Jehn Benoit

Deep Cove #BCStorm #BCStormWatch

Supervised Consumption Services at Sheldon Chumir Health Centre are operated by Alberta Health Services. Two years ago, I shared concerns related to public safety in the area, the impact on neighbours, and the draw on City of Calgary and Calgary Police resources with Provincial officials.

Service providers and the data tell us one centralized site is not the answer. Drug poisonings are happening throughout the city.

Since 2022, Calgarians have been waiting for the provincial government to offer additional or alternate solutions, given that health and addictions are provincial responsibilities. Today, I reinforce this message and urgency required to address this issue.

Never give up on helping someone you know or care about. Don’t write them off, don’t blow them off because you’re busy. It’s ALWAYS worth a check-in … you never know when they will be ready to do the hard work and change their life. I've known Randy for over 20 years — we were on the streets together. In 2018, after I achieved recovery, I was walking through the DTES going to work and I saw him on the other side of the street doing his thing, getting high. I wasn't going to stop for a chat — I needed to get to work. But I knew then that the illicit drug supply was getting increasingly more deadly. A voice in my head said "Go back and ask him if he wants help. You might not get this chance again.” I went back. I said “Hey” and gave him the half hug & handshake. He said: "Doesn't your friend own recovery houses? I need to get the hell outta here.” Long story short I called my friend and he came down and picked Randy up to start his recovery journey. This is my friend Randy today, in recovery, sober and working with people who struggle just like he once did! I could not be more proud of him! #WeDoRecover

@guyfelicella Guy, your truth, your raw eloquence, your happiness liberates those who want to understand and after meeting you, are changed to see with love and compassion.

Sometimes I get down about engagement here on X, and sometimes about the peer support I do in person. It can be disheartening and heartbreaking … especially when people accuse me of not being “pragmatic” enough when I fight hard for harm reduction programs that I KNOW save lives. But then I get an email like this one, and the world feels all right again. HUGE gratitude to the staff and students at Boyd Secondary today ❤️😭 Excerpt from the email: “You are such an inspiration - and I want to share that you had a direct and immediate impact on two of my at risk students. They tried to leave half way through your presentation and I pulled them over and made them sit through your presentation with tears in our eyes. One of them had the courage to speak to you afterwards... and she is still talking about it today. What you are doing is making a huge difference and I want you to know that. A day after your presentation the counsellor's office blew up with kids asking for help. You are an amazing human - and an incredibly gifted story teller. Not one kid was looking at their phone during your presentation and that is almost unheard of in a high school setting. Please don't stop telling your story. The kids are watching and listening. We are so grateful to you. Thank you a million times. You are a gift.” #inspiration #wedorecover #payitforward #harmreduction #YouthEmpowerment

The journalist martyr Samer Abu Daqqa, during his interview with his family months ago in Belgium, mentioned that despite Al Jazeera offering to relocate his work to Belgium, he refused to reside outside Gaza. He chose to work in Gaza to convey the suffering of his people and expose the crimes of the occupation, until he was assassinated by the Israeli warplane.

Samer Abu Daqqa, an Al Jazeera channel cameraman and friend of ours, was murdered after lying on the ground covered in blood for more than five hours without being treated because the occupation forces prevented medical teams from reaching him. Nasser arrived at the hospital as dead.

Alberta TORNADO OUTBREAK! #abstorm Documented EIGHT tornadoes with @lightningmanAB on Wednesday. FULL VIDEO on YouTube, here: youtube.com/watch?v=lMSTUb…

A new exhibition in Co Offaly features portraits of more than 40 people with Down syndrome. James Crombie, Ireland's press photographer of the year, says his first solo exhibition aims to raise awareness and highlights the importance of inclusion. #DownSyndromeAwarenessMonth

Don't worry, they're not UFOs: SpaceX Starlink satellite train reportedly spotted again tonight over Vancouver Island. Read our story on previous sightings here: cheknews.ca/ufo-comet-show…

Feds lifts border vaccine mandates, mandatory masks on planes and trains cheknews.ca/feds-lifts-bor…

75 years ago British-ruled India was split into two states: India and Pakistan. As many as two million people may have been killed during a violent process known as partition. Here’s how it happened ⤵️

An Indigenous leader placed a traditional headdress on Pope Francis during his visit Monday to the site of a former residential school where Indigenous children suffered abuse in Canada.

"I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed." Pope Francis offers long-sought apology to the Indigenous community in Canada over Catholic Church's role in the generational abuse they suffered at Indigenous residential schools for nearly 150 years: abcn.ws/3vb0VD1

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A slurge of investment in #renewableenergy projects in #Alberta has resulted in 2 gigawatts of #cleanenergy feeding into the grid - more than enough electricity to power all the homes in #Calgary, #Lethbridge, #MedicineHat, and #RedDeer combined businessrenewables.ca/news/unprecede…

“Indigenous governments across Canada have consistently stepped forward with leading-edge landscape and seascape-level plans and initiatives to conserve their traditional territories,” the Roadmap to 2030 report says. thenarwhal.ca/cpaws-conserva… @cpaws @DenaKayeh

If we take a sense of universal altruism seriously, where is there room to have enemies? Our real enemies and the enemies of humanity are negative emotions like anger and hatred. Indeed, people who are dominated by powerful negative emotions should be objects of our compassion.

Wow. At least 700 spilling out of a room in North East Calgary to hear @RajanJSaw launch her leadership campaign for @Alberta_UCP. Honoured to be asked to manage her campaign. #ForwardWithRajan

This morning at the Violet King Henry Plaza in Edmonton, I launched my bid for the leadership of the United Conservative Party. For more information, visit rajansawhney.ca More tweets to follow today. #ForwardWithRajan

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