karen ward

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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/

mountain goat says HE'S LYING
I don't know what sort of action figure this is. in a box
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Ministerial Order No. ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH Emergency Health Services Act I, Terry Lake, Minister of Health, as per my authority under section 5.2 of the Emergency Health Services Act and section 7.1 of the Health Authorities Act, order British Columbia Emergency Health Services and the regional health boards to provide, on the advice of the provincial health officer, during the public health emergency declared under the Public Health Act on April 14, 2016, overdose prevention services for the purpose of monitoring persons who are at risk of overdose, and providing rapid intervention as and when necessary, as ancillary health services, in any place there is a need for these services, as determined by the level of overdose related morbidity and mortality. December 9, 2016
mountain goat says HE'S LYING
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Ministerial Order No. ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH Emergency Health Services Act I, Terry Lake, Minister of Health, as per my authority under section 5.2 of the Emergency Health Services Act and section 7.1 of the Health Authorities Act, order British Columbia Emergency Health Services and the regional health boards to provide, on the advice of the provincial health officer, during the public health emergency declared under the Public Health Act on April 14, 2016, overdose prevention services for the purpose of monitoring persons who are at risk of overdose, and providing rapid intervention as and when necessary, as ancillary health services, in any place there is a need for these services, as determined by the level of overdose related morbidity and mortality.
Health providers who would normally be using Naloxone to bring patients back to consciousness after an opiate overdose can only try to keep a patient who overdosed on medetomidine stable until the drug wears off naturally, she said. Medetomidine, along with benzodiazepines, has no antidote and “they are all mixed together now” in the drug supply, she said.
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top image: a person emerges from a tent that looks like a parked car with a protective canvas wrap bottom image: interior of tent is just a comfortable living space
Mr peanut for Vancouver Mayor campaign poster
spiderman: we're fighting about smoke now? spiderman points: Canada and the U.S. are both genocidal petrostates
on a red brick wall in white marker: PAPER BEATS ROCK drawing of an open hand over a fist 🫲 ✊
Capitalism (52%) is viewed somewhat more favorably than socialism (37%). However, people are evenly divided on socialism, with equal shares who are favorable and unfavorable. Gen Z stands out with more who are supportive of socialism (53%) than capitalism (45%).
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this is fine dog parroting carneyisms
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Anakin and Padme meme, lower panels.
goat says HE'S LYING
“I thought, ‘who is this? Like, is this real? This sounds like somebody’s pulling my leg.’” After ascertaining the legitimacy of the call, Mr. Crowley’s reaction shifted to concern. “I didn’t want anybody to be harmed by some nefarious actor claiming to be us and getting a free ride on our reputation,” he said. But he was also a little bit flattered.
Mr. Crowley said he could not say which foreign-intelligence service was behind the impersonation attempt because Canadian authorities asked him not to. “They asked me not to be specific about that. What I can say is it’s definitely one of the usual suspects – you know, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran. These are the people who are actively engaged in this kind of activity,” he said. Mr. Crowley was at his desk working one day in early June when his phone rang. The person calling told him that
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the Krypton elders panic upon realizing that their planet is about to explode caption: but the economy
Evan Solomon
Carney speaking at a desk caption: off your streets
three spidermans pointing, labelled PROVINCIAL, FEDERAL, MUNICIPAL a tiny Spiderman is pointing at nobody labelled PARK BOARD
Public Safety and Solicitor General BC Coroners Service death review panel urges expanded access to safer supply Share News Release Victoria Wednesday, November 1, 2023 9:00 AM
sturko tweets, Feb 4 2024 This evening I had the opportunity to attend an inspiring graduation ceremony at the John Volken academy. thank you John and Chawna for all of your work helping people recover from addiction.
“We learned that the investigation into her death by Richmond RCMP stopped short on the basis of assumptions rooted in what we believe were discriminatory stereotypes of young women who are marginalized, live in poverty, are drug users and who may be connected to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver — a population of girls and women who have fallen through the cracks of most of our systems.”
woman and two kids hiding behind the front door of a house as father comes home. woman: HISTORIOGRAPHY kid: PRIMARY DOCUMENTS kid 2: CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE father: people who think doing history is reading a few Wikipedia pages oh there's POINTING SPIDERMAN labelled AHISTORICAL
Alec karakatsanis one way you can tell people in power don't actually care about "crime" is their failure to promote the policies that all the evidence shows are the best for reducing interpersonal harm: universal access to healthcare, early childhood education, cash transfers, and housing
this is fine dog says "global boiling" is definitely not Science.
Carney speaking; audio is FORWARD NOT BACKWARDS, ALWAYS TWIRLING TWIRLING INTO THE FUTURE
Carney wearing a cowboy hat looking up to the right, wide-eyed
Alien grinning wildly, holding a book in each hand: "Competition: More for all" and "Story of Oil"
Paramedic attended overdose events. May 2026 : 2,591, third highest ever
Dr. Daniel Vigo, the province’s chief scientific adviser, says the vision behind Friday’s announcement is to turn northern B.C. from one of the most underserved areas into a fully integrated model of mental health and substance-abuse services. He says Friday’s announcement came together very quickly and is part and parcel of a significant shift in B.C.’s response to the opioid crisis. Vigo says during the past two years, government has re-emphasized evidence-based treatment and recovery, while restoring the ability of doctors to use the Mental Health Act to treat children and adults with substance-use disorders, when they are mentally impaired
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Eby at a lectern that has a sign reading WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT, LEGISLATED SYSTEMIC CHANGE?
