Tag: drugs
OFA sends government messages about threatened American tariffs
Doug Ford was a no show at the OFA AGM due to security issues
Woman, 63, arrested three times this year gets $40K bail
A Sarnia woman facing charges linked to two separate drug busts and the discovery of cash in a storage locker while she was in jail has been granted $40,000 bail.
London police chief urged to ‘set record straight’ on safe supply programs
The jump in opioid pills hitting London’s streets started when several pharmacies began dispensing them, the health unit says, a finding that suggests federal Conservatives and other critics targeting the older Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) program are missing the mark. “There was a notable increase in hydromorphone prescribing from 2023 onward. There was not a […]
Grey-Bruce’s 25th opioid alert of 2024 issued; another fatality reported
Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an opioid alert for the 25th time in 2024 after, over a recent 24-hour period, there were three suspected drug poisonings, including one fatality. The local health unit issued the alert to its community partners and people who use unregulated substances on Tuesday after receiving notification of the suspected […]
Prison for drug dealer caught with fentanyl in restaurant drive-thru
A Southwestern Ontario drug dealer has been sent to prison for the second time in three years after being caught with fentanyl while at a Simcoe fast-food joint’s drive-thru.
Five Londoners charged in crackdown on Hamilton street gang
Five Londoners are among two dozen people charged amid a crackdown on a Hamilton street gang linked to shootings across southern Ontario, police say.
Biker claims he’s a changed man. Judge unmoved, sends him to prison
Big Red didnât get a second chance.
Boyfriend of slain London nurse granted bail on gun, drug charges
The boyfriend of a London nurse who was gunned down in the coupleâs driveway two years ago was granted bail Monday following his latest arrest on gun and drug charges.
Drug dealer sent to prison as judge laments ‘soul-destroying’ fentanyl
A drug dealer with a years-long record of relatively small crimes found that trafficking in fentanyl was a âwhole new ballgame,â according to a judge.
One year in, signs of promise and progress at London’s ‘House of Hope’
Statistics from the first year suggest that highly supportive housing changes the lives of even the most troubled people living on London’s streets and make the streets themselves safer for everyone.