Reposted by Euan Thomsondustin @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." 115229
Reposted by Euan Thomsondustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026and 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. 27821
Reposted by Euan Thomsondustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost." 5259113
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/09/2026DULF 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! ⬇️ 01311
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/09/2026@defactomedia.ca heroes www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...defactomedia.caHow Vancouver police turned against DULFCourt records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes 0147
Reposted by Euan ThomsonJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 24/09/2026I 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. 24326
Reposted by Euan ThomsonThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Canada stayed 2027086
Reposted by Euan Thomsonelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Canada had a legal duty to arrest Netanyahu as he crossed Canadian airspace www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...ctvnews.caNetanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effectIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant. 528290
Reposted by Euan ThomsonNora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Winnipeg Jewish man arrested for leafleting outside of a synagogue, asking his fellow congregants to stop supporting prayers for the IDF. jewishpostandnews.ca/faqs/rokmicr...jewishpostandnews.caIncident 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... 15232
Reposted by Euan ThomsonRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Carney’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? 1326381
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 22/09/2026Whether or not it’s explicit in their minds, either way it’s abuser behaviour 010
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 22/09/2026Vancouver 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...link.springer.comPolice drug seizures without arrest before and during a decriminalization pilot in Vancouver, Canada: a longitudinal analysis - BMC Public HealthBackground 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... 12312
Reposted by Euan ThomsonEuan 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 scareInternal 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. 176
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/20266. 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...ctvnews.caVancouver Police Union won’t endorse a mayoral candidate this municipal electionThe Vancouver Police Union says it won’t be endorsing a mayoral candidate in this year’s municipal election. 041
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/20265. 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...cbc.caPolice union endorses Sonya Sharp for mayor, Communities First party in 'rare' move | CBC NewsThe 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... 141
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/09/20263. 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...vancouver.citynews.caPolice drug seizures increased during first year of decriminalization, SFU study findsA 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. 131
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 scareInternal 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. 176
Reposted by Euan ThomsonElias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I 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. 28629143
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19/09/2026Can 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 10^19 110
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 19/09/2026Canada should train thousands of people on how to use this and push it into every public sector 24510
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026Alberta deservedly gets a bad rap on freedom of information but the feds take the cake on pound-for-pound consequences of their sleaziness. 020
Reposted by Euan ThomsonBean & 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 1259
Reposted by Euan ThomsonPresident of Dopamine 🍉♺ @socialdopamine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This 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. 133
Reposted by Euan ThomsonEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026This 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.caCivil Society Organizations Call on Correctional Service Canada to Restore Access to Mental Health MedicationsTORONTO, 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... 56343
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026Here’s the full letter from September 17, concerning ADHD meds and other issues. prisonjustice.org/wp-content/u...prisonjustice.org 093
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026This 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-...drugdatadecoded.ca150 experts demand Correctional Service Canada reverse "coercive" opioid treatment guidanceA 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... 2188
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/09/2026This 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.caCivil Society Organizations Call on Correctional Service Canada to Restore Access to Mental Health MedicationsTORONTO, 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... 56343
Reposted by Euan ThomsonLisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026At 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/...cbc.caFormer Elections Alberta staff raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns about 'Water Not Coal' petition verification | CBC NewsFive 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... 12221102
Reposted by Euan ThomsonDavid Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My 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. 041
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026That 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. 250
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026This 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. 24216
Reposted by Euan Thomson404 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.”404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 5870146
Reposted by Euan Thomson404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026NEW: 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.404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 13870743267
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026There are simply too many beautiful German shepherds in north end Halifax 🥲 010
Reposted by Euan ThomsonParis Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026hearing 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 13424138
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/09/2026I’ll keep my silence as I couldn’t bear Ed Sheeran thinking less of me 1120
Reposted by Euan ThomsonHalifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 15/09/2026Legal aid lawyer urges N.S. government to scrap bill amendments that ‘violate fundamental constitutional rights’ By @dartjenhen.bsky.socialhalifaxexaminer.caLegal aid lawyer urges N.S. government to scrap bill amendments that 'violate fundamental constitutional rights' - Halifax ExaminerNadia Shivji says proposed changes to the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act (SCAN) are unnecessary and unconstitutional and should be dropped. 1174
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 14/09/2026I 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? 010
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 14/09/2026Important Day 12 update on parasitic brain-controlling fungus absorbing life juices of an unfortunate fly: 1111
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 13/09/2026These 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. 0100
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 12/09/2026CNN reeeally hoping McConnell pulls through from being dead. Lot at stake. 190
Reposted by Euan ThomsonMarlow 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...variety.comLilly 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. 99115044248
Reposted by Euan ThomsonLiam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 11/09/2026Nova 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!news.novascotia.caChanges to Labour Standards Code Will Strengthen Protections for Workers 0103