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London Drugs stores across Western Canada remain closed for a third day due to what the retailer calls a “cyber security incident.” The pharmacy chain is now backtracking on an earlier statement about whether personal customer and employee information was compromised. Kristen Robinson has this update.

Chilliwack RCMP have arrested seven people in a seven-month-long drug trafficking investigation. Fourteen search warrants were executed at residences in the Lower Mainland in Chilliwack, Vancouver, Surrey and Langley — resulting in a significant seizure of suspected cocaine, fentanyl, meth and guns, four vehicles and more.

More than a dozen people, including nine Winnipeggers, are facing charges as part of the investigation into a large-scale, interprovincial drug network, police say. Iris Dyck reports.

Seven people have been arrested in an auto theft investigation. As Catherine McDonald reports, Project Paranoid began as undercover officers were investigating drug and gun trafficking.

The number of homeless people dying in Calgary has doubled in a year, hundreds killed by drugs, violence and exposure to the elements. But families are coming forward with questions about how their relatives died and say they believe it’s worth a deeper investigation. Jill Croteau now with the conclusion of our series Silent Streets.

The number of homeless people dying in Calgary has doubled in a year, hundreds killed by drugs, violence and exposure to the elements. But families are coming forward with questions about how their relatives died and say they believe it’s worth a deeper investigation. Jill Croteau now with the conclusion of our series Silent Streets.

Four Ontario school boards have launched lawsuits against Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat over allegations their platforms are negligently designed for compulsive use, and have rewired the way children think, behave, and learn. How much money the school boards are seeking; how many hours a day kids and teens are logged onto social media; and how...

In this Friday, March 8, 2024 edition of Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton with Carole Anne Devaney and Scott Roberts, the RCMP say no charges laid in 2017 UCP leadership race investigation, ALERT seizes $350k worth of drugs and AHS deems a condo uninhabitable, and CFB Cold Lake marks the end of 419 squadron...

The RCMP organized crime unit is announcing the arrest of eight men in relation to a massive drug and gun bust in a multi-city investigation. Police say the men are associated with organized crime and were producing huge quantities of fentanyl-tainted pills — disguised as common pharmaceuticals. Emily Lazatin reports.

Charges against three men, including a paroled murderer, in a $30-million drug bust have been stayed after the revelation a Victoria police officer involved in the arrest was himself under criminal investigation. Kristen Robinson reports.

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia has netted its largest one-time seizure of contraband tobacco in the province’s history. Investigators also confiscated heaps of illegal firearms, drugs and stolen goods across Metro Vancouver, Sgt. Brenda Winpenny said Tues. Feb. 13, 2024.

Police in Kelowna say Wednesday morning’s house fire in Rutland is now an arson investigation; a B.C. mother who lost two sons to the toxic drug crisis is calling for change; a young Kelowna couple has gone missing, and police are looking for information about their whereabouts.

Coordinated attacks, a hospital lockdown, and drones allegedly used to drop weapons in an explosion of prison violence. A disturbing and destructive vandalism spree sends dozens of South Vancouver car owners to autobody shops. And RCMP investigate the unsolicited drugging of a young man with autism.

Actor Lee Sun-kyun, who starred in the Oscar-wining South Korean film ‘Parasite,’ has died at age 48 from apparent suicide after being investigated for using illegal drugs. As Jennifer Johnson reports, it follows a crackdown on celebrities allegedly using illicit substances, in a country with some of the world’s strictest anti-drug laws.

The questioning of South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun on three separate occasions was justified and done with his consent, Incheon Metropolitan Police chief Kim Hui-jung said on Thursday. Lee’s body was found in a car at a park in Seoul on Wednesday, after he was reported missing amid a drug probe. “The investigation of the...

Lee Sun-kyun, a popular South Korean actor best known for his role in the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite,” was found dead in a car in Seoul on Wednesday, authorities said, after weeks of an intense police investigation into his alleged drug use. He was 48.

Viewer discretion is advised. As Israel intensifies its operation to wipe out Hamas, more than 21,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to the enclave’s Hamas-ran health ministry — while violence is also on the rise in the occupied West Bank. How the Palestinian National Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, is speaking...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed the RCMP will have access to all government documents in their Greenbelt investigation. Global’s Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Colin D’Mello reports.

Toronto Police Service Superintendent Steve Watts revealed on Friday the results of Project Finito, a three-and-a-half month investigation involving the seizure of 992 kilograms of illicit drugs with an estimated street value of $90 million. It is the “single-largest seizure of crystal methamphetamine and powder cocaine in the history of the Toronto Police Service,” he...

As the Israeli Defense Forces conduct a “precise and targeted operation” in Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, there are reports of mass graves being dug outside the facility. How conditions just keep getting worse at Gaza’s largest hospital. Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, who died in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, is being fondly remembered. Her final...