Holly Mathias
@hollymathias.bsky.social
Public Health PhD candidate at University of Alberta. 2023 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and 2024 Killam Laureate. Interested in all things related to drug policy, rural health and families. Bluenoser 🌊
Great work by @cssdpedmonton.bsky.social to highlight the views of #yeg mayoral candidates on key substance use and housing issues 👏🏽
Survey Results from Mayoral Candidates: part 1
#yegcc #yegmunicpalelections #yegelections2025 #yegmayor #yegmunicipalelections2025
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October 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Great work by @cssdpedmonton.bsky.social to highlight the views of #yeg mayoral candidates on key substance use and housing issues 👏🏽
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If you are in #yeg and interested in the toxic drug crisis, check out this film screening happening at Metro cinema next week! #ableg metrocinema.org/production/t...
Toxic - Metro Cinema
Canada 2025, 61min, Dir: Robert Colbourne 14A A toxic drug supply is fuelling an overdose crisis that has claimed over 52,500 Canadian lives since 2016 and nearly 55,000 U.S. deaths in 2024 alone. ...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you are in #yeg and interested in the toxic drug crisis, check out this film screening happening at Metro cinema next week! #ableg metrocinema.org/production/t...
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Huge thanks to @hollymathias.bsky.social for shining a spotlight on why Canada must invest in women’s health research. Your voice reminds us: when women’s health thrives, so does society.
Read her powerful guest blog here:🔗 bit.ly/pwhr-op-ed-holly-mathias
#WomensHealth #PWHR
Read her powerful guest blog here:🔗 bit.ly/pwhr-op-ed-holly-mathias
#WomensHealth #PWHR
August 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Huge thanks to @hollymathias.bsky.social for shining a spotlight on why Canada must invest in women’s health research. Your voice reminds us: when women’s health thrives, so does society.
Read her powerful guest blog here:🔗 bit.ly/pwhr-op-ed-holly-mathias
#WomensHealth #PWHR
Read her powerful guest blog here:🔗 bit.ly/pwhr-op-ed-holly-mathias
#WomensHealth #PWHR
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⚠️Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency is responding to a fire in the woods near Susie Lake.
As a precaution, evacuation of Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre has begun. All remaining appointments are cancelled today and patients and the public should avoid the area.
As a precaution, evacuation of Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre has begun. All remaining appointments are cancelled today and patients and the public should avoid the area.
August 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
⚠️Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency is responding to a fire in the woods near Susie Lake.
As a precaution, evacuation of Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre has begun. All remaining appointments are cancelled today and patients and the public should avoid the area.
As a precaution, evacuation of Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre has begun. All remaining appointments are cancelled today and patients and the public should avoid the area.
Reposted by Holly Mathias
Tuesday, Aug. 12 | 3:40 p.m. - Police are assisting Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency with the response to a fire in the area of Susie Lake in Halifax.
Police are asking the public to avoid the Bayers Lake area. Evacuations and street closures are underway.
Police are asking the public to avoid the Bayers Lake area. Evacuations and street closures are underway.
August 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Tuesday, Aug. 12 | 3:40 p.m. - Police are assisting Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency with the response to a fire in the area of Susie Lake in Halifax.
Police are asking the public to avoid the Bayers Lake area. Evacuations and street closures are underway.
Police are asking the public to avoid the Bayers Lake area. Evacuations and street closures are underway.
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🍿 Red Deer, AB residents, make sure to get your FREE tickets for Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy screening at Carnival Cinemas on August 7.
Get your tickets here: www.storymoneyimpact.com/kmoereddeer
Get your tickets here: www.storymoneyimpact.com/kmoereddeer
Select tickets – FREE Documentary Screening // Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy in Red Deer – Carnival Cinemas - 5402 — 47 STREET RED DEER, AB
Join us for this community-wide screening of the award-winning film Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. Don't miss this...
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July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🍿 Red Deer, AB residents, make sure to get your FREE tickets for Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy screening at Carnival Cinemas on August 7.
Get your tickets here: www.storymoneyimpact.com/kmoereddeer
Get your tickets here: www.storymoneyimpact.com/kmoereddeer
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Join us on August 9 for a special virtual event dedicated to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren due to substance use-related harms.
Register for this Zoom event using this link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register for this Zoom event using this link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Join us on August 9 for a special virtual event dedicated to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren due to substance use-related harms.
Register for this Zoom event using this link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register for this Zoom event using this link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Just published online first @cjphrcsp.bsky.social Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps (@hollymathias.bsky.social, @ehyshka.bsky.social et al.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
June 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just published online first @cjphrcsp.bsky.social Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps (@hollymathias.bsky.social, @ehyshka.bsky.social et al.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Alberta is the involuntary treatment capital of Canada. On episode 54, we meet Angie & her son Brandon. When Brandon got wired as a teen, Angie had a difficult choice to make: should she force him to sober up? If she did, what would happen to their relationship? www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 54: Get Sober or Get Dead — Crackdown Podcast
Alberta is the involuntary treatment capital of Canada. Since 2006, the province has encouraged parents to waive their children's rights and force them into detox as part of the Protection of Children...
www.crackdownpod.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Alberta is the involuntary treatment capital of Canada. On episode 54, we meet Angie & her son Brandon. When Brandon got wired as a teen, Angie had a difficult choice to make: should she force him to sober up? If she did, what would happen to their relationship? www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
Very excited to see the first paper from my dissertation work in print!
