Petra Schulz
@msthpetra.bsky.social
#Activist fighting deadly drug policy.
🏳️⚧️ mom and ally.
Co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm. Member of 4B Harm Reduction Society
Guest on Treaty 6
#HarmReduction
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#YouAreSafeWithMe
#Canada #Alberta
🏳️⚧️ mom and ally.
Co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm. Member of 4B Harm Reduction Society
Guest on Treaty 6
#HarmReduction
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#YouAreSafeWithMe
#Canada #Alberta
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Petra Schulz
@msthpetra.bsky.social
· Apr 30
1018 SHOW Yellowhead
YouTube video by ShawTVEdmonton
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11 years ago, my son Danny died. He was one of the early victims of the toxic drug crisis, one of over 50,000.
This video, showing Danny as a young chef, gives you a glimpse into what we have lost.
Keep fighting for #harmreduction. It would have saved him.
youtu.be/DeivXb4QDJs?...
This video, showing Danny as a young chef, gives you a glimpse into what we have lost.
Keep fighting for #harmreduction. It would have saved him.
youtu.be/DeivXb4QDJs?...
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Danielle Smith announces a raft of referenda, seemingly designed to advance the UCP’s separatist agenda. albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/dani...
Danielle Smith announces a raft of referenda, seemingly designed to advance the UCP’s separatist agenda - Alberta Politics
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith yesterday announced a raft of referendum questions for Oct. 19 demanding provincial intrusion into federal jurisdiction, cutting services to new Canadians and other anti...
albertapolitics.ca
February 20, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Danielle Smith announces a raft of referenda, seemingly designed to advance the UCP’s separatist agenda. albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/dani...
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Remember all this? It was all bullshit, and the BC govt knew it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Prince George RCMP drug seizures ignite safe supply debate between Poilievre, Smith, Eby | CBC News
Prince George RCMP seized thousands of prescription drug pills, some diverted from the province's safe supply program, alongside illicit drugs in two separate local investigations. The announcement ca...
www.cbc.ca
February 20, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Remember all this? It was all bullshit, and the BC govt knew it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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This should be a major scandal in BC, except the blame is too thick on too many powerful institutions.
How many hundreds of people have died directly as a result of the government’s caving to safe supply disinfo from police, private treatment and rw politicians?
How many hundreds of people have died directly as a result of the government’s caving to safe supply disinfo from police, private treatment and rw politicians?
"Even as [BC's] Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over 'diversion' of safe supply drugs, its public safety ministry internally acknowledged the negligible role of diverted opioids in the unregulated drug supply."
"[O]pted to sit on the information."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs
"[O]pted to sit on the information."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs
Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible
Rather than publicize the evidence to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information.
filtermag.org
February 20, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This should be a major scandal in BC, except the blame is too thick on too many powerful institutions.
How many hundreds of people have died directly as a result of the government’s caving to safe supply disinfo from police, private treatment and rw politicians?
How many hundreds of people have died directly as a result of the government’s caving to safe supply disinfo from police, private treatment and rw politicians?
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So basically, it looks like the people in charge of the health service that oversees supervised consumption sites in Alberta have been quietly manoeuvring to have them shut down.
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
"We can help": How Recovery Alberta facilitated consumption site closures by Ministry (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 revea...
drugdatadecoded.ca
February 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
So basically, it looks like the people in charge of the health service that oversees supervised consumption sites in Alberta have been quietly manoeuvring to have them shut down.
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
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Danielle Smith's address to Albertans is as much about the subtext as it is what she said out loud...
Our analysis on our substack is live now!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
Our analysis on our substack is live now!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
Separatism By Any Other Name...
Danielle Smith's address to Albertans is as much about the subtext as it is what she said out loud
open.substack.com
February 20, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Danielle Smith's address to Albertans is as much about the subtext as it is what she said out loud...
Our analysis on our substack is live now!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
Our analysis on our substack is live now!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
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Incredible amount of ink spilled over this in 2021-22 as the Province forced this belligerent rule into supervised consumption sites.
Even more spilled since by government 'analysts' trying to figure out how to use PHNs to show the sites don't work. Worthless.
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
Even more spilled since by government 'analysts' trying to figure out how to use PHNs to show the sites don't work. Worthless.
