Calls for needles up, number of needles down; 'better data needed', says councillor

The number of calls to pick up needles from city streets is on the rise, but the actual number of needles collected dropped off in 2018.
The issue came to the fore Wednesday after a national newspaper columnist sparked an online debate after finding a needle on his property and suggested there may be a connection with nearby safe injection sites in the city’s core.
“I find it defies logic to think that safe consumption sites are the cause of needle debris. Could there be a correlatio