Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the worst example of the disorder that has been allowed to go on too long in Canada. The human misery that has plagued that corner of the city for decades has many triggers, including the long tail consequence of the deinstitutionalization trend to empty psychiatric hospitals across the country. However, things have become much worse in the last decade, as worsening homelessness and the fentanyl crisis emerged alongside permissive drug use policies at the provincial and federal levels. Read More