Euan Thomson
@drugdatadecoded.ca
Investigations on Alberta’s drug war revival: www.drugdatadecoded.ca ✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee PhD Microbiology Banner: Access to information in Alberta Icon: Headshot of me in blue t-shirt
"With the end of those missions, Canada’s only commitment to UN peacekeeping would be a contribution of four personnel to a truce-monitoring mission in Jerusalem." Beyond parody.
ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹@inglorious.bsky.social · 20h agoLiterally the end of an era. Canadian peacekeeping over. www.hilltimes.com/2026/08/04/c...
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
In anticipation of some disorientated responses to this development, I have to say that the anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements don't need a white supremacist wing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
MTG and Tucker Carlson announce new ‘movement’ in photo packed with MAGA renegades
‘Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,’ Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X
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LLMs are such a fascinating technology. On one hand they are solving unsolvable math problems and on the other hand there are six to eight fingers.
Amazing reporting from @breachmedia.ca Canadian universities running a secret surveillance network, keeping tabs on students opposing genocide Vile The top brass of all these institutions should apologize & resign immediately #cdnpoli
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d agoNew reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Secret anti-protest group for university administrators, police, and government representatives? It’s more likely than you think!
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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"....in Alberta, the secretly-coordinated effort, which would culminate in militarized raids at multiple universities, would involve not just police but also an official from Danielle Smith’s UCP government."
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 6d agoA new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
I went to the encampments at UBC to deliver supplies and interview the students and they were incredible brave and articulate on the subject. Willing to risk everything to do whatever they could to try and stop the genocide. Disgraceful they would be treated like criminals
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 6d agoA new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
there's clearly no point in scolding most people for their indifference to anti-trans bigotry. the refusal to leave Harry Potter behind, the hemming and hawing about the NYT's puzzles. people won't even put down their toys for us. I cannot express the white-hot frustration boiling in my stomach.
Couple thoughts from the @breachmedia.ca piece unrelated to the actual story: - Can’t say loudly enough how awesome it was to work with David Slater on this. He is DOGGED and we pushed each other to our best work over many months… 1/ breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
breachmedia.ca
From what I’ve learned about how Canadian Reddit works, the moderators either work for PR firms, political parties, and/or lobby groups And everyone’s working overtime to suppress critical reporting #cdnmedia
Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 5d agoAny ideas on why the moderators of r/UCalgary would remove this story from the feed by two different posters two days running? breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Any ideas on why the moderators of r/UCalgary would remove this story from the feed by two different posters two days running? breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
"Records reveal that an official from Alberta’s UCP government attended a secret emergency meeting of the network just one week before the scenes of police violence at the U of Calgary and U of Alberta."
Adam Zivo - very normal, very cool guy with not an ounce of malice in his bones.
Emma Arkell@emmaarkell.bsky.social · 6d agomy layoff has brought joy to so many very normal guys
A must-read article by @breachmedia.ca on Canadian universities sharing tips on suppressing speech about Israel’s genocide in Gaza & monitoring faculty & student protests. Not surprised to see YorkU listed.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d agoNew reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
It’s pretty easy to become numb to all the outrageous shit going on Alberta, but this is absolutely egregious.
Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 6d ago“Let’s hope for a quiet day for the ground-breaking,” MacEwan’s provost said ahead of the opening of his new business school named for a former chair of a company working with the Israeli army in Palestine. No one had told him the encampments were starting. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Below is the list of academic institutions in order of onboarding to U of Toronto's Canadian Post-Secondary Emergency Managers Network while anti-genocide protests were beginning on campuses. Additional interested included UMontreal, Thompson Rivers, UWinnipeg. 1/ breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
“Let’s hope for a quiet day for the ground-breaking,” MacEwan’s provost said ahead of the opening of his new business school named for a former chair of a company working with the Israeli army in Palestine. No one had told him the encampments were starting. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
breachmedia.ca
Did a thing with my buddy David. Took us sixteen months and there’s no way we coulda done it on our own, so feeling glad we found each other along the way! breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
breachmedia.ca
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
breachmedia.ca
Big story out this morning by @lilypolenchuk.bsky.social and @readtheorchard.org 🔥 Coincidentally, David Slater and I will be citing this in a related scoop for @breachmedia.ca - watch for that soon! www.readtheorchard.org/p/alberta-mi...
Alberta ministry removed campus free speech from encampment talking points
FOIP records withheld for 2 years show that the government also omitted language describing encampments as “illegal tactics” from key messages on the 2024 pro-Palestine protests.
readtheorchard.org
SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...
98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal
Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5
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Sending my love to the family, friends and everyone who helped search for Parker, this is awful news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Investigators find body believed to be missing Calgary boy, Parker | CBC News
Searchers have found what they believe to be the remains of Parker, the 11-year-old Calgary boy who has been missing for just under two weeks, police revealed on Wednesday.
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Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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“Slop in art. Slop in science. Slop in medicine. Slop on dating apps. Slop in court documents … Slop in news reporting. Slop everywhere. Everything is suspect, so therefore nothing can be real. OK, here’s a car chase.” @timbousquet.bsky.social www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
We now live in a slop world: Everything is suspect, so therefore nothing can be real - Halifax Examiner
AI slop is bad, but even worse is that it has pried apart our collective appreciation for the truth.
halifaxexaminer.ca
Reupping this since Europe is now also on fire. These gas export deals are going to get real awkward.
Jimmy Thomson@jameswsthomson.com · 3w agoNot sure Carney's got this whole petropolitics thing down just yet. You don't want to announce your wholehearted embrace of oil and gas immediately before the season now known as "fire season" or your words will be echoing through people's heads while they wheeze through their morning dog walks.
Proud of this study w/ a dream team of researchers –@ehyshka.bsky.social @hollymathias.bsky.social @etailfeathers01.bsky.social Karen Lithgow & Claire Benny. Will have more to say about it later but it's open access – have a look! www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Using health service data to understand unregulated toxic drug deaths in Alberta (2018–2023): an ecological study, HPCDP: Vol 46(7/8), July/August 2026
We examined associations between drug poisoning deaths and EMS and SCS data to assess if these measures could serve as reliable proxies for fatalities to support evidence-based public health responses...
canada.ca
Watching CBC News, you might not even make the connection between this year's extreme wildfire season, and fossil fuel-induced climate change. Tara Mahoney sits down with @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss gaps in the public broadcaster’s climate coverage. breachmedia.ca/why-is-cbcs-...
Why is CBC’s reporting on wildfires ignoring the role of climate change? ⋆ The Breach
Tara Mahoney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss the climate gaps in CBC’s wildfire coverage
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actions have consequences, good for them calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
Calgary Pride denies University of Calgary's application for 2026 Pride Parade
Calgary Pride has denied the University of Ccalgary's application to march, citing treatment of protesters in 2024 and an ongoing legal case
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