Inquest into UVic student overdose hears heart-wrenching testimony from mother – CBC

Sidney McIntyre-Starko, 18, died in January 2024 after taking fentanyl in her Victoria campus dorm

Apr 28, 2025

The mother of Sidney McIntyre-Starko, the 18-year-old who died of a fentanyl overdose in a University of Victoria dorm room last year, gave heart-wrenching and pointed testimony on day one of the coroner’s inquest into her daughter’s death.

Dr. Caroline McIntyre said the university “lied” and put out a “completely false” timeline about the night her daughter died in January 2024.

McIntyre, an emergency room physician, said despite claiming otherwise, the university never contacted Royal Jubilee Hospital to identify Sidney after she was taken there by ambulance.

Instead, her daughter was listed as an unidentified person during the time emergency room staff were trying to save her life.

“I didn’t make it there,” said McIntyre. “She was unidentified, alone, and on a ventilator.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coroner-s-inquest-into-uvic-overdose-death-begins-monday-1.7520574