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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19d
🧵 My story, "What's Wrong With Rehab?" won Gold for Long-Form at Alberta Magazine Awards last night!

Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social & all who shared expertise: Brandon Shaw, Esther Tailfeathers, @ehyshka.bsky.social, David Hodgins & recovery workers. 1/
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What’s Wrong With Rehab? The lack of accountability in the “Alberta Model” for dealing with drug use By Euan thomson March 1, 2024 A A A On a frigid February night in Edmonton, I’m downtown with 4B Harm Reduction. The street outreach conducted by this non-profit society is time-tested—scour the city’s forgotten corners for people who need support. On any given shift, they might respond to drug poisonings, frostbite, heatstroke, hunger, fatigue-induced psychosis or the many barriers to accessing shelter. Mostly 4B aims to keep hope alive despite society’s structural neglect. Tonight we’ve gathered in an underground LRT station passageway. Beside us, a long stretch of yellow fencing separates us from a lone electrical outlet, a rare treasure in public spaces. The outlet was recently deemed too popular among the city’s unhoused citizens—hence the fence. Through slurred speech, Brandon Shaw fawns over my toque, which reads “Hoot ’n’ Blow” beside an owl logo. I offer it as a trade for his, but he declines. Someone later explains Shaw was afraid he’d picked up lice in the shelters. He was protecting me.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 11h
Calgarians haven’t had any news on the resignation of their $350,000/year police chief since CBC revealed the police commission was refusing to show his severance package.

So here are fifty documents about his resignation and a story about what’s in them.
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Calgary Police Commission documents shed new light on Neufeld resignation
Drug Data Decoded has obtained a trove of new documents on the Calgary police chief and deputy resignations. Despite heavy redactions, they reveal a power struggle within the service fuelled by commis...
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 11h
Calgarians haven’t had any news on the resignation of their $350,000/year police chief since CBC revealed the police commission was refusing to show his severance package.

So here are fifty documents about his resignation and a story about what’s in them.
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Calgary Police Commission documents shed new light on Neufeld resignation
Drug Data Decoded has obtained a trove of new documents on the Calgary police chief and deputy resignations. Despite heavy redactions, they reveal a power struggle within the service fuelled by commis...
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21h
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Over 40 documents detailing resignations of former Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld and two deputies were released to Drug Data Decoded through a freedom of information request to the Calgary Police Commission.

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Calgary Police Commission documents shed new light on Neufeld resignation
Drug Data Decoded has obtained a trove of new documents on the Calgary police chief and deputy resignations. Despite heavy redactions, they reveal a power struggle within the service fuelled by commis...
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19h
r/alberta took this down as not being Alberta-related enough, further confirming the extent to which reddit in AB is governed by cops. Please share with anyone confused about Chief Neufeld’s resignation.
This post was removed for violating our expectations on the type of submissions We are looking for in the subReddit that it was not deemed related to Alberta. This is better suited to r/Calgary.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19h
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21h
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Over 40 documents detailing resignations of former Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld and two deputies were released to Drug Data Decoded through a freedom of information request to the Calgary Police Commission.

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Calgary Police Commission documents shed new light on Neufeld resignation
Drug Data Decoded has obtained a trove of new documents on the Calgary police chief and deputy resignations. Despite heavy redactions, they reveal a power struggle within the service fuelled by commis...
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21h
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Over 40 documents detailing resignations of former Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld and two deputies were released to Drug Data Decoded through a freedom of information request to the Calgary Police Commission.

Subscribe free or paid to access:
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
Calgary Police Commission documents shed new light on Neufeld resignation
Drug Data Decoded has obtained a trove of new documents on the Calgary police chief and deputy resignations. Despite heavy redactions, they reveal a power struggle within the service fuelled by commis...
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 23h
The Vancouver police chief expressed approval of the compassion club before it was raided and its organizers arrested. They are now on trial for trafficking.
In the recording, the officers reply that this is “great work that you’re doing” and that they are “happy to assist in any way we can.” The court heard Kalicum sent emails to Heard, then-police chief Adam Palmer and then-interim chief Fiona Wilson, in which he’d give updates on DULF and highlight how DULF and the VPD shared the same goals of keeping people safe. Wilson even followed DULF on Twitter and said in an email to Kalicum that she takes an interest in anything that can be done legally to save lives and thought the organization’s Twitter account could be a good source of information.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d
If you need to make yourself throw up because you accidentally ingested something toxic this should do the trick.
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Axios @axios.com · 1d
Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.
Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal
Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d
All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.
CBC headline reads: All living Israeli hostages freed, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners released Trump in Egypt for world leaders' meeting following an address to Israel's parliament
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tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ @tsk.bsky.social · 1d
> Read about how DULF's co-founders discussed their compassion club with the VPD. VPD reps offered their support for the project. Then the VPD abruptly raided the compassion club and arrested its co-founders:

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Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee
The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d
"The goal, DULF maintained, was to save lives."

