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Michael Jackson’s doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter
Dr. Conrad Murray has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s 2009 death. A seven-man, five-woman jury in Los Angeles deliberated for less than nine hours before coming up...
View ArticleDrug overdose reported at Occupy Toronto site
A man was rushed to hospital after he suffered a reported drug overdose Tuesday at Occupy Toronto’s home base at a downtown park. The incident happened after a 23-year-old woman was found dead at the...
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Tributes pour in for late singer Whitney Houston
Singer Whitney Houston’s daughter was one of the first to find out about her mother’s untimely death. According to People magazine, 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina was in the lobby of Beverly Hills Hilton...
View ArticleJennifer Hudson to honour Whitney Houston at Grammys
Singer Jennifer Hudson will pay tribute to Whitney Houston at the Grammy Awards Sunday night. Houston, who has won six Grammy Awards, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 48. Hudson, who had her...
View ArticleWhitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ climbs to top of iTunes
Whitney Houston’s trademark song I Will Always Love You has shot to the top of the iTunes singles chart in the wake of the singer’s death. Meanwhile, Houston’s Greatest Hits album was No. 2 on the...
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Whitney Houston died of prescription drugs mixed with alcohol: report
There won’t be any official word on the cause of Whitney Houston’s death until results of a toxicology report are revealed in four to six weeks, but TMZ is reporting that the singer died from a...
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Whitney Houston to be laid to rest Saturday
Whitney Houston will be laid to rest on Saturday in a service at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Houston, whose vocal power and range produced some of the most memorable music of...
View Article50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death marked at L.A. ceremony
Actress Marilyn Monroe remains one of the best-recognized movie stars in the world. The blonde bombshell was remembered by fans, friends and family on the 50th anniversary of her untimely passing on...
View ArticleThe Inside Story: Mother documents son’s accidental overdose
After her son Austin accidentally overdosed on opiates and ended up in a coma Christine Padaric turned to the internet to document the rest of her son’s life. She said she wanted her son’s friends to...
View ArticleFans hold candlelight vigil for ‘Glee’ star Cory Monteith
Candles flickered in the late evening twilight and songs, including Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing and even Canada’s national anthem, filled the air outside a downtown Vancouver hotel as fans paid...
View ArticleFentanyl-laced heroin suspected in 4 fatal overdoses in 2 days
A woman found dead in a Regent Park stairwell on Saturday afternoon appears to be the fourth person to die of an overdose in the downtown area over the past two days. Police believe a batch of heroin...
View ArticleConstruction begins on 1 of 3 Toronto safe injection sites
Construction on one of three safe injection sites in Toronto began on Tuesday. The site is located inside the Toronto Public Health building on Victoria Street at Dundas Street. The other two sites...
View ArticleSuspected opioid use in Sarnia leaves 1 dead, 2 in hospital
Police in Sarnia, Ont., have issued a public safety notice after one person died and two others were taken to hospital on Wednesday evening due to suspected drug overdoses. Police say the drug involved...
View ArticleToronto trying to open interim injection sites by end of week: councillor
Officials in Toronto are trying to partially open three safe injection sites months earlier than anticipated, due to a rise in overdoses and deaths. Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of...
View ArticleDoctors must help remedy opioid crisis in Canada, CMA meeting told
Canada’s opioid epidemic isn’t a single crisis but a complex set of overlapping crises that will take multiple strategies to solve, a panel of experts told the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical...
View Article2 Innisfil men charged with manslaughter in overdose death
Two Innisfil, Ont., men are now charged with manslaughter in an overdose death from earlier this year. South Simcoe Police say the 23-year-old victim, also from Innisfil, died in early April after...
View ArticleOntario to set up an opioid emergency task force
Ontario is establishing an opioid emergency task force to provide advice on how to combat the growing overdose crisis. The provincial government says the task force will include front-line workers in...
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EXCLUSIVE: Fentanyl goes missing from Ontario hospitals at alarming rate
From single patches, to vials to entire cartons, fentanyl is going missing from hospitals across Canada, and nowhere is this happening more than in Ontario. As the Ontario government launches an...
View ArticleToronto police drug squad officer dies of fentanyl overdose
Several drug cases due in court may be in question after a Toronto drug squad officer died of a fentanyl overdose. In a statement, acting police chief Jim Ramer said Const. Michael Thompson was found...
View ArticleCould officer’s overdose death lead to random drug testing for police?
The Toronto Police Service says random drug testing of officers is among several possible initiatives currently being discussed after a drug squad officer died of a fentanyl overdose. With questions...
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