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Petra Schulz

@msthpetra.bsky.social

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#Activist fighting deadly drug policy. 🏳️‍⚧️ mom and ally. Co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm. Member of 4B Harm Reduction Society Guest on Treaty 6 #HarmReduction #TransRightsAreHumanRights #YouAreSafeWithMe #Canada #Alberta

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · Apr 30

11 years ago, my son Danny died. He was one of the early victims of the toxic drug crisis, one of over 50,000.
This video, showing Danny as a young chef, gives you a glimpse into what we have lost.
Keep fighting for #harmreduction. It would have saved him.
youtu.be/DeivXb4QDJs?...

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YouTube video by ShawTVEdmonton

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 4h

This sexist policy will affect more cis-gender girls and transgender. Any girl that is taller, stronger, and tougher might get singled out.
Also, good way to take out the best players of the opposing team for a few weeks.
Conservatives are preoccupied with girls genitals. This is sick.
#ABpoli

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 1d

According to provincial documents, if someone wants to challenge an athlete’s gender, they can do so.

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 23h

Every Canadian woman should be screaming at the top of their lungs about this but because it is Alberta and Albertan women don’t apparently care, no one is hearing about it.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 1d

According to provincial documents, if someone wants to challenge an athlete’s gender, they can do so.

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

xtramagazine.com

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 22h

"When the baby emerges from the placenta it absorbs Tylenol residue from the esophagus. If that happens near a WiFi router anyone in the room who is vaccinated is pretty much guaranteed to catch autism" - RFK Jr

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 20h

Think of the impact this would have on the pt's family, wondering if an open local ED could have made a difference?

We understand that we cannot have an ED in every town, but closures are regularly occurring in places like: Hinton, Edson, Lac La Biche, Oyen... and many more
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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 1d

Mandatory recovery treatment doesn't solve homelessness, building affordable housing does.

I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 21h

You always hear people talking about illegal drugs and those who use them.
However you rarely hear people talking about the massive alcohol consumption problem we have, and just how much damage it causes our world ....

If there was ever a "gateway" drug to other drugs, it's ALCOHOL!

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 3d

@cssdpedmonton.bsky.social launched a drug policy information campaign leading up to the Edmonton municipal election. The goal of the campaign is to inform voters about candidates’ positions on the toxic drug poisoning crisis and drug policy issues.

cssdp.org/chapters/edm...

Edmonton

The Edmonton chapter's recent work focuses on involuntary care and political advocacy.

cssdp.org

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 1d

Glad you went to see Wilson and share your personal and professional lived experience.
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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 3d

When the Alberta government claims that deaths from the toxic drug crisis are decreasing or stabilizing, take a look at this graph — it tells a very different story.

Involuntary care won’t fix this.
Compassion, harm reduction, on-demand voluntary treatment options, and real supports will.

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Bar chart showing the monthly counts of drug poisoning deaths in Alberta from January 2016 to June 2025. The chart shows a steady increase over time, with deaths rising sharply around mid-2020 and peaking in several months between 2021 and 2025, reaching highs around 80–90 deaths per month.

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 3d

Update 09Oct25-AB
Annual Toxic Drug Deaths
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP/SCS YQL closure)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,136 (UCP)
24: 1,486 (UCP)
25: 690 (Jan/Jun)
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12,698 deaths since 2016!

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 3d

Designated driver - is harm reduction.

Bike helmets - is harm reduction.

Seat belts - is harm reduction.

Supervised consumption sites - is harm reduction.

All these approaches cannot stop accidents from happening but can definitely reduce the harms that are caused by them....

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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 2d

“It might cause a bit of angst to put some of the stuff out in the public domain but, hey, we do live in a democracy,” he said.

