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RCMP officers referred to First Nations pipeline opponents as "orcs" and "ogre" during a police raid at a blockade of Coastal GasLink pipeline construction in November 2021, according to audio recordings played in court Wednesday.

Episode notes

With activists and journalists being accosted and arrested across Canada last week - we thought it was time to reinforce that all cops are bastards (and tools of Capital) always. And that we can not, for a moment, make space for police responses to people trying to hold the powerful accountable.

We cover:

Journalist Brandi Morton arrested covering an encampment eviction in Edmonton, and the use of Police to clear eight sites in frigid temperatures;
The arrest of a certain right-wing journalist while trying to question Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland - and what our collective response SHOULD have been;
Toronto Police declare an area of the City off limits to Pro-Palestinian protestors saying its a threat to the local Jewish community; and,
Ottawa Pro-Palestinian activists have been getting $490 fines from the City for breaking a noise by-law.

These open up discussions of police power and budgets, the criminalization of protests of any kind, the limiting of access to politicians and the attempts of the powerful of what is an acceptable protest.

"Our son Ryan, 26, and the vast majority of the 42,000 who have lost lives to the toxic supply of drugs, would be alive today if their substance was legalized, regulated and controlled, like we do for alcohol users."

A study in a top medical journal shows overwhelming positive impacts of regulated hydromorphone prescribing for people who use opioids in BC. Will the trolls keep yelling from their caves?

If there aren't affordable housing options where exactly do they expect people to go?