Unpublished Newswire

The City of Nanaimo, B.C., is considering building a 1.8-metre-high fence to protect its staff from “congregations” of people, violence and disorder associated with an overdose prevention site next to city hall.Staff proposing the $412,000 fence cite “intimidation and harassment” of employees, particularly those working early or late, as well as damage to staff vehicles, fires near doorways and building perimeters, human waste, and a general deterioration of the site.

Two barely-there lines above the outer edges of her eyebrows mark where surgeons screwed a halo apparatus to Anya’s skull to keep her head from moving while they destroyed tiny bits of her brain. She remembers being sedated, but not completely out, lying on her back on the scanner table. A special helmet fixed to her head beamed high-intensity ultrasound waves at a targeted brain circuit. When the waves intersected at the desired spot, tissue was ablated — burned away like kids using a magnifying glass and the sun’s rays to scorch dead leaves. For one brief moment she felt a sudden...