City employees work to dismantle tents along East Hastings in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver in April 2023. Task Force Barrage is a $5-million initiative intended to curb crime ...

A Vancouver city councillor is calling for more transparency from the mayor's office after it was revealed the Vancouver Police Board was not aware of a program intended to curb crime and violence in ...

A Vancouver city councillor is calling for more transparency from the mayor's office after it was revealed the Vancouver Police Board was not aware of a program intended to curb crime and violence in ...

The owner of a Downtown Eastside bistro who has been beset by street crime says ironically, he's been told he could make more money selling drugs on the street.

Vancouver Police say there were almost 7,700 shoplifting incidents in the city last year, up 12 per cent compared to 2023, while shoplifting in the downtown core was up 40 per cent.

The City of Vancouver spends an estimated $46.7 million per year in the Downtown Eastside on operating costs related to efforts to ameliorate the impacts of homelessness, and help people living ...

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." ...

Vancouver plans to tackle ‘humanitarian crisis’ of crime in Downtown Eastside By: Nono Shen, The Canadian Press Posted: 4:50 PM CST Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 Last Modified: 7:34 PM CST Thursday ...

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 ...

The drug problem is at its most acute in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, several astonishingly squalid blocks that protrude from the city’s affluent centre. On a given afternoon the area’s ...