The number of opioid overdose calls to paramedics has risen sharply in four Ontario cities compared with a year ago, a new CBC data analysis has found. In the first five months of 2026, calls for suspected opioid poisonings increased by 20 per cent in Thunder Bay and 199 per …

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This First Person column is written by Melissa MacMillan, who lives in Sudbury, Ont. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.   When I got sober in 2021, I thought the hardest part would be staying clean. It wasn’t. The hardest part was learning how …