Euan Thomson
@drugdatadecoded.ca
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🧵 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/
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 What’s Wrong With Rehab?

The lack of accountability in the “Alberta Model” for dealing with drug use
By Euan thomson March 1, 2024

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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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bakoon.bsky.social
this bong rip is for you boys. cheers on the frameworks
nature.com
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
A Nobel medal
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heterodoxthis.bsky.social
We have a creepy stalker in the San Francisco Bay Area who uses these to produce homeless exploitation clips for social media. We are only at the beginning stages of how these glasses will be used to harm people.
drugdatadecoded.ca
Sounds like a story about a good dog and a cop who has a grandmother
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All canines are beautiful
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harmscommitted.com
"[T]he distribution of sterile tools for drug consumption is now being formally cut back at supervised consumption sites in Alberta through the government's refusal to provide backstop funding as demand for supplies accelerates."
#Saskatchewan #Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare
Saskatchewan government funded two advisory reviews by ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group, a top recipient of AB recovery contracts, was funded for two reports on operations of Saskatchewan recovery centres. Their outcomes are creating a new beachhead for the…
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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theserfstv.bsky.social
"You are a transformative President" ~Mark Carney

-Frequently threatens to annex or invade Canada.
-Waging a war against his own people.
-Genocide of Palestinians.
-Killing Venezuelan citizens.
-Tariff wars and silencing free speech.
-Targeting LGBTQ+ people, minorities, and immigrants.
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readtheorchard.org
In which Jason Kenney freely admits that he sees Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE as models for suppressing dissent.
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hilaryagro.com
This misses some material analysis. Connection to land is essential for revolution. Irish people, Indians, Algerians—they fought not just for their "country" but for their land. In settler colonies like the US, our culture is to just move/take over somewhere else instead of fighting to fix our home
asharangappa.bsky.social
We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
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matthewhaybrown.bsky.social
Indigenous people are 5 percent of Canada's population but have made up more than half its wildfire evacuees this year while their generational knowledge of forest stewardship is largely ignored. Indigenous Services Canada says “more work needs to be done”

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Canada’s historic wildfire season hits Indigenous people hardest
Indigenous people make up 5 percent of Canada’s population but have accounted for more than half its wildfire evacuees this year.
www.washingtonpost.com
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drugdatadecoded.ca
If Alberta defunded private schools and cut the tax loopholes, those poor kids might stand a chance of not growing up to be raging fascists.
notjustdave.bsky.social
Even ol' Don is drawing attention to the difference in budget increases between private and public schools: 10.3% for private, and only 4.5% for public schools.

$461 million for private schools in 2025/26.
Braid: Lavish private-school funding infuriates teachers, spooks government
Spanking spat last week was caused by student Evan Li hitting a sore spot on eve of teacher strike — lush funding for private schools.
calgaryherald.com
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Canadian cops are also primed for this type of violence whenever the chance arises, speaking from personal experience. We are fast approaching our last chance to make disarmament, detasking and defunding easy on ourselves.
everycourthouse.bsky.social
“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”
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ROSC Solutions Group launched five businesses with Alberta public funding. Its CEO is connected to Marshall Smith, subject of corruption allegations in the health care scandal.

ROSC Solutions Group is advising the SK government on drug policy. What are they up to?
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Saskatchewan government funded two advisory reviews by ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group, a top recipient of AB recovery contracts, was funded for two reports on operations of Saskatchewan recovery centres. Their outcomes are creating a new beachhead for the privatize...
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ROSC Solutions Group launched five businesses with Alberta public funding. Its CEO is connected to Marshall Smith, subject of corruption allegations in the health care scandal.

ROSC Solutions Group is advising the SK government on drug policy. What are they up to?
drugdatadecoded.ca/saskatchewan...
Saskatchewan government funded two advisory reviews by ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group, a top recipient of AB recovery contracts, was funded for two reports on operations of Saskatchewan recovery centres. Their outcomes are creating a new beachhead for the privatize...
drugdatadecoded.ca
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joanbaxter.bsky.social
Mi’kmaw land protectors on Hunter’s Mountain in Cape Breton, Unama’ki, are determined to stop clearcutting & destruction of moose habitat on unceded Mi’kmaw lands. They say they’re not moving, even tho N.S. Premier Tim Houston’s govt has passed a law to criminalize such encampments on Crown land.
A red and white sign propped against logs on Hunter’s Mountain in Cape Breton by Mi’kmaw land protectors reads “NOTICE! NO TRESPASSING Mi’kmaq Hunting Territory” and “visitors must be permitted. violators will be prosecuted.”
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tinyteerex.bsky.social
Yet another reason #Abolition is a must. #ACAB
The so-called "good cops" do this shit regularly and without hesitation. Policing is violence. Taking away people's essential items/PPE is violence. Vote for candidates who act like human beings, not those salivating to release the hounds!
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The reason for the 'overspending' in this program claimed by the UCP is that demand for these supplies increased.

Part of the demand increase is certainly related to mass decampments, particularly in Edmonton, where thousands of tents and millions of lbs of belongings have been stolen by cops.
Graph showing a more than quadrupling in distribution of stem pipes and bubble pipes at a supervised consumption site in Edmonton, from. August 2024 to April 2025.
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tinyteerex.bsky.social
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The purpose o
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The title isn’t very exciting, I know, but Prairie Harm Reduction’s Kayla DeMong delivered some crushing blows to the Saskatchewan Party for this piece.
I hope you read it for those even if you’re tired of hearing about Alberta drug war profiteers.
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ROSC Solutions Group, a top recipient of AB recovery contracts, was funded for two reports on operations of Saskatchewan recovery centres. Their outcomes are creating a new beachhead for the privatized, abstinence-focused 'recovery-oriented system of care.'
drugdatadecoded.ca/saskatchewan...
Saskatchewan government funded two advisory reviews by ROSC Solutions Group
ROSC Solutions Group, a top recipient of Alberta recovery contracts, was granted funding to access operational data of Saskatchewan recovery centres through government advisory reports. Their outcomes...
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her