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Euan Thomson
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Investigations on the Alberta Recovery Model: www.drugdatadecoded.ca

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · Sep 26
🧵 My story, "What's Wrong With Rehab?" won Gold for Long-Form at Alberta Magazine Awards last night!

Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social & all who shared expertise: Brandon Shaw, Esther Tailfeathers, @ehyshka.bsky.social, David Hodgins & recovery workers. 1/
albertaviews.ca/whats-wrong-...
What’s Wrong With Rehab? The lack of accountability in the “Alberta Model” for dealing with drug use By Euan thomson March 1, 2024 A A A On a frigid February night in Edmonton, I’m downtown with 4B Harm Reduction. The street outreach conducted by this non-profit society is time-tested—scour the city’s forgotten corners for people who need support. On any given shift, they might respond to drug poisonings, frostbite, heatstroke, hunger, fatigue-induced psychosis or the many barriers to accessing shelter. Mostly 4B aims to keep hope alive despite society’s structural neglect. Tonight we’ve gathered in an underground LRT station passageway. Beside us, a long stretch of yellow fencing separates us from a lone electrical outlet, a rare treasure in public spaces. The outlet was recently deemed too popular among the city’s unhoused citizens—hence the fence. Through slurred speech, Brandon Shaw fawns over my toque, which reads “Hoot ’n’ Blow” beside an owl logo. I offer it as a trade for his, but he declines. Someone later explains Shaw was afraid he’d picked up lice in the shelters. He was protecting me.
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parismarx.com
Not pissing off Elon Musk and Canada’s right-wing tech bros is far more important to Evan Solomon than protecting Canadians from deepfake sexual abuse and acting on child sexual abuse material.
rachelgilmore.bsky.social Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 9h
The concept of posting “Canada is not considering a ban of X” as a QUOTE of your post condemning deepfake sexual abuse happening **ON X** of women and kids………….
Evan Solomon posts, quoting his post condemning deepfake sexual abuse, that “Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X.”
January 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
this mf a Mii
theserfstv.bsky.social The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16h
Should be bigger news that the bureau chief of Toronto Sun is celebrating an unarmed woman being executed in the street
Bryan Passifiume "in this case the far left ended up catching a few well deserved bullets for their miscalculation " Bryan Ottawa bureau chief
January 11, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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vmcntosh.bsky.social
Woke up this morning to Canada’s Ministry of AI issuing either big tech can do what they want, or a high level of government is afraid of a white supremacist pedophile billionaire.

Sorry, but if you won’t take a hard line against CSAM, what’s the point?
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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timaltmann.bsky.social
If Brazil can do it so can the UK - assuming they have the guts to ban paedophilia

Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
The platform agrees to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, pays fines and takes down user accounts that the court had ordered removed
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
The concept of posting “Canada is not considering a ban of X” as a QUOTE of your post condemning deepfake sexual abuse happening **ON X** of women and kids………….
Evan Solomon posts, quoting his post condemning deepfake sexual abuse, that “Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X.”
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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timbousquet.bsky.social
Folks, the "Minister of AI" has the moral backbone of a sleazy backroom art dealer.
A tweet from Evan Solomon reads: "Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X."
January 11, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
SCOOP 🧵
The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances.

The app isn't used 41% of days.

Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.1...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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spinster777.bsky.social
"In fact, reports of robberies, thefts over $5,000, bicycle thefts, and thefts from motor vehicles all plateaued or declined.

As for auto thefts and assaults, the data showed no consistent association with the sites, the study found."
drugdatadecoded.ca Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21h
What can people do right now?

Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!

Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Claims that crime spikes around supervised drug consumption sites unfounded: study | CBC News
As Manitoba mulls a probable location for the province's first supervised consumption site, researchers say similar sites in Toronto were generally not tied to increases in local crime.
www.cbc.ca
January 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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bumblebike.bsky.social
@drugdatadecoded.ca FYI - AB govt is now preventing municipalities from accepting *federal funds* for programs they don’t agree with.

chatnewstoday.ca/2026/01/09/s...
SafeLink Alberta’s Medicine Hat daytime drop-in service at risk of closure after funding loss
SafeLink Alberta has stated that due to a loss of funding, its daytime drop-in services in Medicine Hat are at...
chatnewstoday.ca
January 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
drugdatadecoded.ca
SCOOP 🧵
The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances.

The app isn't used 41% of days.

Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.1...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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eschatonblog.com
Then one Palestinian flag later: sadly, the left has ruined our protest again
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
If US Democrats don't get more aggressive in opposing this, they will be just as complicit in the eyes of the world as Trump
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not because if we don't it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. If we don't do it the easy way we're gonna do it the hard way."
January 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
As the right-wing meme page Canada Proud was posting calls to "DEFUND THE CBC," the same PR firm behind it was being indirectly funded by CBC journalists’ own union dues.

Yeah. And that's not all.

So I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about it:
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
ROSC Solutions Group, owned by a close affiliate of Marshall Smith, appears tied to Alberta’s CorruptCare scandal through a detox contract run through Métis Nation of Alberta.

By @charlesrusnell.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions | The Tyee
Not long after Addiction Ministry representatives toured the property, Mraiche bought it. Now it’s a detox centre leased to Métis Nation of Alberta.
thetyee.ca
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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equalityalec.bsky.social
Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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kimsiever.bsky.social
The next time someone tells you that business owners take on all the risk, send them this link.

www.richmond-news.com/world-news/m...
Mound of garbage collapses at Philippine landfill, burying and trapping 38 people and killing 1
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers in low-slung buildings at a landfill in the Philippines, killing one person, injuring a dozen and leaving 38 oth...
www.richmond-news.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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charlesrusnell.bsky.social
Deputy Minister of Mental Health and Addictions tours the building. Four months later Sam Mraiche buys it and leases it for an addiction centre for nearly $500K a year.
Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions | The Tyee
Not long after Addiction Ministry representatives toured the property, Mraiche bought it. Now it’s a detox centre leased to Métis Nation of Alberta.
thetyee.ca
January 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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jameswsthomson.com
Not seeing any CBC folks sharing this publicly, but I know they are talking about it internally. It's ok to be mad that your money went to the same people that are calling for your heads on spikes! Why is everyone so afraid all the time.
The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it
“It's like the Trump administration promoting Biden in an ad campaign,” said Ahmed Al-Rawi, Director of the Disinformation Project at Simon Fraser University. “This is unreal, like science fiction.”
www.nationalobserver.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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carrietait.bsky.social
Alberta Health Services' former CEO alleges she has been subject to an intimidation campaign since suing the govt.

Athana Mentzelopoulos speaks about it publically for the first time -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social
Former head of AHS says she faced campaign of intimidation since lawsuit against Alberta government
Athana Mentzelopoulos says she was targeted by the same individuals who were accused of harassing a potential witness in the case
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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msthpetra.bsky.social
The AB gov defunds arm reduction programs, resulting in higher death rates and ambulance calls, while funnelling money to so-called recovery programs that are now plagued by scandal.
drugdatadecoded.ca Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d
Rusnell’s reporting reaffirms the urgent need to include all major Mental Health & Addictions contracts in investigations of the CorruptCare allegations:
My Recovery Plan app, all recovery communities, and all five ROSC Solutions Group businesses, for starters.
drugdatadecoded.ca/marshall-smi...
Marshall Smith allegations should prompt full procurement investigation
The Globe & Mail is reporting top-level allegations that Marshall Smith, former chief of staff to the Alberta premier, interfered in AHS procurement. If a forensic investigation proceeds, it must exte...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM
drugdatadecoded.ca
ROSC Solutions Group, owned by a close affiliate of Marshall Smith, appears tied to Alberta’s CorruptCare scandal through a detox contract run through Métis Nation of Alberta.

By @charlesrusnell.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions | The Tyee
Not long after Addiction Ministry representatives toured the property, Mraiche bought it. Now it’s a detox centre leased to Métis Nation of Alberta.
thetyee.ca
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911 "They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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andiewinnipeg.bsky.social
New documents show while the University of Alberta was under mass budget cuts that resulted in layoffs and a 100% cut to child care funding, the president was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel

Expenses have doubled since he took office
U of A president's expenses higher than previous president and other institutions - The Gateway
President and Vice-chancellor Bill Flanagan spent $506,901.01 on travel and hospitality in his first term, higher than other presidents.
thegatewayonline.ca
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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carrietait.bsky.social
NEW: A podcaster accused of harassing a former AHS director said he was hired by an Edmonton lawyer, court docs show. That lawyer has ties to Sam Mraiche, who owns companies at the centre of Alberta's procurement controversy.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Podcaster accused of harassing former AHS board member says he was hired by Edmonton lawyer, court records show
Legal documents identify Bryan Ward, who has acted for Sam Mraiche on multiple occasions, as the lawyer
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
It's rare that LinkedIn serves me a gem but it did today via @pdan.bsky.social
A post from Paul Danhauser that says : Whenever AI bros say "get on the train or be left behind" I'm all like "There's child pornography on that train, I'm good y'all, worst of luck and please crash."
January 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM