DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 05/15/2025
🌀 DULF UPDATE: GOOD BOY JIMMY GET THE SPAGHETTI, THE MACHINE IS HUNGRY 🌀
March is over. February too. Coroner says only 275 people died from toxic drugs. Only. Good job, province. Good spaghetti. Fewer than 160 dead per month for six months straight. That’s a success, says the machine. A drop, a dip, a slow exhale of numbers. But more people died in the first quarter of 2025 than in all of 2014. That’s okay, says the machine. That’s progress. That’s spaghetti arithmetic. 143 deaths in March. 132 in February. 56 in Vancouver. 28 in Surrey. 20 in Victoria. Who in the Downtown Eastside? Shhh. Don’t ask Jimmy. Jimmy doesn’t know. Jimmy just gets the spaghetti.
Since 2016, overdose calls have doubled. BCEHS clocked 40,543 poisonings in 2024. That’s 111 a day. That’s ten months with more than 3,000 calls. That’s more sirens than lullabies. That’s more CPR than bedtime stories. But the graphs go down this time, so clap. Clap for the charts, Jimmy. Clap for the decline. Clap for the little line that wriggles across the page like a worm in a suit.
DULF is on trial. Not for killing. No. For interrupting. For offering tested heroin. For offering cocaine. For offering meth. For offering care. Not in secret. In service. The data is filed. The numbers are neat. The peer reviews are polite. But the court is not a library. The court is a machine. It eats motions and prints guilt. It does not snack on nuance.
We have raised $39,185.29 of $350,000. The lawyers say tick-tock. The calendar says 140 days until bacon time. October 1st is the oven. The defense is the frying pan. The prosecutors hold the spatula. Jimmy is the egg.
Without the money, we are procedural toast. Paperwork jammed. Counsel unplugged. Guilt by default. Spaghetti for everyone. Spaghetti on the floor. Spaghetti on the docket. Good boy Jimmy. Good spaghetti.
We do not act because we are hopeful. We act because the work is not finished. We act because the numbers are not names, but the names are real. We act because every dollar says no. Every share says not yet. Every effort is an error in the machine.
So share. Donate. March. Yell. Confuse a bureaucrat. Fold a fundraiser into a paper swan and fly it through a courtroom window. Shout into a spreadsheet. Make a scene at city hall. Offer finger food to the void. Feed the spaghetti to the gears.
Because the machine is moving. And the machine does not ask why. And the machine is hungry.
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