BC Federation of Labour @bcfed.bsky.social The voice of working people in British Columbia, made up of BC unions representing more than half a million workers
Canadian Nurses Association @canadanurses.bsky.social CNA is the national and global professional voice of Canadian nursing.
L’AIIC représente la profession infirmière du Canada à l’échelle nationale et mondiale.
RNAO @rnao.ca RNAO is the professional association representing RNs, NPs & nursing students in Ontario. Our mandate is speaking out for nursing and speaking out for health.
RNAO.ca
UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social In 1969 the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs was created to fight PM Pierre Trudeau's White Paper & to defend Indigenous Title & Rights
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
Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social SWer Rights • Harm Reduction • Repro Justice • Thanatology • Anarchist • Fiber Art • Hacker Groupie • MaggieMayhem.Com
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.
Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social AuADHD. white. ACAB. Land Back incl Palestine. Mutual aid & solidarity.
PFP: orange cartoon cat in bed w/ dark orange stripes & knife tail. Text reads: low on spoons but good on knives.
Banner: antifascist trans unicorn by unrest.design
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
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
Kate Fish @helloitskate.bsky.social fat about town | social worker | queer | chronically + mentally ill + neurospicy | coastal BC | she/her
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.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/
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net The global network promoting drug policies grounded in social justice and human rights
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
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
Moms Stop The Harm @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH) is a network of Canadian families impacted by substance-use-related harms and deaths.
We advocate for the change of failed drug policies, provide peer support to families who have lost a loved one or use or have used substances.
AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social The PWUD Community-Controlled Peak Organisation that represents our network of Australian peer-based harm reduction & peer-led Drug User Organisations (DUOs) and supporting Asia-Pacific programs. #PeerPower
www.aivl.org.au
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
Michelle C Danda @michellecdanda.bsky.social She/her/them, parent, nurse, Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social *On maternity leave*
Co-founder at De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca
📧 brishtireports@gmail.com
✉️ brishtibasu@protonmail.com
DM for Signal.
Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social Vancouver city councillor
Jamie Livingston @jamielivingston.bsky.social Criminologist; critical work at the mental health, substance use, & criminal legal intersection
Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
He/Him 🍁 ⚖️ 🥌 💉 😺 💜
www.justmentalhealth.ca
@duncankinney.bsky.social @duncankinney.bsky.social
Keith Brown @keithbrown.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood public health guy. Cat dad. Human dad. Harm reductionist. Old punk. Goose obsessed. Go Bills.
Mo Amir @vancolour.bsky.social 📺TV: “This is VANCOLOUR” on CHEK +
📻Radio: CBC’s On The Coast - "Soapbox Social"
The most bleeped political commentator in B.C.
https://chekplus.ca/m/xPrh1pKc/this-is-vancolour
Zoë Dodd @zoedodd.bsky.social Anti drug war activist, anti-capitalist, harm reduction. Co-organizer with Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. Committed to living in a better world. Free 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/saveoursites
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca The Progress Report is the media arm of Progress Alberta, an Edmonton-based non-profit working to advance the left in Alberta.
Tommy Brothers @tdbrothers.bsky.social MD, PhD, FRCPC | general internal medicine & addiction medicine doctor | epidemiologist & health services researcher | Nova Scotian
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social Reporter for The Tyee covering health and biodiversity. I write about local research, sex, salmon, toxic drugs, bats, what your grandmother is up to, and all the different ways you can (but haven't yet) become dead in B.C.
Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org Independent journalist in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto
→→→ linktr.ee/hilaryagro ←←←
You deserve a better world.
SteveRolles @steverolles.bsky.social Senior Policy Analyst for Transform Drug Policy Foundation
www.transformdrugs.org mostly tweeting on drug policy/law reform. Own views etc. Also/formerly @stevetransform on *the other place*
BR⚢KE @babblingbrooke.bsky.social Harm reduction bimbo | Union girlie | Overdose preventer | Drug War veteran | Gayyyyy
Garrett Reuscher @garrettreuscher.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood harm reduction psychotherapist. LMSW. He/Him. Views are my own.
