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Ian Mitchell, MD

@drivmitch.bsky.social
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Emerg doc with interests in addiction, cannabis, ketamine and naloxone

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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A pirate comes into a doctor’s office. Somehow, he has a wooden steering wheel bolted to his pelvis. Doctor says: “Why do you have that?” Pirate: “I don’t know, but it’s driving me nuts.” #dadjoke
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Poorly sourced @theglobeandmail.com Opinion article against #SafeSupply ? Is it an election year? Featuring a remarkable lack of statistics...but fearmongering galore. Let's start with this: "it’s now clear that this supposed solution carries big costs." OK, let's hear about those...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Berenson is very useful as a reverse fortune teller. I can predict the future knowing he is wrong about everything always.
WORLD REPORT
USNewS
NEWS
News / Health News / Fifth Measles Death Reported ...
Fifth Measles Death
Reported As US Cases
Reach New 35-Year High
USNews By HealthDay
Oct. 1, 2026
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
I will never stop pointing out the BC medical college's total failure to keep the public safe from Hoffe's prolific anti-vax propaganda. Every time he shows up on a big stage to promote COVID denialism, I will be the small voice reminding everyone that the CPSBC shirked their responsibility.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: A BC Supreme Court judge has sided with Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, who operated an illicit-drug compassion club (Drug User Liberation Front), were convicted of trafficking, and challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. Trafficking section ruled invalid, convictions stayed.
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Dylan Houlihan (he/him) @houlio77.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My big thoughts on this is that the RCMP shouldn't be forcing us to spend money on this project until we get a stronger say on how policing in the community is done and that there is no reason this facility needs to be downtown and that we should consider places like Mission Flats.
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m glad this is out, but why did American media take 7 months to start reporting on this? #Canada www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
cbc.ca
Minister troubled by talks with OpenAI after Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting
Canada's Minister of A.I. called the makers of ChatGPT and OpenAI to Ottawa to talk about safety and risk assessment protocols after learning the company banned the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter for tr...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#Kamloops #SD73 is having elections soon. I want to elect people who do not support police in schools. I watched police officers lie to my son in a presentation at his school as part of Project #Edge "Scared Straight" is not how it's done cfjctoday.com/2020/01/16/s...
cfjctoday.com
School district backs RCMP involvement in Project EDGE
KAMLOOPS - Every year, the RCMP and the Kamloops Blazers visit Grade 6 classrooms in the city. Their message? ...
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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 11/09/2026
vicnews.com/2026/09/11/w...
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‘We’re not here to judge’: Doctors bring back-to-school drug checking to UVic - Victoria News
Advocates are urging UVic to expand drug-checking services following the death of Sidney McIntyre-Starko
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.
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GolgariGlenRoss @golgariglenross.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Why is it a “rare” infectious disease, Alex?
Cropped comic of an angry goose attacking a man. No text.
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why is Global BC interviewing Julian Somers regarding housing issues in the #DTES Could they not find someone more credible?
Somers says evidence supports dispersed housing  More distinguished professor says Somers is full of it
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Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wrote earlier this year that the shingles vaccine is the best-evidenced longevity intervention. New 2026 data: 24% dementia risk reduction. overmatter.substack.com/p/your-anti-...
overmatter.substack.com
Your anti-ageing stack should include this injectable
The shingles vaccine seems to reduce the risk of dementia. There is speculation that it might slow down ageing
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REBEL EM @rebel-em.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚫 Routine casting for all snuffbox tenderness? 🩹 The SUSPECT Trial says… maybe not. Bandaging was noninferior for occult scaphoid fx w/ better ROM + satisfaction. 🧠 Re-think your reflexes. 📖 wp.me/pdrP8b-5nC #FOAMed #EmergencyMedicine
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Annals of Emergency Medicine @annalsofem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Alcohol withdrawal is a clinical diagnosis, and early, appropriate front-loading therapy is key. 📖 Read the full Annals of Emergency Medicine article: www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/08/2026
Alex Berenson, you gotta answer for your absolute bullshit now
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 01/08/2026
ICYMI: I wrote an article for @healthydebate.bsky.social earlier this week about ivermectin, historical cancer scams, and the William Makis online grift economy.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Adam Zivo once responded to a joke I made on Twitter about the National Post by mocking me for being a restaurant server and saying I clearly wasted my university degree. He's an absolute piece of shit. It was a good joke, too! Save your insults for my just-okay jokes, Adam! They're out there!
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Adam Zivo is a fucking monster. Wow.
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
1. I have a story for @globalnews.ca It's about a TV network that continues to air an advertisement (Kars for Kids) that has been judged to be "a strategy of deception" in a court of law. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
Judge rules Kars4Kids' jingle is 'deceptive,' hides ties to Jewish org
A California judge ruled that Kars4Kids can no longer run its current ads in the state, calling the organization's ties to a Jewish group "deceptive."
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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C. - Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.
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Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.
Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.
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rapidwriter CA @rapidwriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...
nationalobserver.com
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
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Jaydra Dawn @jaydradawn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I love this genre: Poorly Aged Commercials. Content Warning: Everything. Just, everything. Right from the third second or so, straight through to the end. Some aren't even offensive, some just involve anticipation for the Challenger launch. It's still oddly entertaining and/ or fascinating.
youtube.com
Poorly Aged 80s Commercials
YouTube video by Mr. Opportunity
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.
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Trailer Park PhD @trailerparkphd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today, I am doing a post blitz on the problem with #Canadian "media" by sharing my research about quote unquote "independent media" in #Canada Spoiler alert: They are funded by #American #billionaires. #CdnPoli #AlbertaSeparation #misinformation #rebelnews youtu.be/8DQRQn1x4NY?...
youtu.be
The Same Billionaires Who Funded Brexit, Fund Rebel News In Canada
YouTube video by Trailer Park PhD
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
? New #fire in Lac du Bois area #Kamloops @kamscan.bsky.social
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 26/06/2026
Makis is never more in his element than when he's embroiled in legal drama of his own making.
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Lee Rosenberg 🇺🇦 @leerosenberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If Popehat is permanently banned because of this post, I’m genuinely concerned about the viability of this platform. Hopefully, someone like @masnick.com knows more about what’s happening and whether this is just a temporary suspension
Post from Popehat that violates the Bluesky rules
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
3. Widespread distribution of the overdose-reversing medication naloxone (3x from 2020-2024). Public Health Agency of Canada: “All provinces with substantial naloxone distribution experienced notable mortality decline.”
In March, 2016, as the drug crisis intensified, Health Canada removed the prescription requirement for naloxone, making the opioid overdose-reversing medication widely accessible. The life-saving kits can be administered by anyone and are often provided free of charge at participating pharmacies, harm-reduction and social-service sites, hospitals and schools.

