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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3h

We have a teachers strike, high unemployment, economic losses from separation conversations but license plates that say strong and free are the priority. Cool. Cool. #abpoli #ableg

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 2d

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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Drug Data Decoded

Politics, policing and profits of prohibition.

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 1d

SCOOP
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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

It’s been nearly six months since Calgary’s police leadership vanished from service without explanation, weeks before the G7. Tight control of info created a de facto media blackout.

In June, I asked police commission for related documents. Here’s what came back:
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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 · 8h

Just arrived in Vancouver, heading to the DULF trial downtown.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

Calgary resident Christopher David Hegg, 47, is charged with five counts of attempted murder, as well as three counts of assault with a weapon, three counts of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm, and one count each of dangerous operation of a.. calgaryherald.com/news/lethbri...

Calgary driver faces attempted murder charges after Lethbridge pedestrians struck

A Calgary driver was charged after a vehicle struck three pedestrians and narrowly missed another two others outside an arena in Lethbridge.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

Dm: Hi!

This is in my neighbourhood and it's been handled terribly by the city.

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Investigation into Indigenous burial site in Riverdale set to move forward | CBC News

Almost two years after Indigenous remains were uncovered in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood, the city is finally moving forward with its investigation of the burial site.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Sign by Oct. 15🚨
Why Canada constantly discriminates against disability I will never understand. Please sign and share: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6578 - Petitions

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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 2d

231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Human and Indigenous Rights and Governmental Obligations Calls 1.7 to 1.11

Learn more, the full report and resources can be found here:
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca

#MMIWG2S #MMIP #231CallsforJustice

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231 Calls for Justice
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
human and indigenous rights and governmental obligations Calls 1.3 and 1.6

The full report can be found here:
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca

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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 2d

Human and Indigenous Rights and Governmental Obligations Calls 1.8

Learn more, the full report and resources can be found here:
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Human and Indigenous Rights and Governmental Obligations Calls 1.8

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Top text in white Calls for Justice. Bottom right corner Instagram address @reconciliation_action_group
human and indigenous rights and governmental obligations

1.8 We call upon all governments to create specific and long-term funding, available to Indigenous communities and organizations, to create, deliver, and disseminate prevention programs, education, and awareness campaigns designed for Indigenous communities and families related to violence prevention and combatting lateral violence. Core and sustainable funding, as opposed to program funding, must be provided to national and regional Indigenous women’s and 2SLGBTQQIA people’s organizations.

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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing from the family of Jackie Crazybull: UPDATED

Justice for Jackie Justice Fundraiser

Jackie deserves Justice

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#MMIWG2S #231CallsforJustice #MMIP #Indigenous #CommunitySupport

Alt text: Red background with dark blue square in the middle left with light beige text of Justice for Jackie Justice fundraiser. The right top is a picture of Jackie’s family behind a banner with Justice for Jackie in the front middle. The left side a blue sign with a picture of Jackie and her name below Jaqueline Crazybull. The right side a white sign with black text Who Killed My Aunt? And four red handprints.
Beige text below the picture In 2007, our beloved Jacqueline Clara Crazybull was tragically murdered during the Calgary Stampede.
Jackie and her cousin were sharing a meal on a bench on 17th ave when a group of four individuals approached them, asking for directions. Jackie got up to help that’s the kind of caring person she was. Instead of gratitude, she was attacked. The men jumped out of a car and stabbed her.
Dark Blue box across the bottom of the square with beige text Justice for Jackie – Help Us Find Answers

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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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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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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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 3d

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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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 3d

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Alt text: Red background with dark blue square in the top left with light beige text of Justice for Jackie reward fundraiser. Beige text right of the blue box That night, five people in Calgary were stabbed by this same group. Jackie was the only one who lost her life.
Picture on the right below the text of a drum leaning against a tree, a bowl with sipatsimo medicines carried with the family for the memorial walk. Text to the left of the picture
To this day — more than 17 years later — her case remains unsolved. No one has ever been charged in connection to her death.
Our family has lived with heartbreak, unanswered questions, and the pain of not knowing who is responsible.
Dark Blue box across the bottom of the square with beige text Justice for Jackie – Help Us Find Answers

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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 3d

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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 3d

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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 3d

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 2d

Do y’all know how violent police usually are to normal ppl? Great thread 🪡

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 3d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Sitting here with mom at the hospital for her hip surgery.. lots of empathy my friend.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

#COVID #Pets www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

COVID infection can damage the brains of dogs, study suggests

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