We hope our experiences from the past 4 years provide insight and inspiration for others embarking on rural community-based research with families of PWUD 🌾
We hope our experiences from the past 4 years provide insight and inspiration for others embarking on rural community-based research with families of PWUD 🌾
Out now in Harm Reduction Journal, our team's reflections on key considerations for rural community-based research with families of people who use drugs. Paper and project led by
@hollymathias.bsky.social in partnership and funded by CIHR via CRISM. 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@hollymathias.bsky.social in partnership and funded by CIHR via CRISM. 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Rural community-based participatory research with families of people who use drugs: key considerations from a multi-provincial research partnership - Harm Reduction Journal
North America continues to contend with an unregulated drug crisis that is impacting communities of all sizes. Community-based participatory research that meaningfully engages people who use drugs, fa...
link.springer.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Very excited to see the first paper from my dissertation work in print!
We hope our experiences from the past 4 years provide insight and inspiration for others embarking on rural community-based research with families of PWUD 🌾
We hope our experiences from the past 4 years provide insight and inspiration for others embarking on rural community-based research with families of PWUD 🌾
🚨 New today in @policyoptions.irpp.org: I share some thoughts on the global ripple effect of defunding #womenshealth research in the US, and Canada’s opportunity to lead in this moment.
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When women’s health loses, we all lose
The disturbing cuts to women’s health research in the U.S. will threaten global innovation and care for decades. Canada has a chance to lead.
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May 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🚨 New today in @policyoptions.irpp.org: I share some thoughts on the global ripple effect of defunding #womenshealth research in the US, and Canada’s opportunity to lead in this moment.
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...
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Nova Scotia RCMP are searching for two young kids who were last seen in Lansdown Station, Pictou County, this morning. More info 👇 www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Two young children missing in Pictou County
Police are searching for two children aged 6 and 4 believed to have wandered away
www.saltwire.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Nova Scotia RCMP are searching for two young kids who were last seen in Lansdown Station, Pictou County, this morning. More info 👇 www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
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Toxic drug deaths for First Nations peoples decreased by 6.8% in British Columbia between 2023 and 2024.
“[This] shows us what we are doing, particularly in the area of harm reduction, is helping."
“[This] shows us what we are doing, particularly in the area of harm reduction, is helping."
Harm Reduction Credited for Reducing Indigenous Fatalities | The Tyee
First Nations people are still dying at 6.7 times the rate of non-Indigenous people in BC, the FNHA says.
thetyee.ca
April 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Toxic drug deaths for First Nations peoples decreased by 6.8% in British Columbia between 2023 and 2024.
“[This] shows us what we are doing, particularly in the area of harm reduction, is helping."
“[This] shows us what we are doing, particularly in the area of harm reduction, is helping."
I had the pleasure of chatting with Shaye Ganam @globalnews.ca this morning about the CYSP cancellation and potential impacts for young Albertans.
Check it out here:
megaphone.link/CORU8801722428
Check it out here:
megaphone.link/CORU8801722428
April 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I had the pleasure of chatting with Shaye Ganam @globalnews.ca this morning about the CYSP cancellation and potential impacts for young Albertans.
Check it out here:
megaphone.link/CORU8801722428
Check it out here:
megaphone.link/CORU8801722428
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New report from ACWS finds nearly 32,000 people were turned away from Alberta shelter's due to a lack of space last year, with 40% of them being children.
That's a new provincial record.
#yeg #yyc #ableg
acws.ca/strength-in-...
That's a new provincial record.
#yeg #yyc #ableg
acws.ca/strength-in-...
Strength in Numbers 2024 - Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters
acws.ca
April 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New report from ACWS finds nearly 32,000 people were turned away from Alberta shelter's due to a lack of space last year, with 40% of them being children.
That's a new provincial record.
#yeg #yyc #ableg
acws.ca/strength-in-...
That's a new provincial record.
#yeg #yyc #ableg
acws.ca/strength-in-...
Out today from @kokumsarah.bsky.social and I.
Last week’s sudden cancellation of the CYSP will have ramifications on many Albertan children and families. There is a moral imperative for the province to be scaling up supports for families - not rolling them back.
Read more here:
Last week’s sudden cancellation of the CYSP will have ramifications on many Albertan children and families. There is a moral imperative for the province to be scaling up supports for families - not rolling them back.
Read more here:
Opinion: Cutting Child and Youth Support program harms vulnerable young Albertans
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edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Cutting Child and Youth Support program harms vulnerable young Albertans
Alberta’s recent decision to cancel the Child and Youth Support Program (CYSP) will inflict harm on children and their families.
edmontonjournal.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Out today from @kokumsarah.bsky.social and I.
Last week’s sudden cancellation of the CYSP will have ramifications on many Albertan children and families. There is a moral imperative for the province to be scaling up supports for families - not rolling them back.
Read more here:
Last week’s sudden cancellation of the CYSP will have ramifications on many Albertan children and families. There is a moral imperative for the province to be scaling up supports for families - not rolling them back.
Read more here:
134 seizures of fentanyl vs 3254 seizures of eggs in Jan and Feb 2025, to be exact
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U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year
U.S. President Donald Trump has made stopping fentanyl at both the northern and southern borders one of his administration's top priorities, but American law enforcement data shows that another commod...
www.ctvnews.ca
March 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
134 seizures of fentanyl vs 3254 seizures of eggs in Jan and Feb 2025, to be exact
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Saskatoon's only supervised consumption site closing for 11 days to give exhausted staff a break
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March 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Saskatoon's only supervised consumption site closing for 11 days to give exhausted staff a break
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...