researcher on drug policy & law | phd candidate in socio-legal studies | former community harm reduction worker | Tkaronto, Treaty 13
Liam Michaud
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Important read and reminder about how junk science continues to feed institutional violence and state-sanctioned kidnapping of children
I wish our conversations about MAID and state facilitated suicide engaged with how much inadequate pain management and concerns/fears about caregiver “burden” motivates so many people’s decisions. It’s heartbreaking and enraging, and that the policy framing excludes these questions is deliberate.
“Community policing”
STAT News: Christian group in Washington state announces potentially landmark settlement recognizing harm reduction services, including syringe exchange, as protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act
www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/n...
while the BCNDP was caving to the diversion moral panic and severely limiting its safe supply program, the public safety ministry was acknowledging in budget preparation documents that hydromorphone only accounted for 0.3% of VPD drug seizures by weight
NEW: Ford's Progressive Conservatives have passed their omnibus bill protecting the premier, his cabinet and staffers from FOI requests. In the midst of an onslaught against democratic systems, Ford is insulating himself and his cronies from public consequences. Read the latest:
Creating AI profiles of offenders is utterly dystopian and could exacerbate biases and violate both offenders and victims rights if information is hallucinated, omitted, or incorrect. This is not an area where we need to feign efficiency by using AI.
80% of people in an Ontario jail haven't been convicted of a crime.
“This lays waste to the principle of the presumption of innocence. It also lays waste to the argument we have a catch and release system and that our bail is too lenient.”
globalnews.ca/news/1177401...
Don’t stop talking about how the AB government snuck a fraudulent study past peer review, which Doug Ford then used to justify closing down ON’s supervised consumption sites, while a SK conservative MP used it to call for the same in his province.
AB-SK-ON in lockstep since 2024 Recovery conference
we have become so inured to mass death that it is immediately exploited to advance reactionary agendas, scapegoat vulnerable minorities, and calls for political violence are louder than the mourning of the bereaved.
and mass death continues
