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Euan Thomson

@drugdatadecoded.ca
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Investigations on the Alberta-led drug war revival: www.drugdatadecoded.ca ✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee PhD Microbiology Banner: Access to information in Alberta Icon: Headshot of me in blue t-shirt

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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
"You selflessly put yourselves to the side for this cause, and that's something most people wouldn't do. For that, I applaud you. You should be proud of yourselves," she says to Kalicum and Nyx. "You put your lives on hold for many valuable years, and I can see this process has is worn you down."
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
and there was no real avenue for DULF to get approved to operate legally through s. 56 of the CDSA. she finds s. 7 of the charter was violated and that declaring s. 5(2) of the CDSA is unconstitutional.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/09/2026
OH MY GOD
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/09/2026
DULF ruling is today. Monumental, as it could rule the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional. Aka drug prohibition aka the thing that killed 57,509 people in Canada in the last ten years. Incredible investigation here, consider supporting De Facto! ⬇️
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/09/2026
@defactomedia.ca heroes www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 24/09/2026
I thought for sure that Carney would use this case as an excuse to push Bill C-22, but this story shows that surveillance bill wouldn't have made a difference. OpenAI already had the capability to track and then report this, and just... didn't. "Cops need lawful access to keep us safe" is bullshit.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada stayed
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada had a legal duty to arrest Netanyahu as he crossed Canadian airspace www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Winnipeg Jewish man arrested for leafleting outside of a synagogue, asking his fellow congregants to stop supporting prayers for the IDF. jewishpostandnews.ca/faqs/rokmicr...
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Incident at Asper Campus today leads me to wonder: Are members of Winnipeg Police Service overreacting to threats of antisemitism?
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted Sept. 23, 8:49 pm) I was coming out of the Asper Campus today around 5:30 pm when I saw a familiar figure – my second cousin Marty Green (son of the late Sid Green) standing o...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney’s legislative agenda is abundantly clear: make Canada as investor and big business friendly as he possibly can with zero regard for anything else. Nothing is sacred if it stands in the way of a (even possible!) short term fiscal bump. What Canada will we be left with when Carney is done?
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 22/09/2026
Whether or not it’s explicit in their minds, either way it’s abuser behaviour
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 22/09/2026
Vancouver police sabotaging BC’s drug decriminalization pilot is also infuriating because people’s odds of experiencing an overdose TRIPLED after having their drugs confiscated. People likely died because of this shady political manoeuvring by VPD. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Police drug seizures without arrest before and during a decriminalization pilot in Vancouver, Canada: a longitudinal analysis - BMC Public Health
Background On 31 January 2023, the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada implemented a three-year “Decriminalization Pilot” in response to a toxic drug supply public health emergency, which remove...
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/2026
🧵 Short timeline of political endorsements by police 1. 2022: Vancouver police drive moral panic on stranger attacks, though their data showed steep decline. 2. Oct 2022: Ken Sim gets first-ever endorsement from head of Vancouver police association, Ralph Kaisers. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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‘Fear and anxiety’: The untold story of the Vancouver Police Department’s stranger assault scare
Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/2026
6. 2025: Ralph Kaisers, Vancouver police association head, tries to run in Sim's party in byelection, loses badly. 7. Last week: Vancouver police seem to realize they and Sim need to get some distance, and decide not to endorse anyone for mayor. 8. Good luck Ken Sim! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Vancouver Police Union won’t endorse a mayoral candidate this municipal election
The Vancouver Police Union says it won’t be endorsing a mayoral candidate in this year’s municipal election.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/2026
5. 2025-26: Other police associations realize they can make endorsements as well, and start doing so. The idea spreads to Calgary and then to Toronto (today). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
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Police union endorses Sonya Sharp for mayor, Communities First party in 'rare' move | CBC News
The Calgary Police Association has endorsed Sonya Sharp and Communities First candidates on behalf of its approximately 2,300 members — breaking from a decade-long practice of staying out of local pol...
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/2026
3. Ken Sim wins the Vancouver election on a promise to hire 200 cops, at a pivotal moment for policing: BC was three months out from the country's first drug decriminalization pilot. 4. Vancouver police sabotage decrim pilot, increasing drug confiscations. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/09/09/s...
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Police drug seizures increased during first year of decriminalization, SFU study finds
A study released Wednesday by Simon Fraser University (SFU) found that police drug seizures increased during the first year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization pilot project.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/2026
🧵 Short timeline of political endorsements by police 1. 2022: Vancouver police drive moral panic on stranger attacks, though their data showed steep decline. 2. Oct 2022: Ken Sim gets first-ever endorsement from head of Vancouver police association, Ralph Kaisers. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
ctvnews.ca
‘Fear and anxiety’: The untold story of the Vancouver Police Department’s stranger assault scare
Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19/09/2026
Can confirm, my quantum AI model calculated every possible path using photosynthetic reaction centre logistics and settled on this one as the most efficient, 1 time out of 10^19
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19/09/2026
Pretty sure you mean “mo”
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19/09/2026
Canada should train thousands of people on how to use this and push it into every public sector
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026
Alberta deservedly gets a bad rap on freedom of information but the feds take the cake on pound-for-pound consequences of their sleaziness.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"...expressing grave concern with a decision by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to restrict access to medications commonly used to treat depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other conditions ..." JFC @mark-carney.bsky.social we are better than this 🤬 #CdnPoli
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President of Dopamine 🍉♺ @socialdopamine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is blatant discrimination. ADHDers are generally 2 to 3 times more likely to be arrested, convicted, or incarcerated, often at a younger age than their neurotypical peers.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026
This is a major national scandal and whoever is calling these shots at Correctional Services Canada needs to be held to account. Prisoners deserve care – or else, what exactly are we doing in “corrections”? www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/globenewswir...
