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The owner of a Downtown Eastside bistro who has been beset by street crime says ironically, he's been told he could make more ...
Vancouver police officers have arrested a man a day after he began operating an illicit drug dispensary in the Downtown Eastside. According to a police statement, the 51-year-old man has been ...
B.C. seeks to keep cash seized from Downtown Eastside gang. The B.C. government has filed a lawsuit against alleged Downtown Eastside drug traffickers, seeking the forfeiture of more than $150,000 ...
“After conducting a scan of VPD policy and training materials, there is nothing directing members to employ or adhere to ...
Rather than try to disperse the Downtown Eastside’s social pathologies throughout the region, policymakers have decided to concentrate new subsidized housing construction, welfare services, and drug ...
While Vancouver and San Francisco may have differing approaches when it comes to the opioid crisis, there is a very similar debate in each city ... a drug user in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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." ...
Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter . Jen Nelson is known as the cannabis angel of the Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver’s mayor and police chief have revealed the details of a new $5 million plan to crack down on gangs and crime in the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside (DTES).
Vancouver -- much like San Francisco -- has become one of the epicenters of the drug crisis. ... Brocklesby has spent 20 years in the streets and alleys of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Days after Mr. Eby announced the plan to roll back decriminalization, about three dozen people gathered at the Downtown Eastside office of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, a nonprofit, to ...