This week’s question: The Ontario government announced last week in its budget that it will provide free prescription drugs to young people up to age 25.The medicines will be provided to everyone in that age group regardless of their income or their parents’ income. Should free prescriptions drugs be provided to low income people of […]
OTTAWA – Trinidad-born Dr. Hedy Fry, longtime Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre, is concerned about the slow response by her own federal government to the crisis of fentanyl, a potent opioid linked to more than 500 overdose deaths last year in British Colombia and Alberta alone. “I feel it’s something we need to be doing […]
Declaring that transnational organised crime such as arms and drug trafficking remains a “cancer” plaguing the Caribbean, a senior United States military official has said Jamaica remains a critical partner in coordinating the regional response to the crime. “We must combat and defeat transnational organised crime, which is a cancer that plagues our region,” deputy […]