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
"We can help": How Recovery Alberta facilitated consumption site closures by Ministry (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 revea...
drugdatadecoded.ca
February 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Incredible amount of ink spilled over this in 2021-22 as the Province forced this belligerent rule into supervised consumption sites.
Even more spilled since by government 'analysts' trying to figure out how to use PHNs to show the sites don't work. Worthless.
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
Even more spilled since by government 'analysts' trying to figure out how to use PHNs to show the sites don't work. Worthless.
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
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It turns out the collection of personal health numbers at supervised consumption sites is total bust: six percent of site clients who died over a study period *visited sites again later*.
Site clients don't respect the rule, so they swap around PHNs. Wouldn't you?
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
Site clients don't respect the rule, so they swap around PHNs. Wouldn't you?
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
"We can help": How Recovery Alberta facilitated consumption site closures by Ministry (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 revea...
drugdatadecoded.ca
February 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It turns out the collection of personal health numbers at supervised consumption sites is total bust: six percent of site clients who died over a study period *visited sites again later*.
Site clients don't respect the rule, so they swap around PHNs. Wouldn't you?
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
Site clients don't respect the rule, so they swap around PHNs. Wouldn't you?
drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...
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Yesterday the AB government announced a new navigation portal for continuing care. But a portal can't fix the many structural problems in our system: short staffing, lack of capacity, degraded care standards... the list goes on!
Seniors deserve real change.
www.friendsofmedicare.org/change_neede...
Seniors deserve real change.
www.friendsofmedicare.org/change_neede...
February 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Yesterday the AB government announced a new navigation portal for continuing care. But a portal can't fix the many structural problems in our system: short staffing, lack of capacity, degraded care standards... the list goes on!
Seniors deserve real change.
www.friendsofmedicare.org/change_neede...
Seniors deserve real change.
www.friendsofmedicare.org/change_neede...
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New Substack!
How the coverage of separatism in Alberta distracted from a memorial for a loved one and ended up blackballing a media outlet (briefly)...
And why Albertans should be paying attention to it.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
How the coverage of separatism in Alberta distracted from a memorial for a loved one and ended up blackballing a media outlet (briefly)...
And why Albertans should be paying attention to it.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
Driven to Distraction
Separatism in Alberta distracts from a memorial for a loved one and ends up blackballing a media outlet (briefly)...
open.substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
New Substack!
How the coverage of separatism in Alberta distracted from a memorial for a loved one and ended up blackballing a media outlet (briefly)...
And why Albertans should be paying attention to it.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
How the coverage of separatism in Alberta distracted from a memorial for a loved one and ended up blackballing a media outlet (briefly)...
And why Albertans should be paying attention to it.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
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while the BCNDP was caving to the diversion moral panic and severely limiting its safe supply program, the public safety ministry was acknowledging in budget preparation documents that hydromorphone only accounted for 0.3% of VPD drug seizures by weight
BC knew that just 0.3% of drugs seized in Vancouver by weight were hydromorphone.
"Rather than publicize the evidence to correct loud claims of diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply."
@godfrey.bsky.social reports:
"Rather than publicize the evidence to correct loud claims of diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply."
@godfrey.bsky.social reports:
Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible - Filter
Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...
filtermag.org
February 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM
while the BCNDP was caving to the diversion moral panic and severely limiting its safe supply program, the public safety ministry was acknowledging in budget preparation documents that hydromorphone only accounted for 0.3% of VPD drug seizures by weight
When government is silent on data that could save lives, and instead makes deadly politically driven policy decisions, it has blood on its hands.
#bcpoly
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@josieosborne.bsky.social
#bcpoly
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@josieosborne.bsky.social
filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe...
“Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.”
#bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky
“Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.”
#bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky
Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible - Filter
Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...
filtermag.org
February 19, 2026 at 3:58 AM
When government is silent on data that could save lives, and instead makes deadly politically driven policy decisions, it has blood on its hands.
#bcpoly
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@josieosborne.bsky.social
#bcpoly
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@josieosborne.bsky.social
Reposted by Petra Schulz
filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe...
“Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.”
#bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky
“Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.”
#bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky
Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible - Filter
Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...
filtermag.org
February 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe...
“Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.”
#bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky
“Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.”
#bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky
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My and Andrew Longhurst's review of BC budget 2026, the budget that pissed off everyone! Mostly, I think the hysteria about deficits and debt is way overblown and I'm disappointed the government got captured by that narrative.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
B.C. budget’s hidden austerity and tax increases put fiscal burden on low-income households - CCPA
BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves.
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 18, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My and Andrew Longhurst's review of BC budget 2026, the budget that pissed off everyone! Mostly, I think the hysteria about deficits and debt is way overblown and I'm disappointed the government got captured by that narrative.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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@alonghurst.bsky.social & I have a few things to say about that ...
His research on the ASI shows surgical privatization has *already* siphoned resources from public hospitals, reduced public volumes, and increased waits for critical surgeries.
A 2-tier system will entrench these dynamics.
His research on the ASI shows surgical privatization has *already* siphoned resources from public hospitals, reduced public volumes, and increased waits for critical surgeries.
A 2-tier system will entrench these dynamics.
February 18, 2026 at 11:10 PM
@alonghurst.bsky.social & I have a few things to say about that ...
His research on the ASI shows surgical privatization has *already* siphoned resources from public hospitals, reduced public volumes, and increased waits for critical surgeries.
A 2-tier system will entrench these dynamics.
His research on the ASI shows surgical privatization has *already* siphoned resources from public hospitals, reduced public volumes, and increased waits for critical surgeries.
A 2-tier system will entrench these dynamics.
Reposted by Petra Schulz
Fact check: Alberta’s new two-tier system is not “European” health care
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
Fact check: Alberta’s new two-tier system is not “European” health care - CCPA
The Alberta government is engaged in the most significant challenge to single-payer health care in Canada since the creation of public medicare
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Fact check: Alberta’s new two-tier system is not “European” health care
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
Reposted by Petra Schulz
The BCgov’s pilot of drug decriminalization ended last month and added restrictions to the safer supply program. Even as toxic drug poisonings continue, govt has backed away from harm reduction in favour of abstinence models & forced treatment beds—approaches that are not evidence-based 6/
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
February 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The BCgov’s pilot of drug decriminalization ended last month and added restrictions to the safer supply program. Even as toxic drug poisonings continue, govt has backed away from harm reduction in favour of abstinence models & forced treatment beds—approaches that are not evidence-based 6/
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
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If every tenth bottle of Jameson whisky or one can in every 6-pack of Old Style Pilsner was laced with fentanyl, I’ll guarantee that these UCP arseholes would switch policy from “forced treatment centres and abstention” to “safe supply is critical” in a heartbeat.
“A safe regulated supply could’ve saved my son”
States my friend Arlene Kolb.
Mine too. 💜
Please watch and share this powerful video about the need for harm reduction.
#DrgSky
youtu.be/Pk-UPRodNJA?...
States my friend Arlene Kolb.
Mine too. 💜
Please watch and share this powerful video about the need for harm reduction.
#DrgSky
youtu.be/Pk-UPRodNJA?...
Imagining Safety Winnipeg
YouTube video by Manitoba Harm Reduction Network
youtu.be
February 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
If every tenth bottle of Jameson whisky or one can in every 6-pack of Old Style Pilsner was laced with fentanyl, I’ll guarantee that these UCP arseholes would switch policy from “forced treatment centres and abstention” to “safe supply is critical” in a heartbeat.
“A safe regulated supply could’ve saved my son”
States my friend Arlene Kolb.
Mine too. 💜
Please watch and share this powerful video about the need for harm reduction.
#DrgSky
youtu.be/Pk-UPRodNJA?...
States my friend Arlene Kolb.
Mine too. 💜
Please watch and share this powerful video about the need for harm reduction.
#DrgSky
youtu.be/Pk-UPRodNJA?...
Imagining Safety Winnipeg
YouTube video by Manitoba Harm Reduction Network
youtu.be
February 18, 2026 at 5:07 AM
“A safe regulated supply could’ve saved my son”
States my friend Arlene Kolb.
Mine too. 💜
Please watch and share this powerful video about the need for harm reduction.
#DrgSky
youtu.be/Pk-UPRodNJA?...
