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Vancouver's experiment with helping addicts get high. (4) - By ...
One study of Vancouver's injection-drug users has taken harm reduction to a level even beyond Insite. In 2003, the same year that the supervised-injection ...
 

Heroin Maintenance ~ The Vancouver Experiment
By Done-With-It!
Clement called it an "abomination," and told the Vancouver Sun that "allowing and/or encouraging people to inject heroin into their veins is not harm reduction. … [W]e believe it is a form of harm addition." To its critics, Insite ...
 

The Vancouver Poverty Olympics
By jennlaidlaw
With issues like HIV and AIDS, mental illness, homelessness and drug addiction overshadowing athletic glory, not only will Vancouver hopefully be forced to take care of its own, but the world will be forced to reassess the importance of ...
 

Americans offer up wisdom on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Straight.com
By Rod Filbrandt Now that the Associated Press has discovered our dark, dirty, right-out-in-the-open secret of the Downtown Eastside, it is time for a harsh ...
 

Church fears rise in human trafficking
The Province
"In relation to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, public statements have been made which

Canada's Olympics City Has Notorious Skid Row - NYTimes.com
Behind it, dealers and pimps hawk drugs and women in a filthy alley. On the building's front steps is Vancouver's largest open-air drug market, ...

Crime Stoppers And The 2010 Olympics | Crime Stoppers
By Tipshelp
Crime Stoppers Works To Prevent Crime During The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games The Canadian Crime Stoppers Association (CCSA), member of Crime Stoppers.
 

Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row - CNBC | MammasWay.com
By Mamma
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver's Winter Olympics opening ceremonies, four grizzled addicts huddle in the rain, injecting themselves with heroin behind a trash bin. ...

GayandRight: The Americans notice Vancouver....
By GayandRight
... the Downtown Eastside remains a huge problem -- 15 square blocks of despair, squalid rooming houses and alleys populated by thousands of addicts, the homeless, the mentally ill and the drug dealers who prey on them. ...

Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row
San Diego Union Tribune
... of East Hastings street in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver, Canada. ... station overlooking the injection booths at Insite in Vancouver, Canada. ...

The State Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row The State FILE - This May 6, 2008 file photo shows a nurses station overlooking the injection booths at Insite in Vancouver, Canada. Insite is the first legally ...

Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By JEREMY HAINSWORTH AP VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Five blocks away from the venue ... supervisor of Insite, a provincial government-financed office for ...
 

Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row
eTaiwan News
As Vancouver prepares for the Olympics and the descent of the world's media, ... supervisor of Insite, a provincial government-financed office for Downtown ...

Canada's Olympic city has notorious skid row
msnbc.com
Jonathan Hayward / AP VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver's Olympic opening ceremonies, four grizzled addicts huddle ...

British Columbia To Protect Public Transit During 2010 Olympics
Gov Monitor
Police will flood Park & Ride lots with bait vehicles to help keep auto theft at a six-year low, Solicitor General Kash Heed announced today. ...

Police to Continue Permissive Approach to Pot During Games in the ...
By jeremiah
Vancouver is well-known in Canada for its permissive approach to drug use, including the country's only supervised injection site for intravenous drug users. And it's purported that B.C. bud - the high-potency marijuana grown in the province .... You don't have to go to any kind of addiction program. You never hear from anybody. You just fill in the little paper saying that you didn't earn anything that month and drop it in the box and the check comes shortly thereafter. ...

Angry in Vancouver: The Pivot Legal Society
By AiV (Angry in Vancouver)
Vancouver downtown areas are some of the most expensive real estate markets in Canada. The DTE is currently dotted with many low income properties. you can spot them a mile away. they are decaying, dirty filthy and attract drug dealers ...
 

Closing injection site infringes Charter rights | The Sheaf – the ...
By The Sheaf
Wilson and Tomic, alongside the Portland Hotel Society, which operates the site under contract with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, filed a statement of claim against the federal government in 2007. They claimed closing Insite ...

Vancouver 'severely unaffordable': study - Soundoff
In fact we do *more* than most other cities, but unfortunately drug dealers and addicts like Vancouver too! We even fight the federal government to keep the ...
 

Leave good guys alone
Burnaby Now
... even checked on them in any way on that dark piece of road) are off the street, while the grow-ops, drunk drivers and drug dealers run around unchecked.
 

22-year-old, independent gangster arrested on drug, gun charges
Arrested teenager is brother of alleged UN gang drug conspirator ... “2010 is going to be a record year for arresting gangsters and drug dealers. ... Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu apologized Thursday to a 44-year-old man who ...
 

Police intimidated anti-Olympic speakers in Kelowna :: The Hook
By Adrian Nieoczym
2010 Olympics. previous: Welfare-to-work contractor billed government for 'no-show' clients. Police intimidated anti-Olympic speakers in Kelowna. By Adrian Nieoczym January 22, 2010 10:06 am 1 comments. print · email; share ...
 

Police agent caused drug addiction of Hells Angels member, defence ...
By admin
More info...VANCOUVER -- A members of Vancouver's East End chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang became addicted to drugs when a paid police agent supplied.

Remembering Penny Jodway
Abbotsford Times
Jodway struggled with addiction for years and died in an Abbotsford halfway house on Jan. 19, 2009 due to complications resulting from a series of seizures. ...

Increase in sexual assaults expected during 2010 Olympics
rabble.ca (blog)
The total security costs for the 2010 Olympics are expected to be at least $1 billion. Ironically, Joan McIntyre, the MLA for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky ...
 

The Dark Side of the 2010 Olympics » Travel Insights 100
By Julie Schwietert
The Dark Side of the 2010 Olympics. By: Julie Schwietert. Feature photo: hellodan; Photo above: sillygwailo. Vancouver is host to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Is the city sacrificing morality in exchange for the lucrative business of ...

British Columbia News » Blog Archive » Crime rate still too high ...
By admin
Two-thirds of all Criminal Code offences in Vancouver are property crimes. “We have addicted criminal offenders who support their drug addiction by committing property crimes,” Chu said. According to the statistics released yesterday, ...
 

Right Decision, Wrong Reasons
The Mark
Last week, the BC Court of Appeal rendered a decision in the ongoing legal battle over Insite, the safe injection facility in Vancouver. ...
 

Ecology and Participatory Democracy: Why We Resist the 2010 Winter ...
By Timothy
Despite claims to be the “greenest Olympics” ever, and PR statements about 'sustainability', the 2010 Olympics will be among the most environmentally destructive in history, with tens of thousands of trees cut down & mountainsides ...
 

CTV.ca Novel imagines terror attack during 2010 Olympics CTV.ca Vancouver author and criminal lawyer Jay Clarke says his latest thriller, centred on a hypothetical terrorist attack during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, ...

Feature: Historic Vancouver Chinatown building home away from home ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Unlike the beautiful side of Vancouver that city officials want the world to see during ... I don't need the billionaire and I don't need the drug dealer, ...
 

The John Howard Society of Canada: Media Advisory on BC Insite Ruling
By Craig Jones, PhD
Kingston, ON – The John Howard Society of Canada urges the federal government not to appeal the decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeals on Insite – Vancouver's Safe Injection facility -- and to divert the resources from a ...

BC strikes down drug law
The North Bay Nugget
... challenges were filed by PHS Community Services Society and drug addicts Dean Wilson and Shelly Tomic and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. ...
 

Canadian drug-injection site allowed to stay open
Reuters
This is a good day," said Dean Wilson, who has fought his own battles with drug addiction and help to found Insite. The Conservative federal government ...
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Courageous court, obtuse government
Globe and Mail
Canada went too far in holding the threat of criminal prosecution over those who work at or use Insite, the clinic in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. ...
 