SophPhotos @sophiabanks.bsky.social Frontline community health worker. Harm reduction worker.
Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com Husband & dad / Director of SafeSpot Overdose Hotline/ Paramedic from This American Life Ep809 The Call / Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor Boston University School of Public Health / VIEWS MINE!
http://stephen-murray.com
tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social phd(c) @sfu-fhs.bsky.social | p.o.w.e.r.
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social Postdoc at @opioidcobre.bsky.social. Translational transdisciplinary drug scientist, harm reductionist, artist, paramedic, chemistry enthusiast, Texan. she/her/ella
Shop: pinpenmerger.etsy.com
Venmo: claireifc
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @myharmreduction.bsky.social Harm Reductionist. Drug Policy Reformer. Writer. Speaker. Lapsed Academic. Researcher-Advocate. Brown. She/Her/Dr.
Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social Associate Professor (Medicine/Public Health/Anthro) at Yale | opinions own
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca Investigations on the Alberta-led drug war revival: www.drugdatadecoded.ca
✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee
PhD Microbiology
Banner: Access to information in Alberta
Icon: Headshot of me in blue t-shirt
Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social Author of “The Big Fix:Hope After Heroin”, mother, person in recovery, activist, harm reduction, rescue animals.
Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social Drugs, drug policy, etc... based in Ottawa, Canada.
Comments are my own.
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social
Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
dave lucas @davidewlucas.bsky.social Health & Housing Justice • Landback • Shihtzu propagandist • @NBA psychoanalyst • NYC/TO/WPG
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
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
dustin @godfrey.work it's not delivery. it's digiornalist
justice, drugs, housing, health
co-founder/member: @defactomedia.ca / defactomedia.ca
work in The Guardian, Globe & Mail, Tyee, Filter, The Maple
also at @debriefcomms.ca
they/them/thembo
Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
instagram.com/andreawoo
Kim Sue, MD, PhD @drkimsue.bsky.social Addiction medicine/primary care doctor + med anthro in NJ + Yale. Previously at Rikers, National Harm Reduction Coalition. Author of Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis. Drkimsue.com
Carlyn Zwarenstein @carlynzwaren.bsky.social "Major descendant of De Quincey". Science journalist, essayist: biology & power. Pro-underdog cat person.
📚 On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, & Other Matters of Substance https://carlynzwarenstein.com/onopium/
✍🏼recently: sci writer @ Salon. Freelancer all over.
@vincentrado.bsky.social @vincentrado.bsky.social Acid Dialectics (2025)
Drugism (2022)
Abolish Prisons Now (2019)
we're here, we're high (2018)
forthcoming, High and Mighty: How People in Power Use Drugs
https://illicit.news
karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social once called «Canada's only public intellectual»
drug policy researcher ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer ⁕ ephemera
vancouver bc canada
institute for the history of possible futures
https://free-futures-society.org/
Gillian Kolla @gilliankolla.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Memorial University & Collaborating Scientist, Canadian Institute on Substance Use Research, University of Victoria. Researching drug policy, harm reduction, social determinants of health
Colin HJ @colinhj.bsky.social Futurist, human rights advocate, and sarcastic commentator on life
Nancy Henderson @nancyh.bsky.social PhD student UVic & Research Assistant CISUR | RN | harm reduction | social justice | health equity | drug policy | community-led responses | liberation
Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social “If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” -Dōgen Zenji
https://bio.site/Terrilltf
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
🌈 pretty on the inside #ICEout 凤凰 𖤐 👉🏻🤛🏻 🖤 @xaliuqsmcg.bsky.social bi, girl-shaped agender, former iv drug user, ADHD, old. Harm reduction, animals, politics, bitching, media, fashion, sarcasm, Satan. not soft. vulgar & coarse white trash. #HelloInCursive
wryteen.substack.com
Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social He/him | Uninvited settler on stolen Quw’utsun Territory | Nurse | #HarmReduction