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.
Canada has obligations to implement measures that actively protect the right to life, regardless of what the government thinks, asserts…
Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public…
A senior Canadian bureaucrat struggled on the witness stand to reconcile past statements by the federal government with its claim…
The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt…
As British Columbia’s overdose crisis escalated in the second half of the 2010s, Jeremy Kalicum was getting his first experience…
“DULF’s pilot project worked,” a Supreme Court of British Columbia judge stated on November 7, referring to the compassion club…
Groups representing people who use drugs had their days in court from July 21-23, seeking to overturn a federal government…
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…