World news in brief, 1/16
San Angelo Standard Times
The Conservative government appealed Justice Ian Pitfield's ruling last year that allowed Insite, as the site is known, a constitutional exemption from ...

A victory for common sense around harm reduction: Vancouver's ...
By gossypiboma
Insite supporters can breathe a sigh of relief. On January 15, 2010, the B.C. appeal court upheld a 2008 ruling by the province's Supreme Court that allows the supervised injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to stay open. ...
 

Doctor: Drug war waged against wrong people
... said his way of dealing with heroin addiction was "arresting drug dealers." ... Former Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell was a cop on the Drug Squad, ...

Am Johal The 2010 Olympics have been an attack on civil society in ...
As the opening ceremonies approach for the 2010 Winter Olympics, enthusiasm for the circus has been far lower than expected.

The Straight goods: Another mirage from the RCMP
By Grant G
... Metro Vancouver, the eastside of Vancouver has drug dealers everywhere, every block there is dope, heck they are allowed to carry Crack and heroin and go shoot up at :Insite: and they are going to a legal heroin study in Vancouver, ...
 

Protesters decry corporate presence at celebration
StarPhoenix
About 30 protesters, part of a national movement demonstrating against the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, took their grievances to Saskatoon's Olympic torch relay ...

Will Vancouver meet Olympic promise of helping the poor?
Seattle Times
By Kristi Heim Garbage spills into Columbia Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Contributing to the area's decline are a thriving drug trade and a lack ...
 

Pound predicts Games won't be drug-free
Canada.com
One of the world's top sports anti-doping authorities says it's impossible to guarantee the 2010 Olympics will be drugfree. "I don't think you can guarantee ...

Detroit-based federal agents to provide security for Vancouver Olympics
The Detroit News
... of area federal agents will leave as soon as next week for the Washington-Canadian border to help provide security for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. ...

Vancouver DTES « QuestForFire
Currently, he is on methadone, prescribed by an addiction specialist in Vancouver. It keeps him away from the needle and allows him to focus on getting a ...
 

2010 Olympics
Why protest Vancouver's 2010 Olympics? Last Updated (Wednesday, 31 December 1969 15:59) Written by ORN Saturday, 27 June 2009 02:36 . ...
 

Hunger Strike for Homelessness - Day 1 | Libby Davies - MP for ...
... from drug dealers, to grandmas, veterans, homeless people, drug users, ... If you're in Vancouver and have time - please drop by and show your support ...
 

Simple ploy
The Province
The last chapter will undoubtedly cover the 2010 Olympics for which we lowly taxpayers will foot the bill. If Parliament was in session, the PM couldn't ...
 

Vancouver may help house homeless during cold snap
VANCOUVER -- New emergency shelters to house up to 140 homeless men and women in ... Neighbours said the shelters attracted drug dealers, addicts and ...
 

Newspaper Rock -- Where Native America Meets Pop Culture
By Rob
Protesting poverty at 2010 Olympics. Natives vow to press poverty issues at Olympics By Mark Hume. The federal and British Columbia governments have been warned that the Olympic Games will be used as an international stage to highlight ...

The new Woodward's won't help low-income people
Vancouver Sun
One man talked about his first volunteer job in the Carnegie kitchen: "It was the first time in my life that I was open and honest about my drug addiction. ...
 

Why poverty is so deep in the Downtown Eastside
Why poverty is so deep in the Downtown Eastside By Jean SwansonTwenty five years after working as a community organizer with the Downtown Eastside ...
 

Read and Find Out
It's about a place in Vancouver, BC called Insite. They're the only place in Canada where it's legal to use illegal drugs. Their aim is to get addicts off ...
 

Globe and Mail From slum to new urban mix Globe and Mail LAURA LEYSHON For The Globe and Mail Vancouver — Globe and Mail Update ... a hulking empty building surrounded by vacant storefronts and drug dealers. ...

Staying Alive » matthewgood.org
By Matthew Good
The article speaks about the rising drug and disease problems in the city and about the Insite program in Vancouver. It shows some of the benefits that are coming from it, including billions being saved on health care and a rough ...
 

Gary's New Life: The Rings...
By Gary Haupt
The number of homeless in Metro Vancouver is now approaching 3000 -- there were at least 2660 homeless people in Metro Vancouver on the official day of the count on March 11 -- according to a detailed report released yesterday. ... The vast majority (84 per cent) of homeless people had health problems such as addiction (61 per cent), mental illness (33 per cent) and physical disability (31 per cent). - The so-called working poor are being forced into emergency shelters. ...
 

BreaktheChains.info: 8 Protesters Arrested Attempting to Block ...
By Break the Chains
Today's blockade was to draw attention to the real injustices being perpetuated by VANOC and the IOC for the 2010 Olympics; to draw attention away from the sanitized and greenwashed version of Canada that the government and the Games ...

New Vancouver Heroin Dispensing Clinic Set to Open Before the 2010 ...
By Patrick Edmunson
Even more significant was the fact that the incidence of new drug users in the Widnes-Holton area dropped dramatically, contrary to popular assumptions. Drug dealers simply stayed away because they knew the local addicts didn't need ...

Top 10 Canadian tourism destinations for Chinese
Global Times
Centuries of exploitation and marginalization left the First Nations people on Rama reservation mired in hopelessness and substance addiction. ...
 

News: DECEMBER 2009

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BC man gets licence for record number of marijuana plants
Globe and Mail
“You are much better off to use cannabis to control pain than opiates, because of the side effect, such as dependence, addiction, constipation and liver ...
 

Vancouver women warned as Downtown Eastside killer released
Vancouver police are warning the public that a violent offender who poses a risk ... the Regent Hotel is filled with drug users, prostitutes, drug dealers, ...
 

Vancouver learns Olympics come with a price – Inform
Vancouver is the largest metropolitan area to host a Winter Games but the ... Even the east side drug dealers are getting into the Olympic spirit. ...

2010 Olympics & PETA seal hunt protests
Examiner.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) plan to target the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as part of the PETA campaign to stop seal hunts. ...

VPD bust stolen goods 'market' in Downtown Eastside
News1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130): An undercover operation by Vancouver Police in the Downtown Eastside has resulted in more than 30 arrests. ...

Turmoil in elite Vancouver rescue team
CBC.ca
(www.can-tf1.org) Vancouver's elite Urban Search and Rescue Team is being overhauled less than eight weeks away from the 2010 Olympics, CBC News has learned ...
 

Group warns of Olympics' dark side
Peterborough Examiner
One of the biggest environmental issues out of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics is the clear-cutting of forests to make room for Olympic events, ...
 

Ripping self-control away
Vancouver Sun
If salvia were made illegal, the next day it would be added to the drug dealers' arsenal at a 1500-per-cent profit with no more quality testing or controls.

2010 Olympics: No Logos Allowed That Aren't Allowed ...
By Adrian MacNair
2010 Olympics: No Logos Allowed That Aren't Allowed. December 15, 2009 — Adrian MacNair. There are lots of things to like about Lululemon. All Olympic volunteers are set to be outfitted in official uniforms for the 2010 Winter Games in ...
 

Downtown Eastside Enquirer: Carnegie Claws Back Wifi from Poor
By reliable sources
It used to be that low income people at Carnegie would sit and wait an hour for their turn on a public-access desktop computer to surf the net, until they got hold of laptops and began accessing wifi. Over the past year and a half low ...

AWOL murder suspect found at mugging
The Province
When Vancouver cops on the beat stopped a mugging-style robbery in the Downtown Eastside, they also helped catch a woman facing a second-degree-murder ...
 

