Tag: drugs
Ex-Woodstock mayor to be retried on assault, sex assault counts
Trevor Birtch will head back to trial on only two of his three original charges related to his successful mistrial application.
Arrests made after high-value scotch snatched in Thornbury
Two suspects were arrested at the Blue Mountain ski hills after fleeing from police following the theft of liquor from the LCBO store in Thornbury. Just before noon on Sunday, officers from the Collingwood and the Blue Mountains OPP responded to a theft in progress, where two men entered the store and took numerous bottles […]
Baranyai: Politicians abandon evidence for ideology
We put our faith in evidence-based practices, because there’s a body of data supporting improved outcomes.
Woman pleads guilty to fatally stabbing boyfriend during fight while high
Christine Bishop and Terry Albert’s relationship was described as “tumultuous.” The couple didn’t share any children, but both were addicted to drugs, including fentanyl, the powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the main drug implicated in the ongoing opioid drug crisis. Both of them were […]
SIMS: The U.S. complains about our fentanyl. What about their handguns?
These are examples of cases that have become way too common in the local courts. A 31-year-old man was acquitted Wednesday in a London courtroom after a trial on a charge of pointing a handgun at another man during an argument along the Richmond Row bar strip, largely because the evidence from witnesses at the […]