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BREAKING: Alberta government to announce Calgary and Lethbridge supervised consumption site closures
Nine days after it announced a fraudulent study published by its staff, the Alberta government is moving quickly to dismantle what remains of supervised consumption services in the province.
“A shared vision”: Public money funnelled through conference sponsorships may line pockets of UCP policy pushers
From 2021 to 2025, the Alberta government gave at least $745,000 in conference sponsorships to Last Door Recovery Society. The deliverables were redacted but appear linked to conflicts of interest among authors of a recent government study attempting to justify supervised consumption site closures.
Centre of Recovery Excellence manipulating health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety
The Alberta government's Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers a case study of how conflicts of interest and privacy oversight are at a crisis point in Alberta.
"Inaccurate data": How Recovery Alberta officials facilitated consumption site closures (Pt 2)
Selective data sharing by some of Alberta's top health officials may backstop plausible deniability for government negligence in closing sites – with impacts all the way to Ontario.