Dustin Godfrey
Journalist at Freelance
it's not delivery; it's digiornalist. harm reduction, justice, housing, etc. tenant organizer. *they/them* 🏳️⚧️ opinions are my cat's. https://t.co/n4APOopTy
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3 weeks ago |
filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey
The British Columbia government is moving ahead with involuntary substance use disorder treatment for people held at a pretrial detention center. This follows the September 2024 decision by the governing BC New Democratic Party (NDP) to expand involuntary treatment for specific categories of people who use drugs. While renovations are being completed on a permanent space, the treatment is currently being housed in Surrey Pretrial Centre’s solitary confinement unit, as local media reported.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Dustin Godfrey
The vigil on Sunday evening drew a crowd so large that police in Vancouver had to move the crime scene barriers back so that people would not spill out on to the busy traffic along 41st Avenue. “It’s amazing. It’s really a show of how important the Filipino community is just very broadly,” says Chelsea Brager.
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1 month ago |
filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey
As Canadians head to the polls in the coming days, they will be faced with few options to increase access to harm reduction while thousands of people continue to die each year from the adulterated drug supply. Instead, platforms released by the major parties ahead of the April 28 election reflect a long-running retreat from lifesaving policies, in favor of “tough-on-crime” legislation.
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1 month ago |
filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey
As people gathered in Vancouver’s Victory Square on April 14 to mark nine years since British Columbia declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency, an ambulance blaring its siren sped by.
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2 months ago |
filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey
Harm reduction advocates in Ontario succeeded in winning a court injunction against a new provincial law barring supervised consumption sites from operating within 200 meters of a school or daycare—a requirement that had meant at least 10 of Ontario’s 17 sites faced closure by March 31. But most of those targeted sites will still shut down.
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