Police warn of new and dangerous drug on the street

Police are warning of a growing drug problem that they say is spreading across Canada. Officers recently raided a hotel in the city’s west end and seized 1,477 doses of carfentanil, a synthetic drug 100 times more powerful than fentanyl. Deputy police Chief Danny Smyth says Winnipeg is seeing problems similar to cities such as Vancouver and Calgary, where larger doses of the drug have been seized. Carfentanil was developed to sedate large animals, such as elephants.