How BC’s Fentanyl Crisis Became A Public-Health Emergency

In the summer of 2012, a forensic toxicologist from the B.C. Coroner's Service examined a blood sample to help determine the cause of death in a case that pointed to a drug overdose. He was asked to look for lethal levels of OxyContin, but he made a surprising find: The culprit was fentanyl, which at that time was not known as a street drug in Canada.

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‘You Need To Clean This Up’ Snoop Dogg Not Impressed With Vancouver’s DTES – BC

Rapper Snoop Dogg was in Vancouver over the weekend and used his Instagram account to voice some of his frustrations with the city.

In a video posted to his Instagram account, Snoop appears to be in a car driving in the Downtown Eastside, talking about how he was “hassled” at the border when entering Canada.

He seemed baffled by the fact that he gets questioned at the border when the Vancouver has “an alley where they pass out needles to do heroin at.”

He then proceeds to say “y’all need to raise up off me Canada.”

He ends his video with “this is terrible.”

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