Three charged in Rabih Alkhalil's prison break, but was murderer's escape an inside job?

Did one of Canada's most dangerous criminals have help from BC Corrections employees when he walked out of North Fraser Pretrial Centre and disappeared…

Sep 15 • 

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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…

Sep 8 • 

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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…

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

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…

Aug 18 • 

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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…

Aug 4 • 

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July 2025

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…

Jul 21 • 

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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…

Jul 8 • 

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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

Jul 3 • 

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June 2025

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…

Jun 23 • 

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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…

Jun 9 • 

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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

Jun 2 • 

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May 2025

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…

May 26 • 

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