Downtown business rep seeks more focus on addiction, mental illness

More effort is needed to address issues like addiction and mental illness, a downtown business representative told a city council committee.
Brent Penner, executive director of Downtown Saskatoon, the downtown business improvement district (BID), addressed the planning, development and community services committee on Monday about the future of the community support officers program.
Downtown Saskatoon runs the program and Penner expressed his desire to see it continue. He added that addiction an