The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority says the first such study in North America will involve patients lying in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for 40 treatments, each lasting about two hours.
The declaration — essentially a desperate plea for help — calls for urgent action from the federal and provincial governments to address a crisis they said has resulted in needless suffering and deaths.
The western toad migration near the Village of Nakusp attracts tourists every summer to the Toad Festival at Summit Lake, where people fill buckets with the toads and carry them safely across Highway 6 to forest habitat.
Girolamo Del Balso faces a number of felony charges including possession of narcotics for sale and transporting narcotics for sale
Thibault, 76, was sentenced last fall to 18 months in jail for fraud and breach of trust.
Durham Regional Police laid the charges 24 hours after the stabbing at Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ont., which left seven people with non-serious injuries.