Basic indicators of [health/education/addiction] system performance should be publicly accessible. But increasingly in Alberta they aren't.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Alberta stopped tracking class sizes. Then it changed its funding formula. Now, it's a teachers' strike issue | CBC News

Get a rough idea of how much Alberta’s teaching staff has grown compared to how much student enrolment has grown since the funding formula for school boards was changed.

www.cbc.ca

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RECLAIM @reclaimcollective.bsky.social · 2d

Check out this research on Safer Opioid Supply #SOS program closures that our cofounder Andrzej is a co-author on
👇👇👇
harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 2d

The study shows toxic drug composition drives overdose risk, proving this is a poisoning crisis and not just addiction crisis. Real change needs local data, lived experience, and harm-reduction policies working together.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists find brain circuit that traps alcohol users in the vicious cycle of addiction

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a tiny brain region called the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT)...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 2d

Send a letter to your ucp mla!

www.friendsofmedicare.org/rebuild_our_...

Rebuild Our Healthcare

Alberta's Healthcare System is Being Dismantled. In the past year, 72% of Albertans reported a decline in healthcare quality. We need to send a message loud and clear to our leaders: it’s time to rebu...

www.friendsofmedicare.org

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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 1d

We're coming to a town near YOU!

1st stop: Lethbridge! Join FOM & @pfparks.bsky.social Nov. 2 for an urgent townhall conversation about issues Albertans are experiencing in our health care system & solutions to make our lives & health better.

➕Info & RSVP: www.friendsofmedicare.org/healthcarele...

Red text graphic: "An urgent conversation: Public Health Care in Lethbridge. Join Friends of Medicare & Emergency Physician, Dr. Paul Parks: Sunday, November 2. Doors 2:30 pm, Townhall 3:00 pm. Southminster United Church (1011 4th Ave S). friendsofmedicare.org/HealthCareLethbridge"

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if the alcohol you're drinking was unregulated?

Then you would understand what it means to be poisoned by the toxic drug supply.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brazil: Third person dies from methanol poisoning in São Paulo

Authorities are investigating the source of the tainted drinks, which have affected more than 200 people.

www.bbc.com

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CSSDP Edmonton @cssdpedmonton.bsky.social · 1d

Part 1: Survey Results from Métis and Nakota Isga

#yegcc #cdnpoli #yegelections #yegelections2025 #yegmunicipal

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 1d

regulating drugs for public health

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-alcohol-warning-9.6933765

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

A Senate bill proposes putting warnings on alcohol packaging, similar to what is already on packs of cigarettes.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"The death penalty doesn't prevent crime."

"It doesn't deliver justice. It only repeats violence, in the name of the law."

"We won't give up until the death penalty is abolished everywhere."
#USA #Singapore #Kuwait #Iran #SaudiArabia #Incarceration

Amid Global Calls to End Capital Punishment, US Set to Execute 7 Men This Month | Common Dreams

"We won’t give up until the death penalty is abolished everywhere," said Amnesty International on World Day Against the Death Penalty. "Change is possible."

www.commondreams.org

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 2d

In Ab @drugdatadecoded.ca tracks and had found numbers go up by 20 to 30% after they are first reported.

Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 2d

The same fingings over and over: 79% men, most aged 30 to 59 from fentanyl.

Only regulated alternatives and rapid access to evidence-based voluntary treatment will change this.

Yet all levels of government are ok seing the same stats every month.

#bcpoli #drugsky
@davidebybc.bsky.social

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

153 people died in July, 149 in August from unregulated drugs in B.C.: coroner

British Columbia’s coroners service say 153 people died in July from unregulated toxic drugs and another 149 deaths occurred in August.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

devastating photo of ongoing indifference to mass social murder

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

153 people died in July, 149 in August from unregulated drugs in B.C.: coroner

British Columbia’s coroners service say 153 people died in July from unregulated toxic drugs and another 149 deaths occurred in August.

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Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research @uviccisur.bsky.social · 2d

"The proposed bill also would require clear labels stating what constitutes a standard drink, the number of drinks per container, and the number of drinks that Health Canada considers a health risk." www.timescolonist.com/national-new...

Senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging

OTTAWA — Sen. Patrick Brazeau is trying a second time to pass legislation that would add cancer warning labels to alcohol packaging. The Senate is studying Bill S-202, a revival of legislation Brazeau...

www.timescolonist.com

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 2d

In 1936 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist convicted of high treason for exposing German re-armament. At the time of the award he was in a concentration camp. As a result Hitler banned any German from accepting a Nobel Prize and created his own German prize.

Ossietzky in the Esterwegen concentration camp in 1934.

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