Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social Mastodon didn't feel right, and hanging out on Twitter felt like trying to enjoy a beach vacation in a country with an increasingly spotty rights record.
BC Non-Profit Housing Association @bcnpha.bsky.social We believe everyone deserves a safe, affordable home. We represent British Columbia's non-profit housing sector and our partners in #HousingCentral. bcnpha.ca
BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social Fight for a BC that puts people first!
linktr.ee/bcgreens
PressProgress @pressprogress.ca Award-winning Canadian journalism that:
🔎 Holds the rich & powerful accountable
🔎 Exposes unsafe & unfair workplaces
🔎 Shines a light on hate & bigotry
Website: PressProgress.ca
Newsletter: PressProgress.ca/Newsletter
James @lakemutant.bsky.social Getting my kicks while I can. Comic artist and harm reduction worker ⚧️
BC College of Family Physicians @bccfp.bsky.social 
Just Medicine Podcast @justmedicinepod.bsky.social A podcast on equity and social justice in health care, produced by medical learners and trainees in British Columbia, Canada. 
HEARTS Alberta @heartsalberta.bsky.social We’re a collective of Alberta advocates committed to compassion, inclusion, and justice. Guided by HEARTS: Harm Reduction, Equity, Advocacy, Respect, Trust, and Support, we stand with people who use substances and who deserve dignity and care.
MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social Anti-Capitalist. He/Him. Pro-Science. Pro-Human Rights. 317ppm. Husband. Dog Dad. 6thExtinction. Senior. Lifter. LandBack. FreePalestine. Ally. Anti-Fascist. Anti-empire/Anti-NATO, He/him. 420. YEG. Pro-worker, non-theist, #UBI
Dr. Brian Knight🎷🇨🇦🦫☮️🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴☠️🚴🥞 @used2bdisgusted.bsky.social Semi retired physician; progressive; antifascist; loves to read history, wishes our leaders also did.
Adult band geek.
Used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.
#MedSky#AnSky
Katy Ingraham @katyingraham.bsky.social Trauma informed hospitality 🍟| Spouse and Partner Recovery from Addiction ❤️🩹| Harm Reduction 🫂| Never Neutral✊🏼 #yeg
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment @cape-acme.bsky.social Physician-led non-profit working to secure human health by protecting the environment
KnowYourStuffNZ @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social Drug checking and harm reduction service at events and in the community in Aotearoa since 2015.
World's first legal drug checking operation, doing the thing legally since 2021 😊
Public Health Association of Australia @publichealthaus.bsky.social Australia's peak body for public health, advocating for the health and wellbeing of all people, everywhere. Equity, prevention, evidence.
https://www.phaa.net.au
HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social Recognized global leader in the movement for health and human rights. Un leader mondial du mouvement pour la santé et les droits humains. #HIV #VIH
www.HIVLegalNetwork.ca
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
The Martlet @themartlet.bsky.social UVic's source for independent news since 1948 🗞️
Send tips & story ideas to edit@martlet.ca
https://martlet.ca/
Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
@cassvancamp.bsky.social @cassvancamp.bsky.social harm redux, abolition + mutual aid
Pivot Legal Society @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social Using the law as a tool, we challenge unjust legislation, policies & practices that undermine human rights, intensify poverty, and perpetuate stigma.
www.pivotlegal.org
The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social The Mainlander is dedicated to local politics and social struggles on unceded Indigenous lands cka Vancouver, BC
Read @ TheMainlander.com
Erin Blondeau ✷ writer & researcher @erinblondeau.bsky.social 📍quwutsun
✷ writer
✷ masters student, sociology & artificial intelligence
✷ www.erinkellyblondeau.com
⛓️💥 nothing to lose but our chains
Daniel O’Brien @dcobrienyeg.bsky.social PhD student in counselling psychology at University of Calgary. Research in substance use, harm reduction, youth & families, public health
George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social Hi. I currently work for CBC Radio in Vancouver. I was born in the Blandlands. Re-posts are not endorsements. It means I think it's noteworthy. Or newsy.
