Global News | World latest News| Trending News
The Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) is being activated to enhance the response to the toxic drug crisis in Saskatoon. A drug alert issued on Wednesday by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health said, “The Saskatoon Fire Department continues to report high overdose rates …responding to 67 overdoses and one suspicious death in 72 hours.” Prairie…
When Dean May’s team of cleaners entered the home, dressed head to toe in protective suits, thick green dust covered every surface. “We literally left footprints when we were walking in the house,” he recalled. They were traipsing through the toxic remnants of an illicit fentanyl pill-pressing operation in northern British Columbia three or four…
Pam Turgeon has suffered unimaginable pain in recent years, having lost both her son Ryan and son-in-law Cody to the toxic drug crisis. “It is a grief you never get over,” Turgeon said. But the Kelowna woman is using that grief to help make a difference. For the past five years, she has organized the…
