Jamie Sarkonak: Nanaimo, where complaining about feces-drenched drug zones is all you can do

Jamie Sarkonak: Nanaimo, where complaining about feces-drenched drug zones is all you can do

Nanaimo, B.C.'s downtown drug experiment has failed to stabilize its overdose rate. It has managed, however, to line the city’s oldest streets with feces, garbage, hit-and-runs, doorway fires and damaged property — a situation so bad that city council, just last week, considered fortifying its parking lot with a 1.8-metre fence.