This CBC puff piece on an undocumented worker from Jamaica illustrates what's wrong with progressive immigration discourse. They want to make her into a victim – but she's not. She's a criminal and a potential freeloader. [1]

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… The worker in question, Monieya Jess, arrived in Nova Scotia in 2021 to pick strawberries, but left her job after a few days because, according to her, her employer refused to get her medical treatment for work-related pain. [2]

This fawning article in the @TorontoStar claims that Trudeau made Canada much wealthier. It cites some highly misleading figures to back up that claim, and provides no hyperlinks allowing readers to easily check these numbers.

Let's break it down 🧵 [1]

thestar.com/business/say-w… The Star claims that the Canadian economy grew by 41% under Trudeau's tenure, but it appears that they're using numbers that aren't adjusted for inflation. If you keep prices constant, the actual growth rate is around 17%. [2]

I've recently written a few posts criticizing how major Canadian media outlets, excluding the @nationalpost, have covered homeless encampments and related issues. So let me take this opportunity to share a particularly egregious example from a few years ago. [1] In the summer of 2021, Toronto evicted several major homeless encampments in a handful of public parks – a move which led to massive, aggressive protests from poverty activists. [2]

The CBC faced a great deal of criticism last week for its dishonest reporting, so allow me to add some fuel to that fire by sharing how the organization suppressed reports of youth accessing diverted "safer supply" drugs. It's rather appalling. 🧵 [1] In May 2023, I reported on the story of Kamilah Sword, a 14-year-old girl who died of drug-related causes after she and her friends got hooked on diverted safer supply hydromorphone. [2]

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Faced with another drug scandal just before an election, Minister Whiteside has resorted to spreading disinformation about my work.

The National Post will not be making a retraction.

Let's examine how Whiteside and her team are trying to mislead the public 😪🧵 [1]

https://twitter.com/JM_Whiteside/status/1833278029872992765

The article in question examines the "Safer Bathroom Toolkit," which advocates for turning public bathrooms into de facto consumption sites, along with provincial policies relating to the use of blue lights to dissuade drug use. [2]

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 I've secured a leaked copy of the class action lawsuit being filed on behalf of the victims of Canada's "safer supply" experiment. So let's go over some of the juicy bits along with the context of the case. [1] The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Kamilah Sword and Amelie North, two teenage girls in BC who developed opioid addictions due to safer supply. You can read about them in my feature from May 2023 (Amelie was given a pseudonym). [2]

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Hydromorphone seizures in London, Ontario skyrocketed by 3,000% after access to safer supply was greatly expanded in 2020 – but the police failed to disclose this data despite the national debate about safer supply diversion. /1

nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-z… For context: hydromorphone is a heroin-strength opioid. Safer supply programs predominantly provide this drug, for free, to addicts who then divert (sell or trade) it to the black market to acquire stronger substances, typically illicit fentanyl. /2

🚨 BIG SCOOP 🚨 According to secret audio recordings obtained by the National Post, a coalition of harm reduction activists organized a sophisticated campaign to disrupt and intimidate their opponents at a high-profile conference today. /1

nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-z… The PROSPER Symposium, which takes place today, features a coalition of respected doctors and drug policy experts who advocate for recovery-oriented treatment in lieu of radical harm reduction.

Harm reduction activists decided that they needed to be bullied into silence. /2

My new 10,000 word investigative report shows that Canada's safer supply programs have been a disaster. A significant portion of the opioids being distributed by the government are being sold ("diverted") to the black market to purchase illicit fentanyl.

nationalpost.com/feature/how-th… Because of widespread diversion, the street price of hydromorphone, the main drug distributed through safer supply, has collapsed 70-95% in cities where safer safer supply programs are active.

Russian troops tried to kill me on Saturday. I was accompanying humanitarian aid workers delivering medicine to villages north of Kharkiv, near the front line. We stopped briefly at a destroyed bridge, and then the Russians targeted us with artillery. I heard an explosion. It sounded like it was in the trees right beside us. Right there. My heart stopped.