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Just a cog in the opioid suppy chain, courier Jason Conrad was carrying 15.6 kilograms of high-purity fentanyl worth millions
Drug courier Jason Conrad had 15.6 kilograms of fentanyl in his Tesla, three cell phones and a taser baton. His guilty plea drew a curtain of silence…
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The criminal career of lawyer Martin Chambers, godfather of BC's lawyers gone bad
Chambers 'toiled for decades in the city's underworld as a financial facilitator for the Hells Angels, Russian mobsters and myriad other people who…
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Terry Hui's challenge: to deliver at last on the long-awaited promise of BC's biggest land sale
He's twenty years later than expected and still has to make a final payment for the land, but Concord Pacific's owner finally seems ready to fix a hole…
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Trafficking charges against Drug Users Liberation Front founders lay bare contradictions in drug policy
Harm reduction under fire: an illicit drug "compassion club" is shut down while dispensaries selling controlled pyschedelics operate with city business…
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Eby's reversal on decriminalization signals a new stage in BC's toxic drug crisis
The broad consensus on harm reduction has hit a wall with a public demand for more far-reaching answers to addiction, treatment, and effective…
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RCMP struggles against tide of illegal firearms, including assault rifles, machine guns and grenades
Handguns are the weapon of choice for street level crime, but why the apparent increase in much heavier weapons? You'll have to ask the criminals, says…
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Sointula mourns Danni Tribe, the mariner who ferried high schoolers across Johnstone Strait for 21 years
'The kids are the excitement and the fun,' said Tribe, who was responsible for the community's most precious cargo
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In the Hells Angels' world, Ricky Ciarniello was equivalent to a top CEO or government minister
Perhaps the last surviving founding member of BC's Hells Angels, Ciarniello was at the top of the organization as it grew into one of the richest and…
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Have harm reduction advocates learned from their recent defeats?
Nearly ten years after BC's opioid emergency declaration, prospects for an effective response have never seemed bleaker. A US expert argues that feuding…
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With harm reduction in retreat, should enforcement focus on top drug suppliers?
An American drug policy expert with BC experience proposes new enforcement strategies in the battle against the massive supply of synthetic opioids
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How Trump's new 'war on drugs' could make everything much worse
Repression of the drug trade always fails, in part because so many profit from it in the legal economy, but increased violence in Mexico has already had…
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Americans demand Canada crack down on "narco-terrorist" drug networks to match sweeping enforcement in Mexico and US
The single arrest in RCMP's Falkland superlab bust last October underlines flaws in Canada's judicial rules that hobble enforcement, but Mark Carney's…
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