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Addicts inject themselves in May 2011 at the Insite supervised injection center in Vancouver, Canada.

To fight the opioid crisis, Canada tests decriminalizing possession

10:40am June 01, 2022

by Brian Mann

Overdose deaths have risen sharply across Canada in the past five years, with deaths linked to fentanyl doubling. Officials hope decriminalization will make more users willing to seek medical care.

The FDA is working with federal, state, and local officials to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters, the agency said Wednesday.

Health & Safety

A norovirus outbreak is linked to raw oysters distributed in 13 states, the FDA says

10:09pm April 06, 2022

by NPR Staff

A multistate outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from Canada is under investigation in 13 states by the FDA.

On the front lines of global warming, evacuees from Lytton, a western Canadian village destroyed by wildfires in June, are detached and bitter about the September 20 snap elections.

World News

A church retreat came to the aid of Canada's latest disaster survivors

8:39am December 11, 2021

by Emma Jacobs

British Columbia experienced major disasters this year that scientists say show the intensifying effects of climate change. Many of those affected by fires and floods took shelter at Camp Hope.

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Two men who slipped and fell on a steep rock leading into rough waters at a park in British Columbia were saved thanks to a group of Sikh men who unraveled and removed their turbans to create a makeshift rope.

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Sikh men created a lifeline using turbans and jackets to rescue hikers at a park

6:13pm October 25, 2021

by Tien Le

A group of Sikh men broke religious protocol to help hikers stuck near raging waters at a Canadian park. The men created a makeshift rope using turbans and jackets.

Danita Bilozaze, alongside her daughter Dani, celebrated the completion of her master's degree in education with a portrait session last year at Kye Bay in Comox Valley, British Columbia. Bilozaze's studies focused on Indigenous language revitalization.

She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier

7:00am July 04, 2021

by Emma Bowman

A new Canadian policy answers a 2015 call for government action. Danita Bilozaze hopes it means that no one will face the resistance she did to rescue her name from a history of forced assimilation.

The British Columbia Wildfire Service is responding to multiple fires in the province this week. Two wildfires pictured here, the Long Loch wildfire and the Derickson Lake wildfire, are in close proximity and estimated to be 740 acres combined in size.

The Deadly Heat Wave Is Triggering Dozens Of Wildfires In Western Canada

12:28pm July 01, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The town of Lytton, British Columbia, caught fire and was completely evacuated Wednesday, just one day after setting a new all-time Canadian heat record with a high of 121 degrees Fahrenheit.

View of the waterfront from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada on January 20, 2020. The number of American pleasure craft arriving from Washington state has alarmed Canadians living just across the border.

Americans, Go Home: Canadians Track U.S. Boaters Sneaking Across The Border

11:52am August 02, 2020

by Martha Ann Overland

U.S. pleasure boats have been sneaking into Canada despite a border shutdown. A group of Canadian retirees is on the lookout for violators from the "petri dish" that is America.

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People walk back and forth across the border between the U.S. and Canada in Peace Arch Park in Blaine, Wash., on May 17. With the border closed to nonessential travel amid the global pandemic, families and couples across the continent found themselves cut

National

The Pandemic Closed The Border And This Engaged Couple Was Stuck On Opposite Sides

8:00am June 14, 2020

by Eilis O'Neill

When COVID-19 caused border closures, a woman from British Columbia and her fiancé in Washington state were unable to see each other — not even for their wedding.

Cars line up to head into the United States (left) and into Canada (right) adjacent to Boundary Bay at a border crossing at Blaine, Wash., in 2009. A British couple who say they accidentally crossed the U.S.-Canada border were arrested by U.S. Customs and

National

British Family Detained By ICE After Unlawfully Entering U.S. From Canada

4:24pm October 15, 2019

by Laura Benshoff

Eileen and David Connors say they accidentally crossed the U.S.-Canada border while vacationing. The couple and their 3-month-old son have been in a federal immigration facility since Oct. 3.

Costumed activists riding elaborately decorated bicycles paraded down the streets of Vancouver last month to bring attention to the challenges facing the sockeye salmon population in the Fraser River and its connection to Canada's indigenous people.

Canada's Wild Salmon Caravan Connects Future Of Fish And Indigenous People

8:02am October 12, 2018

by Anna Kusmer

Warming oceans and development threaten the West Coast's wild salmon. So activists started a traveling celebration to draw attention to the plight of the sockeye in Canada's Fraser River.