What Calderon's "war on drugs" can teach us about our response to the overdose crisis

Insights from a Vancouver Police Department veteran whose career has taken him from the Downtown Eastside, to violence-ridden Mexico, and now to Nisga'a territory

The Mazatlan prison massacre in 2010 saw 29 gang members killed inside the jail just a few kilometres from tourist beaches. Walter McKay made a daily tally of cartel executions in an effort to understand the roots of Mexico’s violence.

As a director at Mexico’s national police accreditation agency, former Vancouver police officer Walter McKay read the cr…