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More than 1.5 million Canadians live with the condition

Her obituary says Gibb was the oldest person in North America, and ninth oldest in the world

B.C.’s rapid response to the drug-overdose epidemic three years ago likely prevented more than 3,000 deaths in just 20 months, a new report shows. The study, led by researchers at the B.C.

76 calls made to emergency health services for overdoses locally in 2018

Powell River RCMP reported the following for May 30 to June 5, 2019.

Thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women represent a genocide, says national inquiry

Protecting farmland and revising labour code were important considerations, says Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA

The new, bigger Southern Sunshine Coast Ferry Advisory Committee (FAC) held its first public meeting May 19 in Gibsons – and although several of the faces around the table have changed, many of the issues haven’t.

Indigenous language and governance specialists, a law educator, a marine naturalist and biological mathematics expert are some of the people to be handed honorary degrees at the University of Victoria’s spring convocation ceremonies.

Airport plan The qathet Regional Districtapproved a budget amendment to allocate $10,000 of Community Works funding to the Texada airport service for the development of an airport master plan and that the remaining $5,000 for the plan be allocated fr