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B.C. votes on Saturday after campaign that saw David Eby's New Democrats and John Rustad's BC Conservatives tangle over housing, health care and the overdose crisis.

Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith said the province is seeing too many deaths from drug poisoning — 171 between January and April of this year alone.

While families remember loved ones lost to toxic drug overdoses, they question whether the province's new health agency called Recovery Alberta will be the change that is needed.

Justin Surette was just 21 when he died from an accidental overdose. Now, his mother and brother have put his story into video, with the message that 'no family is immune.'

Fourteen recommendations were directed at RCMP during coroner's inquests meant to improve how the organization responded to the mass casualty event.

A vast 'financial underworld' is operating in Canada whose members commit fraud and other financial crimes without punishment, the authors of a new book say.

The province made headlines around the world throughout the year for a variety of reasons, including whacky wildlife, crime, disaster, and more.

At least three provinces have reported an increase in calls to poison control related to semaglutide and liraglutide drugs, diabetes medication also used for weight-loss.

Internal documents obtained through freedom-of-information legislation now show the municipality wanted very few people in the loop on when the decampment would begin.

Jane is not the first current or former employee of Atira to raise serious health and safety concerns in the wake of a scathing audit that serious uncovered mismanagement issues.

The city froze all funding to Atira in May, in the wake of a damning audit that found a conflict of interest between its former CEO and her husband who headed BC Housing.

Organizations like Moms Stop the Harm advocate for harm reduction strategies while the provincial government focuses on a treatment-first approach.

In 2022, the province had 337 confirmed overdose deaths according to the coroner’s office.

Thursday marks International Overdose Awareness Day, a worldwide campaign to end overdoses, stigmas and remember those who have passed away.

Unregulated drug toxicity is the leading cause of death in B.C. for people between 10 and 59. Six months into decriminalization, has any progress been made?

Montreal's public health department released its latest numbers, which showed that 175 people died of suspected drug overdoses in the last year.

According to Statistics Canada, there were more than 7,300 opioid-related deaths in the country last year alone — double what we saw just a few years ago.

Experts say the growth of homeless encampments in Ontario wasn't caused by the pandemic, but COVID did accelerate already existing trends.

"There shouldn't be shame or stigma associated with an accidental drug poisoning. People don't intentionally try to take their own lives." 

“At a time when we're seeing record numbers of overdose deaths in Canada, this is a time we need to be expanding and scaling up our supervised consumption and harm reduction services."