Vancouver councillors consider ways to address opioid and housing crises

published on December 27, 2018 in Georgia Straight

As local politicians prepared for their Christmas break, NPA councillor Rebecca Bligh told the Georgia Straight that there would be one piece of business on her mind over the break: the overdose crisis.

“We’ve just spent the morning looking at and considering the report by the Mayor’s Emergency Opioid Task Force,” Bligh explained in a telephone interview on December 21. “So we’ll be following up to see how we, as a council, can make some headway here.”…