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☆ Robert Pickton: Canadian serial killer dies aged 74 after prison assault
  + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton - who was convicted of killing six women and confessed to killing dozens more - died after being attacked earlier this month by another inmate, prison authorities said. Pickton is one of the most notorious serial killers in Canadian history, bringing his victims to his pig farm and feeding their remains to his animals. Pickton had been operating a pig farm in the nearby city of Port Coquitlam, where police found the remains of 33 women. However, Pickton confessed to murdering 49 women when talking to an undercover police officer in a jail cell. The case became the largest serial killer investigation in Canada’s history and Pickton’s pig farm became the largest crime scene in Canadian history, with investigators taking 200,000 DNA samples.
Persons: Robert Pickton, Pickton, Pickton’s, “, Cynthia Cardinal, Georgina Papin, Michele Pineault, Stephanie Lane, ” Organizations: CNN, Cartier, Correctional Service Canada, CSC, Canadian, Globe Locations: Canadian, Canada’s Quebec, Downtown Eastside, British Colombia, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
☆ Analysis: Canada's decriminalization experiment no match for toxic drug supply
  + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Anna Mehler Paperny | Thomson Reuters | Toronto-Based Correspondent Covering Among Other Topics Migration | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
In part due to disruptions in supply stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, street drugs are increasingly laced with toxic or unknown ingredients, resulting in drug users overdosing and dying. Police in British Columbia file thousands of drug possession charges annually. Canada faced the challenge of an adulterated illicit drug supply before the United States did and has been quicker to adopt harm reduction tools to address drug overdose cases, said Lindsey Richardson, a research scientist at the B.C. Some of them still buy street drugs. 's latest plan is of no help to him because he runs the risk of taking something deadly each time he buys street drugs.
☆ Canadian province tries decriminalizing drugs to fight overdose crisis
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Jennifer Gauthier | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The province declared drug overdose a public health emergency that year. By not prosecuting people carrying small amounts of drugs, the B.C. government hopes to tackle the issue as a health problem rather than through the criminal justice system. Robert Schwartz, a professor at the University of Toronto, said the measure was commendable as a first step, but that more needed to be done to tackle the drug problem. They also face a rise in drug overdose deaths.
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