“Every person struggling with severe mental illness and addiction is someone’s child, parent, sibling or friend. These new beds will help ensure they get the specialized care they need to recover and rebuild their lives,” said Premier David Eby. “Whether people come to care voluntarily or are unable to ask for help, no one should be left in our streets when they are at their most vulnerable. By helping people onto a path to recovery, we can build safer communities while giving more people the opportunity to heal.”
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“Tsleil-Waututh has a sacred stewardship obligation, a responsibility to care for our lands, air and waters,” Chief Justin George says in the statement. “While we attempted to resolve these outstanding issues in good faith, our concerns were ignored, leaving us no choice but to go to court to protect our territory and interests.”
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Budget 2026 impacts on projects in the Metro Vancouver region that had applied for provincial funding Projects identified as "uncertain" include those that require and are seeking other funding sources, especially through Build Canada Homes, and will likely not proceed unless alternative funding is secured. projects cancelled 5 paused 12 uncertain 8 total 25 # of units cancelled 486 paused 1484 uncertain 1533 total 3503
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same snail drawn on a sticker with DEC OLON IZE
inside a bus, at the accordion from the back, someone has drawn a snail and written below it: "everyone deverses a chance to be accountable" with a black marker
Bill Tieleman, a consultant lobbyist with West Star Communications, is lobbying public office holders at several public agencies on behalf of Strata Corporation LMS 4157 regarding the opposition of three strata properties and their residents to plans to establish an Overdose Prevention Site at 900 Helmcken Street, Vancouver, and concerns about the associated risks to public safety and security.
2024 Charge Out Rates and Cancellation Policy Third Party Requests Police Constables $174.32/hr for any amount of time they are on duty Police Sergeants $217.90/hr for any amount of time they are on duty Police Staff Sergeants $244.04/hr for any amount of time they are on duty Police Inspectors $278.88/hr for any amount of time they are on duty Traffic Authority* Base rate (First 8 hours) $80.98/hr Overtime rate: - Hours 9 to 12 $102.76/hr - Greater than 12 hours $124.81/hr *Every effort will be made to staff events with Traffic Authority members first. This might not be practicable due to the availability of Traffic Authority members and in these circumstances, we staff the event with a Full-Time VPD employee (non-Police Constable) who is Traffic Authority trained. These Full-Time VPD employees will be deployed at a higher charge out rate of $124.81/hr. If absolutely no Traffic Authority members are available, the vacancies will then be staffed with traffic control trained Police Constables (PC’s). Prior to staffing with PC’s, you will be contacted to approve this option. There is a minimum of 3 hours billed out for any event that a Police Officer and or Traffic Authority member attend
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The Tyee: How are health authorities directed to collect data on non-fatal overdoses in health-care facilities? Dr. Bonnie Henry: There is no direction to collect that data. It isn’t something that is required to be reported, so it can vary depending on the facility. We don’t have a systematic way of identifying everything that happens to any individual when they’re in the hospital. I often jokingly say we don’t insert a chip into somebody when they’re in the hospital. People move around a lot; they may go to different beds, different wards, different places. There is a discharge summary for everybody who is in hospital and it does contain information on the diagnosis that happened while in hospital. It eventually gets coded and those codes give us a sense of the types of diagnoses that people have when in hospital, but it can be months after their discharge before that data is entered into a database
Marge Simpson: ".... and that escalator to nowhere" from the episode "Marge and the monorail"
Public drug use an election issue A political scientist said the state of downtown will be top of mind for voters ahead of the municipal election in October. “The issue of the health and vitality of the downtown is always the top issue. It is now significantly conflated with public drug use,” said David Black, an associate professor at Royal Roads University. Black noted the city has thrown a significant amount of money at the issue, creating a $10-million community safety and well-being plan. “What we’re seeing right now is, yes, it’s posturing,” he said. “But it’s also some sincere differences of opinion around how to best address this issue from the level of a municipality, all of course defined by the election in October.”
Mark Carney on the daily show speech balloon: have you tried eating bitumen?
map of BC with overdose death rates
Mark Carney speaking at a lectern. behind him, Danielle Smith smirks
black spraypainted stencil on a grey Canada box. They're right [dinosaur outline ] below us
friendly giant opening where he's arranging the chairs
3. Real Estate, Environment and Facilities Management (REFM) The VPD's Facilities Section works with the City's REFM department to preserve safe, reliable and functional policing facilities. The investments in priority renewal projects help maintain asset condition, support operational readiness and address workplace needs in aging facilities while larger long-term facility requirements continue to be assessed through the City's capital maintenance and planning processes including a disaster resistant, purpose built VPD headquarters.