Decade of death: With 18K lives lost, B.C. counts cost of 10-year drug emergency

A Toronto man found not criminally responsible six years ago for killing his grandmother and trying to kill a health-care worker has been granted an absolute discharge by the Ontario Review Board, despite his psychiatrist’s reservations about his patient’s ability to manage his condition and his future plans to attend law school. A judge found in April 2020 that Michael Colatosti suffered from a “major mental illness” and did not know right from wrong when he killed Elena Marcucci, 84, and repeatedly stabbed Osayuki Erhabor on Aug. 18, 2018. While his psychiatrist, Ontario’s...