Disinformation

In the Globe & Mail:

Police raids on two downtown Toronto addresses Sunday, including an apartment on trendy Yorkville Avenue, led to the seizure of eight firearms along with a giant haul of drugs that may have included a quantity of the synthetic drug known as "bath salts."  If so, it would be one of the first Canadian seizures of the drug, which drew bizarre headlines last month when a man allegedly high on it was arrested in Miami and charged after eating a portion of another man's face.

Um, no.  The Miami zombie was shot twelve times and died at the scene.  He was not "arrested".  I'm glad that they used the word "allegedly", because there has never been any evidence connecting the Miami assault to any of the three street drugs—it was just some cop's wild guess, which the media picked up because "there has to be *some* explanation".  Note that the police aren't even saying that there was *any* MPDV found in those raids, so this entire article has no foundation and is just trying to keep the Miami zombie attack in people's minds to prevent the fear from wearing off.

Here are the "related stories" provided by the G&M for this article:

• Face-eating stories trigger questions about mysterious ‘bath salts’ drug
• Tories seek ban on ‘bath salts’ drug after grisly U.S. face-eating attack
• These zombies are really scary

Well, you've got to hand it to the Tories: they are masters of fear-mongering.  And the G&M are masters of sucking up to the politicians—whoever happens to be in power today.