Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦

Albertan in recovery. Focused on advocating for others with addiction and mental health challenges to get their lives and families back in recovery.

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

.@CTVCalgary @CTVKathyLe I continue to be grateful for giving me a platform to share my story of #HOPE, and helping me down the path of advocating for so many more who suffer.

#Addiction #Mentalhealth #OpioidEpidemic #FENTANYL #yyc #yeg #ableg #cdnpoli

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[Elenore Sturko @elenoresturko]

I’m here at the UDI luncheon where David Eby just admitted what I have long been saying — that the NDP was wrong on "safe supply" & decriminalization.

We must never forget that Eby only reversed course on "safe supply" when a leaked Health Ministry presentation confirmed that the NDP knew their taxpayer-funded drugs were being trafficked provincially, nationally & internationally, and that there was fraud by 60+ pharmacies with medical professionals facilitating the diversion.

We must also never forget that while Eby recriminalized public drug use last year, BC Crown Prosecution is NOT charging anyone for possession.

The Premier needs to come clean about the NDP's ongoing "safe supply" pharmacy scandal, fully end their harmful decriminalization experiment instead of waiting for the pilot to end in January, and get back to enforcing the law.

[Larry Brock @LarryBrockMP]

Luc Berthold Introduces a Bill on Drug Addiction Treatment for Adolescents

Young People and Drug Addiction: Helping Rather than Punishing

September 19, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ottawa, ON – It was with great emotion that Luc Berthold, Member of Parliament for Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière and Deputy House Leader for the Official Opposition, introduced his Private Member’s Bill, Friends of David Act, aimed at amending the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

“This bill would help young people who are struggling with addiction at a very young age to access treatment programs so they can be helped rather than punished by the justice system,” explained Berthold. “The Youth Criminal Justice Act would be amended to, among other things, clarify the measures applicable to addiction treatment programs for young people.”

“If passed, the bill would allow a youth court that finds a youth guilty of an offence to, in certain cases, defer sentencing to allow the youth to participate in a substance abuse treatment program,” continues Berthold. “It would also allow the youth court to attach the condition of attending a drug treatment program to certain orders.”

“When a young person develops an addiction and ends up before the justice system, society has a duty to allow them to seek treatment, since it has failed to eliminate access to drugs on the streets,” Berthold points out.

Over the next few weeks, Luc Berthold plans to raise awareness among his colleagues and Canadians about the importance of acting early to save lives.

“My wife Caro and I intend to speak out so that people who are going through difficult times with their teenagers know that they are not alone in this situation. I hope that my colleagues from all parties will support my bill to give teenagers this option as well,” concludes Berthold.

[Elenore Sturko @elenoresturko]

🚨STILL NO UPDATE FROM NDP HEALTH MINISTER JOSIE OSBORNE ABOUT "SAFE SUPPLY" SCANDAL🚨

A leaked Health Ministry presentation early this year confirmed that millions of NDP taxpayer funded "safe supply" pills were being trafficked provincially, nationally & internationally with alleged fraud by 60+ pharmacies & medical professionals who facilitated the diversion.

Despite the NDP promising to investigate, it was recently reported that pharmacies are still giving kickbacks to patients & another pharmacy is opening in the DTES.

When @Josie_Osborne was asked by media recently to provide an update on the investigation, she refused.

This is unacceptable. The public deserves to know NOW!

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[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

Advocates in my home province of Newfoundland recently held rallies coast-to-coast to raise awareness about the seriousness of the addiction crisis & the need for a robust recovery-oriented system of care. The time is now.

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

Hard to watch the suffering & difficult to comprehend the policies & people responsible for it.

There is only one way out - the way me, Tom & many others made it out - Recovery!

[T Wolf 🌁 @Twolfrecovery]

Yesterday I walked Skid Row with Senior Advisors from @HUDgov from LA and Washington DC. You all know I've been homeless and addicted to heroin and fentanyl. But what I saw yesterday, the suffering, the chaos the mental illness, the addiction, the trash, the filth, shook me. 🧵

[Elenore Sturko @elenoresturko]

🚨1 YEAR AGO EBY ADMITTED NDP DECRIM HARMS BRITISH COLUMBIANS - CONTINUES IT ANYWAY🚨

During last year's election campaign, David Eby admitted that decrim "didn’t have the results we wanted to see, just the opposite. It resulted in some real problems.”

The NDP is willfully putting the safety & wellbeing of British Columbians at risk by continuing the dangerous experiment.

