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@SonyaSharpYYC @JenniferWyness @jasmine_mian @YYCTKW Rob Tanguay sells mental health (psychedelic) services to Calgary Police through the Newly Institute, which he co-founded.

What could possibly constitute a greater conflict of interest than the UCP forcing his way onto the Police Commission?
thenewly.ca Newly Institute website sho...
@SonyaSharpYYC @JenniferWyness @jasmine_mian @YYCTKW @alanna_smithh @TimmCTV @CTVMarkVillani @LiveWire_DK @Jill_Croteau @duncankinney @JeremyAppel1025 @TS_Lambert @TaylorBraat_ @cbccolleen Dan Agapi is a Director in the Recovery Coaches program.

I once had to manage a poisoning for someone in this program where the "coach" tried to blame everyone but himself for the incident (which was largely his fault). 🤢

David Kenney also coaches coaches. (Next tweet) Dan Agapi's linkedin profile

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Feb 18
Here's that 2018-2020 history of Dr Rob Tanguay, one of two physicians named to Preston Manning's COVID review.
Since then, he's very much held the course... 1/
safesupply.ca/one_of_alberta…
(sorry for the wait)
In 2020, he helped the UCP justify closure of life-critical supervised consumption sites as a panelist on a wined-and-dined provincial review committee.
He later expressed something resembling regret. 2/
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca….
Next, he co-founded the cross-Canada Newly Institute for privatized psychedelic therapy, mainly geared toward police and military veterans with PTSD.
Before opening, they were valued at $15million in seed money. In other words, the guy's loaded. 3/
newsfilecorp.com/release/94601/…
Read 4 tweets
Dec 16, 2022
Link below if you are able to follow along! I'll live tweet to help add some context. 🧵
#YYC #Alberta #Addiction #Incarceration
Coming out of the gates with addiction/mental health framing, which is extremely corrosive, as it ignores the primary reason why people are dying: a poisoned unregulated drug supply.
Milliken: "addiction, homelessness, and public safety issues" -- they're doing everything they can to conflate these three things.
This is wrong: by far, the people in greatest danger are those whose basic needs aren't being met, and it's because we turn our back on them.
Read 24 tweets
Dec 16, 2022
This column is part of an attack on systematically marginalized Calgarians on the eve of #YYC's provincial announcement of a Calgary task force to deal with public safety.
Tuesday's #YEG announcement set up clear violations of municipal power. Expect similar tomorrow. 🧵 1/ Calgary Sun, Bell: Is Smith UCP tossing Calgary a lifeline o
A favourite Rick Bell pastime is conflating the "drug site" (supervised consumption site -- the only guaranteed death-free way to use unregulated drugs) with public safety concerns.
It's wrong. See a criminologist breakdown why: 2/ Many of us have seen or heard or read or lived the experienc
"The drugs and the effects of the drugs" are not the problem, they are a symptom.
The problem: our refusal to meet basic needs and response to drug use that facilitates surviving awful conditions.
And violent crime isn't trending upward. Look: 3/
calgary.ca/cps/statistics… There are the drugs and the effects of the drugs. There are
Read 10 tweets
Dec 13, 2022
This is outrageous. Live ⬇️
We've got EPS Chief McFee talking about "zero tolerance for open-air drug use" in a city of a million with two underfunded supervised consumption sites and no safe supply program that would allow people to use safely on their own.
Now of course David Staples given the mic to ask about involuntary treatment for "people who refuse treatment", one of his favourite talking points.
Next, "we all know Indigenous ppl are overrepresented in the justice system..." dovetailing into an argument for forced treatment.
Read 23 tweets
Jul 19, 2022
Let's talk about #Lethbridge.

Here, you'll find the highest drug poisoning rate in any #Alberta city.

What is happening there is a massacre. 1/8

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
In 2020, shortly after coming to power, @YourAlberta accused the ARCHES supervised consumption site, of financial impropriety and closed it down.

The investigation later tracked every last legitimate penny. 2/8

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
In this week's critical @edmontonjournal piece, @JunkerAnna reported over 80 deaths per 100,000 in two of three areas of Lethbridge.

Meanwhile, First Nations neighbouring the city, including Piikani and Kainai, are being DEVASTATED by poisonings. 3/8
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… Map of southwestern Alberta showing drug poisoning rates per
Read 9 tweets
Jul 18, 2022
Safeworks, #Calgary's only supervised consumption site, will be closed by @YourAlberta in the area hit hardest by drug poisoning (red).

Soon after taking power in 2019, the govt cancelled a planned Calgary East mobile site - 2nd hardest-hit (yellow).

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… Map of Calgary showing drug poisoning fatality rates in diff
@YourAlberta @JyotiGondek @DanWMcLean @SonyaSharpYYC @JenniferWyness @YYCTKW @pootmans @chabot4calgary @kourtpenner @CWalcottYYC @gccarra And yes, the province plans to "replace" the SCS capacity with two overdose prevention sites inside shelters (community access barriers currently unclear). But we've already seen how shuttering services plays out in #Edmonton.
We also know how closing the supervised consumption site worked out in #Lethbridge.

It was, incredibly, AB's only supervised inhalation site. Around 50% of poisoning deaths follow inhalation use.

Still think this isn't intentional policy?

lethbridgenewsnow.com/2022/06/06/let…
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