With medical and recreational cannabis slated to become legal across Canada in July 2018, employers are now struggling with how they will regulate its use in the workplace. The reality being dealt with is that drug tests such as urinalysis and oral fluid swabs cannot...

Following an unprecedented number of overdose related deaths in North America in 2016, the so called Opioid Crisis, in a report published on Oct. 2nd, the Global Commission on Drug Policy is urging the USA and Canada to take an unconventional stance in its fight to...

What is it? Originally developed in 1974 and manufactured as Wildnil, a tranquilizer for large animals, carfentanil is a synthetic opioid produced from morphine. Not suitable or intended for human use, Carfentanil is 1,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times...

The workers’ union at Agrium Vanscoy Potash Operations (AVCO) in Saskatchewan claims that AVCO violated its employees’ fundamental right to privacy. As part of its drug and alcohol testing program and mandatory entry requirement, Saskatchewan based mining company AVCO...

As marijuana is set to be legalized in Canada by July 2018, and in spite of the employment laws and human rights legislation currently supported by the federal government and its proposed standards for legal marijuana use, Canada’s trucking industry is pushing for a...

Though the upcoming legalization of cannabis and the upsurge of community-led initiatives for safe injection sites throughout the country has put Canada at the centre of the global drug policy debate, Canada’s efforts only address the tip of the iceberg as its own...

In acknowledgement of the employee drug and alcohol policy it implemented on May 8th of this year, the TTC has been awarded the Ontario Safety League’s Award of Excellence for Public Safety. Ontario Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca presented the annual award...