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VANCOUVER – British Columbia's representative for children and youth confirms an RCMP investigation is underway, following a report about the tragically short life of an aboriginal teenager who died of an overdose in 2013.

KAMLOOPS - In a lengthy report documenting the plight of a young aboriginal girl failed by several bureaucracies, a critic says apathy, incomplete reports and inaction from ministry workers were significant contributors to a Kamloops girl's continual homelessness and eventual death at 19 years of age in the squalor of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Representative for...