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Article content A group of mothers advocating for change after loved ones have died in Alberta’s opioid crisis — 72 deaths in Edmonton in the first two months of 2021 alone — have launched an online campaign to share memories of the lives lost. Over 1,300 people died from drug overdoses in Alberta last year, the highest number since 2016 and nearly double the 623 deaths in 2019. The first two months of 2021 has seen 238 fatalities in Alberta, shows online provincial government data. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Victims of opioid crisi...

Green Party Pressing NDP for Faster Roll-out of Safer Supply SHARE ON: Photograph by Matthew T. Rader The BC Green party is pushing the provincial government to move more quickly on providing a safer supply of drugs to people addicted to illicit substances. BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau and fellow MLA Adam Olsen questioned Mental Health and Addictions Minister Sheila Malcolmson Wednesday in the legislature about the slow progress in creating a safer supply. Furstenau, the MLA for Cowichan Valley, says a safe supply is urgently needed in light of the high number of fatal drug over...

Canada may decriminalise heroin, cocaine and all other hard drugs after suffering record overdose deaths Updated: 1 Feb 2021, 11:55 CANADA is considering decriminalising heroin, cocaine and all other hard drugs after a record year for overdose deaths, a government official has announced. The country's drug overdose death rate for the first half of 2020 - 14.6 per 100,000 people - was the highest since records began in 2016. 4 4 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing pressure to rein in the spiraling drug overdosesCredit: AP:Associated Press Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing pressure to...

Iliajah Pidskalny is turning winter biking into frost-tipped philanthropy.