Another First Nation is taking legal action against the Alberta government for its role in an anticipated separation referendum, the second to file this week edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Deputy Minister of Mental Health and Addictions tours the building. Four months later Sam Mraiche buys it and leases it for an addiction centre for nearly $500K a year. Another Building Purchase by Sam Mraiche Raises Questions via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Alberta's measles outbreak topped 2,000 reported cases last year, and it's not over yet https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-s-measles-case-count-topped-2-000-last-year-and-the-outbreak-is-not-over-yet-9.7036485 More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Crime rates near Toronto’s supervised drug consumption sites dropped A recent study revealed supervised drug consumption sites in Toronto have not led to an increase in crime – in fact, most rates dropped or even declined. www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

Good insight here on why the decision to close SCS in Alberta is bad policy. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Politicians & lobbying groups have been trying for years to prosecute the low-level dealers, plugs, and even just friends-who-use-together for homicide when someone dies from an overdose. ChatGPT coached a kid to take drugs with it for months then gave medical advice that was so wrong it killed him

Doctors working in Edmonton’s major hospitals are calling on the Alberta government to declare a state of emergency because there is no more room to safely accept patients. #ableg @theglobeandmail.com

Americans, when is enough enough?

So *what is* a public health approach to substance use? Our latest 🧪 paper provides a systematic review of academic and grey literature and outlines a conceptual framework to guide practitioners. link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-025-25402-4

Great news from Dublin: "Merchant’s Quay: Temporary supervised drug injection facility in Dublin to become permanent" #SCS #HarmReduction www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Common myth: substance use causes homelessness. "Several studies have concluded that an area’s median rent correlates far more closely with its homelessness rate than factors such as weather, poverty rate, and rates of mental illness or substance use." #houselessness www.pew.org/en/research-...

EdifyEdmonton published a piece on Dr. Darren Markland. We miss you @drdagly.bsky.social Lotta Light, especially to his family & dear friends 💜💜💜 #DarrenMarkland #yeg edifyedmonton.com/people/profi...

NEW: A podcaster accused of harassing a former AHS director said he was hired by an Edmonton lawyer, court docs show. That lawyer has ties to Sam Mraiche, who owns companies at the centre of Alberta's procurement controversy. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social

this American mom expresses how I felt after my son died, and why I am in advocacy. “My son died because I believed in systems that were never designed to protect him. Worse, those systems convinced me that punitive drug policies were keeping him safe when they were actively putting him at risk. “

Alberta man asks province’s top court to fast-track appeal of supervised drug-consumption site closure after his near-fatal overdose, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

“Most people who take prescription opioids must now take them under the supervision of a pharmacist,” is the subhead, a statement that is false in a very important way. 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Overall, Canadian police reported noticeably more drug-impaired and alcohol-impaired driving after 2018. But the growth seemed related mostly to enhanced enforcement and pandemic disruptions, rather than to legalized cannabis. theconversation.com/after-canada...

Please don't use chatbots for harm reduction advice. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

News: Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is suing the Alberta gov over steps taken to enable a separatist referendum, saying it did so despite knowing it would violate treaty. Suit also contains a summary of statements from separatists re: seeking Trump admin support edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

BREAKING: Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

Incredible the degree to which vaccine hesitancy is now almost entirely about politics, including in Canada! Who you vote for a strong predictor of what you think about vaccines. See: angusreid.org/covid-vaccin... via @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social (Oct 2025)

Evidence from British Columbia shows decriminalisation reduced police interference with access to harm reduction — a key public health objective. Rolling it back didn’t correct failure. It reversed progress. Full study:

Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle…Every country in the Western Hemisphere should be worried, particularly this country, which Trump so obviously covets as a 51st state.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Foreign corporations or citizens can’t own more than 20 acres of land in Alberta, unless the government grants an exemption. Brett McKay has a look at who gets to bypass the rules. zurl.co/2kJID

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.

drugpolicy.ca/our-work/add... “Addiction treatment: what it is, where it currently fails, and how it could meet the needs of people and communities.”

Researchers consistently fail to consider the true costs of policing when they evaluate its effectiveness. Traffic stops don't improve safety and have massive social costs.

Canada already forces psychiatric hospitalizations on people at higher rates per capita than any other country with comparable standards of living and health systems. #ableg #cdnpoli apple.news/ALUtFxt_-TUO...

For those who have been led to believe that this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t work, this isn’t the case. ER visits and hospital admissions are reduced by 72–75% in children and adolescents, and by 32–39% in adults. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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This is absolutely obscene. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

The death of an Alberta patient waiting for ER care is a tragic, but predictable outcome of provincial government funding decisions Alberta is an outlier when it comes to declining real per capita hospital expenditures from 2013 to 2022 These decisions have consequences

A fact rather than an opinion, headline aside... "Opinion: Edmonton's #tuberculosis outbreak shows need for housing" edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Drugs aren’t the problem, the drug war is the problem. Drugs are the solution - solutions people find to a problem in their lives (not always the healthiest or most responsible solution, but a solution nonetheless). www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/30/d...

Safety in Sport Act was allegedly about protecting girls from transgender girls in contact sports and so that girls could prosper in elite (or elite pathway) sports. None of that applies in this case. The purpose is hate against transgender people.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Heartbreakingly, despite our best efforts, today the Government of Alberta was able to bring an end to the injunction against Bill 26 on the basis of its use of the notwithstanding clause. This is a cruel and dangerous move by a government that will harm vulnerable young people.

What Should You Do About H3N2 Flu? There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot, by @angierasmussen.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-you-s...

Mother who lost toddler in 2016 says take flu seriously | Ottawa Citizen #ForJudeForEveryone ottawacitizen.com/news/mother-...

Alberta drug deaths were released today & updates are still being made back to Apr/2023, from 199 to 201. I will keep emphasizing: Alberta drug fatality reporting should include a caveat that counts increase 13 to 33 percent after updates. The govt counts on this oversight for propaganda.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...