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Sharon Nadeem @sharonnadeem.bsky.social Journalist + Fact-checker. Previously @globalreportingcentre.org. Mostly docs and podcasts. Work in @prx.org, @aljazeera.com, @thewalrus.ca, PBS Frontline, BBC, Huffington Post, @theglobeandmail.com, and more.
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Ted Smith @tedsmithvcbc.bsky.social Founder of Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, the oldest medical club in Canada. Still illegal. Author, activist, actor, publisher and chief joint roller.
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Suzan M Walters @suzanmwalters.bsky.social Director, RISE Lab @ NYU Langone. Public Health, Sociology & Harm Reduction.
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Mai Sato @drmaisato.bsky.social Prof & Director, Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London @icpr.bsky.social @worldprisonbrief.bsky.social
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William Azaroff (he/him) @wazaroff.bsky.social Community housing leader & city builder.
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Rob Botterell @robbotterell.bsky.social B.C. Green MLA for Saanich North and the Islands. Retired lawyer, negotiator, strategic consultant and change master… a Happy Warrior.
Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social Reporter in The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Loves: The Riders, the Oilers, the farm, mountains, snow. Dislikes: Daylight Saving(s) Time, raccoons, gophers, the search for New Twitter
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Krista Loughton @kristaloughton.bsky.social Victoria City Councillor & Documentary Filmmaker
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Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social Critical Indigenous Policy Perspectives. Based at the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Met. University | linktr.ee/yellowheadinstitute
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Sobia Moman @sobiamoman.bsky.social Journalist in Surrey at the Vancouver Sun | Interested in social issues reporting | she/her
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social Writer, educator, editor. 2x Cdn columnist of year (Wpg Free Press), Professor (U of Manitoba) & Gov Gen award winning author - Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024)
Brett Van Bergen @mathewsbrett1.bsky.social Organizer. Activist. Harm Reductionist.
Abbotsford Drug War Survivors Coordinator.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth challenging governments and corporations to make the health of our communities, our environment, and our climate the top priority.
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Care Not Cops @carenotcops.bsky.social People doing care work organizing on unceded Coast Salish territories to remove police from healthcare systems & decarcerate care.
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Linda Quiquivix @quiqui.bsky.social Author of Palestine 1492: A Report Back and host of the WW4: A Podcast Syllabus
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Weasel Woman @weaselwoman.bsky.social MAYUK MANUEL Secwepemc Title & Rights Defender/Secwepemc storyteller/performance artist/Tiny House Warriors/Activist/ ❤️Secwepemcstsin immersion on the land. I’m criminally persecuted for my Secwepemc belief in our Right to Self-determination.
Isaac Phan Nay @isaacphannay.bsky.social He/Him. Labour and corporate responsibility reporter for The Tyee.
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Angie Staines (She/Her) @harmreduxnurse.bsky.social Mom, Nurse, Founder of 4B Harm Reduction Society. It’s been a wild ride, I’m healing and getting stronger. Time to get loud💜
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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social I helped legalize cannabis in Canada and won some precedent setting medical cannabis cases. Now I practice law in British Columbia and run a cannabis company called Great Gardener Farms. Dad and husband. Deadhead. Lions fan. He/him.
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.
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social Aggressive pedestrian. Non-avid cyclist. PhD in Microbiology. Big fan of trees and whales. #vancouver
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
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com Queering the conversation. Fierce, proud and independent LGBTQ2S+ journalism, since 1984. 🌈✨
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Debrief Communications Co-op @debriefcomms.ca We are a worker-owned collective of journalists offering a wide range of communications services — including writing, editing, research, and media training — tailored to suit client needs.
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Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment @cape-acme.bsky.social Physician-led non-profit working to secure human health by protecting the environment
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
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor Cayuga Nation citizen, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @ https://animikii.com/ | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Find me @ https://jeff.doctor/
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
Kate Colizza @katecolizza.bsky.social Harm reduction saves lives. General Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social Personal account. Thoughts & opinions are mine and do not reflect my employer(s). Journalist & #DifficultIndigenousWoman Pikwàkanagàn; @niemanfdn 2020 @caj @cjfe @aptnnews #cdnpoli #Indigenous #cdnmedia
Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.bsky.social Victoria, B.C. needsmorespikes.com
Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social Family doctor and Activist. Immigrant and Settler. Mom of two. Posts on health, politics & social justice. Based in Tkaronto.
Redeye @redeyeradio.bsky.social Progressive Indy Radio @CoopRadio | LIVE Sat 10am - 12pm PT | CFRO 100.5 FM | livestream at https://coopradio.org Podcast @apple and everywhere else Follow and share for regular alt media podcasting.
Spartacus Books @spartacusbooks.net Spartacus Books is a nonprofit, volunteer-run bookstore and resource centre.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social Kitchen witch, sparkle mind & aging whore. Wrote SUB ROSA, SODOM ROAD EXIT and other queer weird books. New poetry collection BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL Spring 2025.
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Community Not Cops Kjipuktuk @communitynotcops.bsky.social Kjipuktuk based coalition working to defund, detask and abolish the police
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Amy Romer @amyromer.bsky.social Visual Journalist
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The Mainlander @themainlander.bsky.social The Mainlander is dedicated to local politics and social struggles on unceded Indigenous lands cka Vancouver, BC
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Véronique Sioufi, PhD @verosioufi.bsky.social racial & socio-economic equity researcher/policy analyst @bcpolicy.bsky.social, previously @ccpabc (now closed)
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Fhriseil (we’re couping) 🍏👽🍂🇵🇸 @frasermacp.bsky.social queer white settler on dish with one spoon treaty territories. nurse. abolitionist. writer.
Harm Reduction International @harmreductionintl.bsky.social We envision a world in which drug policies uphold dignity, health and rights. We use data and advocacy to promote harm reduction and drug policy reform.
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Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC @oipcbc.bsky.social The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC is independent from government and promotes and protects the information and privacy rights of British Columbians. Learn more about our office here: https://www.oipc.bc.ca/about/about-us/ 
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dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn.bsky.social macrodata refiner at the athletic
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
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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.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
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BC Health Coalition @bchealthcoalition.bsky.social The BC Health Coalition is a province-wide movement defending and strengthening universal, public health care. We bring together health workers, patients, and communities to put people—not profit—at the centre of care.
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