Unpublished Newswire
May 14, 2026 - 15:42 | Pierre Saint-Arnaud | The Globe and Mail
Opioid-related death rates have dropped by more than 50 per cent in Ontario since 2021, according to the latest report from the Office of the Chief Coroner. Still, northern Ontario has consistently seen the highest rates in the province as advocates and health-care experts report increasingly toxic drugs in street supplies.
May 14, 2026 - 15:36 | | CBC News - Canada
Opioid-related death rates have dropped by more than 50 per cent in Ontario since 2021, according to the latest report from the Office of the Chief Coroner. Still, northern Ontario has consistently seen the highest rates in the province as advocates and health-care experts report increasingly toxic drugs in street supplies.
May 14, 2026 - 15:36 | | CBC News - Ottawa
SiRT has found 'no reasonable grounds' to believe a Halifax police officer committed a criminal offence when he shot a robbery suspect in January.
May 14, 2026 - 15:35 | Rebecca Lau | Global News - Canada
Wes Streeting, whose ambitions for U.K.’s top job was one of No 10’s worst kept secrets, has always seemed to know where he stood: right in the centre. On Thursday, the now former health secretary seemed all but ready to pitch his candidacy in a resignation letter highly critical of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “Where we need vision, we have a vacuum. Where we need direction, we have drift,” he wrote in his letter posted on X, echoing the sentiment of party-affiliates who have been warning of a fracture in recent weeks. He is the first senior minister to quit in what is seen as a...
May 14, 2026 - 15:25 | Swikar Oli | National Post
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is pointing its finger at the Port of Vancouver, alleging it to be an entry point for the chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, which can then find its way into the U.S. DEA Administrator Terrance Cole has stated publicly that the agency is “very conscious” of precursor chemicals moving through the port and warns that the DEA is “keeping (its) eye on Canada.” Cole told U.S. senators in Washington on Tuesday that the chemicals are entering the port, before being transported to cartel-linked labs in Canada and ultimately crossing into the U.S. across...
May 14, 2026 - 15:25 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
