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Toxic drug crisis
Free naloxone may be preventing most fatal overdoses in B.C., study finds
Researchers estimate take-home naloxone prevented 76 to 80 per cent of potential opioid poisoning deaths from 2019 to 2024, while thousands still died from toxic drugs
West End crash
Senior critical after driver allegedly rams vehicles in Vancouver’s West End
Vancouver police say two officers were also hospitalized after responding to reports of an erratic driver near Comox and Broughton streets Friday morning
Legal fallout from a mass shooting
Tumbler Ridge families sue OpenAI in California over mass shooting
Seven lawsuits accuse OpenAI and Sam Altman of failing to warn authorities about the shooter’s ChatGPT activity before the February attack in British Columbia
Energy infrastructure
Ottawa approves Enbridge’s $4B Sunrise gas pipeline expansion
The B.C. project would add nearly 140 kilometres of pipe and 300 million cubic feet per day of capacity to Enbridge’s Westcoast system