The author and addiction physician continues disguising reactionary talking points as medical fact through Globe and Mail op-eds. In his latest, he misrepresents death rates in Timmins, belittles harm reduction and appears to cozy up to Poilievre's abstinence-focused drug strategy. In his latest of many Globe and Mail
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The BC Association of People on Opiate Maintenance, Surrey Union of Drug Users, Care Not Cops, Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy Vancouver Chapter & Crackdown respond to recent coverage on pharmacy kickbacks, and the repercussions for them and the people they work with.
Clinicians, parents and people who use drugs recall a recent past before the control-obsessed Alberta government vilified, scapegoated and denied regulated opioid access for those at highest risk. A short film by CATIE. Watch this. Background reading from Drug Data Decoded: * Ophelia Black v. the UCP * What's wrong
Court dates for University of Calgary encampment began this week. With the first issued ticket failing to reach the prosecutor, police dodged evidence disclosure. This should raise questions around police accountability. Update, June 18, 2024: The arresting officer showed up at Euan Thomson's home on June 17 and
Three complaints submitted to Calgary Police Commission and the CPS Professional Standards Section. Warning: this piece contains graphic video of police brutality. Proceed accordingly. Since May 9, Calgary Police Chief Mark Neufeld has worked hard to concoct a narrative that serves his interests and those of the officers and decision
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The BC NDP are dangerously misrepresenting our workplaces in healthcare settings as an electoral strategy.
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The founders of DULF, Jeremy and Eris, were arrested in October 2023 after their compassion club showed extremely promising results. Crown has decided to pursue charges.
Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police built a "Coalition of the Willing" to conduct a public advocacy campaign supporting United Conservative Party drug policy with an explicit timeframe "before the May election" in 2023. The Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police (AACP), an organization comprising Alberta&
I had a recent appearance on Hard Knox Talks, where we got into how policy manifests at street level, how government propaganda drives what we are told to call 'polarization,' and why people across the political and drug policy spectrum should unify around reallocating excessive wealth at the
Eleven staff in BC’s healthcare system outline the realities of frontline care work, the toxic drug crisis and their concerns.
I was arrested at the University of Calgary anti-genocide protest on May 9 after standing with the students assaulted by Calgary Police. The move reflected an old but expanding reality in Alberta, where threats to the safety of the state dictate police violence. One week ago, I was sitting in
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A revealing LinkedIn announcement by the newly hired Manager of Compassionate Intervention Implementation confirms the government's intention to force people who use drugs into addiction treatment.