December
Online
- Vancouver Province: Pivot Legal Society executive director Katrina Pacey stepping down
- Vancouver Sun: Longtime legal advocate steps down as director of B.C.'s Pivot Legal Society
- Social-justice lawyer Katrina Pacey prepares to say goodbye to Pivot Legal Society
- BC Health Officials Will Start Giving Free Opioids to Users in 2018
- Vancouver legal society continues push for decriminalization of sex work
- Police should stop attending overdose calls, says Vancouver legal advocacy group
- B.C. police presence at overdose calls discourages requests for help, say legal advocates
Radio
- Executive Director Katrina Pacey to step down in new year
- Vancouver legal society continues push for decriminalization of sex work
- Should Police NOT Be Present During Overdose Calls
- B.C. police presence at overdose calls discourages requests for help, say legal advocates (CBC Radio)
- Maple Ridge tent camp now has a place to warm up
- Pivot Legal Society executive director Katrina Pacey stepping down
- Vancouver overdose prevention site records 108,800 visits, 255 overdoses and 0 deaths
- Overdose Prevention Society has more than 100,000 visits, none fatal
- Fire chief worried about state of Maple Ridge tent city
November
Online
- Yahoo News: City of Maple Ridge and homeless camp residents reach agreement to keep camp open
- CBC: City of Maple Ridge and homeless camp residents reach agreement to keep camp open
- Maple Ridge reaches agreement over safety issues at homeless camp
- Coroners inquest into police-involved shooting of Tony Du scheduled for next year
Radio
- Anita Place tent city ruling
- Red zones aren't working and are harming marginalized communities (00:18:00)
- Rising apartment rents leaving a growing gap between Vancouver tenants
- Tent-camp residents in B.C. city reach agreement to keep site open temporarily
- BC Housing will start talking about modular housing for Maple Ridge
- Surrey Now-Leader: Court allows Maple Ridge tent city to stay and address “life safety issues”
- The Chilliwack Progress: Court allows Maple Ridge tent city to stay and address “life safety issues”
- Maple Ridge agrees not to evict homeless
- Anita Place Tent City has a strong case for staying says Drury
- Surrey Now-Leader: Maple Ridge homeless camp injunction in supreme court Monday
- Chilliwack Progress: Maple Ridge homeless camp injunction in supreme court Monday
- Maple Ridge News: Maple Ridge homeless camp injunction in supreme court Monday
- Harrison Agazzi Observer: Maple Ridge homeless camp injunction in supreme court Monday
- Red zones set up marginalized people for failure
- Prostitution expert doesn't like what she sees in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- A call for compassion in Marpole, where housing for homeless is planned
- Maple Ridge tent city digs in for the winter
- Locals take welfare challenge, will survive on $19 a week for food
- Report slams use of court-imposed ‘red zones’ in Vancouver
Television
- BC Supreme Court hearing on Anita Place
- November 27, Noon News (Global BC); Anita Place tent city court ruling
- Growing homeless camps a growing concern
- November 27, CBC News at 6; Anita Place tent city court ruling (6:00)
October
(Photo credit: David Kawai, October 3, 2017)
Online
Radio
- Roundhouse Radio: Update on BC's drug overdose crisis
- Roundhouse Radio: "Taking action" during Homelessness Action Week
- Harm reduction saves lives and benefits communities
- Elliott and Shane: Pop-up overdose prevention sites are morally – and legally – legitimate
- Opinion: During Homelessness Action Week, it’s time to take action
- Recognized for controversy, Vancouver's former drug czar says the fentanyl crisis requires legalizing heroin
- B.C. police watchdog releases list of injuries sustained by Myles Gray in confrontation with Vancouver police
Televison
- Modular housing promised for British Columbia in order to address homelessness (30:25)
- Mounties probe leak of aggressive takedown video
September
(Photo credit: www.victoria.ca, Reeson Park, undated)
Online
- B.C. legal organizations join forces to call on province to address justice reform
- CBC: Victoria considers time limits for park use
- Yahoo News: Victoria considers time limits for park use
- 自由黨轟撥款缺細節 法律會建議擴HAT治療
Radio
- Harm reduction needs more than a one-size fits-all solution
- Vancouver police apprehensions under the Mental Health Act fall sharply after a long climb
August
Online
- Using Tableau in the fight for social justice
- Des avocats demandent une réforme du droit en faveur des plus démunis
- Legal advocacy groups band together to ask B.C. for widespread justice reform
- Lawyers band together to call for sweeping changes to B.C.'s 'badly broken' justice system
- Vancouver reports 18 overdose deaths in July
- Man bites back against Houston Police Department after being wrongfully bitten
- Tasha Kheiriddin Monday August 14th 2017
Radio
- Focusing on Canada's drug strategy
- August 30, News 1130; Coalition of lawyer recommend changes to BC's justice system
- Pivot urges government to adopt CDC recommendations on drug policy reform
- BC Centre for Disease Control issues recommendations to address overdose crisis (Aug 19, 6:30 in)
- BC NDP announce revival of BC Human Rights Commission
- Embourgeoisement : les étudiants et les artistes y contribuent aussi
- Was Toronto's pop-up safe injection site legal?
