U.S. President Donald Trump seems to delight in chaos and disruption. Is the threatened tariff war over border security? Drug smuggling? NATO spending? A precursor to trade negotiations? All, or none, of the above?
Yet, as with virtually every crisis, there is also opportunity. In this case, an opportunity for Canada to examine some of these issues and see if we can do better. Not to please Trump, but to ensure that the government is doing what it should to protect its citizens and the country.
“There are very deep concerns that Canada is being used by China in a very sophisticated economic and truly criminal way,” says Samuel Cooper, an investigative journalist and bestselling author of Willful Blindness. In this exclusive interview with Daniela Cambone, Cooper reveals the truth behind why President Donald Trump targets Canada in his recent tariff rhetoric. He explains that it’s not a tactic to get Canada to renegotiate the trade deal with the U.S., but rather to curb the massive illegal fentanyl trade originating from Canada. “China ships the precursors to the West Coast of Mexico and the West Coast of Canada… so Vancouver is used as a hub for these precursors,” he says. He also details how elite Chinese politicians involve Canada in illegal money laundering, while Canadian politicians turn a blind eye to it. Watch this interview for this bombshell revelation!
h/t XC
A week after Doug Ford’s Ontario government passed legislation in early December ordering all supervised injection sites within 200 metres of schools and daycares to close, harm reduction activists did the expected and announced they were taking the province to court.
One of the sites being ordered to close in Toronto, the Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Site, held a press conference and introduced the lawyers who will argue on its behalf that the closure of these sites violates the charter rights of drug users.
Seven months after the Supreme Court struck down a deal that would have resolved thousands of opioid cases against Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, have increased their cash offer to settle the litigation — but with a novel catch.
Under the framework for a new deal, the Sacklers would not receive immunity from future opioid lawsuits, a condition that they had long insisted upon but that the court ruled was impermissible.
Mass murderers who will never see the inside of a jail cell.
Toronto’s bylaw officers will no longer crack down on cannabis stores that are operating illegally.
The head of Toronto’s licensing department, Carleton Grant, made it clear during Wednesday’s budget committee meeting that due to the lack of funding and dangers of dealing with criminal activity surrounding these storefronts, bylaw officers are “no longer effective” in stifling these shops from running.
In 2018, the city received just shy of $9 million in provincial funding, through the Ontario Cannabis Legalization implementation Fund (OCLIF), to crack down on dispensaries selling products to customers without a licence. In 2024, that funding ran out.
Welcome to Chowtown where criminals rule.
In October 2020, British Columbia police raided three agricultural properties, targeting Health Canada–regulated marijuana grow operations in Richmond—a once blue-collar farming community that, since the 1990s, has rapidly transformed into a hotbed of transnational narcotics trafficking and money laundering linked to China, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Thousands of U.S. and Canadian records reviewed by The Bureau reveal that Delta Police’s “Big Smoke” raids barely scratched the surface of a corporate structure unfurling from a façade of Hells Angels paraphernalia and Health Canada weed licenses. The investigation suggests an unsettling reality: in modern-day Canada, the boundary between legitimate commerce and organized crime is perilously hazy—especially when political and legal elites, alongside a national regulator, appear complicit.
Everything got worse under Trudeau.
In her professional capacity, Khalila Mohammed was a community harm-reduction health worker. But in her personal life, she was an agent of profound harm and an accessory to manslaughter.
One foolish decision on top of another, one not-so-impetuous act of aiding and abetting on top of another. One lie on top of another, spinning a web of deceit.
‘Painkiller’ does an impressive job of telling a dark and gripping story about a tragic chapter of modern American history.
The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and directed by Peter Berg, was released by Netflix in 2023. During the intervening 28 years, Purdue’s flagship product brought even greater riches to the company’s already rich president, Richard Sackler; brought relief to a good many patients suffering from severe pain that was otherwise untreatable; and brought tragedy to countless families as legitimate patients became addicts and then death statistics and as perfectly healthy people, many of them very young, began using the drug recreationally and, caught in the grip of its addictive power, ended up in morgues all over America.
I watched this flick. It was good. What amazes me is that while the Sacklers have been publicly shunned not one of them has been jailed.
The growth of illegal Canadian fentanyl production came into focus over the weekend after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reportedly gave Canadian government leaders a clear impression that the runaway drug problem is his top priority, even in Canada-U.S. relations.
Canada’s China class must be concerned.
A new Vancouver-based study suggests that many “safer supply” patients are diverting their taxpayer-funded opioids to the black market and are possibly being dishonest to researchers about defrauding the system . Worse yet, it appears that safer supply may not be as effective at separating addicts from street drugs as advocates claim, even though the entire point of the program, as described by Health Canada , is to provide “a safer alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply”
Canada may be one step closer to decriminalizing hard drugs as the majority of MPs voted in favor of a proposal recommending the move.
According to information published November 25 by Blacklock’s Reporter, MPs voted 210 to 117 in favor of a proposal recommending the decriminalizing of the simple possession of heroin, cocaine and all other illegal drugs across Canada. While the proposal is non-binding, it could point to how MPs would vote on a future bill seeking to augment the law.
The House of Commons by a 210-117 vote have endorsed a recommendation to decriminalize possession of heroin, cocaine and all other illegal drugs nationwide, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The result came with little comment during a flurry of Commons votes on committee reports on Friday.
Junkies and dealers vote too ya know.
Involuntary treatment (IT) for people with severe substance use disorder (addiction) is a hotly debated topic. There is skepticism that political expediency is suddenly driving elected officials to support IT when faced with a general public that has had enough of public disorder. But family caregivers have been advocating for a right to intervene for decades, and until now, their pleas have been ignored.
Two Canadians activists who illegally sold untainted hard drugs in an effort to reduce fatal overdoses have launched a legal challenge to federal drug laws.
Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, co-founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF), were charged in June with drug trafficking-related offences by police in Vancouver.
They had made headlines two years ago for offering pure cocaine, meth and heroin to drug users, saying they wanted to prevent deaths from a supply tainted with other substances.
#vancouverpolice ignore 3 Lifeless bodies while they are arresting someone else nothing unusual in #bcndp #harmreduction utopia #vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada #ndp #liberal #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/yWJ0wO05ak
— VancityNews1 (@VancityNews1) October 13, 2024
This August, Ontario’s Health Minister, Sylvia Jones, announced that the Ford government would close drug consumption sites within 200 metres of schools and childcare centres. In making the announcement, Jones explained, “Continuing to enable people to use drugs is not a pathway to treatment.”
