Vancouver Mayor Calls Special Council Meeting to Approve Public Safety Plebiscite

Vancouver council approves ABC's public-safety plebiscite questions for October ballot

Council voted to approve the non-binding plebiscite questions, which ask voters whether the city should strengthen bylaws prohibiting open-air hard drug use in public spaces and whether Vancouver should formally ask the province to create a secure medical facility with at least 100 involuntary treatment beds for people with substance use and mental health disorders.

Politics or policy? Vancouver mayor pushes ‘public safety’ plebiscite, attacks premier

Vancouver’s mayor has made his first big move in trying to hold on to his job after October’s municipal election, pushing for a “public safety” plebiscite, and attacking British Columbia’s premier in the process.

Vancouver mayor wants plebiscite on strengthening its drug use laws — but doesn't say which ones

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's push for two plebiscite questions in the upcoming municipal election on public drug use and adding involuntary care beds has been condemned by opponents as an election ploy.

Vancouver mayor calls special council meeting to approve public safety plebiscite

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has called a special council meeting to seek approval for a plebiscite focused on public safety, street disorder and the treatment of severe mental health and addiction disorders.

Vancouver plebiscite this October on hard drug use in public, new treatment facility

Vancouver voters could be asked to weigh in on two major changes to the municipal government’s approach to the drug and mental health crisis: stronger restrictions on the open use of hard drugs in public spaces, and a push to turn part of the existing St. Paul’s Hospital campus on Burrard Street into a secure treatment and stabilization facility. A policy paper by Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver party proposes putting two advisory questions onto t…