Public Interest
Investigations
Digging up facts on matters of public concern — based on tips from the public, documents, and original research.
Diggers With Attitude
This work is part of what I do with Diggers With Attitude — a project built around a simple idea: take tips from ordinary people who know things the public should know, dig into the evidence, and put it on record in a form that can be read, challenged, and acted on.
Every investigation listed here is an unpaid project I have taken on in my spare time. None of it is funded by the campaign, by donors, or by any organization. It is personal work, driven by the belief that accountability journalism matters more when nobody is paying for it.
The investigations are not campaign policy. They are public-interest research into institutions, systems, and claims that affect ordinary people and that have not received adequate scrutiny from people with the time and persistence to look carefully.
I do this work because I believe sunlight is the best disinfectant — and because I have lived in and around enough institutions to know that the official version of events is often incomplete, sometimes wrong, and occasionally designed to prevent the public from understanding what is actually happening.
If you know something the public should know, send it in.
The Sites
Each site is a public-interest research project. Content is based on documents, data, and information from people with direct knowledge of the subject matter.
A public-health accountability investigation into whether widely-repeated date-rape drug warnings are scientifically accurate — arguing that alcohol and benzodiazepines are the real documented culprits and that public-health messaging must reflect that.
Visit daterapeisxanax.com →An investigation into the claim that federal institutional failures around fentanyl, border enforcement, and drug-supply policy amount to something closer to economic and social sabotage than ordinary policy error — making the case for an independent public inquiry.
Visit economicsabotage.com →Research and documentation on the fentanyl epidemic: its origins, the border and enforcement failures that allowed it to grow, and the public-health and political decisions that shaped the Canadian crisis.
Visit fentanylepidemic.ca →An investigation into institutional conduct and accountability matters at the University of Guelph — public-interest research based on tips and documents from people with direct knowledge.
Visit guelphuniversity.ca →A scrutiny site focused on Insite and Vancouver's supervised-consumption model — examining the evidence base behind public claims, conflicts of interest in the research and advocacy ecosystem, and what the data actually shows about outcomes.
Visit insite.press →A public-interest site examining the geopolitical and economic pressures on Canadian sovereignty — including the implications of continental integration, trade dependency, and the political forces pushing Canada toward closer union with the United States.
Visit greatstateofcanada.ca →A satirical and analytical site documenting the unintended consequences of Trump-era trade and foreign policy for Canada — arguing that external pressure has accelerated long-overdue conversations about Canadian economic independence and national identity.
Visit canadathankstrump.ca →A research and commentary site examining Donald Trump Jr. and the political dynasty shaping American conservatism — with particular attention to the implications for Canadian sovereignty, trade, and the continental relationship.
Visit donaldjtrumpii.com →A Canadian research website. Details and focus area to be added — listed here as part of the full inventory of Scott Gilbert's personal research and public-interest projects.
Visit zontaresearch.ca →A recognition and accountability site focused on the Vancouver Police Department — documenting cases where VPD officers acted with courage, integrity, or restraint, while also holding space for honest scrutiny of conduct that falls short of those standards.
Visit thankthevpd.ca →A satirical public-art investigation into the intersection of institutional pretension, public money, and the Vancouver arts establishment — asking which publicly-funded cultural projects actually serve the public and which ones serve themselves.
Visit vancouvershartgallery.ca →
Vancouver Shart Gallery
Not every investigation requires a document dump. Sometimes the most honest form of public accountability is satire — and sometimes the institutions being satirized are so self-serious that satire is the only way to make them visible.
The Vancouver Shart Gallery is a satirical public-art investigation into institutional pretension, public money, and the Vancouver arts establishment — asking which publicly-funded cultural projects actually serve the public and which ones serve the people running them.
The AI-generated image above captures the premise precisely: serious-looking people, rapt attention, white walls, and exhibit labels — applied to subject matter that deserves exactly that level of earnest curatorial commentary.
Coming Before the Election
These investigations are currently being researched and will be published before the October 2026 election. All are unpaid spare-time projects. Tips, documents, and first-hand accounts on any of these subjects are welcome.
The Pharmacy Cash-for-Scripts Racket
How pharmacies are alleged to pay cash incentives to clients in exchange for prescriptions the clients do not need — a pattern that may be fuelling drug diversion and fraud at the intersection of the harm-reduction and pharmaceutical systems.
Scholarship Gaming at Canadian Universities
How scholarship and bursary programs at universities across the country are being gamed — who benefits, who loses, and why the institutions responsible for administering public money are not being held to account.
VCH and the Fentanyl Epidemic: Following the Money
How Vancouver Coastal Health may be perpetuating the overdose crisis rather than solving it — and why the records that would let the public follow the money are being withheld, delayed, or priced out of reach through FOI fee barriers.
Corruption and Why Cash Still Exists
A structural investigation into why cash remains the currency of choice for institutional corruption — how it is used, who benefits from keeping it that way, and what a serious anti-corruption policy would actually look like.
Vancouver Port Authority: Pest Control in Shipping Containers
An investigation into pest control, inspection, and biosecurity practices at the Port of Vancouver — who is responsible, what standards apply, and whether public risk is being adequately managed or quietly ignored.
City Promises About the DTES That Never Happened
A systematic review of the announcements, commitments, action plans, and funding pledges made about the Downtown Eastside over the past decade — and an honest accounting of how many of them actually produced measurable improvements for residents.
The $5 Billion/Year Vancouver Homeless Industry
Who is being paid, how much, by which government bodies, and with what measurable results — a follow-the-money investigation into the ecosystem of organizations, contracts, and institutions built around homelessness in Vancouver.
