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It’s time to strap on the skis and snowboards again.
Three ski hills opened around the province on the weekend. Poley Mountain in Sussex, Crabbe Mountain in Central Hainesville and Mont Farlagne in Saint-Jacques are ready to go. Sugarloaf Park in Atholville still has to ope3n.
Ottawa plans to make it easier to set up supervised drug injection sites. At the same time, it’s cracking down on illegal shipments of fentanyl and restricting the importation of equipment used to make pills and capsules.
Health Minister Jane Philpott says this is a public-health approach to the drug control strategy. She says the deadly opioid and fentanyl crisis is a national problem, although it’s especially bad out west.