Police say a man is dead after his pickup collided with a semi-truck near Quesnel.
Mounties say the crash happened on November 29th just before 4:30 p-m on Highway 97 north of the community.
Police say the 37-year-old driver of the pickup, a man from Quesnel, was pronounced death at the scene.
The semi driver was not injured in the crash, which remains under investigation.
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.
Police in Vancouver are looking for witnesses after a 53-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a collision with a vehicle. They say the biker was struck on East 10th Avenue Clark Drive intersection around 6 a-m yesterday.
The latest spans a portion of the District of Wells, about 80 kilometres east of Quesnel in the province's central Interior, where the BC Wildfire Service map shows a cluster of more than two dozen new fires in the area.