Olympic citizen journalists given home in Vancouver
CTV.ca
... official press credentials for the 2010 Winter Olympics will be open throughout the Games in the heart of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. ...

Snowfall could test BC's controversial shelter act
The Province
About 60 Downtown Eastside activists gathered at the steps of the Vancouver Police station on Main Street to protest against the controversial Assistance to ...

Vancouver looking to hire more 'binners' during the Games
Global BC - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
VANCOUVER — The city of Vancouver plans to spend $50000 to hire extra binners ... those with addiction issues, mental illnesses and physical disabilities. ...

Around the Rings (subscription) Olympic Newsdesk - Olympic Ecstasy in Vancouver; Judi Dench says Olympics Hurt ... Around the Rings (subscription) Olympic marketing has now entered the Vancouver drug trade with the Olympic Rings appearing on ecstasy pills. (Vancouver Police) Even drug dealers are ...

 

Wapedia - Wiki: Downtown Eastside Residents Association The association was founded in 1973 by Bruce Eriksen, Libby Davies, Jean Swanson and other residents of the Downtown Eastside and membership is restricted ...

Police uncover ecstasy branded with Olympic logo | Canada | News ...
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside ghetto is notorious for street-level drug-dealing. The federal government licensed a supervised drug injection room in the area to get addicts out of back alleys. Email Story; Print; Size A A A; Report Typo ...
 

Editorial: Separate politics from warm beds
The Province
Providing members of the Vancouver Police Department do as Chief Jim Chu vows they will, it is good news the cops will not be strong-arming the homeless off ...

Aisles be back: Life then and now at Woodward's
Globe and Mail
It's too early and too cold for the drug dealers to be working the corner of Abbott the way they normally do on this street of abandoned buildings. ...
 

City's hard-drug trade thriving
Vancouver's hard drug trade is thriving, with steep increases in the use of ... Drug dealers don't fear them and they see the Courts as weak and Society ...

Investigative Journal » Bingo is Dead, But is He Silenced?
By greg
He died yesterday, alone in a slum hotel room in Vancouver's downtown eastside. I have lost a friend and a brother. We have lost one of our strongest voices. I last saw my brother a week before he died, on the cold street corner of Main ...

Kwantlen instructor's book explores 'mythology' of addiction ...
By Abby Wiseman
After 20 years of working with addicts on the downtown eastside, Laird noticed that the path to addiction and recovery, is similar to many mythological stories about struggling with demons and coming to a place of enlightenment. ...
 

Nesters Market adds sustenance to revitalizing the Downtown Eastside; Nesters ...
Kelowna.com
VANCOUVER – Nesters Market opened a 15000-sq.ft. supermarket in the Woodwards complex on Tuesday, adding its weight to the retail revival in the area. ...
 

The times, they are a chaging
Ubyssey Online
Here are some facts that you cannot avoid: Between 1994 and 2006 the number of homeless people in Vancouver increased by 235 per cent. ...
 

Olympics-Vancouver police won't force homeless into shelters
路透中国
Some anti-poverty advocates say Vancouver's homeless problem is not new, so the the real motivation for the law is to make it easier to hide the poor from ...

Angels in the Night event brings warmth to homeless shelters ...
By Salvation Army
This year, Angels in the Night volunteers will visit homeless shelters in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Vernon, Cranbrook, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Halifax. Start times and locations ... The Salvation Army offers practical assistance for children and families, often tending to the basic necessities of life, provides shelter for homeless people and rehabilitation for people who have lost control of their lives to addiction. ...
 

Students evicted in time for 2010 Olympics
24 Hours Vancouver
By BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS A landlord evicting tenants from her East Vancouver house said she would remove an Internet ad offering Games-time rentals. ...
 

Staff and residents devastated over closure of mental health ...
National Union of Public and General Employees - Nepean,Ontario,Canada
Vancouver (8 Dec. 2009) - Fraser Health Authority has announced more cuts to mental health and addiction services, according to the BC Government and ...

Pete McCormack's Blog » Blog Archive » COPENHAGEN: Do Treaties Get ...
By Pete McCormack
By way of analogy, have you been to the Downtown Eastside lately in Vancouver? Drug addiction is a difficult cycle to break for countless reasons of physical dependence and countless lies to self, among other things. ...

CTV.ca Tenants allege eviction for Olympics profiteering CTV.ca ... A group of Vancouver tenants says their landlord is evicting them from their home in February to profit from high rental rates during the 2010 Olympics. ...

British Columbia News » Blog Archive » Frigid air here to stay awhile
By admin
The alert, however, also gives police the authority, under the recently passed Assistance to Shelter Act, to force homeless people into shelters. Vancouver police have not begun enforcing the law. James Pratt, extreme weather response ...

Olympics Helps Canadian Athletes, but Not Vancouver Homeless | MagMe
By Marc Quaglia
Canada.com has this report on a study being conducted on the impact of the Olympics on Vancouver. Basically, the study shows that Canadian athletes, both amateur and Olympic-level, have improved from the attention and financial influx, ...
 

Cold snap opens extreme weather beds
BCLocalNews
By Jeff Nagel - BC Local News Shelter providers have opened up an extra 400 extreme weather beds for the homeless across Metro Vancouver in response to ...

Four Pillars of Propaganda and a Toothpick - Opinion 250 - News ...
By admin
More than any city in Canada, Vancouver is burdened with an intolerable number of addicts and traffickers festering about in Skid Road – a de facto decriminalized zone equipped with an enabling supervised injection site. ...
 

East Vancouver Living Hope Church: Our Christmas Show was Amazing ...
By Bruce
2) When we arrive at Pioneer Square we will be met with coats and food that we can share with homeless friends who will so see Jesus in us - this is so, so rewarding (dress warm and bring our smiles!) ...

After homelessness: who creates solutions? | Heather Conn Blogs
By Heather Conn
A crack dealer in a wretched downtown eastside hotel offers to pimp out his female friend so that she can pay him back for the drug money she borrowed. n office employee at a government housing agency can find no record of ...
 

Molly'sBlog
By mollymew
The 2010 Olympics are ushering in a new era of militarization and police repression. Activists across the country have been routinely harassed by CSIS and the RCMP in the lead up to the Olympic Games. During the games, new high-tech ...

Downtown Eastside | New Media
It's not just happening in the back alleys I work downtown Right on Granville Street outside of the shops I can see the leavings of our drugaddicted ...
 

Vancouver Downtown Eastside | New Media
Vancouver's downtown eastside is better known for being the poorest urban area code in Canada Whenever I visit the neighborhood Im astonished at the stark ...

CTV.ca Totem pole stolen from Downtown Eastside hotel CTV.ca Thieves recently made off with a totem pole that was meant to bring hope and light to a hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The eight-foot tall totem ...

ADF Alliance Alert » Free condoms for athletes, officials at 2010 ...
By Alliance Alert
Free condoms for athletes, officials at 2010 Olympics. CanWest News Service: “Local health officials will provide up to 100000 free condoms to athletes and officials housed in the Vancouver and Whistler athletes villages during the 2010 ...
 

Vancouver cop says weather alert won't mean homeless taken to shelters under law
The Canadian Press
Jana McGuinness of the Vancouver Police Department said it's business as usual for officers when dealing with the homeless in cold temperatures. ...

Metro Vancouver shelters brace for cold front
Vancouver Sun
By Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver SunDecember 4, 2009 5:24 PM Metro Vancouver municipalities are opening more shelters and gathering blankets for the homeless ...
 