Drug User Liberation Front "produced a peer-reviewed study that showed after about one year none of its compassion club members had died."

"Their trial is scheduled for the next two weeks."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Drugs
Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins
The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 1d
Scoop coming tomorrow with new details on the mysterious resignations of Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld and two of his deputies.

Fifty documents obtained via freedom of information are included in the story.

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Politics, policing and profits of prohibition.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d
The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
This was Canadian PM @mark-carney.bsky.social’s statement this morning (not posted here, I wonder why).

No mention of Palestinians AT ALL.

He is a collaborator.
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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 4d
The argument that Land Back is ethnonationalism in the “blood and soil” vein is especially shoddy when one looks at the origins of “blood and soil” and see that it actually has a lot in common with settler colonialism versus anything to do with Indigenous land relations.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 2d
This is incredible

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CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer
Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d
What real solutions look like:
What real solutions look like Barrie’s cruelty is not inevitable. Across Canada and internationally, models exist for addressing homelessness with dignity and effectiveness: Housing First: Prioritize permanent, supportive housing without preconditions. Studies across Canada show that Housing First reduces chronic homelessness and saves public money in the long run. Income supports: Raise social assistance and disability rates to levels that actually cover rent, food, and basic needs. Current Ontario Works and ODSP rates leave people destitute by design. Harm reduction and health services: Provide supervised consumption sites, addiction treatment, and mental health services. Shelter expansion with dignity: Invest in warming and cooling centres, transitional housing, and shelters that respect privacy and autonomy. Community solidarity: Encourage, not criminalize, acts of compassion, from food distribution to donation drives, recognizing that communities survive through mutual aid as much as formal services.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d
Worthwhile analysis in @ricochetmedia.bsky.social on the place we end up when our only response to poverty is criminalization.

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In Barrie, poverty is the crime and visibility the emergency
The Ontario city’s so-called ‘state of emergency’ is a manufactured crisis built on cruelty, not care
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d
New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d
Now Barrie is saying that part out loud.

Here’s the article with data breakdown in Timmins & area. The Globe never adjusted the framing of the story despite complaints.

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Why is Vincent Lam distorting drug deaths?
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...
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d
Last year I criticized Vincent Lam for his congratulatory framing in a Globe piece, in which Timmins opening a detox drove a reduction in overdose deaths.

But the data suggested those deaths had been pushed out to “home communities” through brutal municipal policy.

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Displacement as policy The emergency declaration revealed what Barrie has long wanted: not to solve homelessness, but to export it. Nuttall has been explicit that part of the city’s strategy is to “repatriate” unhoused people to their “home communities.” Translation: if you are poor, unhoused, and without family support, you are not welcome here. Barrie’s solution is banishment.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d
🔴 REPORT | Gaza Aid Still at Pre-Ceasefire Levels Despite Massive & Urgent Needs

With preparations underway to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, humanitarian deliveries remain at roughly pre-ceasefire levels, U.N.’s humanitarian agency OCHA said today. Spokesperson Olga Cherevko said a...
🔴 REPORT | Gaza Aid Still at Pre-Ceasefire Levels Despite Massive & Urgent Needs With preparations underway to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, humanitarian deliveries remain at roughly pre-ceasefire levels, U.N.’s humanitarian agency OCHA said today. Spokesperson Olga Cherevko said a large-scale expansion is expected “imminently,” with plans to immediately assist “vulnerable groups” with food, medicine, and shelter, but noted it requires “unrestricted entry of aid” and additional crossings. The World Food Programme said it has begun ramping up operations as the ceasefire allows international groups to return. “With full access, WFP intends to restore its regular food distribution system,” the agency said, adding that “humanitarian needs in Gaza have never been greater.” More than “170,000 metric tons of food” are ready for dispatch “via Ashdod, Egypt, Jordan, and the West Bank corridors” — enough to feed over two million people for three months — as WFP echoed calls for “unhindered humanitarian access.” Gaza’s Health Ministry urged the world to act immediately. “The world must act quickly to bring in aid, medicines, and medical supplies… any delay in this step means the loss of more lives,” said the ministry’s director general, citing the death of a child at Nasser Hospital for lack of a $2 medical item. “Continuous supply convoys are needed, along with convoys of specialized doctors and medical delegations, after more than 1,700 of our medical personnel were killed and over 360 arrested.”
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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d
Hope you‘re okay (on all counts) 💜
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d
⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Thousands of Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble

“There’s nothing left for them to destroy.”

By Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Kouddous

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Thousands of Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble
“There’s nothing left for them to destroy.”
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