{"id":256070,"date":"2025-11-02T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:26:11","slug":"police-across-canada-warn-parents-after-morphine-staples-needles-found-in-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256070\/","title":{"rendered":"Police across Canada warn parents after morphine, staples, needles found in candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Police across Canada are urging parents to carefully inspect their children\u2019s Halloween candy after separate reports of suspicious items found in treats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761814748_447_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police in Ontario, B.C and Saskatchewan are urging parents to carefully inspect their children\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/halloween\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a> candy after separate reports of suspicious items found in treats.<\/p>\n<p>In Mattawa, Ont., the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/opp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OPP<\/a> says a family on Chenier Road discovered a chip bag that appeared to have been cut open and resealed. Preliminary tests indicated the presence of a suspected opioid, believed to be morphine.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761854947_61_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are investigating but say no other similar reports in the area have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Saskatchewan, police received a report from a parent who found a thin piece of metal, similar to a needle, inside a chocolate bar.<\/p>\n<p>The candy was collected while trick-or-treating in Regina, in the Greens on Gardiner neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to a release, in B.C, the Surrey Police Service and RCMP Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit are investigating a report of a metal staple found inside a Reese\u2019s Buttercup Halloween candy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11506409\/cfl-suspends-shawn-oakman\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/47735463ee70f295204d4e624081c322633ab53f0dbe9d1673eb987a372076f8.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCFL suspends Alouettes\u2019 Oakman \u2018indefinitely\u2019 for policy breach\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11506376\/carney-china-president-xi-meeting\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/77b47f2d841ed2c61ec2fa92d24576363ef9bce7a86ca779bfdc08faf955553b.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCarney says China doesn\u2019t grasp Canada\u2019s concern over issues of foreign interference\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children were trick-or-treating in the Clayton Heights area near 188 Street to 190 Street and 72 Avenue to 70 Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>As a precaution, the OPP recommends that parents and guardians inspect all Halloween treats.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of tampering include tears, holes, or irregularities in candy wrappers, signs of re-sealing or altered packaging, and any items that appear suspicious, even if unopened.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in both provinces are reminding parents and guardians to remain vigilant and report anything unusual to local police immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police across Canada are urging parents to carefully inspect their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,43790,44,29679],"class_list":["post-256070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-halloween","tag-news","tag-opp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}