thePodcast: Canada's fentanyl czar at the crossroads of North America's drug crisis

June 29, 2025 00:41:26
thePodcast: Canada's fentanyl czar at the crossroads of North America's drug crisis
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thePodcast: Canada's fentanyl czar at the crossroads of North America's drug crisis

Jun 29 2025 | 00:41:26

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Show Notes

For the week of June 29, 2025: thePodcast before Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day explores two urgent cross-border security issues.  Hear Canada’s fentanyl czar, Kevin Brosseau, deliver the keynote speech to the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute’s 2025 Asset Recovery conference. The former senior RCMP officer outlines the most-important assignment of his career.  Alan Mullen, who was chief of staff to the B.C. legislature’s 2017-2020 speaker Darryl Plecas, reflects on his meeting with the late Melissa Hortman. Mullen said Canadian authorities must do more to combat political violence after the June 14 assassination of the Minnesota legislature’s ex-speaker. As usual, Pacific […]

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