The mayor and the police chief have announced a new task force they say will target organized crime and predatory criminals operating in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

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

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a "humanitarian crisis" of crime and violence that has reached ...

Vancouver’s mayor and police Chief Adam Palmer jointly announced on Thursday a long-term operation to dismantle organized ...

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and the city's police chief have unveiled a task force to tackle organized crime in the Downtown ...

Sim and Police Chief Adam Palmer announced "Task Force Barrage," which will see an increased an sustained police focus on the area.

Ken Sim: "We're at a breaking point, and we can't keep pouring money into a system that isn't delivering real results." ...

2:22 London Drugs considers shutting down Downtown Eastside location PHS Community Services Society, which provides more than 1,700 units of supportive housing in Vancouver and Victoria along with ...

Such incidents have become frustratingly commonplace at London Drugs stores ... the whole of the nearby Downtown Eastside, which starts just over one block away. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox ... focused on people in the Downtown Eastside who use cannabis alongside illicit drugs. Some 75 per cent of the nearly 900 participants reported at ...

The proposed policy shift includes decentralizing services and pausing the construction of new supportive housing across the city until more is built in other Metro Vancouver municipalities. Video: ...