Thomas King withdraws next novel from publication after revelation he is not part Cherokee

After political backlash forced B.C. health authorities to pull funding and the Vancouver storefront they had provided to the two operators of an illicit-drug compassion club, Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx convened a meeting with club members and representatives from the local health authority. The program, which for more than a year provided 43 members with access to lab-checked heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, would no longer be able to operate, Mr. Kalicum told the group in October, 2023, as he recounted in a B.C. courtroom on Tuesday.