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From Dec. 16, 2024, until May 16, 2025, Interpol led an operation across 90 countries, Operation Pangea XVII, that resulted in the seizure of 50.4 million doses of illicit pharmaceuticals worth more than $88 million, with 769 suspects arrested and 123 criminal groups dismantled worldwide, the largest seizures and arrests in the organization’s history.

“Fake and unapproved medications are a serious risk to public health. They can include dangerous or illegal ingredients potentially resulting in severe illness, or even death,” said David Caunter, director pro tempore of organized and emerging crime at Interpol.

In Canada’s case, Health Canada inspected 19,193 packages coming into the country, stopping 7,096 from entering and seizing another 539 at the border suspected of containing counterfeit or otherwise unauthorized health products worth an estimated $378,000.

About 69 per cent of the seized products were sexual enhancement medications, and another 10 per cent were supplements, including herbal and dietary forms.

About four per cent were veterinary and antiparasitic drugs, two per cent were hormones, two per cent were antibiotics and one per cent were weight loss drugs.

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will try to hit its climate change targets by 2030, despite internal documents suggesting the province is not on track to meet the emissions reduction goals.

Ford was responding to a report from CBC News that shows the province is projected to miss a key climate change target by three megatonnes of emissions in 2030. The premier said Ontario is working hard to hit the mark and committing to nuclear energy as a way to help green the province's electricity grid.

"Our goal is always to hit 100 per cent and we'll do it as quickly as possible," Ford said on Friday. "That's our goal, and that's what we're going to do. We're going to do our very best to achieve it."

Their demands:

• Eliminating the oil and gas emissions cap
• Repealing or Overhauling Environmental Impact Assessment when it comes to natural ressources (mines, pipelines, fracking).
• Getting rid of clean electricity regulations
• Abandoning the electric vehicles mandate
• Lifting the oil tanker ban off the pacific coast
• Stop regulations preventing commercial free speech (“greenwashing”)
• Repeal any federal regulation against plastics

Source: https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2025/june/18/united-in-call-for-change-joint-statement

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47246359

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For decades, successive conservative governments in Alberta have promised that technology will address the massive environmental threat posed by toxic oilsands mine wastewater stored in tailings ponds near Fort McMurray, now so large they are more than twice the size of Vancouver.

On June 12, Alberta’s Environment Ministry released a report by its government-appointed Oilsands Mine Water Steering Committee. One of the committee’s five major policy recommendations was to consider allowing companies to inject untreated wastewater deep underground, “once all other options have been fully explored.”

This recommendation would have come as no surprise to Calgary-based Aqua Solutions Inc. The oilsands infrastructure company wants to use its deep-well injection technology to store billions of litres of mine wastewater underground.

Nor would it surprise environmentalists, academics and others who have long complained about the intertwined, conflict-laden relationship between the oilsands industry and the Alberta government.

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It has been an absolute pleasure and honor to be able to spend the last three months up here! Truly wonderful country.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

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Also, games made by Canadian game devs https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45548675-Canadian-Games-Devs

Today in addition to Canada Day is also Inundation Day, where a controlled explosion destroyed the homes of 12 communities along the St Lawrence Seaway in 1958. The villages disappeared into St Lawrence Lake. This project captures stories of survivors and has aerial photos of what remains.

I came across this Bill C-2 just browsing YouTube. I thought it was for another country but this is for Canada. It enables warrantless search and it's up to the business/organization to fight the request of information on our behalf. I don't think Amazon/Bell/Google will put out a fight before they hand over our informations.