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overdose crisis

PM to discuss overdose crisis with first responders, health-care workers in B.C.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with first responders and health-care workers in Vancouver today to discuss the illicit drug overdose crisis that has claimed 922 lives in British Columbia...

B.C., Ottawa sign health agreement worth $1.4 billion, $65 million for overdoses

Money from Ottawa to fight an ongoing overdose crisis helped sway British Columbia into signing a new 10-year, $1.4 billion health funding deal, says the province's health minister. Terry Lake stood...