B-C Emergency Health Services say two people were taken to hospital by helicopter from a rock climbing area in Squamish yesterday.
Brain Twaites, public information officer with the B-C E-H-S says the agency received a call before 1 p.m. about people in need of medical assistance in the Squamish region.
Two patients were transported via air ambulances, but the agency was unable to provide more details about their injuries.
British Columbia's Opposition BC United is losing another elected member just ahead of the province's fall election. Michael Lee, a former party leadership candidate and the Vancouver-Langara representative in the legislature for the past seven years, says he's heading back to the private sector and will not seek re-election on Oct. 19.
It was the first time Poilievre was addressing the Assembly of First Nations, an organization representing more than 600 First Nations that had a tense relationship with the Conservatives when former prime minister Stephen Harper was in power.
The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada's health workforce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.
Dr. Bonnie Henry says in her latest report on the overdose crisis that efforts centred on drug prohibition have not only failed to control access to controlled substances but have also created the toxic unregulated drug supply that has killed thousands since a health emergency was declared eight years ago.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada expects to hit the NATO defence spending target in 2032. The 32 members of the alliance agreed last year to spend at least the equivalent of two per cent of national gross domestic product on defence.
The steering committee was formed in late May with the goal of having overdose prevention and response actions in place on B-C campuses for this year's fall semester.