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News

How One of Canada’s Poorest Neighbourhoods Avoided a COVID Crisis

05.05.21

By Manisha Krishnan
News

Activists in Vancouver Gave Out Free Cocaine to Highlight Overdose Crisis

06.24.20

By Manisha Krishnan
News

What It’s Like Becoming Homeless During a Global Pandemic

06.05.20

By Ben Mussett
News

Deadly Overdoses Are Rocking Canada’s Poorest Neighbourhood Under Lockdown

04.30.20

By Jesse Winter
Drugs

BC Health Officials Will Start Giving Free Opioids to Users in 2018

12.20.17

By Sarah Berman
Drugs

Court-Imposed ‘Red Zones’ Are Ruining Drug Users’ Lives

10.31.17

By Sarah Berman
Drugs

Vancouver’s Pop-Up Overdose Prevention Site Is Now Giving Users Free Weed

09.05.17

By Sarah Berman
I Was a Homeless High School Honours Student

08.24.17

By Samantha Reeve
Drugs

Why Vancouver Has Always Been an Addiction Ground Zero

07.13.17

By Sarah Berman
Travel

Life Inside Vancouver’s Most Notorious Housing Block

05.04.17

By Geoff Webb
Drugs

There’s Little Time to Mourn the Dead as Overdoses Continue in Vancouver

02.06.17

By Cara McKenna
Drugs

Why Do Men Account for 80 Percent of BC Overdose Deaths?

01.02.17

By Sarah Berman

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Life

Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

3 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

4 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

5 hours ago

By Luis Prada
WWE

Entertainment

Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

5 hours ago

By Haley Miller
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Life

Alaska’s Beluga Whales Have Wild Sex Lives—and It Keeps Them Alive

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By Luis Prada