Drug Crisis

Content focusing on the challenging drug crisis facing many communities across the country.

Edmonton police seize $400,000 of fentanyl, weapons from Callingwood home

Edmonton police say two suspects are facing several charges after officers seized a large quantity fentanyl, other drugs and multiple weapons from an apartment in Callingwood South in November. The...

Poilievre would impose life sentences for trafficking over 40 mg of fentanyl

Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl. The Conservative leader...
Supreme Court affirms constitutionality of B.C. law on opioid health costs recovery

Canada's top court has affirmed the constitutionality of a law that would allow British Columbia to pursue a class-action lawsuit against opioid providers on behalf of other provinces, the territories...
Conservatives would scale back supervised drug consumption sites, Poilievre says

Supervised consumption sites are just "drug dens" that a future Conservative government would seek to close and not provide with "a single taxpayer dollar," Pierre Poilievre said Friday. During a visit...
Has decriminalization failed in B.C.?

In today’s The Big Story podcast, more than a year ago, B.C. decriminalized possession of small amounts of certain drugs. Earlier this month, they asked the federal government to recriminalize public...
Feds approve B.C. amendment to recriminalize public drug use

The federal government says it will allow B.C. to recriminalize drug use in public spaces as part of a new exemption to the pilot.