“The Province is partnering with law enforcement, scientists and health researchers in a groundbreaking pilot project, which uses advanced robotic and AI technology to fight the toxic-drug crisis”
I'm not joking, this is a real government announcement
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
The UCP is taking almost 200 million from people with disabilities by clawing back CDB. They will take another 200 million by switching to ADAP. Robbing the poorest!
Terrible but not surprising. Thanks for doing your part. Every minute and every second counts not only in reviving a person but in preventing permanent brain damage.
How dare she spread lies that her base take as truth. Anything to close facilities that literally save lives. That’s the point she doesn’t want those lives saved 🤔😡🤬
That’s disgusting. She has no idea and is disrespectful to people who use drugs and their families. 😡
Smith claimed today that the reason that Supervised Consumption Sites had to be closed was because people were going there "for dugs"...
(No drugs were handed out, people went to use)
And they were accessing to many other support programs.
For real.
Listen to the clip.
“Cultural genocide” is genocide.
Not advertising cannabis at every street corner as we do in Alberta. Legally regulation should not mean promotion.
What are people supposed to do with this information?
They don’t have access to safer, regulated alternatives. Telling them the drugs are toxic isn’t new—it’s obvious. At that point, it’s not helping anyone. It’s just wasting resources.
CBC indeed did a good job in assembling these stories, especially in giving a voice to people who lived experience, you know what you need
Safe supply 💜
“So many people have died in previous years that many of the people who were most at risk of dying have already left us.”
💔💔💔
there's 28 stories here about Tuesday, from all over the province.
this is a great thing that only CBC could do.
it might shift your thinking about what's happening if you read and listen to all this together.
read everything you can find about April 14. all of it
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Red-filtered photo of Parliament with the text, "Over 50 organizations urge Ottawa to enforce Canada Health Act. Read more: friendsofmedicare.org/news"
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...
Thanks for sharing!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/50_orgs_cana...
Great question and wonderful people you talked to. They get it!
We quizzed strangers on what can reduce overdose risk by 50%. Watch to see how they did 👀
Cancelling Care
Can a Charter challenge save Alberta’s supervised consumption sites?
albertaviews.ca/cancelling-s...
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
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...
I get called less by journalists since the moral panic against harm reduction got started a couple years back. Even the good ones stand a little further back. Plus, we can no longer get meetings with cabinet ministers. These are clearly the least important metrics of backlash, but there it is.
This is a major line being crossed by Alberta's UCP government. Throwing out the work of an independent boundaries committee is authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic.
“We have this bizarre dichotomy where everybody agrees that this is a health issue, but the majority of the resources, the financing, the attention, goes to law enforcement...”
Lisa Lapointe
“treatment and related services should be offered in the least-restrictive manner and environment possible, with the goal of having the person continue to live in the community...."
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRDP).
A somber and important read.
“What I see is a lot of people who don’t understand why so many others think they’re not worth it. And they’re just trying to survive day-to-day.”
#bcpoli
nelsonstar.com/2026/04/14/w...
Thanks for this in-depth reporting on the anniversary of the public health emergency. 💜
“I absolutely believe there was political pressure, and it disturbs me immensely to see some of the political rhetoric that was used to demonize people who are most marginalized in our community.”
Dr. Bonnie Henry
