Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Prisca Tang
Publication Date: April 16, 2025 - 06:00
Field of 50,000 flags marks grim death toll from Canada’s opioid crisis
April 16, 2025
It took six days for artist Ron Kerr and volunteers to plant 50,000 flags into the ground near the Tyee Spit in Campbell River, on the east coast of Vancouver Island.When they finished, the flags stretched out to an area almost as large as a Canadian football field, a vast illustration to passersby of the number of Canadians who have died of opioid overdoses in the nine years since British Columbia declared it a provincial health crisis.
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WIRED reported on Friday.
No timeline was provided for when this system comes into effect.
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This will be an expansion to the...
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