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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
The last paragraph is the most disheartening. It lays the current overdose crisis blame entirely on opiates, neglecting the role that lower employment, poor health care access and lack of social supports have on generating dependence. How much does rehab cost?
You don't have to wait til people are sober and drug free. You can house them now instead of sending them to prison.  Doctors can help with addiction, but it is hard when they have to go live on the streets.
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The @theglobeandmail.com board also advocates that only addiction physicians should be the only ones to prescribe prescription opiates. When this was the case in BC, there was considerable profiteering and lack of access. Why would anyone choose to go backwards, given stigma and lack of access?
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@theglobeandmail.com relies heavily on anecdotes from Dr. Lori Regenstreif, an addictions physician who allies with Adam Zivo , an anti-safe-supply zealot/"journalist"/occasional secret agent for foreign governments and has been linked to anti-trans activities www.transgendermap.com/issues/acade...
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Lori Regenstreif vs. transgender people – Transgender Map
Lori Regenstreif is a Canadian physician and anti-transgender activist. Regenstreif is associated with SPLC-designated anti-trans hate group Genspect, is a contributing writer to Canada's anti-trans M...
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Last year, British Columbia reined in its prescription opioid program after leaked documents showed a significant portion was being trafficked" OK - "significant portion" - so how much? Looks like about 0.3% filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe...
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Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible - Filter
Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Some hydromorphone users, chasing a stronger high, move on to fentanyl." This could be a big cost, if we knew how often this happens. If this was rare compared to the number of people helped by safe supply then the costs would not be BIG. Again, the lack of facts hampers any conclusion
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"All too often, the hydromorphone ends up in the hands of young people seeking a cheap high" It appears the evidence to support this is a quote from an addicitions physician - there are no statistics supplied.
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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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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mastering the slide rule was never the flex I hoped it would be…
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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
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mark McKinney has a new show youtu.be/OuBs61AFChw
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Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby (CTV Original) | Full Episode | Season 1 Ep 5 - Robots
YouTube video by Crave
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have personal experience dealing with Hoffe’s misinformation. The College has a long history of letting bad doctors practice. See James Tyhurst. rense.com/general9/psy...
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Psychiatrist Whips Patients - Fined Over Half A Million
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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/...
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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.
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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 · 24/09/2026
Our hospital was first in #Canada to give out Take Home Naloxone to those who had suffered an overdose. #Kamloops Had to contend with the “Narcan party” myth. www.vice.com/en/article/h...
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Heroin Overdose Parties Are a Dehumanizing Myth
“Narcan parties” are just another part of the narrative that vilifies people who use the drugs our nation has chosen to criminalize.
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ve never thought about it before but this also gives us necrotizing #fasciitis, plantar #fasciitis, #fasciculations, etc #didnazithatcoming
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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...
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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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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And this: www.radionl.com/2019/11/08/l...
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Local Physician Takes Issue with EDGE Program
A local physician is suggesting that the Educate, Develop, Grow and Excel program taught in Kamloops is outdat...
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here is more on the program: drivmitchell.medium.com/a-critique-o...
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A Critique of the Project Edge Presentation
by Ian Mitchell, MD, FRCP. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, UBC
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This was also a part of the Edge program in #Kamloops where hockey players toured the #DTES and then did “Scared Straight” presentations to 5th graders cfjctoday.com/2019/09/11/b...
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Blazers come away with ‘eye-opening’ experience from trip to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
KAMLOOPS - Blazers goaltender Rayce Ramsay couldn't believe what he saw when walking Vancouver's Downtown East...
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We dropped our son off at University a couple of weeks ago. We called him out on not bringing any books for his shelf. He asked if we could bring him the Hitchhikers Guide
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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 11/09/2026
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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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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When anything looks this cute, ask yourself: “is this AI slop?”
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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 · 19/08/2026
During the height of the pandemic, I had an older Indigenous female patient who came to the Emergency Department because Hoffe told her the COVID vaccination was higher risk than COVID.
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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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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI slop
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Chainsaws are a bit fraught with danger for my tastes, but a reciprocating saw (Sawsall) is just the thing when you decide that a wall needs to be gone
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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-...
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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
3. The charity "Kars 4 Kids" has no staff in Canada and won't say if any of their money goes to Canadian children. Why is #GlobalTV supporting a deceptive organization that collects Canadian dollars to help Jewish and Israeli groups? Is Global less concerned about deceiving viewers than the CBC?
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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
2. Global TV states the ads "continue to meet all required Canadian broadcast clearance standards" and are actively reviewing and monitoring the situation. So aware of deception, but not doing anything. Even though broadcast standards are met, the CBC has pulled the ad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CBC pulls Kars4Kids ads after U.S. court bans 'deceptive' jingle | CBC News
The CBC will no longer carry ads for Kars4Kids — the long-running charity campaign featuring a familiar jingle inviting audiences to "donate your car today." The public broadcaster announced the move ...
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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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Ian Mitchell, MD @drivmitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
More to that story torontolife.com/life/what-re...
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What really happened the night of the O'Leary boat crash in Muskoka - Toronto Life
It's been a year since the infamous accident, which triggered a swirl of legal manoeuvring, PR gamesmanship and cottage-country gossip
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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...
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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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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?...
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The Same Billionaires Who Funded Brexit, Fund Rebel News In Canada
YouTube video by Trailer Park PhD
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