Bills, Canucks, Lions, Blue Jays, Caps.
Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social Author of INVISIBLE BOY, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, BITTERSWEET (spring 2027) and I JUST HAVE TO RACE ALL THESE GHOSTS (summer 2027). Host of @TheTyee podcast. East Vancouver.
Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social New on here. Author of Policing Black Lives (Fernwood/Duke University Press, 2025) and co-author of Rehearsals for Living (Haymarket 2023). More at www.robynmaynard.com
Holly Mathias @hollymathias.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Family Science at the University of Alberta. Interested in all things related to substance use, rural health and families. Bluenoser 🌊
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net The global network promoting drug policies grounded in social justice and human rights
The Controlled Substance @spectra1312.bsky.social grassroots community radio in #qathet BC. Sundays from 3-5pm.
CJMP 90.1fm
www.cjmp.ca
Radio for harm reduction and community care. No fear, no propaganda. Celebration not criminalization. The science, sounds and stories of people who use drugs.
Alaina Jaster, PhD @jasteralaina.bsky.social PhD in PharmTox. Head of Communications at Xylo Bio. Drug policy + harm reduction 🤘Education & Consulting via https://www.psychedelicbrainscience.com
Opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social Resisting the far right on lands & waters known as British Columbia
⛰️North Vancouver, unceded səlilwətaɬ, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm lands
Talk to me about right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, conspirituality & community responses to hate
Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social Candidate for Waterloo City Councilor, Ward 5. WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026) and former Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.
Tommy Brothers @tdbrothers.bsky.social MD, PhD, FRCPC | general internal medicine & addiction medicine doctor | social epidemiologist & health services researcher | Nova Scotian
Defund VicPD @defundvicpd.bsky.social Calling for defunding the Victoria Police Department (VicPD) and reallocating resources to community supports and services.
On the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples.
🌐 DefundVicPD.org
Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
Upstate New Yorker, emergency backup hockey writer. FR/EN 🇫🇷
jakelahut.com
(Signal: Leak2Lahut.26)
Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social Multimedia journalist on Vancouver Island. Environment, global warming, climate change, equality, social justice.
Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social News re. Jail, Prison, Abolition, Decarceration, Criminology, Addiction, Sex Work, Blood Borne Pathogens, et al. ($) = Paywall.
Luna 🌙🌟 @headingwest.ca Anti-hate. Love is love. She/her. Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother, and so on. Funnier in replies. If you wonder if I'm joking, I probably am. Settler in Coast Salish territory 🇨🇦
Crafter, gardening, herbs, bitching about life, shit that makes me laugh and weed
CSSDP Edmonton @cssdpedmonton.bsky.social Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, harm reduction, and drug education. 🌿💉💊☕️🍺🍄🇨🇦
📍Amiskwaciwâskahikan
http://linktr.ee/CSSDPEdmonton
Alliance for Healthier Communities @allianceon.bsky.social #HealthEquity through comprehensive primary healthcare. More than 100 community-governed health organizations across Ontario. #CHC #AHAC #CFHT #NPLC www.allianceon.org
Jane @vilomah21.bsky.social MSTH advocate member, Healing Hearts facilitator, Oceanside Community Action Team co-chair…trying my best to keep on going after my son died due to Toxic Drug Poisoning…
Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca ㅤ
Canada’s health news aggregator
🏡 canadahealthwatch.ca
ㅤ
Cory Silverberg @corysilverberg.bsky.social I write books for young people, old people, families, and others. What Makes a Baby, Sex Is a Funny Word, and You Know, Sex.
Canadian Medical Association @cmadocs.bsky.social The CMA leads a national movement with physicians who believe in a better future of health.
Français: https://bsky.app/profile/amc-sante.bsky.social
Skipping Stone Foundation @skippingstone.ca Connecting trans and gender diverse youth, adults and families across Alberta w/ comprehensive, low barrier access to the support they need & deserve.
