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Twenty-one loaded handguns, nearly 200 rounds of ammunition and illegal add-ons – including a silencer – were seized from Winnipeg’s Central Park neighbourhood, leading to one man’s arrest, police said.

Winnipeg Police have made two arrests in connection to a drug trafficking network, with ties to Western Canada.

More than $400,000 dollars worth of drugs were seized as a result of an investigation led by Cochrane RCMP. Two residents from Canmore and two residents from Calgary are facing multiple drug trafficking offences. Drew Stremick reports.

A U.S. military strike on a vessel accused of drug trafficking killed three people Saturday. The U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post that the boat was engaged in narco-trafficking operations in the Caribbean Sea.

British Columbia’s drug crisis is having a staggeringly high impact on the province’s youngest population, claiming hundreds of lives and leaving many children orphaned. Child advocates say kids are suffering from severe related traumas like sexual assault, exploitation, and human trafficking. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Apr. 23, 2026.

Manitoba RCMP say they’ve brought down an interprovincial drug trafficking network after a three-month investigation. Vasilios Bellos has more on Project Deepwater.

Leaders from a dozen Latin American countries gathered in Florida Saturday for U.S. President Donald Trump’s inaugural summit focused on combating drug trafficking. Canada and Mexico are not part of the new initiative. Candice Cole reports.

A British man who was living in Vancouver has been convicted in the U.S. in a ‘dark web’ drug trafficking network dubbed “Canada 1”. As Paul Johnson reports, it began with the tragic death of two Americans more than 8 years ago.

The U.S. military says its special forces are carrying out combat operations in Ecuador, targeting suspected drug traffickers. U.S. Southern Command says the mission is being conducted jointly with Ecuadorian forces. Officials say the operation is part of the Trump administration’s broader crackdown on narcotics networks in the region.

The province is creating an organized crime and drug trafficking task force.

Schools in District 43 have been placed under holds and secures this week due to threats phoned in to RCMP. And a British national, who was living in Vancouver in 2017, has been convicted in the State of Georgia following an RCMP investigation into a Canadian dark web drug trafficking network that resulted in the...

Seven Toronto police officers, including one retired member, have been arrested among 27 suspects following a major organized crime and corruption investigation, York Regional Police announced Thursday. Police revealed the results of Project South, a months long probe that uncovered allegations of bribery, breach of trust, drug trafficking and the unauthorized access and distribution of...

As Catherine McDonald reports, U.S. prosecutors allege Rolan Sokolovski used his business to launder proceeds of Ryan Wedding’s alleged drug trafficking network.

Toronto jeweler Rolan Sokolovski is charged with allegedly laundering money for the Ryan Wedding drug trafficking organization and is requesting a publication ban in advance of his bail hearing. Catherine McDonald reports.

: Janson Bryan Baker’s trial is underway six years after two Dieppe, N.B. seniors were murdered in their own home. In their opening statement, the Crown explained the couple was killed as part of an attempted murder of their son and that it was all part of retribution for allegedly betraying a drug trafficking ring....

Residents at a Sherbrook Avenue apartment are dealing with an influx of unhoused people using the building to escape the elements. And one outreach organization argues a new city encampment policy is leaving people with few options. Vasilios Bellos has more.

Lethbridge police have charged a 50-year-old man with sexual assault, exploitation and human trafficking following an investigation into the forced confinement and drugging of a 14-year-old girl. As Justin Sibbet reports, three victims have been identified, but officers fear there could be more.

The U.S. military confirmed it conducted yet another strike against an alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific on Monday. The low-profile vessel was being operated by “Designated Terrorist Organizations” and travelling along “known narco-trafficking routes,” supposedly engaging in drug trafficking operations, according to the U.S. Southern Command.

U.S. President Donald Trump has doubled down on his threats to order land strikes in Venezuela amid concerns of international drug trafficking. “It’s not only land strikes on Venezuela, it’s land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and killing our people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.

A lengthy investigation into a northern Manitoba drug trafficking ring has led to 23 arrests and warrants issued for four other suspects, RCMP say.