TIMELINE
Here is a concise timeline focusing on key moments where BC government officials (elected or appointed) either directly participated in DULF-related activities, were explicitly informed of DULF’s illegal drug trafficking/compassion club plans, or — given the public and official nature of the events — realistically should have known about them.
2019
2019 (exact date unknown) – BC NDP government funds an all-expenses-paid “safe supply” conference on Pender Island organized in part by BCCDC contractor Eris Nyx and attended by future DULF founders Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, along with senior health official Dr. Mark Tyndall. Conference explicitly discusses setting up peer-run illicit drug buyer clubs/compassion clubs and “verified dealer” models.
2020
June 23, 2020 – DULF’s first public illicit drug giveaway (100 packages of cocaine and opium). Event immediately celebrated and linked on the official BCCSU website (a BC Ministry of Health-funded agency).
2021
2021 fiscal year – Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA), under BC Ministry of Health, begins direct funding of DULF (at least $540,000 over 2021/22–2023/24), officially for drug checking and overdose prevention site operations.
Mid-July 2021– Vancouver City Councillor Jean Swanson (later donor to Kalicum/Nyx legal defense) hands out heroin alongside DULF at a public event; event later amplified on the BCCSU website.
August 31, 2021– DULF and VANDU formally submit joint application to Health Canada for a Section 56 exemption to legally store and distribute cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine via compassion clubs (application later denied).
2022
March 2022 – Health Canada formally denies DULF/VANDU exemption request because the drugs are from illegal sources. DULF publicly declares it will proceed anyway.
March 2022 (same day as denial) – DULF distributes cocaine, heroin, and meth on the front steps of then-Health Minister Adrian Dix’s constituency office and mails illegal drugs to drug-user groups across BC.
June 2022 – VANDU and other drug-user representatives openly describe DULF’s dark-web drug purchasing, testing, and distribution model to the all-party BC Legislative Health Committee (chaired by Niki Sharma, then Parliamentary Secretary to Attorney General David Eby). Sharma asks detailed follow-up questions about how compassion clubs operate and their benefits.
September 6, 2022 – Federal Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett tours DULF/VANDU compassion club and fulfillment centre (one day before further legislative testimony).
September 7, 2022– Drug-user representatives again praise DULF’s peer-led “safe supply” model to the same Legislative Health Committee; Niki Sharma asks for more examples of compassion clubs. Hawkfeather Peterson (Northern Health regional peer coordinator and recipient of provincial funding) explicitly names and endorses DULF.
September 28, 2022 – DULF celebrates Minister Carolyn Bennett’s visit by publicly distributing 10.5 g of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine and issues a press release applauding her “bravery” and “political leadership.”
2023
October 2023 – Police raid DULF premises; Kalicum and Nyx arrested for trafficking.
Oct. 31, 2023 – Vancouver Coastal Health finally terminates DULF funding (after raid).
2025 (recent)November 2025 – After Kalicum and Nyx are convicted of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking. Premier David Eby claims the government cut funding “as soon as we learned that DULF was involved in illegal activity.”