- Law advocates band together to urge NDP to reform B.C. justice system
- Victoria Times Colonist: Legal advocacy groups band together to ask B.C. for widespread justice reform
- National Post: Legal advocacy groups band together to ask B.C. for widespread justice reform
- Health experts recommend homegrown opium and more to fight overdose crisis
- Province spent $3M on Victoria tent city court costs and clean up
July
Online
- Jagmeet Singh Wants To Outlaw Racial Profiling. Here's How He Can Start
- Jagmeet Singh Explains How His Federal Racial Profiling Ban Could Actually Work
- Vancouver drug reform advocate Tracey Morrison mourned as 'true warrior'
- Why Are Cops Catfishing Sex Workers in Canada?
Radio
- Police "cat fishing" sex workers in Operation Northern Spotlight online sting
- Operation Northern Spoltlight Is Negatively Affect Sex Trade Workers
- Time for rights lawyer like Eby in role: ex-Attorney General
- New B.C. Attorney-General David Eby was once tough critic of legal system
- In BC, Liberals’ crises suddenly became the NDP’s problems
- Open letter decries police posing as sex-worker clients in "repressive" Operation Northern Spotlight
- Sex-worker advocates call for end to B.C. police sting operations
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June
Online
- Maple Ridge tent city residents taking B.C. government to court
- 'Fight as much as we can': Tent city residents challenge trespass notice
- The Red Umbrella March Celebrates 50 Years Of Sexual Freedom
- June 7, Impact (Roundhouse Radio) interview; Maple Ridge homelessness and Red Umbrella March
- Low-barrier shelters desperately needed in Maple Ridge
- Backpage: Sex workers can find safety in an online marketplace
- June 1, Adam Stirling (11:00 a.m.); Police infringement of homeless campers' privacy in Victoria
- Maple Ridge backs down from court action to clear camp
- Maple Ridge tent city lawyers suing province
- Modular, mobile homes can solve Maple Ridge homeless camp
- Maple Ridge tent city lawyers suing province
- Tent city residents pack belongings as homeless advocates storm Vancouver City Hall
- Maple Ridge backs down from court action to clear camp
- Maple Ridge backs down from court action to remove tent city
-
Maple Ridge homeless “have received threats, have faced violence:" lawyer
Television
- Vancouver tent city obeys eviction order and moves to another location
- VPD’s dramatic chase of a stolen car caught on dash-cam
May
Radio
- May 27, CKNW Weekends w/ Tim Dickert (1:15 p.m.); Health Canada approves three new supervised consumption sites
- Three new supervised injection sites approved for Metro Vancouver
- A women's only supervised injection site opens in the DTES
- City of Vancouver loses legal fight to take down Ten Year Tent City
- Formal complaint lodged against Surrey RCMP after teen detained in case of mistaken identity
- BC Supreme Court denies city injunction against Main Street homeless camp
April
Online
- Santé Canada propose d'assouplir les règles pour l'héroïne prescrite
- CHEK: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- CTV: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- Sudbury.com: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- Health Canada To Relax Rules On Prescription Heroin To Treat Opioid Addiction
- Health Canada backs more access to prescription heroin to combat overdose crisis
- Gardening 87-year-old mistakenly attacked by VPD police dog
- Victoria mayor: Sleeping in cars should be legal until vacancy rate rises
- British Columbia’s homeless deaths at record high: report
- Vancouver Sun: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- Vancouver Province: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- Victoria Times Colonist: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- Montreal Gazette: Health Canada to allow more access to prescription heroin to curb opioid crisis
- The Stairs delivers humanizing portraits of drug addicts that are needed more now than ever before
- Award-winning documentary looks at lives behind the addiction headlines
Radio
- Removing barriers to supervised injection sites will save more lives
- City working to disassemble new Vancouver homeless camp
- City of Vancouver sets tent city deadline, campers stay put
- Metro Vancouver homeless count shows sharp rise in numbers
- Today Marks One Year Since BC Announced That The Overdose Crisis Was An Official Public Health Emergency
Television
- Residents of DTES tent city staying put despite eviction notice
- Health Canada expands access to prescription heroin
- Homelessness on the rise across BC preliminary Metro Vancouver homeless count data shows
- Sleeping in vehicles on the rise in Victoria
- Mayor of Victoria defends sleeping in cars
March
Online
- ‘Red Zones’ Set the Marginalized Up for More Trouble, Study Finds
- Vancouver Fire and Rescue report 174 overdose calls last week
- Vancouver sees 174 overdose calls in one week, highest so far in 2017