Vancouver council opposes Assistance to Shelter Act
Xtra.ca
His sister, Mona Wilson, lived in the Downtown Eastside. Her head was found in a freezer at convicted serial killer Robert Pickton's Port Coquitlam farm. ...
 

CBC.ca Vancouver issues cold weather alert CBC.ca Vancouver police spokeswoman Const. Jana McGuinness said until then, it's business as usual for officers when dealing with the homeless in cold temperatures ...

Official study on 2010 Olympics shows only moderate benefits so far
The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER, BC — Another study on the impact of the 2010 Winter Games, another conclusion that it's too soon to tell how the Olympics will change BC The ...

Stereogum (blog) Guest Blog By Carey Mercer: How The Vancouver Olympics Is Fucking Over Your ... Stereogum (blog) For example: Vancouver has the most condensed area of homelessness and addiction in Canada (hear: any Vancouver musician's ubiquitous and repetitive ...

Free condoms for athletes, officials at 2010 Olympics
Canada.com
Local health officials will provide up to 100000 free condoms to athletes and officials housed in the Vancouver and Whistler athletes villages during the ...

Swiss human rights NGO slams Canada/2010 Olympics over treatment ...
By nobody@flickr.com (The Blackbird)
and The Blackibird's pleased to fulfill the editor's request to help illustrate. This is the cover of the current edition of Voice, a biennial publication of Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (the Society for Threatened Peoples) based in ...
 

Vancouver won't hide problems for 2010, doc says (in 2010 Olympics ...
By admin
A June 19 City of Vancouver communications platform said Olympic branding won't be used to hide the worst of the city. Where most Olympic cities sweep.
 

Policy breakthrough: House the homeless first, then help them with their problems
Vancouver Sun
While each of the five cities -- Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg -- will focus on a specific subgroup of the mentally ill homeless ...
 

No Olympics on Stolen Native Land « Solidarity with Six Nations
By alex hundert
Part of the message of the 2010 Olympics is that Canada has reconciled with First Nations—that this is a post-apology Canada. They are trying to make the world forget that we are one of only three countries that have not signed the UN ...

CENSORED NEWS: Canada's Nazi border guards
By brendanorrell@gmail.com
SAN FRANCISCO - When Canada's Nazi border guards detained Amy Goodman, they hoped to silence any critical comments she would make about the 2010 Olympics. It backfired. Goodman said she didn't plan to discuss the Olympics in her talk. ...

Muddled handling of Vancouver's Little Mountain angers residents ...
By Katie Dangerfield
The promise of reimbursement will go into supportive housing, homes meant for those with mental health and drug addiction issues. “They are fully different things. The province is trying to change the meaning of social housing,” said ...
 

Government of Canada Helps Youth in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Prepare for Jobs
Market Wire (press release)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 1, 2009) - Local youth who face barriers to employment will get job-preparation training and work experience ...

Homeless man breaks parole - again
North Shore News
A homeless man has been jailed for the second time in three weeks after he was spotted in West Vancouver breaking a court-imposed curfew hours after his ...
 

November 2009

Billboard posted to collect tips for murder investigation
Metro Canada - Vancouver
Vancouver police unveiled this billboard in the Downtown Eastside yesterday to generate clues in the death of Lisa Francis, a sex worker who lived in the ...
 

Downtown Eastside readying for world media The Globe and Mail
Thousands of international reporters are expected to prowl through the Downtown Eastside during the Olympic Games this February looking for a story about ...
 

2010 Vancouver Olympics Integrated Security Unit Pays Me a Visit ...
By blackandred
Four weeks ago these two Cops paid a visit to ask me questions about my involvement with resistance to the 2010 Olympics. They questioned me on my involvement with the Native Youth Movement, the Warriors Societies, and any ...
 

Crack and meth are too readily available in Vancouver: Report
Metro Canada - Ottawa
The 10-year study followed almost 2000 illicit-drug users in Vancouver, some of whom are homeless. Vancouver shares this problem with other large cities. ...
 

Ottawa defends 2010 Canada pavilion decision
CTV Olympics
VANCOUVER - Ottawa is defending its decision to award an American-based company the contract to build the Canada pavilion for the 2010 Olympics. ...
 

Poverty kills: Why isn't anyone doing anything about it?
Vancouver Sun
At the Carnegie Centre in the Downtown Eastside where I volunteer, these stats are in your face every morning when you come in the building. ...

Home forfeited to B.C. gov't - Soundoff
By soundoff
No more drug dealers, no prostitutes or police patrols. Don't feel sorry for the owner of this home because she promoted criminal activity in an otherwise safe neighbourhood. Trust me, this house HAD to be shut down. ...

Coroner's report details life, death of homeless woman
Vancouver Courier
And nine non-profit organizations that operate in the Downtown Eastside have called on Coleman to dump the law. Creating more shelter space and permanent ...
 

Doctor says flow of drugs in Vancouver can't be reduced
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... the Downtown Eastside that showed the Vancouver Police Department's citywide ... of the Insite drug injection site and referred addicts to the facility. ...
 

Streams of Justice: Homelessness knows no city borders
By Streams of Justice
But homelessness and the other problems facing the Downtown Eastside are challenges not just for that neighbourhood or for the city of Vancouver. They are problems that all levels of government -- municipal, regional, provincial, ...
 

Vancouver police say they won't confiscate anti-Olympic signs
StarPhoenix
By Damian Inwood, The provinceoctober 23, 2009 Vancouver cops will not act as "sign police" during the 2010 Olympics, says city police chief Jim Chu. ...
 

CTV British Columbia Vancouver Park Board votes to close two landmarks CTV British Columbia Gee if we decriminalized drugs, educate the people with addiction problems, this would save thousands of $$$ on court cost and incarcerating people with ...

Advocates label shelter act an Olympic ploy
Canada.com
The proposed Assistance To Shelter Act is really a "Kidnap the Homeless Act" and is nothing more than a ploy to beautify the Downtown Eastside for the ...
 

Drug abuse on the rise in Vancouver
TopNews United States - Little Rock,Arkansas,USA
The Vancouver news conference was told by the authors that a dramatic reduction ... such as the InSite injection facility on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. ...
 

Sightseeing float-plane tours banned during Vancouver Olympics
Canada.com
... companies say hundreds of thousands of tourist dollars will be grounded by a ban on sightseeing charter flights during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. ...
 

New skating rink at Olympics hub
The Province
It's part of the $40-million renovation of Robson Square, which will be a major hub during the 2010 Olympics. "The rink is something that says to people, ...
 

Global Company Acts Locally: Gives Hope in the City
Earthtimes (press release)
International payment processing company PacNet Services pledges its annual support of the Vancouver chapter of the Salvation Army's Hope in the City ...

Mouldy houses split Musqueam band
Globe and Mail
Squamish Chief Gibby Jacob said yesterday the band's 2010 Olympics legacy fund was spent on a cultural centre, a national aboriginal youth sports fund and ...
 

City's hard-drug trade thriving
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
About 90 per cent of adult drug-users in Vancouver say they can score cocaine ... Not only has the supervised drug-injection facility Insite been shown to ...
 

No fears of Olympic torch protests in Huntsville
Huntsville Forester
There's also concern with legislation the British Columbian government introduced that allows police to force homeless people into shelters during extreme ...
 

News1130 Downtown Eastside advocates call for an end to the Assistance to Shelter Act News1130 Advocates of the Downtown Eastside are urging the government to end the Assistance to Shelter Act, claiming the legislation that forces the homeless into ...

CBC.ca Vancouver hard-drug use up: study CBC.ca Advocates of supervised drug-taking centres such as the InSite injection facility on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside have argued for a similar site for the ...

