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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. government needs to ensure overdose sites don't wreck neighbourhoods

Opinion: For now, politicians are ducking and leaving it to Coastal Health to push the third iteration of a troubled overdose prevention site

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VICTORIA — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, his council majority, city residents and businesses have good reason to doubt the latest plan to relocate a much-travelled overdose prevention site in downtown Vancouver.

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The site operated for three years on Seymour Street, giving rise to a growing backlash and two lawsuits over its contribution to crime and disorder in the Yaletown neighbourhood.

After the city refused to renew the Seymour lease in early 2024, the overdose prevention site moved........

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