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Vancouver city council passed a motion by Mayor Kennedy Stewart seeking to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs on Nov. 25, making the city the first Canadian jurisdiction to decriminalize simple possession.
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Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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Lee Harding is a journalist and think tank researcher based in Saskatchewan, and a contributor to The Epoch Times.