Several provinces have required that naloxone be available in certain settings, such as at schools in B.C. and construction worksites and nightclubs in Ontario.
Naloxone distribution tripled between 2020 and 2024, and PHAC said this has likely had a major impact on death rates: “All provinces with substantial naloxone distribution experienced notable mortality decline.”

Kit Young Hoon, medical officer of health for the Northwestern Health Unit in Ontario, said her region has put a lot of effort into making the medication widely available.

There, fatal opioid overdoses are triple the provincial average but are no longer growing.

“I think we have the highest rates of naloxone distribution across the province,” Dr. Hoon said. “I think that’s hopefully a reason why there’s a little bit of a plateau.”
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
You don’t have to be German to be happy when bad things happen to bad people. Schadenfreude is for everyone! @hunterw.bsky.social
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14/06/2026
Canadian man who hangs outside local elementary schools attempting to engage passersby in conversations about puberty says he has been arrested by Spanish police
Billboard Chris
@BillboardChris
X.com
I have just been arrested by the police in Madrid, Spain.
My phone and passport have been seized but I had a second phone in my pocket so I'm writing this from the back of the police car.
I was at Puerta del Sol for just 5 minutes.
Police told me I cannot have conversations in the public square. I researched the law and spoke with a lawyer and.they are wrong.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
You can smell the gin sweat
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
The morning after pogroms in northern Ireland, the UK just sent letters to hundreds of trans youth saying their NHS partner provider, WellBN, has been banned from providing GAC and they must forcefully detransition within the next month. Fascism has arrived to the UK.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism | CBC Music
ALT HEDS FOR TESTING: Hed 1// Meta is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism Hed 2// 'Canadians are getting tricked:' Facebook paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Here is the original article that led to the crackdown at the ADA confererence. Share it widely. 10/ diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
diabetesjournals.org
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Cool Xenu 8647 @coolxenu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In #Kamloops, BC there are many rumors, repeated as fact, that homeless people are being bused into the city from Vancouver because of FIFA. This alt-right trope is treated as fact by many, likely because of fake "news" from rags like Druthers. There is zero evidence. #cdnpoli #BCpoli
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 04/06/2026
Enshittification? I found a dentist that takes Canadian Dental Plan, and one of the forms inadvertantly revealed they're owned by Dentalcorp who has clinics across Canada. The one I booked with is reportedly expensive (of course), and details of Dentalcorp are scarce @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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FOAM Cortex @foamcortex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Source spotlight: Fractures.app A free bedside fracture-management app with injury-pattern illustrations, splint recommendations, management pearls, high-risk alerts, and follow-up guidance. Source: fractures.app FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com
FOAM Cortex social image
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 31/05/2026
my people
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Dylan Houlihan (he/him) @houlio77.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Potential lesson for Kamloops...
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 29/05/2026
This dropped recently, and is quite the detailed read on Makis's sordid history. H/t @doritreiss.bsky.social. openvaet.info/p/william-ma...
openvaet.info
William Makis: The Truth Behind A Disgraced Doctor Turned Online Predator
How the COVID-19 pandemic allowed him to rise to fame and fortune, by exploiting the public's trust.
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Sista 𓅓 @sista.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Look how they massacred my girl
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is crying with his eyes closed in a dark room .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is crying with his eyes closed in a dark room .
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Saw an odd bump on the side of a window. I thought it might be eggs but they are a bit bigger #orbweaver #science #spider
Ball of spiders
Close up of orb weaver spiders   Sorry if you have arachnophobia
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Mdbass @mdbass.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
When asked to respond to news attendees were unhappy with his behaviour at the meeting, Hamer-Jackson demanded to know who they were. “Where do they work?” he asked. “Where do they live?” Shameful. Just shameful.
castanetkamloops.net
City of Kamloops shelter hearing attendees say dysfunction overshadowed debate
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Mdbass @mdbass.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
infonews.ca
Kamloops shelter resident 'insulted' by mayor's grilling | iNFOnews.ca
"I was insulted, but I was more than happy to engage with him. It just takes so much patience to listen to fools, and lucky for all involved, I have that kind of patience."
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