As ABC Vancouver works to transform the Downtown Eastside, the ruling party’s vision is taking shape, including more police, more market housing, a freeze on supportive housing, and more ...
Now we’re as puritanical as—God forbid—Toronto, or so it seems in Francis’s recently published Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade (Subway Books, $22).
VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a "humanitarian crisis" of crime and violence that has reached a tipping point, Mayor Ken Sim said as he unveiled a ...
Vancouver’s mayor and police chief trumpeted a plan Thursday to boost police funding with a specific focus on the Downtown Eastside. At a news conference Thursday at City Hall, Vancouver Police ...
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a “humanitarian crisis” of crime and violence that has reached a tipping point, Mayor Ken Sim said as he unveiled a taskforce to ...
Palmer said Vancouver's index in 2023 was 97, Canada-wide it was 80.5, while in the Downtown Eastside it was 524. Sim said that the focus on crime "isn't just about public safety." ...