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Marshall Smith's human centipede
By controlling the certification pathway for addiction services in Alberta, the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Foundation completes the chain from propaganda to profit.
Euan Thomson
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A message to Councillors Cartmell, Chabot, Hamilton and Sharp: Step up or resign
Their voluntary legitimization of the provincial public safety task forces aggravates violence against our most vulnerable neighbours while life-saving services get the chop.
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Vancouver Pride slams the Door
Last Door Recovery Society has spent years hiding regressive politics inside progressive wooden horses. Vancouver Pride is the first to cut ties.
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Where opioid busts go, death follows
With the ten largest Canadian busts coinciding with surging deaths, we should reframe drug enforcement as police violence.
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Did Calgary Police break human rights law?
Covering Police Commission's report on a Calgary Police trauma training scandal prompted a revealing conversation with Commission on religious neutrality.
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Is Calgary Police Service religiously neutral?
A heavily redacted report on CPS hiring of fraudulent trauma counselling educators was released by CPS Commission without a whisper. But is that knock coming from the confession booth?
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Is Alberta UCP reinventing residential schools as addiction treatment?
Eleven 'therapeutic communities' are planned, many situated in First Nations, but possibilities of forced abstinence and forced labour evoke a horrific history.
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Q2-2023 likely to be worst on record for unregulated drug toxicity in Alberta
April, May and June will likely rank among the five highest mortality counts for unregulated drug toxicity and quarterly deaths could exceed the previous high by 15%.
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Alberta hits new peak in opioid poisoning deaths
A year ago, discussions stalled on new overdose prevention sites at Calgary Drop-In and Alpha House. As drug poisoning resumes its upward spiral across Alberta, Calgary shelters are being hit hardest.
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Safe supply is not driving drug deaths in BC: coroner report
Drug poisoning deaths continue dropping in BC, following a trend since decriminalization. Meanwhile, zero youth deaths occurred from hydromorphone alone between 2017 and 2022.
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Last Door's recovery bid
On June 12, Last Door Recovery Society issued a statement in response to the charges laid against a longtime employee or contractor at the facility. To many, it felt like gaslighting.