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Governments are responding to the toxic drug crisis with "organized abandonment," withdrawing support and leaving people vulnerable to harm, poverty, and death.
From myself, @msthpetra.bsky.social and @kokumsarah.bsky.social
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30Jan26 Update Alberta
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP-Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,140 (UCP-Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,496 (UCP)
25: 1,141 Jan–OCT (UCP-RAH YEG SCS closed Dec)
Total: 13,163 DRUG POISONING DEATHS SINCE 2016
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, the Blackfoot Confederacy, and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation say they have 'legitimate concerns that Elections Alberta is ill-equipped to deal with the potential of foreign interference in the referendum.' www.aptnnews.ca?p=282869
NO CBC. This is not how drugs work and it's not how you do news. This is Fox-style drugs reporting.
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A public school board trustee in Prince George says she was boxed in by RCMP vehicles and ordered out of her vehicle by officers with guns pointed at her on Tuesday. Erica McClean, a Gitxsan First Nation member, says she was terrified.
My son Lakotah died from the toxic drug supply 3 years ago. Jail increased and intensified my son's drug use. It placed him in impossible situations which I could not help extricate him from.
Incarceration is not and will never be compassionate care.
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📣 New Report: Unpaid family caregivers are doing essential and often invisible work. Our new community report 🧪shares what caregiving looks like for families supporting people who use drugs in rural Western Canada.
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"Liberation doesn’t hinge on extraordinary individuals; it requires structural transformation. When we elevate “heroes,” we risk distorting accountability and reinforcing inequity." (Celeste Pedri-Spade, para 12)
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This is how a health system burns to the ground canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... by @pfparks.bsky.social
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Survey Results from Mayoral Candidates: part 3
Survey Results from Mayoral Candidates: part 2
Survey Results from Mayoral Candidates: part 1
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Can’t wait for our next post? Read mayoral and city council candidates’ full responses on our website, here: cssdp.org/chapters/edm...
What the hell is "resiliency education" Have you heard of this yet? Feeling all kinds of rage right now.
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”Under the provincial government’s health-care restructuring, meant to streamline care, Primary and Preventative Health Services provides the funding to Primary Care Alberta, which in turn funds Recovery Alberta.”
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My friend says it all. We don't get to take off our orange shirts and tuck them away for another year.
The days between my son's birth (Oct 6) and his death (Dec 19) are always the most difficult. I can already feel the intense grief settling in my bones. It's unrelenting. #grief #childloss
Reconciliation includes recognizing Residential Schools are not the only colonial atrocity
YEG mayoral candidate Michael Walters backs involuntary treatment which is harmful and ineffective.
Forced care violates rights, fuels stigma and fails.
Lives are saved by harm reduction, housing and voluntary supports.
Vote wisely, not for him.
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I connected with @drdagly.bsky.social and he allowed me to share his story as a physician working the front lines with patients and families of overdose victims as a blog post for @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
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On the surface, Ontario's "Safer Municipalities Act" seeks to address public drug use. In this brief, Brianna Olson-Pitawanakwat Mskwaasin Agnew, and Kelsi Balaban argue it maintains too-familiar traditions of Indigenous displacement and colonial harm: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/ontario...
“When city workers confiscate personal belongings like tents and harm reduction supplies from people sheltering on the street, it increases their risk of non-fatal overdose and physical and sexual violence, according to a new study.”
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