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British Columbia's new health minister says she's aiming for more treatment beds and fewer deaths in a revamped approach to the province's drug overdose crisis.

Two deaths on the streets of Montreal have advocates calling attention to the overdose crisis and are also raising questions about the need for more resources in the community.

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.

Compulsory mental health and addictions care is being contemplated or expanded in several provinces as communities struggle to cope with a countrywide overdose crisis.

Marshall Smith has been held up as the architect of the ruling United Conservative Party's approach to the drug overdose crisis.

On Friday evening, Trudeau landed in Florida and travelled to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club for a hastily arranged dinner and discussion with president-elect.

A new group is behind a request to the province to work on an opioid treatment plan, which they hope would see a multi-ministry taskforce convened to coordinate a plan.

The $8-million youth treatment and recovery facility is a project spearheaded by the Bridge Youth and Family Services organization, and hopes to accommodate up to 40 youth.

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.

A social services agency that operates a supervised consumption site in Toronto has filed a legal challenge against recently passed legislation that will shut down several sites.

Ontario's auditor general was critical of the province's opioid addiction strategy, suggesting it was uncoordinated and didn't have proper processes in place.

The NDP leader asked Green voters on Sunday to consider what B.C. would be like if they woke up the day after the election and the Conservatives were going to form government.

Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg Chief Louis Kwissiwa is calling for policing and mental health help from the province and the federal government.

The head of London, Ont.’s supervised consumption site says a recent overdose there is a 'tragic loss' but 'highlights the ongoing risk posed by the increasing toxic drug supply.'

The physicians set up pop-up sites at both Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Monday.

'We need to memorialize what these folks, our friends and family members, have gone through, and their tragic passing in this crisis we're all facing.'

The government is set to table new legislation that would prevent a supervised consumption site from operating within a 200-metre radius of a school or child care centre.

“I’m doing very well thank you, 100 per cent better,” Jamie Hardy a.k.a Smokey D told Global News in an interview from The Hills Rehab in Chiang Mai. “I love it here.”

Calgary city council has defeated a motion asking the provincial government to shut down the supervised consumption site at the Sheldon Chumir Centre.

A day before the official start, British Columbia's election campaign sees the leaders gearing up to 'hit the road' and let residents know where they stand on the issues.