States my friend Arlene Kolb.
Mine too. 💜
Please watch and share this powerful video about the need for harm reduction.
#DrgSky
youtu.be/Pk-UPRodNJA?...
Reposted by Petra Schulz
BREAKING!
Smith says that while she will ensure the public system doesn't decrease the amount of surgeries under her two tiered private system...
She's not going to require any growth.
This is how you create a private market with a growing population.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Smith says that while she will ensure the public system doesn't decrease the amount of surgeries under her two tiered private system...
She's not going to require any growth.
This is how you create a private market with a growing population.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
February 18, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Reposted by Petra Schulz
Reposted by Petra Schulz
FOM's Chris Gallaway sat down with Alberta Primetime to talk about Bill 11 & the threat it poses to our health care.
The AB government isn't just undermining our equitable access to health care, it's also putting our international trade agreements in jeopardy.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
The AB government isn't just undermining our equitable access to health care, it's also putting our international trade agreements in jeopardy.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
February 18, 2026 at 12:35 AM
FOM's Chris Gallaway sat down with Alberta Primetime to talk about Bill 11 & the threat it poses to our health care.
The AB government isn't just undermining our equitable access to health care, it's also putting our international trade agreements in jeopardy.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
The AB government isn't just undermining our equitable access to health care, it's also putting our international trade agreements in jeopardy.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
“This is a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed and profit-taking, not “European” health care based largely on principles of social solidarity and universality.” @policyalternatives.ca
Quick and easy read. Great graphs!
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Quick and easy read. Great graphs!
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
February 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM
“This is a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed and profit-taking, not “European” health care based largely on principles of social solidarity and universality.” @policyalternatives.ca
Quick and easy read. Great graphs!
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Quick and easy read. Great graphs!
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The Alberta government keeps trying to defend & downplay the impact of Bill 11 by cherry-picking examples from Europe & elsewhere. But a new report from @alonghurst.bsky.social at @policyalternatives.ca debunks all that.
Bill 11 = Americanized health care!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/debunks_bill...
Bill 11 = Americanized health care!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/debunks_bill...
February 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
The Alberta government keeps trying to defend & downplay the impact of Bill 11 by cherry-picking examples from Europe & elsewhere. But a new report from @alonghurst.bsky.social at @policyalternatives.ca debunks all that.
Bill 11 = Americanized health care!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/debunks_bill...
Bill 11 = Americanized health care!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/debunks_bill...
Reposted by Petra Schulz
Three more townhalls this week!
Don't miss these urgent conversations: www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconver...
Don't miss these urgent conversations: www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconver...
Got things to say about Alberta's health care system? Come join @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social for their public town hall discussions!
Upcoming events include Feb 19 (Camrose), Feb 21 (Vegreville), and Feb 22 (Edmonton).
For more details: https://www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconversations
Upcoming events include Feb 19 (Camrose), Feb 21 (Vegreville), and Feb 22 (Edmonton).
For more details: https://www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconversations
February 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Three more townhalls this week!
Don't miss these urgent conversations: www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconver...
Don't miss these urgent conversations: www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconver...
Reposted by Petra Schulz
No one deserves to starve.
No one deserves to be homeless.
No one deserves to be abandoned or mistreated.
Recovery taught me something powerful: People can’t heal while they’re hungry, homeless, and hurting.
Food. Housing. Healthcare.
These aren’t luxuries, they are human rights!
No one deserves to be homeless.
No one deserves to be abandoned or mistreated.
Recovery taught me something powerful: People can’t heal while they’re hungry, homeless, and hurting.
Food. Housing. Healthcare.
These aren’t luxuries, they are human rights!
February 17, 2026 at 6:07 PM
No one deserves to starve.
No one deserves to be homeless.
No one deserves to be abandoned or mistreated.
Recovery taught me something powerful: People can’t heal while they’re hungry, homeless, and hurting.
Food. Housing. Healthcare.
These aren’t luxuries, they are human rights!
No one deserves to be homeless.
No one deserves to be abandoned or mistreated.
Recovery taught me something powerful: People can’t heal while they’re hungry, homeless, and hurting.
Food. Housing. Healthcare.
These aren’t luxuries, they are human rights!