Vancouver’s system of temporary shelters may become a permanent part of the city’s plan to address homelessness.

VICTORIA — The New Democrats halted the free and easy distribution of safer-supply drugs this week ... there is widespread diversion of safe supply drugs.” In short, NDP policy amounted ...

The B.C. drug trade was specifically cited by U.S. President Donald Trump in connection with the threatened tariff on Canadian goods bound for the U.S. Although the NDP government downplayed diversion ...

People who rely on prescription opioids such as hydromorphone must now take those safe supply drugs under the supervision ... the B.C. Greens and MLA for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky, said he was ...

Guy Felicella, a harm reduction advocate from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, says safe consumption ... The safer supply program — which provides regulated opioids to drug users with a ...

Dr DeBeck describes it as an "unprecedented toxic drug crisis." "It's really just devastating communities." In 2019, the Vancouver City Council released a Safe Supply Statement that acknowledged ...

The announcement Wednesday from Health Minister Josie Osborne and Public Safety Minister ... is laced with toxic drugs.” The acknowledgment of diversion of safer supply is a notable shift ...

A BC Conservative MLA has described the "unsurmountable" price paid by her family in the province's toxic drug crisis, which she said had claimed the lives of two of her brothers.

“They were marketed as safe supply,” she says in a recent conversation. “Don’t worry. These are clean drugs. It’s government drugs. Nothing can happen to you. They quickly became ...

Conservative Party of B.C. MLAs scored a significant win Wednesday even before they opened their mouths to start the inaugural question period in the new parliament. NDP Health Minister Josie ...