Unprecedented, "coordinated hit" by Alberta government used snitch law to spy on Turning Point Society

The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act allows any citizen to trigger an investigation of a neighbour for drugs on the property. Since its adoption across Canada two decades ago, the snitch legislation has never been used to attack a nonprofit agency – until now.

Alberta is pressuring provinces on involuntary treatment – but some are pushing back

A conservative provincial government is writing off Alberta's Compassion Intervention Act as a violation of disability rights, favouring community-based treatment over residential rehab. However, a trip out west last June shows its evolving interest in privatized inpatient facilities.

Centre of Recovery Excellence attempts to conceal Research Review Council

The Research Review Council formed in early 2025 with government authors of a recent fraudulent study on supervised consumption services. But, when asked for records of the council's authorized projects, the Centre of Recovery Excellence inexplicably denies its existence.

BREAKING: Alberta government to announce Calgary and Lethbridge supervised consumption site closures

Nine days after it announced a fraudulent study published by its staff, the Alberta government is moving quickly to dismantle what remains of supervised consumption services in the province.

“A shared vision”: Public money funnelled through conference sponsorships may line pockets of UCP policy pushers

From 2021 to 2025, the Alberta government gave at least $745,000 in conference sponsorships to Last Door Recovery Society. The deliverables were redacted but appear linked to conflicts of interest among authors of a recent government study attempting to justify supervised consumption site closures.

Centre of Recovery Excellence manipulating health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety

The Alberta government's Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers a case study of how conflicts of interest and privacy oversight are at a crisis point in Alberta.

"Inaccurate data": How Recovery Alberta officials facilitated consumption site closures (Pt 2)

Selective data sharing by some of Alberta's top health officials may backstop plausible deniability for government negligence in closing sites – with impacts all the way to Ontario.

"We can help": How Recovery Alberta facilitated consumption site closures (Part 1)

"No other sites shutting down," Recovery Alberta leaders told staff in late 2024, as the Red Deer site closure was announced. A year later, the Royal Alex Hospital site was closed. New documents reveal both closures relied on suppression and distortion of service usage data by Recovery Alberta.

Alberta government hiding additional drug jail plans

Newly obtained documents reveal a hidden plan to build a drug jail in Grande Prairie, raising questions about how many additional facilities are in the works.

Paramedics union head: "How do you resource a system when you're not telling the truth about it?"

Mike Parker, the president of the Alberta union that includes paramedics, reacts to reporting by Drug Data Decoded showing the Alberta government under-reports ambulance dispatches to drug toxicity by as much as 89 percent.

Up to 89 percent of ambulances for overdoses concealed in record year, as Alberta health care careens into crisis

The Alberta government says it has “the most transparent data reporting system in North America" for drug toxicity. In reality, internal data manipulation causes most emergency calls to go unreported.

Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption

Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.14 percent of the ministry's under-reported dispatches for opioid toxicity in that period.