Edmonton Police
Chief McFee's unforgivable sin
Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee has been signalling mass decampment for months. A scheduled Christmas massacre woke up the city to his intentions.
Euan Thomson
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
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The Alberta government is privatizing recovery data
The government gave sole source contracts to a private addiction recovery house in BC for an app that obscures patient outcome data from the public, the health system and the government.
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Recovering from a common misconception
Yet another study showing detox and residential treatment do not reduce drug poisoning should prompt an international policy shift.
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Net-widening the war on drugs
Expanding criminalization of fentanyl by targeting its precursors will only expand the harms of an unregulated drug supply, writes the CDPC's Nick Boyce in a submission to Health Canada.
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Hippocratic Oathkeepers
With the anti-safe supply propaganda machine now firm-footed in the far-right, why is a small number of doctors feeding its printing press, National Post Opinion?
Safe supply
DULF arrests consolidate worldwide response
The arrests of the compassion club organizers are creating international blowback. How did manoeuvring by politicians and police convince them the arrests were good strategy?
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Ready to take action for DULF?
With a flood of organizations worldwide showing solidarity with the compassion club while Vancouver Police continues criminalizing it, it's time to turn words into action.
Safe supply
Vancouver Police arrest DULF organizers for saving lives
The arrests occurred on Wednesday, and the organizers were released without charge. Instead, VPD issued a press release in a dialect of doublespeak only police could pull off.
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Part 3 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
The unregulated drug poisoning crisis has proven to be fertile ground for disaster capitalism. Here, we'll examine the soils in Alberta that help it thrive.
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Part 2 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
Where there's smoke: reaching deeper into commercial interests of physician signatories to an open letter blasting safe supply.
Safe supply
Part 1 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
A group of addiction doctors published a letter blasting safe supply, but their affiliations omitted commercial interests that may give a glimpse into their motivations.