On October 20th, Alberta will go to polls to vote in their local municipal elections across the province. Municipalities across this province are bearing the brunt of the drug poisoning crisis and we can’t wait any longer for solutions rooted in evidence and care.
We know that harm reduction saves lives and strengthens communities but where do your local candidates stand on harm reduction?
Share this post and click the link in our bio for a template to send to your candidate(s) to find out!
What do frontline leaders and business owners actually see when it comes to harm reduction and public safety?
Join David and Ceci to hear directly from their experience.
🗓 Feb 11 | ⏰ 5:30 PM MST
💻 Online
🔗 Register via link in bio!
Harm reduction is often misunderstood.
Join us on Feb 11 for an online conversation featuring frontline leaders and business owners sharing how harm reduction affects their work and communities.
⏰ 5:30 PM MST
💻 Online
🔗 Link in bio
Survey results are here!!!
Part 5: Sspomitapi, Tastawiyiniwak, and O-day’min!:
- swipe through the slides to get a glimpse of the candidates views on Edmonton’s Drug Poisoning Crisis
Click the link in bio and head to our website for the full responses!
This brings us to the end of our CSSDP YEG Municipal Elections Survey Responses!
Make an informed decision and get out to VOTE on Oct 20th (tomorrow!) !!
Survey results are here!!!
Part 4: Papastew, Pihêsiwin, and Sipiwiyiniwak
- swipe through the slides to get a glimpse of the candidates views on Edmonton’s Drug Poisoning Crisis
Click the link in bio and head to our website for the full responses!
Check back in for more responses coming soon 🔜
Survey results are here!!!
Part 2: Anirniq and Ipiikoohkanipiaohtsi
- swipe through the slides to get a glimpse of the candidates views on Edmonton’s Drug Poisoning Crisis
Click the link in bio and head to our website for the full responses!
Check back in for more responses coming soon 🔜
Survey results are here!!!
Part 1: Mayoral Candidates
- swipe through the slides to get a glimpse of the candidates views on Edmonton’s Drug Poisoning Crisis
Click the link in bio and head to our website for the full responses!
Check back in for more responses coming soon 🔜
EACH+EVERY stands in unified opposition to the Alberta government’s recent announcement
of plans to reduce medical access for transgender individuals and education for children and
youth. The continued weaponization of medical policy only marginalizes vulnerable groups for
the sake of importing American culture war tactics.
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For over a month, Israel has waged a military campaign in retaliation to a horrendous act of violence inside its territory by Hamas.
Our hearts go out to the loved ones of the Israelis killed on October 7. However, the actions taken by Israel cannot be accepted as self-defense while Israeli ground troops drive Palestinians off their lands and appear to claim these for Israel, extending a pattern of illegal land seizure that has proceeded for decades.
Writing in Opinio Juris, University College London’s Dr. Ralph Wilde summarizes the legal context: “Israel’s 1967 war was illegal as a matter of the international law on the use of force… Israel’s use of force through the occupation with respect to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has been illegal since 1967… If there was no original lawful basis for it to use force then, for that reason or any other, there cannot then be a basis to continue the use of force in response to violent acts of Palestinian resistance to the occupation.”
In any context, the actions carried out by the state of Israel are acts of ethnic cleansing and ultimately genocide, reinforced by comments made by the Israeli government in the early stages of its coordinated use of force after the October 7 attack.
EACH+EVERY has explicit mandates to uphold human rights, advance Truth and Reconciliation, and speak out against unjust systems of inequity that impact individuals’ rights and freedoms.
To these ends, the board of directors sees parallels between the western-backed siege in Gaza and the systems of oppression through which the state of Canada was colonized. In keeping with the values that initiated our coalition, we condemn the ongoing war crimes committed against the Palestinian people and ask the Canadian government to do the same.
We condemn the targeting of journalists, hospitals, civilians and survival infrastructure.
We condemn the apparent land seizure that is underway in Northern Gaza.
We call on the Government of Canada to:
demand an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian territory,
halt arms sales to Israel, and
contribute to humanitarian relief.
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The bodies of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, Indigenous women who are the likely victims of a white mass murderer in Winnipeg, remain entombed in the operational Prairie Green Landfill that services the City of Winnipeg.
A string of excuses for not searching for these women has been supplied by those with decision-making power: the work is too dangerous, finding them is infeasible and searching for the bodies could disrupt the murder investigations.
These are bogus claims that have been disproven through past landfill searches and debunked by experts.
Those who have protested at the landfills and called for action only seek justice. We urge the City of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Police Service and the Province of Manitoba to stop criminalizing them and respond to their demands with meaningful steps to find these murdered Indigenous women.
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls provides 237 Calls for Justice that detail the steps required to change the structures that give rise to violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people every day in Canada. The crimes underpinning the Calls for Justice find their parallel in our collective refusal to search Prairie Green Landfill.
Settler colonialism has dug us all into a trench of racism and misogyny, and the landfill protesters are pleading with us to seek our way out. As a coalition of 200 businesses operating within these harmful systems, we join calls for the City of Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba to commit the resources to begin this work.
#SearchTheLandfill
Alberta could be on track for its highest-ever drug poisoning mortality count in the second quarter of 2023. (Projected from 10/13 weeks.)
The relationship between quarterly EMS dispatches and mortalities is solid over 5 years.
Mortality reporting is now 4 months behind.
Calgary had its 2 highest weekly EMS dispatches for drug poisoning in the last 7 weeks:
The week ending April 24, there were 96.
The week ending June 5, there were 91.
The budget for supervised consumption drops 32% this year and there is no safe supply.
Calgary's mobile drug checking service rolls out June 8 from 3 to 5PM with venue sponsored by @thebloxyyc , Beltline's Business Improvement Area.
Follow the QR code below to RSVP and bring along your respectful curiosity! #yyc #yyccc #beltline
