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  "id": 10259879,
  "title": "What Canada's wastewater reveals about drug use in 8 cities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/what-canadas-wastewater-reveals-about-drug-use-in-8-cities-10259879",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wastewater-drug-use-by-city-canada-9.7357584"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "New StatCan data shows sharply different drug-use patterns across eight Canadian cities, with methamphetamine elevated in parts of the Prairies and Moncton, cocaine comparatively high in Halifax and fentanyl highest in Metro Vancouver.",
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        "title": "What Canada's wastewater reveals about drug use in 8 cities",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}