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Ok, Canadians. You know what to do. Tighten our belts. Strengthen our resolve. Show our unity. Demonstrate our national pride. Support our real allies. Put Canada first forever and always.

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The UCP's forced treatment continues to receive criticism... The Canadian Public Health Association "urges the Alberta government to abandon this coercive and ineffective approach & instead adopt evidence-based harm reduction strategies & voluntary treatment options." #abpoli

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

So... A UCP Minister stepped down because of conerns on government procurement, a train wreck of a budget with at least 1 UCP MLA condemning it... What else did we miss? Also, see you at noon for a special episode/update! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

submitted 16 hours ago • 135 comments

RAAC (so-called “rapid access addiction clinic”) at St. Paul’s in Vancouver - an example of social murder in practice bsky.app/profile/tsk.... #drugsky

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Imagine if you lost your job in Alberta from the effects of the tariffs. Premier Smith would be taking out a loan, on your unemployed behalf, to give up to $750 to everyone else who still has a job. This tax cut would not help those that will be most affected by tariffs. #ableg #abpoli

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

There is no cure for measles and no vitamin or supplement that prevents measles or its complications. There is a vaccine that is up to 99% effective at preventing measles infection, though.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

One thing I do not want to get lost are changes under Bill 38, Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act. It changes what the OCYA can and must report. Her office must report on deaths under the age of 18, but will only have discretion to report up to the age of 20 minus a day...

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Media Release: February 27, 2025 Alberta’s proposed involuntary treatment legislation a threat to public health #abpoli #HumanRights #CPHA #DrugPoli www.cpha.ca/alberta-invo...

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As Canada installs a fentanyl czar, it is also: -closing safe drug consumption sites -gutting drug decriminalization -forcing drug users into treatment -restricting safe supply With Trudeau leaving, I wrote about the end of progressive drug policy: hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/manisha-kr...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This is necropolitics and There is no way a men's institution can keep women safe inside. Trans Women are women #fool #dumptrump

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"Other changes proposed by the province include fines of up to $1 million for using and selling drugs."

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Saskatchewan is "considering involuntary addiction treatment centres as in [.] Alberta, where Premier Danielle Smith [.] plans to spend $180 million [.] to build two such centres." "[T]reatment only works when it is voluntary, accessible and rooted in evidence-based care." #harmreduction #cdnpoli

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

🧵 Live-skeet thread! For media, the question to ask the Premier: Given how frequently Marshall Smith is named in the AHS procurement allegations and the credit he is given as Alberta Drug Model architect, why not include the deals he advanced at Mental Health & Addiction in any investigation? 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

submitted 10 days ago • 1163 comments

Homeless people risk freezing to death and most of us don't know how to help. We can't force the homeless to go indoors. But, as one expert suggests, we can 'be kind, and treat them with respect,' by Bruce Deachman ottawacitizen.com/news/deachma... via @ottawacitizen.com #homelessness

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Timeline of opinion pieces in Globe & National Post advancing a central premise that forced abstinence is necessary or positive. Note BC election, Oct/24. No body of evidence supports forced abstinence in reducing drug harms. It is, however, demonstrably eugenic. 1/ breachmedia.ca/media-politi...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Nice Americans, a plea: There are many of you here. Hello. Please stop imagining the benefits of Canada being consumed by America. Instead advocate against this horrific notion. Wasting time imagining it happen is time you can better spend fighting against it. Best, Paul, a Canadian

submitted 17 days ago • 137 comments

The first brick at Stonewall threw itself apparently

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Alberta Crown Prosecutor has dropped my Trespass charge from the May 9 protest at the University of Calgary. We were set for court on Feb 24.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Since Trump’s tariffs, Canada’s so-called ‘internal trade barriers’ have been all over the news. One problem? The crisis is fake—it’s a right-wing ploy to gut key regulations. Stuart Trew of the @policyalternatives.ca exposes the con. breachmedia.ca/freakout-abo...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Absolute must-read piece on the way media is manufacturing consent for forced treatment from Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca and Zoe Dodd @zoedodd.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/media-politi...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, we need something that's more catchy than "AHS Scandal", because it's not AHS that did the bad thing, and it's not very catchy UCP Fraudfest 2025? Mraichegate? Unethical Contracts and Procurements Scandal? Pitch your snappiest ideas so that this doesn't die in the newsroom! #ableg #abpoli

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

"the debate around expanding forced abstinence is about how far we are willing to go in dehumanizing people who use drugs in order to sustain a violent carceral system rebranded as “compassionate.” #cdnpoli

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an interesting wrinkle to the Dodgy Contracts Scandal is the relationship between MHCare and outgoing EPS police chief and incoming deputy minister of executive council Dale McFee. MHCare was a title sponsor to Dale's "Safety In Our Cities Conference" last year.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

The Mentzelopoulos lawsuit says Danielle Smith used private detectives etc to try to catch online critic and informed leaker Hansard the Cat. I was told, unconfirmed, the Edmonton Police Service's Organizational Security Unit was involved. Here's a FOIP I filed in October and the EPS response. 1

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Important thread to read through if you live in BC.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The gap between First Nations and non-First Nations life expectancy in Alberta is 19 years, and wider now than any other point on record. This is a provincial and national emergency. #ableg www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

Antivaxx parents are child abusers

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

#protest

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If you're not in the United States and wondering why Americans aren't protesting... Americans ARE protesting. A LOT. There have been massive protests every day this week in multiple major cities - for Palestine, for trans rights, for immigrants and against ICE, against Musk.

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

Found in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada February 2025 #RedDeer

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Books that get destroyed by your hate are immediately replaced. Their authors and publishers will make more money. I suspect your hate doesn't know about these unintended consequences.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Ricochet senior investigative reporter Brandi Morin was on CBC Radio’s Ideas last night to deliver a lecture on her work covering Indigenous stories, and the failures of reconciliation. Read about it below, the audio link is embedded in the article. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

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submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

You are hired!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Over my dead body will Canada become the 51st state. Shay thought #3 #RedDawn

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Drug poisoning alert for Edmonton. Test your drugs (Spectrum), go low & slow, have naloxone & don't use alone, call/text NORS 1-888-688-6677 (free virtual consumption service) or use SCS (Spady, Radius). Naloxone will reverse fentanyl and nitazene poisoning. #yeg #yegcc #abhealth

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