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The former TD Bank space at Woodward's is now the Vancouver police's Gastown-Hastings Crossing Community Policing Centre.
The City of Vancouver has ended a contract with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) over a block stewardship program on East Hastings Street, saying the group did not focus enough on ...
Officials say the Gastown-Hastings Crossing Community Policing Centre will be a hub for safety resources and programs in the ...
Police Chief Steve Rai joined Sim at the news conference and talked about the need for a community policing centre in the Gastown-Hastings Crossing neighbourhood. The Downtown Eastside accounts for ...
The owner of a Downtown Eastside bistro who has been beset by street crime says ironically, he's been told he could make more ...
Vancouver, San Francisco seeing similar debate on how to approach drug crisis 08:35. On this Overdose Awareness Week, KPIX is looking at the opioid crisis though the shared experiences of San ...
People hold banners during a march to remember those who died during the overdose crisis and to call for a safe supply of illicit drugs on International Overdose Awareness Day, in Vancouver, on ...
As Vancouver, BC, Canada prepares to decriminalize personal-use possession of hard drugs on Jan. 31, Jerry Martin says he will open a store selling them — even though that’s not legal.
Participants use the drugs under supervision at first, to make sure they have the amount they need to avoid withdrawal (and no more, so that there is no risk they will sell excess on the street).
Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. ... Other synthetics are often mixed with street drugs, including benzodiazepines, sedatives which are especially dangerous combined with fentanyl.
The City of Vancouver has ended a contract with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) over a block stewardship program on East Hastings Street, saying the group did not focus enough on ...
Vancouver Coastal Health’s website says the Drug User Liberation Front Society received $200,000 of public money in 2021-2022, funding the government says has now ended.