Grande Prairie Marks Overdose Awareness Day With 1,157 Purple Flags, One for Every Albertan Lost Last Year

Culture Alberta · Grande Prairie · Sep 1

Grande Prairie Marks Overdose Awareness Day With 1,157 Purple Flags, One for Every Albertan Lost Last Year

Purple flags line the street outside the Montrose Cultural Centre for International Overdose Awareness Day, one for each of the 1,157 people who died of accidental opioid poisoning in Alberta in 2025. Twenty-four of those deaths were in Grande Prairie.