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A downtown Oshawa property manager says she risks losing her family business, located opposite a non-profit agency that helps people who are homeless, amid ongoing issues on her property — including drug use, vandalism and public urination. Lord Simcoe Place on Simcoe Street S. has been in Cindy Malachowski’s family …
Read More »Why U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats have Canada ‘between a rock and a hard place’
Canada’s Department of National Defence says it will continue a long-standing operation with the U.S. Coast Guard to capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean, despite a string of deadly U.S. airstrikes in the region. Operation Caribbe — ongoing since 2006 — sees the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air …
Read More »U.S. military kills 11 in strike on alleged drug boat leaving Venezuela, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a military strike in the southern Caribbean against what he said was a drug-carrying vessel operated by the Tren de Aragua gang that departed from Venezuela. The president said in a Truth Social social media post that 11 people were …
Read More »Mexico has now transferred over 50 drug cartel suspects to U.S. this year
Mexico sent more than two dozen suspected cartel members to the U.S. on Tuesday, amid rising pressure from President Donald Trump to dismantle the country’s powerful drug organizations. Authorities shipped 26 prisoners wanted in the U.S. for ties to drug-trafficking groups, Mexico’s attorney general’s office and Security Ministry said in …
Read More »Saudi Arabia executing foreigners, drug offenders at record pace: Amnesty
Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly warn about the kingdom’s use of the death penalty in non-violent drug cases. Saudi Arabia executed 345 people last year, the highest number ever recorded by Amnesty in over three decades of …
Read More »Burn patients face intense recovery amid drug shortage under Israeli blockade of Gaza
Hamza Abu Shabab cringed in pain as his mother pulled off his shirt and eased his bandaged head back onto his pillow so she could apply ointment to his small, burned body. The seven-year-old suffered third-degree burns across his head, neck and shoulders when, frightened by an Israeli airstrike, he …
Read More »Burlington man arrested in Dominican Republic still stuck after drug charges dropped, family says
The wife of a Canadian man who was arrested in the Dominican Republic after he was accused of smuggling drugs says all charges against him have been dropped, but he remains stuck there indefinitely. Jane Wilcox and her husband, David Bennett, had spent a week at a resort in the …
Read More »Supervised drug consumption sites win injunction, can stay open for now amid Charter challenge
An Ontario judge has granted an injunction to keep 10 supervised consumption sites open while he considers a Charter challenge of a new provincial law that bans the sites from operating within 200 metres of schools or daycares. Justice John Callaghan of the Superior Court of Justice said all sites …
Read More »Trump under fire for ‘gutting’ law targeting drug cartels while maintaining fentanyl’s behind Canada tariffs
The law was hailed as a historic step in the right direction — the culmination of more than a decade of work between Republicans and Democrats in Washington to crack down on dirty money. The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) targeted drug cartels and other dangerous criminals who use shadowy shell companies to …
Read More »Hair loss drug finasteride can cause debilitating side-effects, men say
WARNING: This story contains discussion of suicide. Marc Turner’s mother remembers him coming home with a prescription in the fall of 2020. “He was really excited to take it. I can literally remember him running in the house,” said Denise Turner. “He was like: ‘I know it’s a lifelong drug, …
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