Brishti Basu
Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Contributing Editor at The Breach
বৃষ্টি | Journalist & Editor | Ex CBC, The Tyee, The Narwhal, Capital Daily + lots more | [email protected] | She/her
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2 months ago |
filtermag.org | Brishti Basu
Two months after organizing one of the unsanctioned overdose prevention sites (OPS) that launched a movement across Canada, a British Columbia doctor has resigned from her leadership role at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. The decision was made in response to Vancouver Island Health Authority placing her on administrative leave in January, citing concern about her recent public advocacy.
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2 months ago |
filtermag.org | Brishti Basu
In a successful bid to stave off impending tariffs from President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resurfaced a December 2024 plan from Public Safety Canada to spend $1.3 billion increasing border security, this time with a few new additions. On February 3, Trudeau posted on social media that he’d “just had a good call” with Trump.
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2 months ago |
filtermag.org | Brishti Basu
British Columbia recently unveiled 26 publicly funded “substance-use treatment beds” in four communities across the province. Six of the beds are reserved for people who have “completed treatment,” however, and another six will require people to travel off-site to receive any. In a January statement announcing the expansion of “bed-based services,” the BC Ministry of Health projects serving up to 250 people across four sites in Kelowna, Nanaimo, Prince Rupert and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
filtermag.org | Brishti Basu
Two months after doctors in British Columbia set up a pair of unsanctioned overdose prevention centers (OPC) outside local hospitals, other health care workers and community activists around the country are opening pop-ups of their own. On January 20, a group of about seven health care workers and community advocates set up an OPC outside North Island Hospital Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
filtermag.org | Brishti Basu
On November 18, the newly organized group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy set up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds outside at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Regional General Hospital in Nanaimo. Both tents, which planned short-term runs that have now concluded, were immediately approached by private security officers, but were allowed to relocate to the sidewalk and proceed without much interference.
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