Despite a deadlocked election, the logjam on policing the overdose crisis is over

Premier David Eby used his election night speech to signal agreement with John Rustad's expression of "frustrations with crime and public safety"

From the opening moments of the election, when John Rustad launched his campaign with Vancouver’s Crab Park homeless tent encampment as a backdrop, the opioid overdose crisis and its victims were a constant presence.

Although the cost of living, housing, homelessness, health care, and affordability were the top issues in almost every poll, the opioid cri…