Euan Thomson
@drugdatadecoded.ca
Investigations on the Alberta Recovery Model: www.drugdatadecoded.ca
✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee
PhD Microbiology
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✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee
PhD Microbiology
Banner: Access to information in Alberta
Icon: Headshot of me in blue t-shirt
Got anything to say about the finding that supervised consumption sites reduce crime, or the decades of evidence that cops do not?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Crime rates declined over time near Toronto supervised drug consumption sites, study suggests | CBC News
A new study has found that overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites were not associated with overall increases in crime rates in Toronto neighbourhoods.
www.cbc.ca
January 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Got anything to say about the finding that supervised consumption sites reduce crime, or the decades of evidence that cops do not?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
He liked their ten percent off! Shame they weren’t very discreet.
January 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
He liked their ten percent off! Shame they weren’t very discreet.
If he folded so easily on his own business, imagine what people could make him do to X
January 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
If he folded so easily on his own business, imagine what people could make him do to X
Where were you when Michael Brown was killed by officer Darren Wilson?
Here’s what Evan Solomon and Mark Carney were doing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/cbc...
Here’s what Evan Solomon and Mark Carney were doing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/cbc...
CBC host Evan Solomon fired after Star investigation finds he took secret cut of art deals
CBC journalist facilitated sales of art to wealthy Canadians he dealt with in his job — including one buyer who had no idea Solomon was collecting a commission.
www.thestar.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Where were you when Michael Brown was killed by officer Darren Wilson?
Here’s what Evan Solomon and Mark Carney were doing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/cbc...
Here’s what Evan Solomon and Mark Carney were doing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/cbc...
Medicine Hat needs to have a conversation with Saskatoon about how to run services on private dollars, like Prairie Harm Reduction. This may increasingly have to be the model until the UCP is unelected/recalled/behind bars.
January 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Medicine Hat needs to have a conversation with Saskatoon about how to run services on private dollars, like Prairie Harm Reduction. This may increasingly have to be the model until the UCP is unelected/recalled/behind bars.
We've already stopped the UCP from closing Safeworks in Calgary twice.
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
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 5:20 PM
We've already stopped the UCP from closing Safeworks in Calgary twice.
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
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/...
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 5:20 PM
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/...
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/...
Like everything coming out of Alberta, all of this is probably worse than it appears because of the government's unrelenting tendency for secrecy and opacity.
On that note, the Ministry FOIP office refused to give me the DORS data in spreadsheet form – I had to convert it from 44 images 😀. 7/
On that note, the Ministry FOIP office refused to give me the DORS data in spreadsheet form – I had to convert it from 44 images 😀. 7/
January 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Like everything coming out of Alberta, all of this is probably worse than it appears because of the government's unrelenting tendency for secrecy and opacity.
On that note, the Ministry FOIP office refused to give me the DORS data in spreadsheet form – I had to convert it from 44 images 😀. 7/
On that note, the Ministry FOIP office refused to give me the DORS data in spreadsheet form – I had to convert it from 44 images 😀. 7/
The Alberta government is potentially a court order away from seizing these data, according to the privacy policies of DORS and MRP.
This is particularly alarming given the new Compassionate Intervention Act forcing abstinence on people who use drugs. 6/
drugdatadecoded.ca/province-to-...
This is particularly alarming given the new Compassionate Intervention Act forcing abstinence on people who use drugs. 6/
drugdatadecoded.ca/province-to-...
Province to abandon My Recovery Plan amid Auditor General snooping
Alberta's Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is quietly terminating its contract with a personal data-harvesting app and replacing it with a publicly-owned 'bed availability dashboard.' The move ...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The Alberta government is potentially a court order away from seizing these data, according to the privacy policies of DORS and MRP.
This is particularly alarming given the new Compassionate Intervention Act forcing abstinence on people who use drugs. 6/
drugdatadecoded.ca/province-to-...
This is particularly alarming given the new Compassionate Intervention Act forcing abstinence on people who use drugs. 6/
drugdatadecoded.ca/province-to-...
So what was all this app promotion by the government –– up to millions on advertising campaigns! –– actually serving?
Like My Recovery Plan, it appears that the govt sought to centralize personal data. Between DORS and MRP, the govt could now gain access to info of >10,000 people who use drugs. 5/
Like My Recovery Plan, it appears that the govt sought to centralize personal data. Between DORS and MRP, the govt could now gain access to info of >10,000 people who use drugs. 5/
January 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
So what was all this app promotion by the government –– up to millions on advertising campaigns! –– actually serving?
Like My Recovery Plan, it appears that the govt sought to centralize personal data. Between DORS and MRP, the govt could now gain access to info of >10,000 people who use drugs. 5/
Like My Recovery Plan, it appears that the govt sought to centralize personal data. Between DORS and MRP, the govt could now gain access to info of >10,000 people who use drugs. 5/
The government even buried a report showing that the drug toxicity crisis was rapidly swinging toward unhoused communities and that immediate intervention was necessary.
That 2021 report wasn't released until early 2025, months after I submitted a FOIP for it. 4/
drugdatadecoded.ca/edmonton-set...
That 2021 report wasn't released until early 2025, months after I submitted a FOIP for it. 4/
drugdatadecoded.ca/edmonton-set...
Edmonton set opioid poisoning records while Province quietly hid medical examiner review
Edmonton EMS dispatches for opioid poisoning have hit their highest weekly count ever. While other provincial governments issue warnings, Alberta has been hiding a key mortality report that could have...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The government even buried a report showing that the drug toxicity crisis was rapidly swinging toward unhoused communities and that immediate intervention was necessary.
That 2021 report wasn't released until early 2025, months after I submitted a FOIP for it. 4/
drugdatadecoded.ca/edmonton-set...
That 2021 report wasn't released until early 2025, months after I submitted a FOIP for it. 4/
drugdatadecoded.ca/edmonton-set...
Back in 2021, it was becoming clear that the crisis was beginning to impact unhoused communities far more aggressively.
People were calling for expansion of supervised consumption, instead of all this attention and over $1 million – the annual operating cost of an SCS – on an untested app. 3/
People were calling for expansion of supervised consumption, instead of all this attention and over $1 million – the annual operating cost of an SCS – on an untested app. 3/
January 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Back in 2021, it was becoming clear that the crisis was beginning to impact unhoused communities far more aggressively.
People were calling for expansion of supervised consumption, instead of all this attention and over $1 million – the annual operating cost of an SCS – on an untested app. 3/
People were calling for expansion of supervised consumption, instead of all this attention and over $1 million – the annual operating cost of an SCS – on an untested app. 3/