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Vancouver run down for Wednesday, August 28, 2024.

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Public school students right across the province

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will have to put away their cell phones when they return

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to class after Labor Day.

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The provincial government is requiring all school districts

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to enforce their own policies, ones that

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will restrict mobile devices on school property.

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Students and parents will be offered digital literacy

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courses, but the details of those courses

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have not yet been announced.

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Other news, a new opioid treatment phone line

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is coming to BC.

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Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside

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says the opioid treatment access line will connect people

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in need with a team of doctors and nurses

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able to prescribe replacement drugs, the ones that

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mimic narcotics.

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That line is expected to help many people who

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are reluctant to walk into medical facilities

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to seek treatment.

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We now know the 17-year-old student

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who fell to his death in Lynn Canyon on Sunday

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was a new UBC student.

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The teen from Ontario slipped on some rocks

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while on a day trip to check out BC scenery.

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Dozens of teens have died in the same area over the years,

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despite fences and multiple warning signs.

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Stormy weather may be to blame for a series of multi-injury

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crashes on Highway 5 north of Merritt on Tuesday morning.

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An air ambulance responded to one of the three crashes.

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Meanwhile, parts of the Okanagan connector

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experienced some snow with wet and slippery conditions

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throughout.

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The forecast calling for clouds and a few clearer periods

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on Wednesday expects sunshine right through the long weekend

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with warm temperatures.

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For all the details on these Vancouver area stories,

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along with those links, go to vancouverrundown.substack.com.