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Provincial election to take place on or before Oct. 19

Opinion polls continue to show a two-way race in the lead up to the next provincial election, as the BC Conservatives continue to cut into the NDPs lead and BC Uniteds popularity is shorn away.

Game 1 of the NHL playoff series between the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars is on Thursday night, and politicians in each region have placed a friendly wager on the series.

There is no provincial policy on how BC universities and colleges should handle the drug crisis, so emergency responses are different on every campus.

Allan Dwayne Schoenborn has been denied an attempt to redact his new name from being published by the BC Review Board.

The BC Review Board has decided its future hearing decisions will not redact the new name of psychiatric hospital patient Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, who sought a publication ban so the public could not identify him as a child killer.

B.C. considers switch to nasal-spray naloxone instead of injection in rescue kits and expanded CPR training

But Pierre Poilievre says he has no party preference

The survey from Vancouver-based Research Co. shows 42 per cent of respondents would back the BC NDP in the upcoming vote, followed by 32 per cent for the BC Conservatives.

Drug addiction researchers and advocates for a comprehensive, health-based approach say decriminalization needs time to work, and only with connected supports.