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Civil Society Organizations Call on Correctional Service Canada to Restore Access to Mental Health Medications
TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twenty civil society organizations, including Prisoners' Legal Services, have signed and released an open letter today expressing grave concern with a decis...
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026
Here’s the full letter from September 17, concerning ADHD meds and other issues. prisonjustice.org/wp-content/u...
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026
This scandal goes way beyond ADHD meds. Last fall, CSC also cut access to methadone & morphine, forcing prisoners onto a patented opioid injection that few people choose to continue using after it wears off. The patent holder, of course, had been lobbying a LOT. drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-...
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150 experts demand Correctional Service Canada reverse "coercive" opioid treatment guidance
A new policy in federal prisons removes methadone and Suboxone opioid treatments, leaving only a patented once-per-month gel injection available to prisoners. A large group of experts is raising serio...
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026
This is a major national scandal and whoever is calling these shots at Correctional Services Canada needs to be held to account. Prisoners deserve care – or else, what exactly are we doing in “corrections”? www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/globenewswir...
thecanadianpressnews.ca
Civil Society Organizations Call on Correctional Service Canada to Restore Access to Mental Health Medications
TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twenty civil society organizations, including Prisoners' Legal Services, have signed and released an open letter today expressing grave concern with a decis...
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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At best, the Elections Alberta is an underfunded, over-employed shambles. At worst, it was responding to government pressure to ensure a desired outcome. If the latter, it’s a 5-alarm fire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former Elections Alberta staff raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns about 'Water Not Coal' petition verification | CBC News
Five former Elections Alberta employees are raising “mismanagement” concerns about how Corb Lund's citizen initiative petition was validated, alleging procedures changed and that there was a lack of t...
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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My take is that yes it's often nasty and malicious but there are also legitimate journalistic reasons for taking a photo without asking someone's permission, and ways to do so that respect their dignity. The problem requires cultural change, and it can't be addressed thru criminal law.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
Omg what
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
That said I definitely want to know how the liberals plan to weaponize this against the people who support this in principle, as that seems to be what they do.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
This nasty form of photography was a big part of the UCP’s 2023 election campaign after Vancouver is Dying came out. Aaron Gunn replica Arthur Green even got hired for his invaluable service as the public safety ministry press secretary.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one of the hackers said in an interview. “We liberated hardware in the field, disarmed them, and proceeded with reverse engineering of the cameras and associated solar equipment.”
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
There are simply too many beautiful German shepherds in north end Halifax 🥲
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026
hearing mark carney talk about how privatizing airports will free up money to invest in regional airports, transport links, broadband infrastructure makes me think of how nationalizing the pipeline was supposed to deliver revenues to pay for climate measures
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
My intedgrity comes first
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
I’ll keep my silence as I couldn’t bear Ed Sheeran thinking less of me
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026
Silver lemmings!
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 15/09/2026
We’re in the era of heroes we deserve
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 15/09/2026
Ugh god dammit. I recant.
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 15/09/2026
Legal aid lawyer urges N.S. government to scrap bill amendments that ‘violate fundamental constitutional rights’ By @dartjenhen.bsky.social
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Legal aid lawyer urges N.S. government to scrap bill amendments that 'violate fundamental constitutional rights' - Halifax Examiner
Nadia Shivji says proposed changes to the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act (SCAN) are unnecessary and unconstitutional and should be dropped.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 14/09/2026
I need to know: 1. What digestive enzymes does this fungus produce to consume the fly? (chitinase for sure - what else?) 2. What antibiotics does it produce to keep bacteria off its kill?
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 14/09/2026
Important Day 12 update on parasitic brain-controlling fungus absorbing life juices of an unfortunate fly:
Side view of a white blob enveloping a fly that is barely visible on the surface of a leaf. The blob has five lobes encircling different sections of the fiy from head to abdomen. The three orange abdominal wraps that were visible after the initial burst of fungal growth are now huge white blob lobes. Top view of a white blob enveloping a fly that is barely visible on the surface of a leaf. The blob has five lobes encircling different sections of the fiy from head to abdomen. The three orange abdominal wraps that were visible after the initial burst of fungal growth are now huge white blob lobes.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 13/09/2026
These conservative academics who tanked their own credibility in recent years seem to miss the limelight so much they’re seeking embarrassment for the attention alone. The mass debunking of their dumb bootlicking views maybe felt to them like rigorous academic debate or helped get their message out.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 12/09/2026
CNN reeeally hoping McConnell pulls through from being dead. Lot at stake.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 11/09/2026
Nova Scotia's government has introduced legislation to ban tip theft and increase access to overtime pay. This is a significant victory for precarious workers and owes much to research done by @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social and the strident advocacy of @halifaxwac.bsky.social and its members. Onwards!
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Changes to Labour Standards Code Will Strengthen Protections for Workers
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