1000 disguises
Walking into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with a camera can be a dangerous thing – dangerous not so much for the…
Walking into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with a camera can be a dangerous thing – dangerous not so much for the…
When a news story related to the Downtown Eastside catches my gaze it usually falls into one of three categories….
Since my interview two weeks ago with David Eby, lawyer for Pivot Legal Society, there is something that I have…
It has been almost a week since the Poverty Olympics took place at the Carnegie Centre and already the postpartum…
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is the final chapter of Madness and Civilization, one of historian Michel Foucault’s most celebrated works. If…
Names have power in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. One name in particular, Frank Paul, a chronic alcoholic with no fixed address,…
When I returned home on Friday night, January 25, I turned on my television to see images of teenage ballerinas…
The last thing Vancouver needs is another Robert Dziekanski. Picture this. Governor General Michaelle Jean, Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu,…
There will be no Downtown Eastside (DTES) in the next five years. A quick walk from Main to Abbott along…
Welcome to the first installment of East Van Rapporteur, a blog about the personal experiences of reporting in Vancouver’s Downtown…