1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵

The Alberta being championed by separatists and their political allies is ahistorical. It is based on myths and misunderstandings and revisionist fantasy. It is a fever dream. And it is a fiction I simply do not recognize as the free and dynamic province I love so fiercely.

This whole thread!

this whole thread and THIS RIGHT HERE. people without homes and people who use unregulated drugs are members of the public too

NEW The Alberta government’s fight to close the two busiest supervised consumption sites is in the bottom of the ninth. The pinch hitter it calls to bat? A freshly minted PhD in economics nobody’s heard of. drugdatadecoded.ca/albertas-exp...

Thanks @forwardcanada.bsky.social for featuring my story on Alberta government surveillance of harm-reduction nonprofits! Wherever in Canada, you need to understand Alberta politics as the point source of toxic ideas. Do yourself a favour and subscribe 👇 archive.forwardweekly.ca?issue=08

For the fifth year, deaths of people experiencing homelessness in BC are on the rise. I talked to the chief coroner and frontline workers about the factors they’re seeing contribute to this, and what needs to be done to prevent further deaths. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The implementation of OPS has been associated with either declines or no changes in public disorder, typically measured by counts of discarded syringes and the number of people observed consuming drugs in public." Read the full article here: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Thousands of Albertans With Disabilities Are Losing $200 a Month. Here's Why People Are Protesting at the Legislature. #Alberta #AISH #ADAP #UCP #Disability #Canada www.culturealberta.com/articles/tho...

This makes unwanted "connection" with carceral logics all the more chilling. calgary.citynews.ca/2026/05/13/c...

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has issued a statement on their legal action ending the separatist referendum that was just submitted. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult"

this is an emergency and people in Sask. need to step up right now Scott Moe and his government are clearing the land. this is genocide #skpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

you can build a shit-ton of social housing

There are hundreds of events across the province. Find one before it's too late! https://www.waternotcoal.ca/sign-the-petition

Je suis une fière franco-albertaine. That I’m still fluent in French is living proof of the value of investing in minority language rights and bilingualism. But language rights and bilingualism limited to colonizers is colonial thinking. The Inuit are right to criticize. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Edmonton already has the highest toxic drug deaths in the country. This will drive people further underground and away from services. Cracking down does not end drug use, homelessness, prostitution or whetever @edmontonpolice.bsky.social considers to be “social disorder”.

I applaud this MLA for taking a stand and sm tired of provincial NDP positions on drug policy more focused on electability than the evidence and saving lives.

You know what would solve your “crime treatment zone”? SCS, housing, drop-in spaces, stop the sweeps…. SMH www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today, on International Harm Reduction Day, we honour everyone working to keep people alive, safe, connected, and cared for. This work is hard. Many are carrying grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty. But we are stronger together, and none of us do this work alone. #harmreduction

In this Brief, Veronica Fuentes explores the question, how can harm reduction reflect our traditions of care, mitigate harms, and sustain the life of people we love who use drugs? Read here: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/a-love-...

Ashley Kyne & Justin Piché challenge the “Indigenization” of prisons, arguing these efforts reproduce colonial space through carceral policies – ultimately misrepresenting Indigenous life & normalizing confinement. Art: ‘Genocide’ - Nshannacappo Full Brief: yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/the-pri...

Canada has a long history of surveilling Indigenous peoples –Riley Yesno highlights the consequences on Indigenous communities & argues for a more deliberate response to ongoing colonial surveillance. yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/i-spy-c...

Manitoba’s Bill 48 empowers police to target individuals of perceived drug intoxication and detain them for 3 days in solitary confinement. How does the expansion of involuntary detention and forced detox, made possible through Bill 48, deepen colonial harm? yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/care-no...

Outlier on the Prairies: Why are drug poisoning deaths rising in Edmonton, even as they fall across the province and the country? @theglobeandmail.com #ableg

the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

"We simply have to operate under the assumption that basically anyone in the province, no matter how unhinged, may now have nearly universal access to the personal information of everybody who lives here, and that there’s not a damn thing any of us can do about it."

Maybe it's me, but I can't imagine any good coming from doxxing an entire province.

On the anniversary of losing my son Danny to toxic unregulated drugs, I’m calling for the resignation of the #UCP minister of mental health and addictions on behalf of @heartsalberta.bsky.social edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Overdose prevention site closure: A reply to Day et al. - Crockford - Addiction - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What got into Rick Wilson when he said he saw someone die ‘right in front of me’ at supervised consumption site? albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/what...

Alberta, your Minister of Mental Health and Addiction is lying to the Legislature about his file. On the record. Just making things up.

On Tuesday, Alberta's Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Rick Wilson told the Alberta legislature that he personally watched someone die in a supervised consumption site (SCS). This statement is demonstrably false and constitutes disinformation. #ableg

Inclusion of people with disabilities is what I studied, employment inclusion is the field I worked in, educational inclusion is what I taught for 20 years at MacEwanU. This, premier Smith, is not how it works. Inclusion is not earned or granted, it’s a right! You failed!

social housing units built by year in Canada, 1972-2010 - by number of units - as % of all housing built

Thanks to the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine for singling out our team's (trainee-led!) paper on caring for patients with opioid use disorder in during COVID as a strong example of theory-guided qualitative research. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On the 42nd anniversary of the Canada Health Act, it's in danger from AB's Bill 11. FOM & 50+ orgs across Canada sent a letter to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social & Health Minister Marjorie Michel urging them to enforce the Act to protect our public health care! www.friendsofmedicare.org/50_orgs_cana...

Special episode! On March 10th, CoRE published a paper that the UCP then used to justify shuttering Supervised Consumption Sites. But there's some big problems with that paper & how it was spun. We sat down with 3 experts to get to the bottom of it! youtu.be/mRtvTHcDR6g

here's a little thing I wrote back in 2024 about how the provincial government allowed disinformation to drive their drug policy choices thousands of people died #bcpoli #SafeSupply free-futures-society.org/2024/04/25/a...

Wednesday at 8! Special Episode! The UCP’s “Centre of Recovery Excellence” (CoRE) published a paper that’s being used to justify shuttering Supervised Consumption Sites in Alberta. But the quality of the paper is dubious at best & we’ve got three expert professors to explain!

Alberta is at a turning point, and staying informed shouldn't feel like a full-time job. Forward Weekly is your antidote to the political chaos. Every Sunday, Forward Weekly will deliver the roundup you actually need, plus original progressive commentary. forwardweekly.ca/

SCOOP: New details about the facial recognition bodycam project by Edmonton police — including that the AI model was provided by an Israeli company whose technology has reportedly been used for mass surveillance in Gaza. www.cbc.ca/9.7157991

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

This man is not threatening or harming anybody. It says so. Perception of safety has taken over as safety itself in Calgary. But it’s unaccompanied by education of how people end up unhoused. CBC is inverting who is unsafe in this scenario. An editor asked for this story, then gave it a headline.

calgarysun.com/news/... Physician intimidation comes in many ways... I have had colleagues warn me many times "Paul watch your back, powerful people are unhappy with your advocacy"... 1/5