End decrim NOW!

https://t.co/k93y4v8h7L

[Todd Doherty @ToddDohertyMP]

🚨BREAKING🚨

Pharmacies in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are PAYING patients for their “safe” supply drugs to rake in dispensing fees—exploiting the vulnerable for profit.

This has to end—full stop.

[Elenore Sturko @elenoresturko]

🚨NDP HEALTH MINISTER JOSIE OSBORNE REFUSES TO SPEAK TO MEDIA ABOUT "SAFE SUPPLY" SCANDAL🚨

A leaked Health Ministry presentation early this year confirmed that millions of NDP taxpayer funded "safe supply" pills were being trafficked provincially, nationally & internationally with alleged fraud by 60+ pharmacies & medical professionals who facilitated the diversion.

Despite the NDP promising to investigate, pharmacies are still giving kickbacks to patients & another pharmacy is opening in the DTES.

Global has been trying to get an update from @Josie_Osborne for 3 weeks - she refuses.

This is unacceptable. The public deserves to know NOW!

https://t.co/V2oSglGhoz

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Rampant drug use, crime and businesses closing after 10 years of "safe supply" and soft-on-crime Liberals.

Bring treatment and recovery and crack down on repeat violent criminals to bring our loved ones home drug free.

Let’s restore law and order in our streets and protect our families, communities and businesses.

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

Some of us have been warning since 2020 that "safe supply" is based on pseudoscience.

Evidence shows it has caused addiction, fuelled fentanyl use & deaths and enriched organized crime.

Everyone who pushed "safe supply" needs to be held accountable.

https://t.co/4zmvkbj9Xl

[Todd Doherty @ToddDohertyMP]

Carney’s fentanyl czar says he has “no authority”.

So who’s in charge??

Mark Carney continues to ignore the opioid crisis while fentanyl is killing our kids and enriching organized crime syndicates.

Carney Liberals are all talk, no action.

https://t.co/Gnq1gQ2wA0

[Michelle Leahy Ferreri @mferreriptbokaw]

The proof of the failed Liberal experiment.

[Todd Doherty @ToddDohertyMP]

Brianna didn’t have to die.

Do something @MarkJCarney

Please share.

#EndTheCrisis #opioidcrisis #actionnotwords

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

@pdxrob25 @BenforOregon 🙏

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

A new report shows the failure of decriminalization in Oregon & Washington.

"Looking first at crime rates (Table A1), within both Oregon and Washington, there were significant increases in the total violent crime rate, murder, robbery, aggravated assault, total property crime rate, burglary, larceny-theft, burglary, and motor vehicle theft in the daily crime rates before and after their respective drug law changes."

The Carney Liberals have also caused addiction, death, crime & chaos in Canada with their radical drug experiment. It is time to end it & fund recovery.

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[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The addiction crisis has killed more Canadians than the Second World War.

Mark Carney's Liberal government has supported policies that flooded our streets with poison that is killing our people.

Bring treatment and recovery to give our people healing, hope, and a drug-free life.

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

@preta_6 @VancityNews1 @VCHhealthcare @BCnursemidwife "Attendees included staff from the BC Civil Liberties Association, BC Health Coalition, Unity Health Toronto and two influential B.C. government bodies: Vancouver Coastal Health and First Nations Health Authority."

@adamzivo @somerspsych

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[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

Almost 53,000 Canadians are dead from addiction since 2016 under the Liberals. We still lose 20 people daily.

Fentanyl flows into the Port of Vancouver by the tonne yet only 1% of shipping containers are searched.

The Prime Minister must prioritize stopping fentanyl.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

A few weeks ago I visited the Port of Vancouver. Our ports connect Canadian businesses to trading partners all around the world. 

Canada has what the world needs — and with Canadian workers, Canadian materials, and Canadian ingenuity, we will meet that demand.

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

The whole drug legalization apparatus needs to be shut down & everyone who caused harm by pushing it needs to be held accountable.

[Dr. Julian Somers @somerspsych]

Why did US taxpayers fund the war chest that Canadian HIV/AIDS activists used to drive drug legalization & “safe supply”?

@DrJBhattacharya @KevinSabet @Twolfrecovery @sheldonbailey

[Sheldon Bailey 🇨🇦 @sheldonbailey]

@somerspsych @DrJBhattacharya @KevinSabet @Twolfrecovery The whole drug legalization apparatus needs to be shut down & everyone who caused harm by pushing it needs to be held accountable.