Most addicts can buy crack or crystal meth within minutes: study ...
Kelowna.com - Kelowna,British Columbia,Canada
Illicit stimulant drugs are so cheap and abundant in Vancouver that a majority of ... Vancouver's first supervised injection site, Insite, opened in 2003. ...
 

Half to Whole: "A Better Existence..."
By Ruby
He is a medical doctor in Vancouver's East Side which is the most concentrated area of addicts in North America. The misery and suffering, and at times, profound hope is incomparable and difficult to understand. ...
 

The Vancouverite: 2010 Olympics: Torch Fail
By Jackson Murphy
2010 Olympics: Torch Fail. Wait, what, cold, windy weather has turned the Olympic flame, in the Olympic Fail: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic flame has been extinguished a dozen times so far due to cold, windy weather, said torch relay ...
 

Redevelopment Project Doubles as Social Experiment
New York Times
But critics have long complained about a blotch on the city's self-image as an urban utopia: the Downtown Eastside, a notorious high-poverty neighborhood ...

Another Point of View: Oh, Canada ...
By Mentarch
The working poor are getting pushed out of Vancouver, out to the suburbs," said Rich, an outreach worker, as he drove across Surrey. "A lot of these people, when they move here, they are like one pay cheque away from becoming homeless." ... By that he meant people who are still working, and who had not yet slipped into the well of addiction or mental illness. "They're just poor," he said. "They simply don't earn enough money to live in this society." ...
 

Sixth gangster arrested for Surrey Six slaughter
Vancouver Sun
Bacon and Le each face one count of conspiracy to commit murder and one count of first-degree murder in the slaying of drug dealer Cory Lal, ...
 

The Canadian Press Mental Health Commission begins 5-year project to help homeless Canadians The Canadian Press "Neither the mental health system nor the addiction system is very successful at providing services to this particular population. ...

2010 street cleanup takes shape
BCLocalNews
... order on the streets are moving through the BC legislature as the government gets ready to host the world and its news media at the 2010 Olympics. ...
 

Time for a new approach to heroin addiction, Vancouver says
When North America's first purpose-built, supervised site for using heroin opened in Vancouver in early February, all that was missing were the addicts. ...

Dousing the Olympic spirit
Vernon Morning Star
They are creating laws to round up homeless people, to negate freedom of expression, to wipe out legal collective bargaining rights and to attack small ...
 

Welcome to George Orwell's Vancouver 2010
Examiner.com
George Orwell's 1984 in part, mirror one aspect of Big Brother is watching you, as Vancouver prepares for the 2010 Olympics this winter. ...
 

BC sees downside to Games: survey
Canada.com
... Canwest News ServiceNovember 21, 2009 BC residents are more skeptical than average Canadians about the potential benefits of the 2010 Olympics, ...
 

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just fracas: Who's Your Drug Dealer?
By fracas
Thousands of parcels with phoney drugs have been intercepted at Vancouver's international mail centre over the past six months, according to Sgt. Duncan Pound, media relations officer for the RCMP's Federal Border Integrity Program. ... I'm not planning on making some unknown and elusive party on the other end of an online order into my drug dealer. When I need drugs, it's just going to have to be scrawled on a piece of paper no one can read but my pharmacist, ...
 

Globe and Mail Lessons learned Globe and Mail A powerful-looking man with a gravelly voice, he was homeless before he came to the centre and “spent so long on Hastings Street that you could call me an ...

New drug law will drive up prison costs
Canada.com
... proposed mandatory drug sentences compare them to failed US policies and say they lead to prison overcrowding and end up punishing street-level dealers, ...

The stages of homelessness
Surrey Leader
Otis has mental health issues and lives on the streets in Vancouver, taking shelter under a tarp. "And he is just like Morgan," Forry says. ...
 

Scientists have a duty to challenge government policies, top ...
CMAJ - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Kerr, director of the BC Centre's Urban Health Research Initiative, said his centre's research into the downtown Vancouver Insite supervised safe-injection ...
 

Gang ties suspected in drug bust
BCLocalNews
I don't think that's what you'd call a low-level drug dealer,” he said. The pair had rented the upper level of the home for the last four or five months. ...

Canada Line delivers 15000 extra visitors a week to River Rock casino
Kelowna.com - Kelowna,British Columbia,Canada
METRO VANCOUVER – The River Rock Casino Resort is making it much easier for ... or drug dealers who often utilize a rapid transit line to commit crimes. ...
 

November: Staying healthy on the Downtown Eastside
Kelowna.com
In November, Operation Phoenix focused on the health of people who live on the Downtown Eastside: the treatment available, the food they eat and their ...
 

Blanket drive set to launch
BCLocalNews
It has evolved to help the homeless and working poor all over the region. There has been a huge change over the years in the people who need this help. ...
 

Welcome to the 'Burbs, Meet the New Homeless
TheTyee.ca - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Add people couch surfing or crashing in drug houses. ... Her wandering tale of legal woe involved crooked car dealers, shady lawyers, and even the Hells ...

World's Most Annoying Cities
By Carlo Alcos
I'm from Vancouver originally, where there is a HUGE homeless situation and I certainly don't condemn them for begging or squeegie-ing windows at intersections. It is a bit self-centered to be annoyed in these situations (well, ...
 

Bonjour. It is welfare wednesday tonight.
The drug dealers are giddy. If you have direct deposit they can start earning serious dough shortly after midnight as even junkies have atm cards. They value them for the instant fix after the funds from disability or welfare come ...
 

World's Most Annoying Cities
By Carlo Alcos
I'm from Vancouver originally, where there is a HUGE homeless situation and I certainly don't condemn them for begging or squeegie-ing windows at intersections. It is a bit self-centered to be annoyed in these situations (well, ...

Swollen Members survive and thrive after addiction The Gateway Online - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada Between a bandmates struggle with addiction, one might think Prevail would have material enough to brood, but the streets of Vancouver offer up an endless ...

Pharmacists help fight drug abuse
Financial Post
In small-town Ontario, crystal meth abuse still exists; in Vancouver, you'll see reports of heroin use. "We understood early on that, to be effective, ...
 

Mannkind Charity » Photo-Experience of the Downtown Eastside ...
By admin
The articles I would like to share today are insightful photo-journals & reports of the downtown eastside of Vancouver, BC (DTES). I found them while researching the area and I feel I was able to develop a better sense of the place ...

Leaders and citizens seek solutions to aboriginal homelessness ...
By Christine McLaren
Politicians, Aboriginal leaders, and community members gathered today for the first of what the Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Services Society hopes will be many multi-leveled discussions aimed at seeking solutions to Vancouver's problem of aboriginal homelessness. ... Whether they're homeless, whether they're drug addicts, whether they're prostitutes, I don't want to shrug off what they have to say,” she told The Tyee at a break in the forum. ...
 

Job cuts likely option to balance Vancouver budget
Globe and Mail
Deputy Chief Constable Bob Rolls said the “unique” staffing requirements of the 2010 Olympics mean the reductions will have to be phased in over coming ...
 

Putting the homeless to work
New Westminster Newsleader
Eventually, after months of unsuccessful treatment, Geromino began living on the Downtown Eastside streets. For three years he lived the life of a homeless ...

looking for uncle
i am trying to find an uncle that we have lost contact with the past 6 years we know he was living in the downtown eastside area of hastings and clark his nmae is ray gilliland if anyone has any info please email me at ...
 

Olympics must follow law, ski jumpers' lawyer says
Vancouver Sun
Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms should apply to female ski jumpers who want to compete at the 2010 Olympics because public funds are being spent to ...
 

