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The first quarter numbers are in, and BC’s overdose crisis continues to look grim.
From January 1 of 2021 to the end of March, there were a suspected 498 overdose deaths within the province, according to a new release from the British Columbia Coroners Service.
During that same period in 2020, there were 268 overdose deaths, the start of a record-breaking year of 1,723.
Just this past March, overdoses claimed the lives of 158 British Columbians, a record in itself for that particular month. That accounts to about 5.1 deaths per day.
The same could be said for February 2021, when BC saw 155 deaths.
How science solved the mystery of feet washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest
The unsettling discoveries along the Salish Sea prompted talk of serial killers, aliens, and psychics. The truth is even more unexpected.
ByErika Engelhaupt
On August 20, 2007, a 12-year-old girl spotted a lone blue-and-white running shoe a men’s size 12 on a beach of British Columbia’s Jedediah Island. She looked inside, and found a sock. She looked inside the sock, and found a foot.
Six days later on nearby Gabriola Island, a Vancouver couple enjoying a seaside hike came across a black-and-white Reebok. Inside it was another decomposing foot. It, too, was a men’s size 12. The two feet clearly didn’t belong to the same person; not only were the shoes themselves different, but they both contained right feet.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the 68-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, died of extreme cold shortly after leaving her neighbor s home in Dawson Creek at around 1am on Sunday.