Advocates are calling for mandatory coroner's inquests into the deaths of women who were killed by abusive partners despite filing protection orders against them.It comes after more than 20 B.C. women died due to gender-based violence in 2023, according to the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, with advocates saying the province is on track for similar numbers this year.A report from Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS), a B.C.-based charity for victims of intimate
The flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus has killed four people in Florida this year, with 11 infections reported, typically contracted through warm seawater or raw shellfish....