The B.C. government is forming a working group to tackle a number of safety issues in supportive housing, including concerns ...

Podcast host Mullins spoke with Filter about his new memoir, "Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs." ...

A Vancouver parent is renewing calls for better safety measures at Crosstown Elementary School located near the Downtown ...

Marijuana consumption jumped among 12-17-year-olds from 3.4 million users in 2020 to 3.8 million in 2023. It is the drug most used by that age group. And these kids are not using yesterday’s weed. The ...

A Vancouver man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for drug and gun trafficking charges.. Juan Onofre Flores Carrillo, 49, pleaded guilty in November in U.S. District Court in ...

TACOMA, Wash. (KATU) — A stash house in Vancouver, Wash. contained seven pounds of fentanyl, 43 pounds of methamphetamine, an assault rifle and grenade launcher. A 49-year-old Vancouver resident ...

Vancouver Housing Authority owns both The Pacific, pictured here, and The Meridian apartment complexes. The buildings used to be riddled with crime and drug trafficking, but the nonprofit ...

The unregulated drug supply is laced with highly toxic substances like fentanyl and its analogues. Unregulated toxic drugs are now the leading cause of death in British Columbia for those aged ...

CBS SF Bay Area. Vancouver implementing varying strategies to stop drug crisis. Posted: August 28, 2024 | Last updated: August 28, 2024. Wilson Walker reports on how Vancouver, which faces a ...

The drug problem is at its most acute in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, several astonishingly squalid blocks that protrude from the city’s affluent centre.

Known as defacto decriminalization, it was in existence for over three decades in Vancouver: Police had the authority to direct users to where they could — or could not — consume their drugs.

“Prior to decriminalization, if someone was using drugs in a problematic circumstance, for example at a playground, or a bus shelter or a beach, community members were able to call 911, police ...