Drug companies are facing a class action lawsuit about their role in the opioid crisis in Canada.

Artist Domenic Esposito is protesting the opioid crisis by placing a giant sculpture of a burnt spoon in front of the offices of a Rhode Island pharmaceutical company.

The owner of a Medicine Shoppe in Sherwood Park says pharmacists are seeing widespread shortages across just about every category of prescription medicine required.

A Chinese maker of valsartan, an ingredient in recently-recalled blood pressure medications, does not meet manufacturing standards, says Health Canada.

B.C. is suing opioid manufacturers. Scott Thompson says he's surprised it has taken so long for a Canadian government to take such action.

The British Columbia government announced Wednesday it is suing 40 companies in connection with manufacturing opioids.

Ten major pharmaceutical companies released data last month showing they had paid nearly $50 million to Canadian health-care professionals and organizations last year.

Canada's health minister says companies will be required to post drug shortages on a new website or risk being named and shamed.