#1900 - 736 6 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta | Treaty 7
www.skippingstone.ca/learnmore
Krista Loughton @kristaloughton.bsky.social Victoria City Councillor & Documentary Filmmaker
Priorities: Affordable Housing, Homelessness, Complete Communities
Opinions expressed are my own
Tanille Johnston (she/her/elle) @votetanille.bsky.social Proud Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ woman, social worker, and parent. NDP leadership candidate who puts people > profit.
Join me: Tanille.ca
isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social journalist @CTVVancouver | @USCAnnenberg alum | IG @imzav11
Isabella.zavarise@bellmedia.ca
Kelly B @kellyblack.ca Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Opinions mine etc. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social Senior researcher & political economist @policyalternatives.ca
Health services, public finance, care economy, privatization, policy solutions
SFU PhD candidate. Views mine
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/andrew-longhurst/
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social Former organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social family doctor; structural determinants of health; public health; anti-racism; he/him
Doctors for Drug Policy Reform (D4DPR) @d4dprorg.bsky.social We are a global voice for licensed health professionals and scientists advocating for evidence-based drug policies and best practices that
advance public health, reduce stigma, and minimize harm.
https://www.d4dpr.org/
https://linktr.ee/d4dprorg
@bonnierae.bsky.social @bonnierae.bsky.social 
Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social Senior Scientist and Director of the Everyday Ethics Lab at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Views are my own. 🕊️ www.everydayethicslab.ca
Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social I want to live in a world with less trauma and more love.
National Harm Reduction Coalition @harmreduction.org National Harm Reduction Coalition creates spaces for dialogue and action that help heal the harms caused by racialized drug policies.
www.harmreduction.org
NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social Healthcare professionals against the Compassionate Intervention Act (Bill 53) in Alberta. Committed to providing education, support, and resources so we can better care for patients, each other, and community.
@sereacki.bsky.social @sereacki.bsky.social 
Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social Community, housing, climate, urbanism. Also Victoria BC City Councillor, CRD Director. Civil discourse and good governance. Pragmatic progressive. Please email my City account for City business. My own views only. Seeking re-election in 2026! ☄️⏳#yyj 🇨🇦
Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social Candidate for re-election as Victoria City Councillor and CRD Director in Victoria, B.C. PhD in History. Loves gardening, cello, democracy, climate action, housing, cycling, and family. Views my own.
Jag Davies 🌹 @jagdavies.bsky.social communications director @fairsharehousing.bsky.social
alum: @drugpolicy.org, @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social, @aclu.org
housing policy, decarceration & decriminalization, harm reduction & public health, political & narrative strategy++
#HousingNotHandcuffs
Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great.
(Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
Substance Use and Recovery Support Initiatives (SURSI) @asu-sirc-sursi.bsky.social ASU Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center - Substance Use and Recovery Support Initiatives (SURSI)
Views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of our sponsors or institutions.
Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition @bmorehrc.bsky.social BHRC mobilizes community members for the health, dignity, and safety of people targeted by the racist war on drugs and anti-sex worker policies.
linktr.ee/bmorehrc
Ontario Drug Policy Research Network @odprn.bsky.social The Ontario Drug Policy Research Network provides timely, high quality drug policy research impacting societal outcomes & improving healthcare systems
Shari Laliberte RN PhD @sharilaliberte.bsky.social Nursing pracademic keen to collaborate in developing caring economies where inter-sectoral health and social care resources transform intersectional systems of oppression to enable thriving for all #decolonize #carerevolution #SDOH #JustTransition
Adrienne Smith (they/them/iel) @vanalias.bsky.social Keeping the Social Just.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🏴🚩 ✊👩🏼🦽➡️🌈 ✊🏿 🍉🍖⚒️⚧️▶️
Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau;
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com / amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org
Bookstagramming/dogstagrammimg @mehlerpaperny
Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social Doctor of Public Health candidate | MSc Pharmacology | Vohra Miller Foundation w @craigmillr | Unambiguous Science | South Asian Health Network | First Exposure
Pierre Chauvin @lechauvin.bsky.social Former journalist. Part of the Victoria bike cult. Francophone. Photo : Camassia quamash.
Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social SWer Rights • Harm Reduction • Repro Justice • Thanatology • Anarchist • Fiber Art • Formerly DDoSecrets • Hacker Groupie • MaggieMayhem.Com
Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social writer. speaker. dialectical materialist. pan-african. fanonian. gramscian. freedom fighter. || VIEWS ARE MY OWN 🇵🇸🇧🇫🇨🇺
cash.app/$TheNewThinker
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social Neighbour and pal to children, adults, and nature. I do advocacy for public good, communications, problem solving, and sometimes I get people elected. She/her.
📍Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, Canada)
Issa Rae @issarae.bsky.social as soon as y’all start lying otb, I’m OUT
VicSaidThat2🇨🇦🍁🌻 @vicsaid2.bsky.social Asylum seeker from the bad place. Humanist. Alberta Treaty 7. Born ~322ppm. ABC voter. Reader. Mom of 3. Friend. Feminist. Anti-racist/fascist/Broligarchy. Pro-science/nature/choice/democracy 🇺🇦💉☘️ #FireTheUCP #HandsOffOurCPP =signs in my yard #ElbowsUp
Lauren Westy @laurenwesty.bsky.social Swimmer, cyclist, eater of tasty foods. I live at the southernmost point of large island at the western edge of a very large country.
Donald MacPherson @donaldmacmac.bsky.social International #drugpolicyreform #harmreduction, #publichealth, protect the sovereignty of Canada in the face of threats from USA, Russia China. Former ED Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Special love for #PEI! Vive Canada! Y viva Mexico! He/him 🇨🇦🍁🍁
Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Host - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Anyone's Child: Families For Safer Drug Control @anyoneschild.bsky.social Anyone's Child is an international network of families who know that we can better protect our children when drugs are regulated. A campaign by @transformdrugs.bsky.social
Jody Paterson @jodypaterson.bsky.social Journalist, social justice advocate, wanderer. Find my blog at https://closer-look.blogspot.com/ and some of my portfolio on Muck Rack: https://muckrack.com/jody-paterson-1
Vanessa @vlamers.bsky.social Here for public health. Somewhere in Maryland. She/her
Care Not Cops @carenotcops.bsky.social People doing care work organizing on unceded Coast Salish territories to remove police from healthcare systems & decarcerate care.
www.carenotcops.ca
Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social Co-Executive Director @bcpolicy.bsky.social, previously senior economist @ccpabc (bc office now closed). Co-Director, Understanding Precarity in BC Project. Mom. Working towards a more inclusive & sustainable economy. Opinions are my own.
BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social bcpolicy.ca | We are an independent, non-partisan research institute committed to advancing transformative policy solutions to the most pressing challenges facing people in BC. Join us!
Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social 🍞🌹🖖🐸
Opinions are my own. Retweets are not endorsements. she/they. Free Palestine. Peace and unity in Korea in our lifetimes. "Part-time" City Councillor in BC. Renter.
Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social he/him. Writer and game designer. Silverworld, V:TM—Night Road, Pon Para. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is out now! https://www.choiceofgames.com/werewolf-the-apocalypse/book-of-hungry-names/
Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social A broken man on a Halifax pier. Founder of HalifaxExaminer.ca. Opinions are my own, and not necessarily shared by my colleagues.
Harm Reduction UK @harmreductionuk.bsky.social A completely independent Harm Reduction education hub based out of Cardiff - UK. Connecting recreational and dependent drug partakers with essential information and education about the substances in circulation on the scene in the UK
www.harmreduction.uk
Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter. 
BC Rural Health Network @bcruralhealth.bsky.social Non-Profit Charity working to improve rural health and wellbeing in BC
Emma Kay, PhD, MSW @emmaskay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Nursing. Overdose prevention/ infectious diseases researcher living in the Deep South.
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter