Premature deaths related to opioids doubled between 2019 and 2021 across Canada, with more than 1 in 4 deaths among young adults aged 20–39 years attributable to opioids, new research suggests. Nationally, annual number of opioid overdose deaths surged from 3,007 to 6,222 over three years Opioid-related deaths doubled in …
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Thunder Bay Police Service chief, oversight board respond after ex-chief charged by OPP
Thunder Bay's police chief and the chair of its oversight board will speak to the media on Monday, three days after Ontario Provincial Police charged the service's former chief with obstruction. Sylvie Hauth is the third current or former member of the force to be charged in recent months. 3 …
Read More »Criminal charges against ex-Thunder Bay police chief ‘deeply disturbing,’ police board chair says
The chair of Thunder Bay's police services board said last week's criminal charges against the northwestern Ontario city's former police chief are "deeply disturbing" and reaffirmed efforts to rebuild community trust in the service. Karen Machado and the current police chief spoke at a news conference Monday about OPP charges …
Read More »The Winnipeg Jets play in the NHL’s smallest market — but ownership says the team has never lost money
The company that owns the Winnipeg Jets says it's never lost money since the NHL returned to Winnipeg in 2011, not even during a recent downturn in ticket sales at Canada Life Centre. Multiple revenue streams keep Jets airborne, but ticket revenue key to icing competitive team, Chipman says The …
Read More »We’re taught that our homes are an asset. And that’s helping keep housing prices high
Paul Kershaw, a public policy professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of the affordability advocacy group Generation Squeeze, says the emphasis on increasing housing supply obscures our collective addiction to ever-rising home prices. Large chunk of housing demand in Canada comes from investors If you listen to …
Read More »CIBC customers dinged when bank adds $5 fee to e-gift cards, calling them a ‘cash advance’
CIBC customers who recently bought e-gift cards for Starbucks, Home Depot, Canadian Tire and a host of other stores were surprised to see a $5 fee added to the transaction on their credit card statements. CIBC initially said it considers the gift cards a “cash advance,” but has now decided …
Read More »Suspended police officers blame unfair disciplinary process for costing taxpayers millions
Formerly suspended officers point to systemic issues that led to their suspensions and kept them on paid leave for months or years. They say police chiefs are too quick to suspend, investigations are too often conducted by their colleagues. Those in charge, meanwhile, don’t see it the same way. Former …
Read More »B.C. toxic drug crisis still rages — 8 years after declaring public health emergency
Sunday marked eight years to the day since the province declared a public health emergency related to the deadly toxic drug crisis, a sombre anniversary as frontline workers in public health reflect on the more than 14,000 people who have died since. More than 14,000 people have died since emergency …
Read More »In an Ontario town split over a nuclear dump site, the fallout is over how they’ll vote on the future
A citizen's group opposed to burying Canada's stockpile of spent nuclear fuel half a kilometre below a southwestern Ontario farm town is demanding a paper ballot in an upcoming referendum on whether it should welcome radioactive waste. The town will hold an online vote, but an opposition group demands paper …
Read More »1 year after the Pearson heist, no arrests and no sign yet of all that gold and cash
A year ago, police revealed that a massive amount of gold and money had been stolen from a warehouse at Toronto's Pearson airport. Despite intensive investigative efforts, no arrests have been made and the valuable cargo is still unaccounted for. Police say investigation continues The Air Canada flight leaving Zurich, …
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