Dustin Godfrey

New Westminster

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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Articles

BC Involuntary Treatment Taking Place in a Solitary Confinement Unit

1 month 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.
Vancouver leans on Filipino ‘bayanihan’ spirit in wake of car attack

2 months 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.
Canada’s Election Guarantees Grim Outlook for Harm Reduction

2 months 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.
BC Enters 10th Year of Overdose Crisis, as It Shutters Harm Reduction Policies

2 months 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.
Despite Court Win, Few Consumption Sites Saved From Ontario Shutdown

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.
Last-Ditch Court Bid Aims to Block Ontario Consumption Sites Shutdown

Mar 24, 2025 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

People who use drugs and a service provider are fighting legislation enacted by the Ontario provincial government which, if implemented, would shut down at least 10 supervised consumption sites by March 31. Two participants at supervised consumption sites (SCS), Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues, along with SCS operator the Neighbourhood Group Community Services, have applied with the Ontario Superior Court for an interim injunction to stop the new law taking effect.
Canada Lets Trump’s Trade War Fuel Its Own Drug War

Mar 11, 2025 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

The Canadian government has continued to step up its resourcing of border enforcement in response to tariff-related demands by United States President Donald Trump, despite calling his claims of fentanyl pouring over the border “bogus.”On March 4, Trump turned a US-Canada trade war from rhetoric into reality, imposing 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports. Since then, he has exempted certain goods, threatened that tariffs could increase further and prompted reprisals.
BC Government’s Crackdown on Safe Supply Spreads Fear

Feb 21, 2025 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

British Columbia’s provincial government has ended its take-home safe supply program for new participants, with an intention to transition existing patients to witnessed ingestion too. The program provides pharmaceutical drugs, mostly opioids, to protect people who use drugs from the acute risks of the adulterated street supply.
Police “Support” for Harm Reduction in Canada Soon Evaporated

Feb 18, 2025 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

Amid a policy shift away from harm reduction, senior police officials in Canada have been signalling their approval, though some of them ostensibly supported harm reduction and drug decriminalization before. Experts say not only are the police wrong to suggest that decriminalization or harm reduction don’t work, but that police actions have themselves undermined such initiatives.
Canada's Supreme Court to Rule On Scope of Good Samaritan OD Law

Jan 14, 2025 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

In September 2020, a truck pulled over in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to report an overdose. Cheryl Delorme had lost consciousness and stopped breathing, and those in the truck with her began performing CPR and called 911. By the time Constable Heidi Jo Marshall of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived on the scene, an ambulance had already attended and was able to stabilize Delorme, who had indeed overdosed.