Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson repeats call for drug decriminalization

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the current approach to the national opioid crisis is not working and he believes decriminalizing illicit drugs would be a “lifesaving shift” in stemming the tide of opioid deaths in Canada.
Grim figures released Tuesday by Public Health Agency of Canada indicated an estimated 4,000 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2017.
That’s a 30 per cent jump over 2016 numbers.
In a statement Wednesday, Robertson, whose own city acco