They called it “Task Force Barrage,” and described it as a $5 million funding boost for the Vancouver Police Department to ...

Rivers Stonechild, who was raised in the DTES, said the mayor’s plan to transform the troubled area by prioritizing ...

A real concern, she said, is the prevalence of young drug traffickers, likely between 15 and ... that other Lower Mainland cities are struggling with the same problems as the Downtown Eastside. “Every ...

There’s an interesting word that is helpful to keep in mind in these troubled times: zeitgeist. It’s no being hauled out in ...

One day earlier this month, a man used a metal baton to smash the glass in the front door of the London Drugs in Vancouver ... the whole of the nearby Downtown Eastside, which starts just ...

Terry Yung, B.C. minister of state for community safety and integrated services, conveyed that message while touring ...

Although the police are often invoked in the name of “public safety”, POWER asks us to reconsider what that looks like. A world where fewer people are harassed by officers, and more problems are ...

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s policy shift on the Downtown Eastside reveals BC NDP’s fragile ... But they did not produce the outcomes, nor solve the problems, they were intended to target.

Terry Yung, B.C. minister of state for community safety and integrated services, conveyed that message while touring ...

But they did not produce the outcomes, nor solve the problems, they were intended ... that have wanted to improve conditions in the Downtown Eastside for many decades, and they've struggled ...

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon spent the weekend tut-tutting Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s new plan to halt construction of supportive housing, arguing the move will make the notorious Downtown Eastside ...