Credit Cards, Identity Documents, and White-Collar Crime
How credit card systems and identity document infrastructure are being exploited as cover for white-collar crime — including potential applications in election fraud — and what accountability gaps allow this to persist.
Stratas and FirstService Residential
An investigation into strata management practices — focusing on FirstService Residential and the power imbalance between professional property managers and the strata owners they are supposed to serve, including fee disputes, governance conflicts, and accountability gaps.
Private Investigators Selling Illegal Services for Hire in Vancouver
How a segment of Vancouver's private investigation industry is alleged to be marketing and selling services that cross legal lines — including surveillance, information-gathering, and other activities that may constitute criminal offences — and why enforcement is minimal.
SROs Flouting Fire Code and City Bylaws
Single-room occupancy buildings that are known to be out of compliance with fire code and city safety bylaws — who owns them, what the City knows, why enforcement is inconsistent, and what the consequences are for residents who have nowhere else to go.
The Goodbye Graffiti Conundrum
An investigation into Vancouver's graffiti removal ecosystem — including the Goodbye Graffiti program, who benefits from the contracts, how effectiveness is measured, and whether public money is producing results or sustaining a removal industry that has little interest in the problem disappearing.
Fentanyl Used as a Cover to Violate RTB Rights
How the fentanyl and homelessness crisis in the Downtown Eastside is being used as justification — or as cover — for evictions, building closures, and actions that may violate Residential Tenancy Branch rights and leave vulnerable tenants without legal recourse.
Gabor Maté: The Dangers of His Recovery Science
A critical review of the scientific and therapeutic claims made by Gabor Maté and widely promoted across Vancouver's harm-reduction and recovery ecosystem — examining which claims are evidence-based, which are contested, and whether his influence on public policy and clinical practice has been subject to adequate independent scrutiny.
Published Work
These books grow out of Scott's public-interest investigations and his conviction that the biggest problems require the biggest thinking. Both are available in full.
The Founding Father
A Guide for Trump to Peace, Unity, and the Founding of Civilization 2.0
Machiavelli wrote for princes who needed to understand power. This book is written for a founder who must understand what comes after power: peace, unity, citizen-led AI government, emergent superintelligence, and the beginning of Civilization 2.0. A compact strategic guide in five parts — from the Live Republic to the Mercy Republic to the voluntary union of nations.
The final draft was completed on Trump's 80th birthday, June 14, 2026, and is now in editing. A hardcover edition will be printed and shipped to the White House before Christmas 2026.
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On the Origin of Deity
By Means of Emergent Superintelligence
From primal belief to cosmic understanding — Scott Gilbert traces how the concept of God emerges through the lens of emergent superintelligence, arguing that the next chapter in human evolution reframes the oldest question we have ever asked.
Views From the Investigation
These essays grow directly out of Scott's public-interest research. They are not campaign policy positions — they are personal analysis, written from the perspective of someone who has spent years inside the systems being described.
AI: The Best Thing We Ever Invented — and the Biggest Threat We Face
Artificial intelligence is already transforming medicine, science, and public administration. It is also the most powerful tool ever built for surveillance, manipulation, and the concentration of power. Both things are true at the same time, and any honest account of AI has to hold both.
Canada as the Battlefield: The China–USA Conflict Risk
If a confrontation between China and the United States becomes physical, Canada's geography, infrastructure, and strategic assets make it a likely theatre — not a bystander. This essay examines what that risk actually looks like and why it receives almost no serious public discussion in this country.
Bikers and Their Collusion With Police
Organized motorcycle gangs in Canada operate with a degree of institutional tolerance that is difficult to explain without looking closely at what is actually happening on the ground — including long-documented patterns of cooperation, tip-sharing, and mutual benefit that blur the line between law enforcement and organized crime.
The Need to Foster Good Fathers
Children raised without engaged fathers are overrepresented in every bad outcome we track: poverty, school failure, addiction, incarceration, early death. We have built elaborate systems to respond to those outcomes. We invest almost nothing in producing the one input that prevents them most reliably.
Violence in Jails and Prisons — and How to Reduce It
Violence in Canadian correctional facilities is systematic, predictable, and largely preventable. This essay examines the conditions that produce it, the institutional incentives that sustain it, and the interventions — most of them inexpensive — that actually reduce it when applied consistently.
Santa Needs to Be Real: Opportunity Over Punishment
Mandatory minimums and the punishment-first model of criminal justice do not reduce crime — the evidence on this is not ambiguous. What reduces crime is opportunity: employment, housing, early childhood investment, and the credible belief that legitimate paths are actually available. If people believe those paths exist, they mostly use them. If they don't, no sentence length changes that.
Basic Shelter and Food as a Right for Every Canadian
Canada is one of the wealthiest societies in human history. The persistence of homelessness and food insecurity is not a resource problem — it is a political choice. This essay makes the case that shelter and food access should be treated as a floor, not a charity, and examines what that would actually require in law and in practice.
The RCMP and the Failure of Drug Law Enforcement
Decades of drug prohibition enforced by the RCMP have produced record overdose deaths, entrenched organized crime, and no measurable reduction in supply or use. This essay traces how enforcement has consistently made the problem worse, who has benefited from that failure, and what a policy built around evidence rather than optics would actually look like.
Submit Information
If you have documents, first-hand knowledge, or a credible tip on a matter of public interest — including anything related to the topics above, or a new subject worth investigating — send it in. Every submission is treated as confidential unless you say otherwise.
Diggers With Attitude is interested in institutional conduct, public-money accountability, scientific integrity, public-health claims, and any situation where people with power are saying one thing while the evidence suggests another.
greatscott@draintheswamp.ca