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The monkeypox vaccine will be made available to high-risk people in British Columbia, Canada.
2022-07-29

The trial of Aydin Coban, a Dutch man accused of harassing and extorting Port Coquitlam teenager Amanda Todd online prior to her suicide in 2012, begins at the British Columbia Supreme Court in British Columbia, Canada.
2022-06-6

Canada announces that it will temporarily decriminalize possession of less than 2.5 grams total of MDMA, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine in the province of British Columbia, in order to allow for the province to launch a three-year trial of drug decriminalization and treatments.
2022-06-1

Merritt, British Columbia, Canada is evacuated after severe flooding inundated the city of about 7,000. Several highways throughout southern British Columbia were also washed out by heavy rain, leaving at least 10 people stranded.
2021-11-15

The number of sudden deaths due to the extreme hot temperatures in British Columbia, Canada, increases to 486. The death toll represents a 195% increase of the 165 sudden deaths that would normally occur over this period. While the official cause of death for each deceased person has not yet been established, many are linked to the hot temperatures.
2021-06-30

More than 130 people die in British Columbia, Canada, and six more across the United States due to the extreme hot temperatures that are affecting the country.
2021-06-29

A mass grave containing the remains of 215 indigenous children is discovered on the site of the former residential school in British Columbia, Canada.
2021-05-28

A house deck collapses in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, injuring 40 people, 20 of them severely.
2019-04-19

Scientists announce through the "Nature" journal, the discovery of 13 deep-space fast radio bursts (FRBs), named FRB 180814, by the CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia, Canada.
2019-01-9

A series of earthquakes, the largest registering 6.3, strike near Mosquito Lake, Alaska, near the Alaskan border with British Columbia, Canada. At least one office building and two schools were heavily damaged and evacuated in the Yukon.
2017-05-1