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Fentanyl suspected in teen’s death Burnaby teen had been found unconscious in a Vancouver park Cayley Dobie
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES NDP supporters join federal candidates Kennedy Stewart, second from left, Peter Julian, fourth from left, and Carol Baird Ellan, fifth from left, at a sign-waving event at the corner of Willingdon Avenue and Lougheed Highway Wednesday to kick off the local federal election campaign. PHOTO
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While the federal election is officially on, not everyone is pleased. Peter Julian, the NDP incumbent now running in New Westminster-Burnaby, criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper for calling the election early, after the writ dropped last Sunday. “Mr. Harper was really clear why he was doing it. He basically wants the taxpayers to subsidize the Conservative attack ads. Every additional day the campaign is being held, you have half-a-million dollars paid
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A 17-year-old Burnaby boy is dead after he and a friend took party drugs police believe were laced with fentanyl. Jack Bodie was found unconscious with another teen in Shelley Park in Vancouver, near East Broadway and Woodland Drive, on Saturday, Aug. 1, according to a media release from Vancouver police. Bodie and the other teen, 16, were taken to Children’s Hospital, but Bodie never regained consciousness. He remained in grave condition until Monday, when Vancouver police announced he was taken off life support and had died. Bodie’s sister Grace and his father Mark spoke with CBC this week about his death. Mark told CBC he hopes his son’s death will bring attention to the dangers of fentanyl and recreational drug use. Grace echoed her father’s message, adding that most teens often consider themselves invincible and take unnecessary risks. According to the Vancouver police, the two boys ingested fake Oxycontin, also known as fake ’80s. The pills were green with the number 80 on them, and police believe they contained Fentanyl, which is a powerful pain medication that can be 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the release. Bodie’s overdose comes only days after New Westminster police responded to three separate drug overdoses in a week, one of which was fatal. Investigators in New Westminster haven’t confirmed whether fentanyl caused the overdoses but have issued warnings about the dangers of using drugs of any kind. Recently, in North Vancouver, three people have died from overdoses investigators believe were caused by fentanyl.
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