Warning: This story deals with teen suicide and contains details that may be distressing to some readers.

South Surrey parents who lost their teenaged daughter to suicide in December 2023 are taking the Surrey school district and Fraser Health Authority to court, alleging negligence, breach of duty and bad faith in connection with their daughter's death.

In a notice of claim filed Aug. 12 in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, Laura and David Donovan assert that the health authority, the school district, an Elgin Park Secondary school counsellor and an official with Fraser Health's risk management services failed their daughter in the weeks and months leading up to her death – "including obligations to act in a culturally safe manner" – and after, "engaged in a pattern of conduct inte

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