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Have you been virtually frisked by Calgary Police?
Have you organized or attended a protest? Have you been asking questions about "police business"? It might be time to conduct a Criminalization Health Check.
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Overdose Aware but in the dark about Alberta
Another International Overdose Awareness Day has come and gone. Whoever plans on listening is plenty aware of the problem, but what are we missing about its causes?
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The CurbSide Philosophy
A timely project by 4B Harm Reduction is pushing back against grifting alt-right media and fear being aimed at our unhoused neighbours by opportunistic police chiefs.
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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.
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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.