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Single, white, murderer: Behind Canadian Inmates Connect

Single, white, murderer: Behind Canadian Inmates Connect

by Anna James | Feb 9, 2017 | Lifestyle, Sports | Lifestyle

It reads like a standard dating site profile: “I’m 32 years old, tall and fit (6’2″, 215lbs), SWM, seeking exciting adventurous attractive female pen pal who likes to write,” writes Brian Dickson. Now Google him. Dickson is currently serving a life...
Single, white, murderer: Behind Canadian Inmates Connect

The opioid gamble: How fentanyl became B.C.’s leading health crisis

by Anna James | Jan 26, 2017 | Features, Stories

It’s up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and contributed to 60 per cent of illicit drug deaths in B.C. last year. But why is fentanyl really dangerous? In the second season of A&E’s Intervention Canada, we met Aimee Parry, a 26-year-old blue-eyed bookworm...
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