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'It is going to get worse before it gets better': Health minister on opioid...
Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says more people are expected to die of illicit opioid overdoses in Canada this year compared with nearly 2,500 fatalities recorded in 2016. “It is going to get...
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New survey on addiction in Canada reveals effective paths to recovery
A new national survey on recovery from drug and alcohol addiction shows promising results for those who manage to overcome the multiple hurdles in accessing treatment. A panel of Canadian addiction...
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Anti-gang cops arrest nine following year-long probe into illegal gambling
Nine people have been arrested by B.C.’s anti-gang task force after a year-long investigation involving illegal gambling houses and millions of dollars in laundered money in Metro Vancouver. In May...
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Police arrest second Abbotsford teen in Lower Mainland gang conflict
Abbotsford police have seized a number of drugs and have arrested an 18-year-old man in relation to the gang conflict throughout the Lower Mainland. A search warrant was executed June 7 at the home of...
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B.C. man arrested, charged in California after 88 pounds of cocaine found
A Vancouver man was arrested in Long Beach, Calif. after police found 88 pounds (40 kg) of cocaine in a car during a traffic stop. On Tuesday around 11:46 a.m., police noticed a driver was “acting...
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Two charged after police intercept cocaine shipped through Port of Vancouver
Two Metro Vancouver residents will be back in court later this month on drug charges after police seized 132 kilograms of cocaine from a shipping container from Brazil. Yan Chau (Andrew) Lam, 48, and...
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Human-rights tribunal to hear complaint from cocaine smuggler
The night of Jan. 18, 2007, 50-year-old Perley Edmund Holmes found himself lying in fresh snow, flanked by a pair of backpacks stuffed with 62 kilograms of cocaine, hiding in the brush from the...
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Dan Fumano: 'A daily game of Russian Roulette'— lessons from Vancouver's last...
The human toll of the overdose epidemic currently devastating Vancouver and B.C. can get lost in numbers and statistics. But data, along with a bit of history, are crucial if you want at least to try...
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Three Red Scorpion associates charged in Kamloops drug bust
Three Red Scorpion associates have been charged in a Kamloops drug trafficking probe, police announced Monday. Charges were laid on Nov. 30, following a months-long targeted investigation that included...
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Two charged following probe sparked by five OD deaths in one day
Abbotsford police have seized a massive quantity of drugs and cash in an investigation that was launched in October after the deaths of five people within 10 hours of suspected overdoses. On Oct. 27,...
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Additional charges approved against Kelowna man in drug probe
Additional charges have been approved against a Kelowna man who was arrested during a drug investigation earlier this year. George Zacharias, 46, is now charged with an additional nine offences,...
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Coroner's Reports: The people behind the overdose crisis on Vancouver Island
A 30-something man told his wife he was going to meet friends for a few drinks just before midnight in the spring of 2016. She saw that he was a bit drunk, but didn’t worry until after 2 a.m., when he...
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Charges laid after Surrey Mounties seize guns, drugs
Two Surrey residents are facing gun and drug charges after Mounties raided a home last month in connection with an investigation into the ongoing gang conflict. Abdul Shaheel Khan, 22, and Shastina...
View ArticleOpinion: Canada slow to acknowledge punitive drug policy doesn't work
Canada has been inching toward the legal regulation of cannabis for many years now. But the fears that have paralyzed our country for more than a century whenever talk turns to legalizing and...
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Metro’s deadly gang war: Going after a familiar cast plus new players
Police across the Lower Mainland are pulling out all the stops to combat a new wave of deadly gang violence that involves both volatile younger players and gangsters with criminal links that date back...
View ArticleVernon dealer sentenced to two years in jail for trafficking fentanyl
A Vernon man has been sentenced to two years less a day for operating as a dial-a-dope dealer trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl. Dana John Kirton, 27, pleaded guilty in June 2017 to possessing a...
View ArticleAbbotsford teen arrested on new drug charges while out on bail
An Abbotsford teen has been arrested and charged with possessing fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking while he was already out on bail for drug-trafficking. Sukhjit Malhi, 19, remains in custody and...
View ArticleSlovakian woman gets three years for smuggling opium through YVR
A chance encounter in an Istanbul café with a mysterious man named Mike has landed a Slovakian woman in a B.C. prison for three years. Iveta Scheuer, 50, has been convicted of smuggling 2.6 kilos of...
View ArticleBritish Columbia trio facing drug charges in Saskatoon
Three Kelowna residents, including a 71-year-old man, are in custody and facing numerous criminal charges in connection with a drug bust in Saskatoon on Monday. Saskatoon police made the first arrest...
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Susan Martinuk: Health Canada attacks wrong party — medical community — in...
Statistics released last month show that Canada’s opioid problem continues to grow unchecked. More importantly, the numbers demonstrate that our health-care leaders have little understanding of what is...
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