They called it “Task Force Barrage,” and described it as a $5 million funding boost for the Vancouver Police Department to ...

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 ... the whole of the nearby Downtown Eastside, which starts just ...

A real concern, she said, is the prevalence of young drug traffickers, likely between 15 and ... that other Lower Mainland cities are struggling with the same problems as the Downtown Eastside. “Every ...

But as the Downtown Eastside lost its attraction ... such as needle exchanges. They wanted drug use to be treated not as a law enforcement problem, but as a health issue. In 2003, Canada’s ...

Although the police are often invoked in the name of “public safety”, POWER asks us to reconsider what that looks like. A world where fewer people are harassed by officers, and more problems are ...

Terry Yung, B.C. minister of state for community safety and integrated services, conveyed that message while touring ...

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s policy shift on the Downtown Eastside reveals BC NDP’s fragile ... But they did not produce the outcomes, nor solve the problems, they were intended to target.

Speakers at the forum included Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, B.C.'s Minister of State on Community Safety Terry Yung and BC Conservative leader John Rustad.

He had used this specific facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Insite ... the backdrop of an unprecedented epidemic of hard drug use and HIV infections. In 20 years, the facility reversed ...

Two members of Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver party are questioning the mayor's plan to pause construction of “net new” supportive ...