Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry News
Carfentanil
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...
Issues With The Use of Drug Sniffing Dogs at AVCO
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...
Trucking Industry Weighs in on Marijuana
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...
Canada and Global Drug Policy
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...
Court of Appeal Rules in Favour of Suncor
The legal battle over random drug testing in its northeastern Alberta oilsands facilities has ended for Suncor Energy, with a ruling in favour of the company. Since 2012, when Suncor began randomly testing its safety-sensitive employees for drug and alcohol workplace...
Toronto Transit Commission Receives Award for their Drug Testing Programme
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...
Fentanyl Update: Vancouver
On August 21st of this year, drug overdoses in Vancouver surpassed the number of overdoses recorded throughout the city in all of 2016. Largely the result of fentanyl, a potentially fatal opiate, these deaths have prompted Vancouver Coastal Health to open more...
Cannabis 101 – The Mystery of Marijuana
Cannabis, Marijuana, Marihuana, THC, Cannabidiol What’s the deal with all these different substances? We will explore all of these in an upcoming series of articles. Before the 1930’s the plant was known simply as cannabis, a genus of flowering plant in the family...
TTC Employees to be Reinstated After Completing a Return-to-work Programme
If on the job impairment results from legitimate addiction, employees of the TTC could be given a second chance. On May 8th 2017, the TTC implemented a controversial random drug and alcohol testing policy after Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court Frank...