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Canada is a producer and exporter of both cannabis and ecstasy, a trend that harsher penalties for those caught has failed to stop. [19] Recently, the idea of drug courts has gained popularity in Canada, numbering in the hundreds. These drug courts attempt to divert those that violate controlled drugs regulations from prisons into treatment ...
The University of British Columbia ( UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1908, it is the oldest university in British Columbia. With an annual research budget of $747.3 million, UBC funds 9,675 projects annually in various fields of study within the ...
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues, including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and sex work.
City Height Structure type Build material Year built/demolished Recording of event Notable for 1 tie Smokestack 1 (Units 1-4), Nanticoke Generating Station: Nanticoke, Ontario: 198 m/650 ft [79] Smokestack: Concrete: 1972-2018 Video on YouTube (demolished by explosives) Tied for the tallest freestanding structure demolished in Canada. 1 tie
Location map of Vancouver City. / 49.2745; -123.067. Module:Location map/data/Canada Vancouver City is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Vancouver City. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Notes: ^ Vancouver is Canada's eighth-largest city and British Columbia's largest city by population. The Vancouver CMA includes the cities of Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver and White Rock.
YYC – Calgary airport code, only Canadian city where IATA code used by residents in casual conversation. [failed verification] [10] Camrose "The Rose City" [11] Edmonton "The Big E" [12] "Canada's Richest Mixed Farming District" — an unofficial city slogan [13]
Metrotown is a town centre serving the southwest quadrant of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the city's four officially designated town centres, [3] as well as one of Metro Vancouver's regional town centres. [4] It is the central business district of the City of Burnaby. [5]