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Three large seizures from commercial trucks at the Canada-U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., has resulted in 1,010 kg of drugs being taken off the streets.

Sipekne’katik First Nation says its council moved to begin the process of declaring a state of emergency as the community deals with too many overdoses and tragedies.

Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health has released another drug alert regarding medetomidine, a veterinary sedative not reactive to naloxone and increasingly found in opioids.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has issued a provincewide drug alert as poisonings rise, warning that medetomidine is increasingly present in the unregulated drug supply.

Ontario has launched a new program that is fast-tracking six life-saving cancer drugs, giving patients access up to a year sooner and reducing long waits for critical treatment.

Kingston police say they have charged a 26-year-old Ontario mother after a young child was found 'under dressed' amid a group of adults engaging in drug use.

A Saskatoon Fire Department battalion chief fears tackling more toxic drugs entering what was the peak time from last year, when a deadly drug supply pushed overdoses above 30. 

Police pulled over a vehicle nearby the Stony Mountain Institution and found a drone at the passenger's feet containing several balloons filled with drugs.

The former U.S. attorney who oversaw the prosecution and conviction of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman tells Global News there are similarities in both cases.

Health Canada is warning Canadians of the dangers of buying "fake or unauthorized products" meant to replicate popular GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy.

A prosecutor said the gang was involved in producing counterfeit drugs with an estimated street value of £288 million (C$424 million).

Paul Anthony Nicholls, 47, was living in Vancouver, B.C., in 2017 and conspired with at least one other person to run a drug trafficking operation titled Canada1.

A registered nurse who wrongly administered fentanyl, nearly killing a patient, and asked a doctor to approve the move after the fact has been stripped of her licence.

A jury trial for a man accused of fatally shooting five people in a Winnipeg rooming house nearly three years ago is scheduled to begin Tuesday.

Health Canada is recalling two lots of MAR-Amlodipine after some bottles were found to contain midodrine, a medication used to treat low blood pressure.

A Canadian Olympian will appear in federal court Monday on charges he allegedly ran a billion-dollar multinational drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings.

The estimated street value of the heroin is almost $7 million.

Ryan Wedding, a Canadian Olympian-turned-alleged cocaine kingpin, has been arrested, U.S. authorities say.

Health officials warn a sample sold as cocaine in Kingston contained deadly fentanyl and animal tranquillizers — but no actual cocaine.

A 33-year-old Calgary man, accused of being an associate of alleged Canadian drug lord Ryan Wedding, appeared in a Calgary courtroom on Friday.