Euan Thomson

🧵 Why are we suing the Calgary Police? It’s hard to describe what happens to you physiologically while being smeared in public by powerful people. It’s a mix of uncertainty, fear, frustration, rage, indignation, and anguish, on a thick layer of pity — for self and others you know are in it, too. 1/

That is beyond the pale. I work at an addiction medicine clinic as part of a hospital and we literally do everything we can to make care as low-barrier and accesible as possible. Making it harder for people who are already struggling to access life saving meds is evil.

1 min Call to Action - Read and Sign I would say that the self-serving organizing of a small contingent of physicians with financial stakes in medical policy is a serious problem that all people, especially those in medicine, need to stand up against. drugdatadecoded.ca/meet-the-phy...

Meet the new captain of the shitliner.

I’m surprised that Regenstreif is platformed by the OMA (who value integrity and inclusivity) despite being an anti trans activist who’s published misinformation on trans issues with her colleagues from Florida.

NEW: Three years after a notorious open letter, a small group of conflicted addiction doctors appears to be influencing prescribed safe supply policy again. This time, they seem to be taking aim at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. READ & SIGN: drugdatadecoded.ca/meet-the-phy...

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

A Serbian nationalist leader who courted MAGA just lost in a landslide

After more than 10% of polling stations have been counted, Lula is given a 92% chance to win and is expected to win by a 4% margin, despite the attempts of pro-Bolsonaro politicians and businessmen to keep Lula supporters from voting. If true, this would be another amazing comeback by Lula.

and now we are stuck with a new garbage premier. this one is worse, thanks province that is fine with getting sucked into vitriolic white supremacist hate spirals against anyone who is disabled, a drug user, trans, homeless, an immigrant, Indigenous or some combination of the above!

In British Columbia there is the NDP and the anti-NDP. The latter change their name every few decades. These guys haven't been out of power a decade.

imagine your legacy being using your political career to undermine your entire pre-politics career just so you can make the most humiliating blunder and lose to a party that was on the verge of collapse

Something big has been happening this week, and with all the news happening, you probably didn’t hear about it. MPs from every federal party except the Liberals and Conservatives have banded together — and they’re sounding the alarm about Carney's destructive policies:

Fuck David Eby. The only tiny consolation here is at least he'll go down in history as one of the greatest boneheads Canadian politics ever produced. He'll be a cautionary tale. Anytime a charmless jackass shoots themself in the foot, they'll be pulling an Eby.

idk that it's all that significant that is the first "Conservative" government since 1928, when our last conservative government ended in 2017. we traded one conservative party for another

Feels relevant that EPS brass are getting training tips from IDF forces in the occupied West Bank.

Tonight David Eby is going to resign, and then hand the province over to a group dedicated to screwing over First Nations. So seriously, f*ck him, his ego and greed for doing this, and wasting all our time for the next 4 years, fighting them.

Excuse me? Eby’s campaign fail is cos he’s too smart and we’re too thick to understand legislative dysfunction? That’s some very “my biggest flaw is that I’m a perfectionist” energy, I hate it.

It should be illegal for Israel’s top arms producer to purchase a Canadian company. Elbit Systems is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, enact sanctions and a two-way arms embargo now. www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...

This is a long but interesting read: "The fundamental question is therefore not whether Canada should have fewer immigrants. It is whether the people who were brought into a dysfunctional system should be made to pay for the failures of the governments and institutions that built it."

BREAKING: Duncan Kinney has pled guilty to mischief in relation to the vandalism of the bust of Roman Shukhevych outside the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in August 2021.

Congrats to Ken Sim for salting the earth for future cop mayoral endorsements

Green/COPE Vancouver mayoral election sweep its so beautiful

Greens’ Pete Fry will be the next mayor of Vancouver

Holy crap vancouver. I guess cop politicians don’t have the same appeal they had in 2022.

Nations should be seriously reconsidering their intelligence sharing agreements with the USA right now

The amended statement of claim has a few minor changes and has been uploaded to the bottom of this May 2026 press release. drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

Serving the defendants today: University of Calgary Board of Governors, Calgary Police Service, including named officers, and City of Calgary. From May (statement of claim amended since then): drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

Our reporter, Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social was just kicked out of the EverWind announcement, for doing her job.

The systems of state, market, and social control are powerful enough to never be legible to regular people again. If you can’t draw meaningful inferences or parse distinctions you are lost right now.

NEW: Mark Carney’s government lobbied Ecuadorian officials to ‘urgently’ speed up approvals for Canadian mining projects last year. The push came after Ecuador’s right-wing government cracked down on Indigenous protesters opposed to Canadian mines. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-pus...

A cop car carrying a flashing neon sign that says "DOUG FORD HATES YOU." Perfect, no notes, thanks for the great visual @ TV writers of the universe!

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