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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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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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With the ten largest Canadian busts coinciding with surging deaths, we should reframe drug enforcement as police violence.
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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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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?
Media Criticism
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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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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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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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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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.
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The abstinence-only recovery centre that harboured an alleged abuser for a decade has an office in Calgary, a lucrative contract with the UCP and local nonprofit sponsors. Alberta should cut ties.