Trek to fight homelessness
Sudbury Star
Man and dog have been walking across the country from Vancouver, pushing and pulling a cart that contains just about everything they need to sustain life on ...

Police Have a Supersonic Megaphone for the 2010 Olympics | MagMe
By Alex Wingert
The Globe and Mail Reports that the Vancouver police department purchased the LRAD 500X (supersonic sound gun) in the summer before the Celebration of Light, and they plan on using it for the upcoming 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
 

VPD adds 'sound cannon' to its Olympic armoury :: The Hook
By Crawford Kilian
A representative for the Vancouver Police Department confirmed to the BCCLA last week that the VPD has acquired an LRAD (Long Range Acoustical Device) crowd control weapon for the 2010 Olympics. He advised that the VPD would be using ...
 

Pyrrhic Olympic Victory: Chasing the Poor Out of Vancouver's ...
By editor@thestranger.com (Andrea Woo)
After all, Vancouver is routinely voted the world's best city to live in; could it really include a neighborhood rampant with homelessness and visible drug abuse, where condoms and syringes litter the pavement, and addicts lurch through

PrescriptionDrugs . jpg Prescription addiction BCLocalNews - Victoria,BC,Canada “I would steal script pads and sell them to my dealers,” he said the North Vancouver man who managed to get help for his prescription drug addiction at the ...

The good, the bad and the ugly of Olympics
Sudbury Star
... to accommodate the "look," the stories of homeless people being moved because, heaven forbid, the world should see that Vancouver has homeless people. ...

Vancouver residents to be honoured for work in drugs Vancouver Sun Nadelmann says Vancouver's “European common sensibility thinking” approach addresses drug use and addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal matter. ...

News1130 Larry Campbell co-authors book about Downtown Eastside News1130 The book looks at key moments that helped make the Downtown Eastside the way it is today, such as how drug addiction took a turn for the worse in the 80's ...

Low-key learning centre enabled UBC to bond with the Downtown Eastside
Vancouver Sun
It wanted to help solve urban problems such as poverty, crime, drug addiction and homelessness by establishing a presence near Hastings and Main, ...
 

Lack of Social Housing - Death on the Street on Flickr - Photo ...
By nobody@flickr.com (bluegoose0fox)
They claim to represent the poor and homeless and oppose the 2010 Olympics being held in Vancouver. Some of their protestesters have gone over the line and some members of the group have broken the law. This is one group that the 2010 ...
 

Addicts grow tired of fight for prescriptions
Georgia Straight
By Shadi Elien Vancouver resident Lee Wiebe knows what it's like to endure perpetual agony. Wiebe, who is on the board of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug ...
 

Two 'nice fellows' who live in a carport
The Province
Darcy left a Downtown Eastside hotel after getting frustrated with bedbugs. He's a recovering heroin addict and is on methadone. He's been off cocaine for a ...

Organization eyes second supervised injection site
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Townsend said Insite, which handles an average of 600 injections per day, ... more sites to handle the estimated 12000 intravenous drug users in Vancouver.
 

Paramedics strike decision linked to Olympics, memo suggests (in ...
By admin
Paramedics strike decision linked to Olympics, memo suggests (in 2010 Olympics). A strongly worded VANOC memo could be behind the provincial government's decision to force striking paramedics back to work, a union leader representing ...
 

Where they learn how to turn up the flame
The Province
Because this is no ordinary kitchen, but a Downtown Eastside job-training program disguised as a cheerful neighbourhood cafe. For the past two years, ...
 

Canada Stages WMD Drill Ahead of 2010 Olympics
Global Security Newswire
Canadian authorities yesterday began a five-day drill that was expected to include a staged WMD event, as part of preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics ...
 

Native Youth Movement: Send the Olympic Torch Back to Europe ...
By blackandred
Canada likely to face criticism over first nations · Olympic Cowichan Sweat Not Made by Natives · Don't Fear Olympic Protests · Chiefs Ponder Protests During 2010 Olympics · Beware of Recognition & Reconciliation Act: Art Manuel ...
 

Vancouver homeless need their belongings accounted for, critics say
Globe and Mail
“However, she refused, stating shelters around Vancouver did not allow for carts.” Of about 25 homeless shelters in Vancouver, only three – the remaining ...
 

Baiting Olympic Protesters in Vancouver, BC
The Vancouver Observer (blog)
The biggest concern in Canada regarding the 2010 Olympics revolves around First Nations issues. It's no secret a large number of Aboriginals feel slighted ...

Olympic torch relay draws a crowd
Daily Press
Speakers objected to the massive spending while BC continues to struggle with homelessness and drug addiction. Government officials were blasted for siding ...
 

Vancouver to open illegal smoking site for crack cocaine ...
By Daniel Guillemette
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), is planning a safe smoking site for crack cocaine users in the Downtown Eastside.

    News: October 2009     

Baiting Olympic Protesters in Vancouver, BC
The Vancouver Observer (blog)
The biggest concern in Canada regarding the 2010 Olympics revolves around First Nations issues. It's no secret a large number of Aboriginals feel slighted ...
 

Anti-Olympic protests force 2010 torch relay to divert in Victoria
The Canadian Press
VICTORIA, BC — Protesters agitating for years against the 2010 Olympics took their first chance to disrupt Games planning Friday and forced a diversion of ...
 

Vancouver to open illegal smoking site for crack cocaine ...
By Daniel Guillemette
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), is planning a safe smoking site for crack cocaine users in the Downtown Eastside

Canada - Lethal Heroin, Killer Coke and Expo 86: How the Downtown ...
By chillinwill
Canada - Lethal Heroin, Killer Coke and Expo 86: How the Downtown Eastside fell apart Culture (News)

Residents suggest solutions to Downtown Eastside problems ...
By ccapvancouver
My family has a long history of living in this part of Vancouver, so we have seen what the drug trade and dealers have done to our neighborhood. I take offense that you always call out the police and condo owners, and do not focus the ...
 

First Nation close to deal to sell Cowichan sweaters at 2010 Olympics
Metro Canada - Toronto
"So we're also looking at incorporating a reflection of the 2010 Olympics as part of a design." A spokeswoman said the Hudson's Bay Company wouldn't be ...

What to do about the homeless?
Metro Canada - Vancouver
A homeless person uses a shopping cart and a plastic sheet as a makeshift shelter in the Downtown Eastside. Instead of finding ways to force homeless people ...

The world will be watching us
Times Colonist
But also to show that people toasting the Vancouver Olympics and people gathering to raise concerns about them or other issues can share public space ...
 

When she says it's swell, she means it
National Post
'What's your tolerance for crazy street stuff," asks my friend Tim as he leads me around Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for an impromptu tour of what's ...
 

Three more dead of H1N1 as severe cases soar in BC
BCLocalNews
Street outreach clinics are now being dispatched to inoculate the homeless and other at-risk people. Some clinics are underway in rural First Nations ...
 

National Post 'It never ends' National Post Ian Lindsay, Canwest News Service Vancouver's Gladys Radek patrols the city's Downtown Eastside. "It pissed me off that these women were going missing ...

Historic vaccine rollout begins as flu ramps up Globe and Mail In Vancouver, officials focused on at-risk groups, including residents of the notorious Downtown Eastside, where prevalent health problems are thought to ...

Homeless, rooming house residents at risk for early death: study
The Canadian Press
"It raises very interesting questions about this Pandora's box of chronic disease in low-income, marginalized people," he said from Vancouver. ...

Winter Olympics: Stay or Go?
TheTyee.ca
with guests, and fund homeless charities. Crowd-sourced 'social media' may swamp corporate coverage at 2010 Games. "Should I stay or should I go now? ...

