Law Enforcement

York Regional Police say they have shut down a makeshift store in Markham where alcohol and cannabis products were being sold illegally inside a commercial unit. Police say in November 2019, officers began investigating the “illegal store,” located inside a commercial unit on Royal Crest Court. “As the investigation progressed, …

Police seized about $320,000 worth of items during a search, including approximately 9.2 kilograms of illicit cannabis, three vehicles, and cash. Police have arrested a 37-year-old Burnaby man in relation to a Port Moody police illicit cannabis investigation. Last summer, Port Moody police announced they had busted a “sophisticated illegal …

Four men and a woman are facing multiple charges after a series of police raids in Spryfield that netted illegal drugs and guns. Police seized over a kilo of hash, ammunition for a handgun, more than 160 grams of cocaine, about 100 methamphetamine pills, more than 100 grams of powdered …

Abbotsford Police Major Crime detectives were able to speak to a few witnesses who remained at the scene. Abbotsford Police are asking for information that may further an investigation into a robbery that took place at an unlicensed cannabis dispensary. According to a release, a man wearing a mask entered …

“The people are dumbfounded. When I tell them there’s really not a lot I can do, they’re shocked.” A new policy in place at entry points into the U.S. borders on the absurd. The guidance, reportedly provided to border supervisors for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), lists legal cannabis …

Fine follows provincial crackdown on popular dispensary. The director of a popular Island-based marijuana dispensary received a $1.5-million fine months after the dispensaries were shut down by the province. Near the end of January, Alex Robb, director and general manager of Trees Cannabis, was fined $1.5 million for the sale …

Cannabis edibles not being regulated in Bonnyville Cannabis edibles, extracts, and topicals won’t be governed the same way as smoking marijuana in the Town of Bonnyville. Council defeated a motion to create a bylaw that would prohibit cannabis-infused products in public spaces, similarly to the consumption rules for smoking. The …

An Edmonton man who doctors say was in a cannabis-induced psychosis when he killed his mother has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. Jason Glenn Dickout pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of 53-year-old Kathy Dickout in 2017. Because of time he has already …

Dr. Mishack Zwane admitted to charges of unprofessional conduct laid by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. A Humboldt doctor has been ordered to pay nearly $24,000 after prescribing cannabis to nearly 1,000 patients over six weeks in 2017 while working in Saskatoon. Dr. Mishack Zwane admitted to …

A federal border agent, fired after trying to pick up a package of hashish at a post office, has been reinstated by the public sector labour relations board and awarded 17 months of back pay. Danielle Campeau, a border services officer based at the airport in Sept-Îles, Quebec, twice went …