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"Drug trafficking isn’t just a crime—it’s a symptom of deeper issues that no amount of fines or harsher laws will ever fix. You can’t legislate fear into people and expect them to recover. It doesn’t work. It never has. It never will." #SKpoli www.momsstoptheharm.com/blog/2025/3/...

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UCP MLA Scott Sinclair has condemned Danielle Smith's new budget and condemns the funds being directed towards major sports teams. Including the Oilers. Who Smith is on record saying she accepted elite tickets from. Huh. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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The UCP government wants to starve out striking education support workers. We can’t let them get away with it! That’s why the AFL is asking union locals from across the province, and across the country, to “adopt” a striker. afl.org/action-pages...

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We need en egg czar 🥚🥚👩‍✈️

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Now I've heard of everything! EGG'S are the new drugs being seized at the border. You can't make this stuff up 🤣😂 vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/27/u...

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Oh snap 🫰🏼! Guess who's back, back again? @TheBreakdownAB is back, tell a friend. Guess who's back, guess who's back Guess who's back, guess who's back, Guess who's back, guess who's back, Guess who's back. Na-na-na, na, na, na, na .... A seeker for the truth ‼️

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Five-Year Outcomes of a School-Based Personality-Focused Prevention Program on Adolescent Substance Use Disorder: A Cluster Randomized Trial. preventureprogram.com psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

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RCMP Commissioner says ‘no data’ that fentanyl is moving south in mass quantities. Mounties in Ottawa say U.S. don't differentiate contraband crossing the border and seized within border regions, by Colin Freeze www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

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At one point we were so desperate to save Ryan that we considered getting him declared incompetent. His caseworker advised against it. He told us he probably would not be declared incompetent and whether he was or not we would lose his trust. That trust was too valuable. I am glad we never lost it

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Forced treatment shatters trust and relationships. Thankfully Brandon rebuilt the bond with his amazing mom Angie, founder of @4bharmredux.bsky.social. She helped him to get well after 10 years of struggle and houselessness post forced care. #CareIsNotForced

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They all matter ❤️❤️❤️

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From @mamaadvocate.bsky.social Daughter Kenedee matters because she has me and a brother and a dad and people who love her. Her drug addiction doesn't define her! Changing the narrative and the face of addiction @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social @msthpetra.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZg...

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Did you know the CBC was started by a Conservative? In 1935, faced with the growing dominance of American media within Canada (sound familiar?) then Conservative Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, announced the creation of the CBC. He declared: “We will show the United States we are not an appendage.”

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A reflection on Canada and the dark times we are living in. We are no longer just playing shinny. The stakes are dangerously high. When Mike Myers gave the "elbows up" sign, we know what to do. Read my latest Substack here on why Canada won't break. charlieangus.substack.com/p/elbows-up?...

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A Message to Alberta Mental Health and Addictions Minister Dan Williams: A young woman with Schizophrenia was discharged to the streets—again. Her family can't keep her safe. Your system is failing, and you know it. When will you actually do something? markcherrington.substack.com/p/woman-with...

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hractoronto.net Support these people. Be engaged. You’ve got 29 days to prevent mass death.

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Harm reduction isn’t about nudging people toward abstinence—it’s about rejecting the idea that drug use makes someone disposable in the first place.

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The real moral failing isn’t drug use—it’s the policies that punish and harm people for it.

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I stand with Ukraine.

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This is a violation of human rights and we all should be concerned. Forced treatment doesn't work, causes trauma, and costs lives. Meanwhile people seeking treatment die while on waiting lists. #cdnpoli #DrugSky #4Ryan #MSTH

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Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

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I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

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What an unbelievable spectacle. Hard to watch all ten minutes of it, but makes you wonder how we can ever mitigate the tariffs threat coming from the White House when you see this kind of disrespect for a wartime leader. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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In my singular opinion, this isn’t just the worst government scandal I’ve ever seen in this province, I suspect history will prove it to be one of the worst in the country. They’re gonna need to audit every minister’s portfolio, at this point. Something seems terribly awry. 😳 #ableg

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Minister Dan Williams went on-air with @mattgalloway.bsky.social and called PhD-level academics giving their lives to publicly evaluate safer drug supply policy "community college graduates." The Alberta government is anti-science & anti-evidence. They have MAGA brain worms. pca.st/episode/c6aa...

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www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbc.... #abpoli #ableg #health #scandal #AHS

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The provincial government is proposing to make the investigation of deaths involving youth 18+ discretionary. Should we not be investigating these deaths more (rather than less)?+ www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/d...

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You can’t punish addiction away or legislate fear & expect recovery. Fear doesn’t heal - it isolates and harms. Criminalization, fines, & forced treatment have never worked and never will. Real change comes from compassion, evidence-based support, & addressing its root causes, not punishment. #ableg

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"Drug trafficking isn’t just a crime, it’s a symptom of deeper issues that no amount of fines or harsher laws will ever fix. You can’t punish addiction out of existence. You can’t legislate fear into people and expect them to recover. It doesn’t work. It never has" www.facebook.com/share/p/19cJ...

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Christina Gray: “The UCP fired everyone who knew about the audit. It looks like burying evidence.” Firing people (5 more today) and stopping the audit started by the CEO are totally not something you’d do unless you were covering up corruption. Crooks. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

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There is no evidence that shows that forced treatment helps. Good on @mattgalloway.bsky.social for pushing for answers from Williams who is the one that cracked a can of beer in the legislature a few years ago. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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#ableg has literally failed in their health care approach on every level in the province of Alberta. Health care is a mess right now and NOW they want us to believe that the Compassionate Intervention Act (forced detox and involuntary treatment) will be the cure to the toxic drug supply crisis.

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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/56170d2...

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~This is the effect Take Back Alberta can have at meetings in our libraries, municipalities and other places. We need to show up, be supportive and try to prevent a takeover by them. I have it from someone attending that this was in fact TBA! medium.com/@susanvhthom...

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"Police said Haber met the women through his involvement as a client, sponsor and later contract employee at Last Door starting in 2010." Last Door mgmt then allegedly tried to cover up allegations. Evidence shows Last Door will soon open Calgary Recovery Community. 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Can someone check on the orange blob? Full video link ⬆️

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We need to know what happens to children while in care AND after they leave care to identify ongoing issues. This is a cover-up, not red tapereduction. #ABpoli #ABleg

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I was desperate too, and I learned the hard way that forced treatment is unethical & ineffective. It ignores harm reduction & the need for consent. Instead of coercion, we need accessible, evidence-based care that people can go to when ready, without fear or punishment www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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I don't think it's remotely possible that Edmonton makes up 90% of provincial EMS activations for drug poisoning, at nearly 20X higher than Calgary. So while 154 dispatches in the latest week is extremely alarming for Edmonton, the next question is: what is going on with Calgary's data reporting?

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omny.fm/shows/cfax-1... One of our co-founders laying out the facts. #harmreduction #bcpoli

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Ousted Alberta Health Services boss warned of private surgery prices, documents show. Draft letter includes cost comparison between AHS, chartered surgical facilities, by @juliawong.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

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The overdose epidemic kills more than 100,000 Americans annually—many of them homeless. Grassroots organizations in Minneapolis are providing a model to change that. New photo essay from @timevansphoto.bsky.social in partnership with @economichardship.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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~Have you sent your letter to Smith? It's easy as pie! Please share!

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