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A North Vancouver man convicted of killing two motorcyclists on the Malahat Highway in 2010, died from toxic drugs on the streets of Maple Ridge in Dec. 2020, according to a newly released coroner’s report. Lucas Ian Brown, 35, was found unresponsive by a passerby on a public sidewalk on …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in Toronto have arrested a young man and a teenage girl they say fled a traffic stop with a gun and drugs in their car. Toronto police said that, on Sunday, an officer tried to stop a vehicle around King Street …

Researchers in Alberta are experimenting with artificial intelligence to measure the risks of prescription opioids amid the ongoing drug overdose crisis across Canada. While doctors have a set protocol to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction, Dr. Dean Eurich said machine learning “could do a better job” of pinning …

Winnipeg police say they conducted a traffic stop after seeing a man who they say is a known gang member with a history of drug trafficking. On Friday close to 12 p.m. officers saw the man and conducted a traffic stop in the area of Bazier Street and Sydney Avenue, …

Jesse Derrick Fink, 32, and Aleksander Frederick Wosik, 30, face numerous charges following a drug and weapons bust on Wednesday night. News Source link

A man arrested at a courthouse in Portage La Prairie, Man., last Friday was found to be carrying drugs and a knife, RCMP say. On Dec. 2, at 9:45 a.m. police say a man who went to the Provincial Court Office on Tupper Street North was searched by sheriffs. He …

A gap in Manitoba’s reporting system means the majority of nursing homes in the province cannot monitor how many residents are being given antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis. Nearly one quarter of residents in Winnipeg’s 38 care homes are being given these powerful medications without a shown clinical need, a …

Canada’s minister of mental health and addictions says more doctors across the country should be willing to prescribe a safer supply of drugs to reduce overdoses instead of fearing they will face barriers from their regulatory colleges. Carolyn Bennett said a guidance document by the College of Physicians and Surgeons …

First they found a phone number on a bus bench at Banff Trail station in Calgary.  Then — following instructions from that phone call — Vanessa Redmond drove her daughter to Lion’s Park Station and let her out. Soon she was watching her adult daughter smoke drugs on the platform, meters …

British Columbia is set to become the first province to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs — but drug users, advocates, and the province’s chief coroner warn the threshold of 2.5 grams set by the federal government ignores the hard realities of how people buy and use drugs in …