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More than 1.3 million dollars worth of drugs have been stopped from getting into Stony Mountain Institution.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is issuing a province-wide drug alert after finding street opioids containing an animal tranquilizer. The BCCDC’s Dr. Alexis Crabtree explains what medetomidine is and the risks when it’s ingested by people.

For more than 10 years, Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian man convicted of drug smuggling, has been serving time in a Chinese prison. And for about half of that time, he’s been sentenced to death. Now that has seemingly changed. Nathaniel Dove reports on what a retrial could mean — and why China announced it now.

Dr. Alexis Crabtree, medical lead for harm reduction and substance use services at the BC Centre for Disease Control, speaks with Jordan Armstrong about medetomidin now infilitrating the already tainted drug supply. The powerful sedative is now being found in street drugs across B.C., and has led to a recent spike in 911 calls.

A package suspected to be drugs dropped off at a Manitoba prison by a drone resulted in the arrest of a Calgary man and Winnipeg woman, RCMP say.

Saskatoon Fire Department Battalion Chief fears tackling more toxic drugs as city enters peaked time from last year, when a deadly drug supply pushed that number above 30. 

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.

Former Canadian Olympian and alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding has been taken into custody by U.S. law enforcement. Global’s Nivrita Ganguly reports on the details of his arrest and the timeline of allegations against the former professional snowboarder.

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.

A Crown prosecutor says a man accused of fatally shooting five people in a Winnipeg rooming house opened fire after days of using drugs and drinking alcohol there. Katherine Dornian reports.

The FBI and RCMP held a joint news conference Friday to announce that 44-year-old Ryan Wedding, who lived in Coquitlam when he competed for Canada at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, has been taken into custody in Mexico. Kristen Robinson reports.

Health Canada has issued a warning about fake GLP-1 drugs currently available both in stores and online. The agency says it has identified various retailers in Canada selling the unauthorized medications. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Jan. 22, 2026.

FBI Director Kash Patel was at an airport in Ontario, Calif. where he confirmed Canadian Olympian-turned-alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding has been arrested. Patel said Wedding, 44, who is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, was captured in Mexico, where authorities believe he had been hiding for more than a decade.

This month marks two years since Sidney McIntyre-Starko died in a toxic drug overdose while at the University of Victoria. Elyse Robinson with UVic HARD Law and Devin Galway, Law Students for Decriminalization & Harm Reduction at UBC, join Jordan Armstrong with more on how the recommendations from the report by former Abbotsford Police chief...

The B.C. government has confirmed that its ill-fated pilot program to decriminalize drugs will come to an end on January 31st. Aaron McArthur has the details and what might come next.

Three years after it was launched, B.C. is pulling the plug on its drug decriminalization pilot project. Global News Morning speaks with Kora DeBeck, a Professor of Substance Use and Drug Policy in SFU’s School of Public Policy, about why the program failed to deliver the results the province had hoped for.

Canadian researchers have unlocked new clues about how certain types of brain tumours spread, and also identified a potential drug that could help slow down their growth.  As health reporter Katherine Ward explains, this discovery might be a key step in identifying new ways to treat these aggressive types of cancer. 

A B.C. psychologist who led a major study on drug addiction and crime is speaking out again, now that the government has announced it will end its controversial drug decriminalization program. As Paul Johnson reports, he says government officials had the best research available to help them through the process, but chose to avoid it.

With B.C.’s failed experiment to decriminalize drugs coming to an end at the end of January, critics are calling on Premier David Eby to clarify what the new policies might be. Aaron McArthur reports.

Another major blow to the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown, as London Drugs has announced it is shutting down its location in the Woodward’s building. As Angela Jung reports, the company’s president says they did everything they could to keep the store open, but received little help from the province.