Vancouver’s mayor and police chief trumpeted a plan Thursday to boost police funding with a specific focus on the Downtown ...
The passageway between The Pacific and The Meridian apartment complexes was tranquil on a recent afternoon — a stark contrast ...
The B.C. government says more than $100,000 seized in police raids of Vancouver mushroom dispensaries ... It really affects our ‘get your drugs tested program,’ which we put most of our ...
(Becca Robbins/The Columbian files) A judge on Thursday sentenced a Vancouver man to about 10 ... and because of Simon’s mental health problems and drug addiction. Krauel said the evidence ...
The overdose epidemic receives a lot of media attention in Vancouver. More than 350 people in the city died after taking drugs last year, which is an astronomical number for a population its size.
In October 2016, PHS staff working in the nonprofit’s Vancouver housing sites responded to 168 drug overdoses. In November, that number was 183. In December, it was 252.
One day earlier this month, a man used a metal baton to smash the glass in the front door of the London Drugs in Vancouver’s Woodward ... panacea for huge social problems.” ...
Life sentences for drug kingpins and bringing back mandatory minimums for serious crimes. Those were the promises ...