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Vancouver Island physicians, healthcare staff sign open letter on political weaponization of workplace safety
The BC NDP are dangerously misrepresenting our workplaces in healthcare settings as an electoral strategy.
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drug user liberation
DRUG USER LIBERATION FRONT TO PURSUE CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE, ANNOUNCES FUNDRAISER
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.
"Before May election": Alberta police chiefs organized support for UCP campaign
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.
Hard Knox Talks & Toronto visit
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
BC NDP are weaponizing drug law to cover their healthcare and housing failures: Nurses & healthcare staff
Eleven staff in BC’s healthcare system outline the realities of frontline care work, the toxic drug crisis and their concerns.
Weaponizing safety in the new Alberta
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
Compassionate Intervention Act
Alberta's system for involuntary addiction treatment just hired its manager
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.
youth treatment
'A unique export': Is Alberta recreating the abusive Troubled Teen Industry?
American journalists, researchers and survivors of abuse in youth residential addiction treatment centres describe blood-curdling stories of widespread sexual and physical abuse that hint at a potential outcome of the treatment infrastructure under construction in Alberta.
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Police helicopters are overused and dangerous: cases in point
A man is dead after being chased by the Edmonton Police Air-1 helicopter onto dangerous ice of the North Saskatchewan River. In July 2022, a similarly over-the-top deployment was caught on film in Calgary's Sunalta neighbourhood. Just two weeks after being directed to investigate, the Alberta Serious Incident
Alberta model
Think like a recovery capitalist: involuntary abstinence in the Emerald City
How a group of fundamentalists is constructing a great wooden horse standing tall on carcerality, profiteering and propaganda to deliver Compassion unto the people.
Alberta model
Think like a recovery capitalist: Business basics
If exploitation is the driving force of drug prohibition, privatized 'treatment' is the paved road it rolls on: a look at the business challenges faced by these organizations.
Media Criticism
Are news media finally fed up with UCP drug war propaganda?
The Alberta government is scrambling to glue together its narrative that overdose deaths can be solved through a limited scope of privatized rehab. But a live interview on CBC Calgary pulled the curtain on the strategy's naked truth.