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Metro Vancouver's new homicide unit,put together in response to the large number of gangland murders has released it's figures for the period since it's inception.They have 31 murders on their plate and have solved 7.Lucky for them there are still a few family related and street person killings that they can solve or their record would be even worse.They still bristle at the suggestion that a gang squad is vital and insist that they have the situation well in hand.The B.C. Supreme court has given InSite a one year extension and also given the Feds one year to rewrite the federal drug laws to better reflect their responsibility to treat addicts as medical patients and not criminals.The story is posted on the main site in detail.I now will never know if the Harper Government really had the guts to go against virtually the whole medical and political establishment and close the site down.All news from Ottawa was leaning that way.I had been saying for two years that they were ideologically unable to allow the site to remain open.I'm so glad that I'll never know.It would seem that the door to many things have now been opened as the court ruled that federal drug laws were too vague and didn't apply to B.C. and our medical responsibility to treat addicts as medical patients.Heroin maintenance anyone?This is one person that's going to be rattling doors about that possibility tomorrow.