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Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:50 AM
The BC Coroners Service is urging all drivers and passengers in motor vehicles to use their seatbelts at all times.
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Monday, January 16, 2012 1:50 PM
The BC Coroners Service is investigating another death potentially related to the use of ecstasy. On the night of Jan. 14, 2012, a 16-year-old boy from Langley was with others when he reportedly took ecstasy along with other pharmaceutical drugs.
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Friday, January 13, 2012 2:00 PM
The BC Coroners Service confirms that paramethoxy-metamphetamine (PMMA) has been linked to five ecstasy-related deaths in B.C. in the past six months.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:30 AM
The BC Coroners Service has announced it will hold a public inquest into the deaths of three workers who died on a mushroom farm in Langley in September 2008.
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:00 AM
The season for winter recreation in the backcountry is upon us, and the BC Coroners Service is encouraging all those going out to take special care to prevent deaths caused by avalanches.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:00 AM
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed that the death of a woman at the Occupy Vancouver camp on Nov. 5 was caused by a drug overdose.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:00 PM
A woman nearly killed by arsenic poisoning and rendered quadriplegic is among five people sharing more than $340,000 as a result of a civil forfeiture involving a self-proclaimed "holistic healer" who allegedly promised to bring one client back from the dead.
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Monday, November 7, 2011 2:45 PM
The BC Coroners Service is investigating the discovery of a foot found this weekend washed up on the shore of Sasamat Lake in Port Moody. An autopsy held this morning confirmed that the bones of the foot, found encased in a sock in a hiking boot, are human in origin.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:05 AM
The cases of five teenagers who committed suicide in the Comox Valley since 2009 share few similarities, an analysis by the BC Coroners Service has found.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:00 AM
Catherine Romanko has been appointed public guardian and trustee of British Columbia. The appointment was effective Oct. 10, 2011, for a six-year term. Romanko succeeds Jay Chalke, who served for 11 years.
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