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Criminalizing public space through a decriminalization framework: The paradox of British Columbia

Decriminalization never happened in BC

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Cops on campus: Why police crackdowns on student protesters are dangerous

The recent violent crackdowns on pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses across North America have reignited the debate about the role of cops on university grounds.

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In BC, Alberta and around the world, forced drug use treatment is violence

After years of housing crises, an increasingly toxic drug supply & inaccessible voluntary mental health supports, political actors are toying with the idea of making the people most affected by inequality and poverty simply disappear.

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Situating Vancouver's Nonprofit Industrial Complex

By partnering with police & other appendages of the surveillance state, nonprofit staff may experience normalized psycho-affective attachments to spatial-carceral colonial violence...

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BC’s "decriminalization" framework was set up to fail

The province’s pilot decriminalization project is unfolding as predicted, but the premier’s latest proposal would only make the crisis worse.

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