Euan Thomson

More instructive to compare Lethbridge with same sized city Red Deer, which has been in perpetual crisis since closing its consumption site a year ago.

Also more useful to examine what the First Nations around Lethbridge have done, given that they were most heavily affected.

Premier Tim Houston has called a 10:45 am news conference today related to the budget.

The hypocrisy of seeing elected officials talk about Iran without a fucking peep about Palestine for the last three years.

Graph showing the number of deaths pending investigation from 2019 to 2024. In total, there were 3,244 deaths pending investigation as of January 2026 – without counting 2025. 2023 and 2024 contained the highest numbers at around 1,200 each.

Cause of death statistics are now missing 2024, which were available in the dashboard until recently.

The Alberta government has removed Cause of Death statistics for the entire year 2024 from its dashboard.

Fortunately, I reported on this in January, before the data were removed: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

The government hadn't yet reported 2025. The latest year available is now 2023. 1/

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

You Can’t Die Twice: What Falling Overdose Numbers Don’t Tell Us. We’re a collective of Alberta advocates committed to compassion, inclusion, and justice. Guided by HEARTS: Harm Reduction, Equity, Advocacy, Respect, Trust, and Support, we stand with people who use s...

Or rather, “you can’t die twice”

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I absolutely believe those numbers - at least as a trend. Lethbridge has done a good job of making itself an incredible unwelcome place for people struggling, and its death rate has been so uniquely high for so long - as Jenn McCrindle put it, “you only die once.”

Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters. Compassion clubs have resurfaced in recent years as a response to the toxic unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia (BC), and more specifically the need for community-based safer supply programs a...

NEW: Analysis from Marilou Gagnon on Health Canada's rejection of compassion club models in the context of the DULF case

themainlander.com/2026/03/09/c... #drugsky

I don’t even know to say to anyone still doing that in Alberta, seven years into the UCP.

In a certain instances, I might give a government or their web team the benefit of the doubt. I do not give this government the benefit of the doubt.

It's not clear why the Alberta government wouldn't want these data available.

Alternative analyses, including by @moriartylab.bsky.social, emphasize that the government has misrepresented COVID and drug toxicity deaths since the early pandemic. This is likely part of the same pattern. 4/

Total fatalities pending investigation by Alberta's medical examiner are at 3,244, with most remaining from 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Without even counting 2025, there were 3,244 deaths still pending investigation by the provincial Medical Examiner as of late January.

Some of these deaths dated back to 2020 and 2021. That's thousands of families that have waited up to six years to know how their loved ones died. 3/

Access the dashboard here, and select Mortality Rates - All Cause: 2/
www.ahw.gov.ab.ca/IHDA_Retriev...

Graph showing the number of deaths pending investigation from 2019 to 2024. In total, there were 3,244 deaths pending investigation as of January 2026 – without counting 2025. 2023 and 2024 contained the highest numbers at around 1,200 each.

Cause of death statistics are now missing 2024, which were available in the dashboard until recently.

The Alberta government has removed Cause of Death statistics for the entire year 2024 from its dashboard.

Fortunately, I reported on this in January, before the data were removed: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

The government hadn't yet reported 2025. The latest year available is now 2023. 1/

The NYT runs single-sourced unsubstantiated stories on their front page and this pecker talks about "just a blogger". Lemme tell you something. When I worked for a 'blog' we had to do triple the background work/sourcing just so we wouldn't hear this crap from legacy media who were AWFUL at their job

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.”

We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth

Liberal MPs need to stop it with this duck-and-cover.
Say what you mean with your full chest like @willgreavesmp.bsky.social and stop treating politics like a career or a pension ticket.
You look like empty shells. The world is at stake and your leader is failing. Speak.

congressional democrats didn't give a fuck that we double tapped an elementary school last week with tomahawk missles and killed almost 200 little kids but they're about to express the purest outrage today because Line Go Down

It’s as if 400 people were simply euthanized by the passive voice. Doubleplusgood.

Correction: “This is what *morning looked like in Tehran.”

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.

This video is lowballing it.

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Donate to Reclaim Our Rights - Community-Led Humanitarian Assistance, organized by Migrant Workers' Action The 2024 conflict showed how migrant community leaders were f… Migrant Workers' Action needs your support for Reclaim Our Rights - Community-Led Humanitarian Assistance

It's day 2 of 48-hour flash matching fundraiser i'm running to support Migrant Workers Action in Lebanon

With renewed escalation by Zionist entity, domestic migrant workers (undocumented or under Kafala) are among most displaced & vulnerable.

Goal is 6K by weekend, just $800 away. contribute/share

Protecting women in sports somehow constantly ends up at creating barriers for women in sports

Having similarly dealt with far-right characters I’ve reported on engage in stalking / harassing behaviour to the point where lawyers needed to be engaged, I can say Canada’s laws are completely insufficient to deal with these problems and I have zero trust in the legal system to protect journalists

Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centre | The Narwhal Lack of public consultation means project that would have consumed as much power as Edmonton won’t go ahead — for now

The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...

that doesn't seem the least bit conspiratorial. Governments issue police budgets after all.

A good-news story in the province’s fourth city, nice! What’s going on in the capital?

Oh… really, really bad you say?

Nah, run the feel-good. We need something nice to follow disabled support cuts and health care cuts.