Recreational Drugs
Five men are facing a total of 52 charges after a nine-month, cross-country investigation into the Calgary organized-crime related kidnappings of two women.
The “innocent victims” were abducted in separate, “sophisticated and planned events” in May 2023 because of their connection with individuals allegedly involved in drug-related organized crime, Calgary Police Staff-Sergeant Roland Stewart said during a March 18 press conference.
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Read MoreNot only are three former clubhouses to be sold off by the government this spring, but there has been an exodus from the Kelowna chapter
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Read MoreNew Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the agency’s evidence room has been overwhelmed by rats stoned from eating cannabis.
“I said council member come back, I want you to see the tray of all of the major rodents on the floor, the cockroaches, the rats eating our marijuana,” said Kirkpatrick in a Wednesday speech to New Orleans city council.
“They’re all high.”
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Read MoreOrganized crime is active in Canadian ports, says an RCMP report. Police have sought new powers to conduct mandatory background checks on all port workers including federal Customs agents.
“Serious and organized crime remains one of the preeminent threats to Canada’s security,” said the report by the Mounties’ Criminal Intelligence Service. Of 638 gangs operating nationwide about “ten percent of organized crime groups are assessed to have access or links to the public sector to further their criminal activities or to have attempted to corrupt or infiltrate public sector agencies,” said the Public Report On Organized Crime 2023.
“Some sectors are more attractive to corruption attempts by organized crime groups,” wrote the RCMP. “Border services” and “employees at international ports who facilitate the importation and exportation of illicit goods” were targets, they said.
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Read MoreThe federal “safe supply” drug policy is senseless and destructive, says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. Speaking in Vancouver, Poilievre told business owners that cabinet must “break the cycle of addiction that is raging out of control in our country.”
“The drug policy has to be completely reversed,” Poilievre said Friday at a question-and-answer session with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. “I am to the point I don’t even know what motivates the policy right now.”
“At first I thought it was just sort of a naïve Utopianism that was driving this idea of giving out free drugs and decriminalizing these poisons,” said Poilievre. “But now the evidence is so clear that it has been a nightmare you have to ask yourself, what is motivating this policy?”
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Read MoreDeeply disturbing video from inside one of British Columbia’s safe injection sites has emerged from independent journalist, Kevin Dahlgren.
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Read MoreCouncillor Pete Fry, who voted to reinstate the license, noted the owner had not been “technically” convicted. He also said he has seen a lot of businesses in Vancouver selling mushrooms.
“There are dozens of [mushroom] shops in YVR providing safe supply to willing consumers,” Mr. Fry said in a social media post. “We saw this pattern in 2015 with cannabis and where CofV prioritized harm reduction and smart regulation over politics and prohibition.”
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Read MoreUniversity of Florida’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter leader Caitlyn McCoy warned fellow students about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) role in fentanyl-related deaths in the United States in a bid to convince the Student Body Senate to condemn the CCP.
“University of Florida YAF condemns the Chinese Communist Party for their part in the rapidly rising amount of fentanyl entering into the United States,” McCoy said before the school’s student government on Tuesday evening.
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Read MoreAccording to those who live in the area, this festering eyesore is less of a homeless encampment and more of a drop-in centre for drug users and drug dealers. In addition to the illegal activity, several sections of the Trespass Act are being violated. Yet, the City of Toronto continues to ignore this mess, much to the chagrin of residents and those trying to operate businesses.
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Read MoreThe secret author of an unsigned federal directive asking that journalists submit stories for fact-checking has been named. Maryse Durette, a former CBC employee and spokesperson for the Department of Health, was identified through Access To Information. She did not respond to questions.
Durette emailed the directive to five journalists regarding a Blacklock’s story published January 19 concerning drug decriminalization. The January 24 directive complained journalists were “talking about Health Canada and never contacted us.”
“Readers deserve accurate reporting,” it said. “A respectable reporter goes to the source for reporting.”
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