The bust was the end of a 10-month drug trafficking investigation into Lower Mainland criminals with ties to gang activity
First Nations Health Authority reports First Nations people killed at more than five times B.C. rate
The evidence was seized at large, illicit drug manufacturing site in Port Coquitlam
Powdered substances are being sold as fentanyl and may contain fentanyl and benzos
Pink fentanyl and purple down discovered, both may not be responsive to Naloxone
Overdose deaths, however, are down in the city
The high court has agreed to jointly hear the appeals of two men who received stiffer penalties
Just under half of the deaths occurred in Kelowna
Himpfen enters guilty plea to possession for the purpose of trafficking
16-year-old Elliot Eurchuk died of a fentanyl overdose in 2018
BCNU president wants the federal government to do more to reduce preventable deaths
Minister Mike Farnworth says federal law doesn’t go far enough
Cocaine, crystal meth, fentanyl-laced heroin seized, plus cash
Suspected dealers took BC ferry to Island; arrest made after weeks of investigation
The opioid was the cause of 81 per cent of the 876 deaths so far this year in the province
Kelly Mitchell Hanson Loepkky is charged with trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl
Penticton’s Pathways Addiction Resource Centre is now a Naloxone Training and Distribution Centre