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B.C. Conservative leadership candidate back in Okanagan

Peter Milobar won’t parachute candidates into ridings for the next provincial election, should he be elected leader of the provincial Conservative party. Milobar, MLA for Kamloops Centre, stopped at Vernon’s Elks Hall Friday morning, April 10, to meet with about 25 folks gathered to hear him talk. The question about dropping in candidates from other

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‘Sadness, grief, and outrage’: B.C. marks decade of toxic drug emergency

In 1993, an investigation led by British Columbia’s chief coroner sounded the alarm after recording an “inordinately high number” of drug-related deaths, with 330 reported. More than two decades later, on April 14, 2016, a provincewide public health emergency was declared following a sharp and unprecedented spike in overdose deaths, which reached 997 that year.

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