempt to increase police power thetyee.ca/News/2025/02... bsky.app/profile/tsk.... 0145
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025a reminder that this type of intervention has shaped the toxic drug crisis – which is about prohibitionist drug war policies and resource allocation, not any specific analogue of fentanyl or other drug – and made it worse www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... bsky.app/profile/luke... 023
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025missing context: the letter is likely only from pharmacists that don't share revenue or resources with their patients and profit off them more drugdatadecoded.ca/kickbacks/ bsky.app/profile/theg... 000
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 03/01/2025from @alexcosh.bsky.social: "Fuelling Genocide: Trudeau’s Bloody Record On Gaza" www.readthemaple.com/fuelling-gen... 010
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 24/12/2024cops lie & this headline is misleading - the last thing we need is fewer people responding to overdose due to undue fear. you can't overdose from fent by touching it healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... bsky.app/profile/thes... 130
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 20/12/2024some attn has been given to how media plays a role in constructing the 'drug user,' less has been said on how research & epidemiological methods reinforce these framings new in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision & Financing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #drugsky 074
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Recrim is a decision www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 000
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024recrim sidesteps Bill 34 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 100
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024new open access International Journal of Drug Policy (ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social) paper "Criminalizing public space through a decriminalization framework: The paradox of British Columbia, Canada" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #drugsky 11612
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024are you trying to recruit the reporter bsky.app/profile/jess... 010
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024decriminalization never happened in BC — the gov't just called it that & many in media have gone along. and it shouldn't matter what the police think, they have a vested interest in ensuring their role in the criminalization of drug use, possession & retail www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 11814
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024this point doesn't even make sense. pure fent hardly exists on the street at all. what does this esteemed professor think seized drugs are replaced with??? 000
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 24/07/2023email template to show support for Yaletown Overdose Prevention Site (city choosing not to renew lease, letter below): docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-… 042
![This was left to Chief Supt. John Brewer, who served as silver commander from 2017 until June 2021, when Attfield retired and Brewer became the group’s top Mountie.
Brewer is a nearly 30-year veteran involved in domestic and international policing operations including in Afghanistan, according to court files. He’s a former member of an RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT), the force’s militarized SWAT units.
His silver operational plan begins with a detailed timeline before offering “general comments on TMEP [Trans Mountain expansion project] and CGL opposition.”
The section reveals the C-IRG has been casually monitoring the political activity of peaceful law-abiding groups based on fears that unknown extremists, professional protesters and agents provocateurs may use violence to support the cause.
“While Police are impartial, it is operationally necessary to have awareness of opposition to the oil and LNG pipeline project,” the plan explains. “It is understood that the majority of individuals and groups will express their opposition through lawful advocacy, protest and dissent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eo3blvgu4a726fvcnlzjrtj2/bafkreigpxefn4upsgcywugbn2nqb5tsvm7lkteo2al2gslybtoay5rfmj4)
