Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Greg Mercer
Publication Date: February 5, 2025 - 19:56
Fentanyl czar needs to focus beyond the border to tackle epidemic, experts say
February 5, 2025
If Ottawa is serious about helping its new fentanyl czar defeat a scourge that has killed tens of thousands of Canadians, it will require a lot more than helicopters and extra cameras at the border, former drug investigators and RCMP commanders say.Law enforcement experts told The Globe and Mail they’re hopeful the threat of U.S. tariffs may be the crisis that finally forces Canada to make substantive changes to the way the trafficking of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, is investigated and prosecuted.
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The RCMP has announced it stopped 16 people illegally crossing the American border into the Canadian Prairies over the past three weeks, none of whom appear to be involved in the fentanyl trade.The top federal Mountie in Alberta and the Canadian Border Services Agency held a press conference Wednesday afternoon detailing three separate incidents, two at or near that province’s Coutts border crossing and one in Manitoba, including a police chase Tuesday that ended in an apparent suicide.
February 5, 2025 - 21:50 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
Sawler said he organization is pushing for change, adding that being able to tap into other provincial markets like Ontario would be huge.
February 5, 2025 - 21:35 | Klaudia Van Emmerik | Global News - Canada
More than 60 pharmacies in British Columbia are accused of offering patients – and even doctors and housing providers – prohibited incentives for their prescription business to maximize the amounts they can bill the province’s publicly funded drug plan, a special investigation unit has heard.The alleged scheme has resulted in some patients not receiving medications that they need and others receiving medications that they do not, while the pharmacies profit, according to the unit of former RCMP officers convened by B.C.’s Ministry of Health. This has compromised patient safety and has...
February 5, 2025 - 21:33 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
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