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Coun. Pete Fry is calling for more transparency from Mayor Ken Sim and his office after it was revealed that the Vancouver Police Board was not aware of Task Force Barrage until it was announced to ...
The Vancouver man who opened a drug store in the Downtown Eastside selling illicit hard drugs has died from a reported overdose. Jerry Martin opened The Drugs Store out of a mobile trailer in the ...
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 ...
Asked how the government’s move to recriminalize drugs will affect policing in the Downtown Eastside, where public drug use has been observable for decades, the chief said police will continue to be ...
A new Vancouver police task force that promises to "dismantle organized crime networks and target predatory criminals in the Downtown Eastside" will cost city taxpayers an additional $5 million ...
Vancouver police officers have arrested a man a day after he began operating an illicit drug dispensary in the Downtown Eastside. According to a police statement, the 51-year-old man has been ...
Vancouver police said Thursday that search warrants were served at the Downtown Eastside offices of the Drug User Liberation Front, and two homes linked to the investigation.
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.
Vancouver police said Thursday that search warrants were served at the Downtown Eastside offices of the Drug User Liberation Front, and two homes linked to the investigation.
Adam Palmer: "You've got open drug use on the sidewalks in different neighbourhoods, in Yaletown and Coal Harbour — all over the city. We're not just talking about the Downtown Eastside." ...
A Vancouver "compassion club" that had been funded by the British Columbia government has been raided by police over alleged drug trafficking. Vancouver police said Thursday that search warrants were ...