Local News Story
By Tyler Noble Email news tips to Tyler
Premier Gordon Campbell says he told members of a First Nations choir in Newfoundland two years ago it would be "great" if they could sing at the 2010 Olympics. But they thought they would be performing during the opening ceremonies, ...

Convicted robber accused of new 7-robbery spree
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - An accused serial bank robber was arrested Friday evening in the Downtown Eastside after being spotted by police officers, said Const. ...

H1N1 pandemic could be 'dangerous' for Canada's homeless: advocates
The Canadian Press
Health officials in many cities are setting up H1N1 inoculation clinics in some of their biggest homeless shelters. In Vancouver, outreach nurses will be ...

Native Activist Threatened With "Rendition" by Olympic Cops ...
By blackandred
I was walking westbound on Pender to Columbia Street in the Downtown Eastside, when I saw two males loitering around the corner. One look at their sad faces told me they were pigs. As I waited for the light at the crosswalk (jaywalking ...

Olympics cancelled for Mi'kmaq choir from NL
CBC.ca
A choir of young aboriginal singers from Conne River, on Newfoundland's south coast, has been told they won't perform at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver in ...

Claims injection site reducing Downtown Eastside crime "very much exaggerated ...
The Province
A man smokes a crack pipe on the sidewalk outside the Insite safe injection site on Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Thursday, December 6, ...
 

Drug MayhemWorse But Downtown Eastside Man's Life Better
... want it but there's so much more to the Downtown Eastside than drugs and all that Leland 51 is one of 12 residents from the Downtown Eastside who agreed ...

Cops kicking us out, homeless say
The Gazette (Montreal)
Officials have started an aggressive campaign to sweep citizens from Vancouver streets and parks for the 2010 Games, according to some homeless people. ...

Olympic Flame for Vancouver 2010 Winter Games lit at Olympia ...
We are ready to welcome the world,” noted John Furlong, CEO of the Organising Committee for the VANCOUVER 2010 Olympics Games. Olympic Flame will be travelling across Greece for six days some 2180 kilometers and it will be handed over ...

Downtown Eastside 'high priority' for H1N1 shots
Globe and Mail
... obviously, and addiction issues, so they are very susceptible to complications with the flu,” Vancouver Coastal Health spokeswoman Anna Marie D'Angelo ...
 

No smoking allowed (unless it's crack)
Globe and Mail
But the idea that drug addicts can be encouraged to quit is deeply out of fashion. Instead, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside – perhaps the most degraded ...
 

Long-term solutions needed
BCLocalNews
... he needs to focus more on permanent solutions, because the homeless will still be in the streets long after the excitement of the 2010 Olympics is over. ...
 

Crack-addict safe-inhalation zone just nuts
The Province
It drew raves, but it didn't prevent the Downtown Eastside from later developing one of the western world's highest rates of HIV infection. ...

Homeless will be forced away from Olympic venues and routes - Soundoff
By soundoff
this still does not hide the fact that there are alot of homeless people living in and around Vancouver's streets.wake up olympics,wake up ploliticians.how much longer will you turn a blind eye?you big wig idiots who don't give a hell ...
 

National Post editorial board: Jumping to crack conclusions - Full ...
By NP Editor
Researchers in Vancouver have taken an audacious step this week by calling for crack cocaine use to be considered an independent source of HIV risk, based on a new local study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and recommending the ... The federal government is fighting in court for the ability to shut down the city's Insite program; now, at the same moment, many of Insite's traditional defenders are effectively suggesting that the program ought to be expanded, ...
 

Homelessness Costing BC taxpayers Canucks Board
The climate is indeed a factor to the homeless Vancouver has the most mild climate in the country so it stands to reason that if you have to sleep on the ...
 

Safe injection sites not a constitutional right: lawyer
Vancouver Sun
The comments were made by Robert Frater, a lawyer for the federal attorney-general, during an appeal of a ruling that allows Insite, Vancouver's safe ...
 

Parents Sue Alleged Killers of 6
Courthouse News Service
Defendants Dennis Karbovanec, James Bacon, Cody Haevischer, Matthew Johnston and Michael Le plotted to kill a rival drug dealer, Corey Lal, who lived in the ...
 

Crack cocaine smoking increases risk of HIV: Vancouver study shows
570 News
Ottawa has challenged a BC court ruling that would have allowed the Insite facility to remain open. The BC Appeals Court is expected to rule on the case ...
 

BC health official considers supervised rooms for crack addicts
Globe and Mail
A crack cocaine addict uses a crack pipe to get high in Vancouver's downtown Eastside. John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail Globe and Mail Update Published on ...

Existing laws in place to protect prostitutes, state: government
National Post
Steve Bosch/Canwest News Service A social worker talks to a prostitute on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A challenge to the constitutionality of Canada's ...

Charges laid after vicious beating in Downtown Eastside
News1130
The two men share a suite in a building on Union Street in the Downtown Eastside. Constable Lindsey Houghton says police arrived to find a trail of blood ...
 

Lawyers afraid to sue gangsters, mother of murder victim claims
BCLocalNews
... of Balmoral Towers and the owners of the condo suite where the killing took place, saying they should not have rented the unit to known drug dealers. ...

Crack smoking rooms may cut HIV risk: BC team
CBC.ca
Dr. Evan Wood of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and his colleagues looked at 1048 injection drug users in Vancouver for an average of nine years. ...
 

Canada Study Finds Link Between Smoking Crack, HIV
The Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Smoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading ... it to allow the Insite supervised injection facility to remain open

Canada study finds link between smoking crack, HIV
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
The Vancouver neighborhood's problems of drugs, poverty and homelessness are ... it to allow the Insite supervised injection facility to remain open. ...

Parents of Chris Mohan sue Surrey Six murder suspects
The Province
... James Kyle Bacon, Cody Haevischer, Matthew Johnston and Michael Le, who were allegedly involved in a plot to kill rival drug dealer Corey Lal. ...
 

The 2010 question « Cultural learnings of America's hat
By brand0con
Probably the biggest and most legitimate concern facing Vancouver this February is the homelessness problem which is already severely exacerbated by the games. Though this city remains progressive on many social service fronts, ...
 

Two tales of a city
Toronto Sun
The homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted are on edge, life on the street is stressful and the Olympics are bringing new concern of disruption to already ...
 

SIKH NEWS: WORLD SIKH ORGANIZATION WELCOMES 2010 OLYMPICS
By SIKH DHARMA BHAIBANDI
Welcomes 2010 Olympics. Accommodation Policy Punjab Newsline Network Friday, 16 October 2009. OTTAWA: The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) welcomes theannouncement of guidelines by the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit ...
 

Protest zones” leave critics doubtful
Ubyssey Online
One of the ways in which organizers are hoping to ensure safe protests during the 2010 Olympics is through the use of protest zones, also known as safe ...
 

Legal observers train for 2010 Olympics Georgia Straight ... of these risks when she attended a recent workshop for civilians interested in monitoring protests and potential hot spots during the 2010 Olympics. ...

Reuters South Africa Vancouver torch ceremony will be safe: HOC Reuters South Africa By Karolos Grohmann ATHENS (Reuters) - The Vancouver 2010 Olympics torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia next week will see none of the protests that ...

Vancouver torch ceremony will be safe - HOC
Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
ATHENS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The Vancouver 2010 Olympics torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia next week will see none of the protests that tarnished the ...
 

Canada looking more like German 1936 Olympics | NJN Network
By Stephen Pate
The 2010 Olympics will be a hellhole of police state measures with far-reaching effects that could remain in place long after the Games are finished. Puppetgov. Of course, the have the ill-conceived suspension of Charter freedom of ...

