Nearly 4,000 Canadians died from opioid overdoses in 2017, according to new data released Tuesday by the federal government’s special advisory committee on opioid overdoses. This is an increase of 34 per cent from the year before and in line with predictions from last winter. Most of these deaths were accidental, and the vast majority involved fentanyl or fentanyl analogues — 72 per cent. Non-opioid drugs were also involved in about 71 per cent of accidental opioid overdose deaths, according to information from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Guest: Jordan Westfall - President, Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs

Ethicists all over America are petitioning the government about the separation of families on the southern border

Guest: Dr. Arthur Caplan - Head of Biomedical Ethics at New York University

The Senate has voted to accept the latest version of the government’s long-debated legal marijuana legislation, paving the way for the bill to pass into Canadian law.

The Senate voted 52-29 to approve the government’s newest version of Bill C-45 on Tuesday evening.

Bill C-45 now moves to royal assent, the final step in the legislative process. That could occur within days at the government’s discretion. The government’s desire to see home grown marijuana permitted across Canada eventually prevailed, and a proposal from the Senate to allow provinces and territories to ban them has been stripped from the final bill.

Guest: Jodie Emery - Cannabis Activist

Checking in with Rob Breakenridge

Guest: Rob Breakenridge - Host, 770 CHQR

Activists disrupt Kirstjen Nielsen’s dinner tonight at a Mexican restaurant and chant “Shame! Shame!” until she leaves.

Today on Fox News, they were having a discussion about a child with down syndrome being taken away from her mother.

NDP MP Jenny Kwan said on Thursday during Question Period that if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t stand up to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, then Canada is complicit to those values.

From cross-border travel to consumer products, Canadians are the biggest buyers of U.S. goods in the world.

Parents in Kansas were given a US$132,000 bill after their five-year-old son knocked over an art sculpture that was on display at a community centre.

Rebeka Breder is one of the first lawyers in Canada to make animal law her specialty—and as founder of the Canadian Bar Association’s B.C. animal law section and a teacher of UBC’s first-ever course in animal law, Breder is uniquely prepared to fight for our furry friends.

Guest: Rebeka Breder - Animal rights lawyer

An Edmonton man says he got a huge surprise when he found out that someone had found his message in a bottle after it spent over two years at sea.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified compulsive video game playing as a mental health condition.

The Humboldt Broncos will be in Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon for a special announcement with the National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association.