Book Features. Vancouver's harm-reduction history revealed in new book Fighting for Space. Telling a fast-paced story about Downtown Eastside activists, veteran reporter Travis Lupick searches the ...

A book of short stories set largely in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has won the City of Vancouver Book Award. The Beggar's Garden is the debut collection by Michael Christie, who spent six years ...

Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo, Patrick Lane's Red Dog, Red Dog and titles that share stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are among the finalists for the 25th annual B.C. Book ...

This is the first in the video series “Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: Past and Present.” Libby Davies, former NDP MP for the riding in which the Downtown Eastside (DTES) is located, discusses the ...

If you want to learn about drug addiction, Vancouver is a good place to start. The city has struggled with opioid abuse nearly as long as it's existed. In the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood ...

The Downtown Eastside, home to a century of narcotics trade. Photo by Lani Russwurm. I recently heard a senior city planner say that economic decline in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside preceded the ...

Some people who have never been to Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside say that reports of the neighborhood must be grossly exaggerated. The district called "Canada's poorest postal code," a few ...

Greystone Books, November 30, 2008, $24.95 A Thousand Dreams tells grim stories of missing women, sardine and cat food diets, epidemic illness and the crippled support systems that struggle to manage ...

Celebrated Vancouver writer and poet Evelyn Lau will join a Downtown Eastside women’s book and writing club for a reading this Saturday (July 31). Lau will sit down with Intrepid Pens, which was ...

VANCOUVER (CP) – A book of the life stories of seven women who have triumphed over addiction, poverty and illness on Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside has won The George Ryga Award f ...

Every Thursday afternoon from September into June, 20 or more writers meet in a third-floor classroom at the top of the windy, worn, marble staircase of the Carnegie Centre. The classes take place in ...

The annual Hope in Shadows calendar features photos taken by Downtown Eastside residents of their friends, family, and neighbourhood. This year the calendar is a retrospective, featuring some of ...