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Montreal police chief to address racism and misconduct allegations at public meeting

Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher is set to address city officials and take questions from the public as he provides an update on a scandal at a station in a multicultural neighbourhood in the northern part of the city. Police announced in June that they had dismantled a 16-member patrol unit at the Montreal-Nord station […]

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Five things to know Montreal police chief’s video message about racism allegations

Local residents in a multicultural neighbourhood in Montreal may not be the only ones looking for answers about a scandal at their local police station. The police have shared little public information about the investigation since June 12, when Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher announced police had disbanded a 16-member patrol unit in Montréal-Nord over […]

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Brutality, racism allegations deepen trust gap after years of complaints in Montreal

Frantz Jean-Jacques remembers feeling hopeful after coming out of a meeting more than a decade ago with the commander of a police station in a multicultural neighbourhood of Montreal. Over a dozen local residents attended, including a number of young men who shared troubling stories about their own interactions with police. They came to denounce […]

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Quebec police ethics commissioner opens file into Montréal-Nord racism allegations

Quebec’s police ethics commissioner says it is looking into allegations of racism and discrimination by some officers in a multicultural Montreal neighbourhood.  In an email Wednesday, the commissioner said it began an investigation June 26 at the request of Public Security Minister Ian Lafrenière after Montreal police said it had disciplined officers over discriminatory behaviour.  […]

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Alberta education policy blocks child abuse prevention programs in schools

Alberta’s government has imposed a raft of changes on K-12 schools it says are needed to keep “ideology” and “pornography” out of classrooms. The new rules also appear to have blocked child abuse prevention programming and dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ anti-discrmination educators. Beginning in the 2025 school year, schools were required to have any instruction materials related […]

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How Many People Are ODing in BC Hospitals? It’s Still a Mystery

After a year of research, which included eight freedom of information requests, dozens of email chains and two appeals to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, The Tyee still doesn’t know how many British Columbians are overdosing in hospitals across the province. We’ve lost our final appeal with the OIPC, which means all […]

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Court documents allege link between Project South investigation, Ryan Wedding case

Newly released court documents are shedding more light on the alleged link between a sweeping police corruption probe in Ontario and the case of former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding, who is accused of running an international drug trafficking ring. Gurpreet Singh, accused by U.S. authorities of helping co-ordinate cocaine shipments for Wedding, was investigated for […]

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Edmonton addiction treatment and detox sites eyed for forced treatment program, document reveals

Alberta health authorities aim to have about 100 interim beds ready by this fall when legislation to force people with substance addictions into treatment comes into effect. Documents obtained by the IJF show this could include temporarily taking over beds in existing voluntary adult addiction treatment and detox facilities in Edmonton to make room for […]

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DEA asks watchdog to investigate claims that agents permitted fentanyl to hit the streets

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press. DEA […]

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Unearthing the truth about residential schools goes beyond digging up potential mass graves, experts say

On the fifth anniversary of the harrowing discovery of potential unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C., experts at a survivor-led organization say finding the truth isn’t as simple as digging up bodies.  Through ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation discovered 215 anomalies at the site of Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021. […]

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What a reporter found when uncovering why federal agents allowed a deadly drug to hit the streets

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jim Mustian reported and co-wrote an Associated Press story that revealed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to be distributed in New Mexico as part of an effort to build bigger federal prosecutions. Mustian, along with AP journalist Joshua Goodman, reviewed hundreds of internal DEA […]

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Former Calgary leaders opposing police request to keep phones seized in investigation

The lawyer for former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek is arguing police have no reason to hold onto her phone any longer as they investigate her and others for municipal corruption. “An admission that there is no timeline, that there’s no capability, there’s not specific step plan for this phone within the year is the opposite […]

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