- Vancouver Sun: Family of Myles Gray caught in spat between Vancouver police, independent watchdog
- Vancouver Province: Family of Myles Gray caught in spat between Vancouver police, independent watchdog
- Pivot lawyer DJ Larkin on her work with homeless people
- Toronto Star: Vancouver sees 174 overdose calls in one week, highest so far in 2017
- Vancouver Sun: Vancouver sees 174 overdose calls in one week, highest so far in 2017
- B.C.’s top court sets stiffer sentences for fentanyl dealers
Radio
- Controversial drug therapy focus of free forum
- March 17, The Early Edition; Doug King on the strained relationship between Vancouver Police and the IIO
- Caitlin Shane on the failed war on drugs and why decriminalization is the answer
- PODCAST: Pivot lawyer DJ Larkin on her work with homeless people
- Loophope Tenants Should Know About
- Life of the Law radio documentary (feat. Doug King)
- Longer Sentences Needed For Fentanyl Dealers: B.C. Court Of Appeal
Television
- March 27, CBC Newscast; Doug King on the need for expanded Heroin Assisted Therapy
- Vanouver Police uncooperative with the Independent Investigations Office of BC
- Deadly shooting illustrates benefits of police body cameras
- More shocking new overdose numbers
- March 10, Breakfast Television (City) news segment; Caitlin Shane on overdose response
- March 3, Breakfast Television (City) news segment; DJ Larkin on homelessness numbers
February
Online
- No charges after police shoot, kill mentally ill man wielding 2x4
- Vancouver police officer will not be charged in 2014 shooting of Tony Du
- Family of mentally ill man shot by Vancouver police sues city
- Not in my park! How B.C. mayors are handling homeless campers
- Dropped corruption investigation into Abbotsford police officers 'very troubling,' lawyer says
- This Nigerian Refugee Was Mistaken for a Police Suspect and Beaten to the Ground
- There Is A Solution To Canada's Fentanyl Overdose Crisis: End Drug Prohibition
- Vancouver council to look at more overdose response programs
- Vancouver Province: Two Vancouver police officers won’t face charges for civilian death
- Vancouver Sun: Two Vancouver police officers won’t face charges for civilian death
- No charges against Vancouver cops in 2014 shooting of distraught man
- Surrey man testifies Vancouver cops assaulted, wrongfully arrested him
- Solving affordability crisis requires rethink of housing policy
- Surrey man testifies Vancouver cops assaulted, wrongfully arrested him
- Caitlin Shane: Why now is the time to reform Canada’s drug laws
- Revisiting the Surrey Strip
Radio
- CKNW Weekend with Tim Dickert - What to do about the Opiod Crisis
- Drivetime Headline: There Are Now More Than 70 Homeless Camps Throughout Metro Vancouver
- February 9, 2017 On The Coast
- No charges for VPD officers involved in fatal shooting of Tony Du
- NewsTalk 770: Families speak out against police violence at rally for man killed by VPD
- CKNW: Families speak out against police violence at rally for man killed by VPD
- Families of police shooting victims call for change outside VPD HQ
Television
- February 9, CTV newscast ; Tony Du civil lawsuit
- Crown ruling no charges will be laid against two Vancouver police officers involved in the shooting death of Tony Du
- February 9, CBC newscast; Doug King on Tony Du shooting
- February 10, Breakfast Television news segment (City); Doug King on Tony Du shooting
- February 11, CTV newscast; Doug King on protest over Tony Du verdict
- Advocate adds to call for greater support to end homelessness
January
Online
- City of Vancouver closes Creekside warming centre
- Extreme-Weather-Only Shelters in Vancouver Are Not Enough, Advocates Say
- Vancouver city council debates where to spend $3.5M in tax money to combat overdose crisis
- Canada: Sex Workers Need Decriminalization
- Using community centres as warming centres: special Park Board meeting called
- Vancouver asked to close warming shelters for homeless people
- Cold-weather crises, civility and lessons learned
- Drug trafficking charges decline in Vancouver amid overdose crisis
- Frontline workers pan Vancouver’s decision to spend overdose funds on community policing
Radio
- January 23 Roundhouse Radio; Caitlin Shane on the final overdose numbers for 2016
- “Giving More Money To Vancouver Police Won’t Save Lives In Overdose Crisis”
- January 25 CKNW; Caitlin Shane on more police resources for the Downtown Eastside
- Vancouver Park Board denies motion that would have closed warming centres
- NPA questions use of community centres as homeless warming shelters
- January 19 CFAX, Adam Stirling Show; Katrina Pacey on final overdose statistics for 2016
- January 19 CBC Radio; DJ Larkin on closing of warming shelters
- How Vancouver Police plan to tackle the opioid crisis moving forward
- Katrina Pacey, Executive Director at Pivot in Vancouver makes the case for supervised injection sites
Television
- B.C. overdose crisis: 2016 deadliest year on record
- January 24, CBC; Doug King on more police resources for the Downtown Eastside
