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More than 60 drug poisonings in the Kenora area in two days, and four alerts across northwestern Ontario in under a week...
09/18/2026

More than 60 drug poisonings in the Kenora area in two days, and four alerts across northwestern Ontario in under a week.

Testing found clodesnitazene in the supply, a synthetic opioid of unknown strength, alongside carfentanil and a veterinary tranquillizer. A separate alert in Thunder Bay involved a pill sold as OxyContin that turned out to contain something roughly 50 times stronger than fentanyl.

The line in all four alerts is the same. The name tells you nothing about what's actually in it.

The part worth acting on: naloxone is free at most pharmacies in Ontario and through public health units. No prescription needed, and you don't have to be the person who uses to carry one. If someone shows signs of an overdose, slowed or stopped breathing, unresponsiveness, blue or grey lips, call 911 first, give naloxone, and stay with them.

These substances arrived in northwestern Ontario from somewhere else and are already turning up in other parts of the province. Worth reading wherever you are.

Apple season, in a jar, for $1.62 per serving.Ten minutes of stirring the night before, and the fridge does the rest. Oa...
09/15/2026

Apple season, in a jar, for $1.62 per serving.

Ten minutes of stirring the night before, and the fridge does the rest. Oats, Greek yogurt, milk, a drizzle of maple, chia, cinnamon, and two Gala apples. One grated straight into the bowl, skin and all, so the juice goes into the oats instead of onto the cutting board. The second one is diced on top so it stays crunchy.

Four servings, keeps three or four days, and microwave for sixty seconds if you want it warm on a cold morning. Sunday batch covers most of the week.

Oats and chia are loaded with soluble fibre, the kind that keeps you full until lunch, and Health Canada backs the claim that oat fibre helps lower cholesterol. Steady start, not a sugar spike.

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Cottage pie for two dollars a serving, and the lentils were grown a couple of provinces over.This one swaps the ground b...
09/11/2026

Cottage pie for two dollars a serving, and the lentils were grown a couple of provinces over.

This one swaps the ground beef for Saskatchewan green lentils and browned mushrooms under a proper potato top. Six servings, about $2 each, on the table in 80 minutes. It keeps four days in the fridge and freezes for three months, so it's a Sunday cook that covers half the week.

Two things make it taste like the real thing. Brown the mushrooms hard and don't stir them while they look sad and wet, that's the water cooking off. And give the tomato paste a full minute alone in the pan before the broth goes in. It goes from bright red to brick, and that's where the savoury depth comes from.

Canada grows more lentils than anyone on earth and 90 percent of them come out of Saskatchewan. A bag of green lentils is one of the cheapest things in the store and one of the few staples that's actually local.

Plant protein, fibre, iron, and it tastes better on day two.

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A Saskatchewan lentil cottage pie with mushrooms under a potato top. Six servings at about two dollars each, ready in 80 minutes, and it freezes well.

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