Tech co-op innovates solutions to the opioid crisis
Gordon Casey is using both a technology start-up and a community-response approach to detect overdoses in B.C.
Gordon Casey is using both a technology start-up and a community-response approach to detect overdoses in B.C.
“We have a desperate homelessness situation down here,” says Jean Swanson
Opposition parties have criticized Vision over its plans to redevelop an old police station in the Downtown Eastside into a…
A new kind of tenant is being lured into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: young, educated, indebted—and looking for affordable rent.
Maria is standing at the corner of Gore and Powell, looking up at the concrete silhouette of the jail that…
Sarah Brittain chops, serves, smells what’s simmering on the stove. With a little taste from a spoon, she makes sure…
Dan Meyer overdosed on heroin and almost died two years ago when a Vancouver nurse saved his life with a…
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Members of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside’s community have praised new police guidelines to protect sex-trade workers, but are also raising…
Take a stroll through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and you’re unlikely to get far without encountering a bearded hipster shaking bourbon…