Dustin is a freelance journalist based in unceded Coast Salish territories in so-called Vancouver, Canada. They cover issues around drug policy, housing and justice.
As Canada’s parliament gets into motion following the spring federal election, it has one new member who has played a…
The British Columbia government is moving ahead with involuntary substance use disorder treatment for people held at a pretrial detention…
As Canadians head to the polls in the coming days, they will be faced with few options to increase access…
As people gathered in Vancouver’s Victory Square on April 14 to mark nine years since British Columbia declared the overdose…
Harm reduction advocates in Ontario succeeded in winning a court injunction against a new provincial law barring supervised consumption sites…
People who use drugs and a service provider are fighting legislation enacted by the Ontario provincial government which, if implemented,…
The Canadian government has continued to step up its resourcing of border enforcement in response to tariff-related demands by United…
British Columbia’s provincial government has ended its take-home safe supply program for new participants, with an intention to transition existing…
Amid a policy shift away from harm reduction, senior police officials in Canada have been signalling their approval, though some…
In September 2020, a truck pulled over in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to report an overdose. Cheryl Delorme had lost consciousness…