Homeless man set on fire in attack
Metro Canada - Vancouver
According to Vancouver police, the man spotted a couch on the sidewalk near Fifth Avenue and Commercial Drive and decided to lay down. ...

Newlyweds dish out turkey -- and some compassion
CTV British Columbia
Sally and Mitchell Stevens busily prepared Thanksgiving dinners for 200 people at the Empress Hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Sunday. ...
 

New law allowing removal of signs from homes challenged by ...
By soundoff
First get rid of the homeless people wandering around B.C., particularly in Vancouver. Foreign visitors coming here for the Winter Olympic 2010 will never know we have homeless problem here. Then get rid of the anti-Olympic signs in ...

Vancouver doctors reach out to homeless youth battling mental illness
Hospital News
It's estimated that there are currently 700 homeless youth living on the streets of Vancouver and many of them struggling with addiction. ...
 

Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group
CBC.ca
Earlier this week, the association helped two anti-Olympics activists launch a legal challenge of Vancouver's 2010 Olympics bylaw in BC Supreme Court, ...
 

Cocaine cut with antibiotic could cause deadly infection: health unit
Edmonton Sun - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... being warned that drug dealers may have laced it with a veterinary antibiotic ... been reported on Vancouver Island and BC's Lower Mainland between Jan. ...

Anti-Anti-Olympic Bylaw in BC Unconstitutional? : Law is Cool
By admin@lawiscoool.com (Omar Ha-Redeye)
Earlier this week, the association helped two anti-Olympics activists launch a legal challenge of Vancouver's 2010 Olympics bylaw in B.C. Supreme Court, claiming it was an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. ...
 

Deep Cove man takes on 2010 bylaw
North Shore News
... that would give Vancouver, Whistler and Richmond greater powers to swiftly remove graffiti and signs that violate local bylaws during the 2010 Olympics.
 

Picture of the day: drug deal on Google Street View – Vancouver ...
By Robert Jago
The only “gem” I was able to find was this one photo of a drug deal behind the library at Main and Hastings (in the back by the pole). If you've never been to Vancouver's downtown eastside, now's your chance to take a tour. ...
 

Vancouver Olympic bylaw stifles expression, critics say
CTV Olympics
Two Olympic critics fear that's the goal of a new Vancouver bylaw and they are challenging it in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, with the support of ...
 

New contract for Harbour Light staff in Vancouver
National Union of Public and General Employees
They provide food, shelter and counseling services to Downtown Eastside residents. The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one of ...

Area on the right track
Vernon Morning Star
“We're trying hard all over BC to house our homeless and the couch surfers and to get affordable housing built,” said the former Vancouver mayor. ...

Homelessness In VancouverBC « Eligrace's Blog
homelessness Vancouver BC is a very big problem were people want homeless people to live in shelters instead of living on the streets one of the reasons ...

Don't give crossing guard plan the green light
Vancouver Courier
It's well documented there are myriad problems facing the hundreds of drug addicts and homeless people living on the streets of the Downtown Eastside. ...

CTV British Columbia Shelters filling up fast, and it's not even winter CTV British Columbia Most of the city's shelters, particularly those in the Downtown Eastside, are full with more people being turned away than usual. "There are definitely more ...

Sex workers launch challenge of prostitution laws
Canada.com
"We know people have gone missing in Vancouver, in Winnipeg, in Calgary. There's hundreds of them. And so it's a sinister contradiction to tell people you ...

Working to Eliminate Homelessness
Opinion250 News (blog)
I guess that a good start for the homeless problem in PG would be to have Vancouver quit giving its homeless one-way bus tickets to PG. ...

Jeff Jedras: Liberals need to call Harper's bluff on crime
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
I wouldn't want the east side of Vancouver monitored more than the west side of ... such as Insite, by doing nothing to address poverty and root causes, ...
 

Re-zoning for recovery centre in Newton passed by council
News1130
SURREY (NEWS1130) - Surrey council will re-zone space at 68th and King George Highway for a new private addiction recovery centre. ...

Clean needles a vital part of anti-drug policy
Phnom Penh Post
Second, the author displays a deep misunderstanding of how the cities of New York and Vancouver have dealt with drug use. In fact, during roughly the past ...

Woodward's tipped to turn Downtown Eastside around by 2012
The Province
At 116 Hastings, the owner of the Golden Crown Hotel is in a scrap with the Downtown Eastside Residents Association and the city over attempts to evict ...
 

Surrey residents fear proposed privately-run "life-skill academy"
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
A gangland-style slaying outside a Vancouver halfway house has Surrey ... “Those that have vendettas against drug dealers could pose a huge risk,” said mom ...
 

Vancouver 2010: A Foreboding “Recolonization” of the First Nations ...
By grant137
many people in vancouver protest the 2010 olympics, fearing that they will adulterate the painful. many in vancouver protest the 2010 olympics, fearing that they will adulterate the painful effects of poverty in the area. ...

'Hillbilly heroin' use common in rural BC
Canada.com
“This new study suggests that British Columbians in smaller towns are at greater risk of inappropriate use, possibly addiction,” said Steve Morgan, ...
 

Lock 'em up?
Phnom Penh Post
Because drugs impact people in different ways some people are more susceptible to addiction. They need care and support. With programs like Korsang there is ...

Winds of change come to Hastings
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
I'm not dealing with addicts and dealers in the doorway," he said. ... and a nearby seafood restaurant on East Hastings -- both for alleged drug dealing. ...
 

Change.org (blog) No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Native Land Change.org (blog) Despite claims to be the “greenest Olympics” ever, and PR statements about 'sustainability', the 2010 Olympics will be among the most environmentally ...

The ghosts of Riverview will haunt Olympics
North Shore News
Many of Vancouver's homeless are simply mentally ill. The government is terrified that they will spoil its extravagant $6-billion party next February, ...
 

2010 Olympics
All eyes are on Canada as it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics This extra attention will bring increased scrutiny and comes with the added ...
 

2010 Olympics
As the 2010 Olympics approach the possibility of civil liberties violations have been cited by a number of community organizations as a major concern ...
 

VCH pledges substance abuse counselling stays
North Shore News
"A problem with addiction services, and to be fair mental health services, is that they tend to specialize in either addictions or mental health," he said, ...
 

BC government wants to jail the homeless
Vancouver Sun
In the years since the Olympic bid, the Downtown Eastside (DTES) has lost as many as 1200 units of low-income housing to tourist rentals, condominiums, ...
 

Back on the streets Nanaimo News Bulletin Now in his 60s, he wants to give a first-person perspective about what it is like to be homeless. He plans to spend a week on the streets. ...

North Shore News WV's new top cop gets a hot hello North Shore News "(But) in terms of being able to meet the long-term needs of people who are homeless, it is not a policing issue." It makes more sense for law enforcement ...

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver 2010 Olympics Update | Mostly Water
By blackandred
We know you already know that the 2010 Olympics are only a few short months away and are well aware that the Games are having a devastating impact on our communities - from traditional Indigenous territories to the Downtown Eastside, ...

CBC.ca Olympics could boost insurance costs CBC.ca ICBC's Mark Jan Vrem won't say how much of an increase in collisions the corporation expects during the 2010 Olympics. (CBC) "Certainly there may be more ...

Michelle Malkin » FLOTUS: Chicago needs Olympics because American ...
By Michelle Malkin
Chicago hopes to sidestep Vancouver-type problems, Ryan said, by using multiple developers and lenders on the village development. “Vancouver selected a single long-term financial partner, and that's where the problem came.” ... Our kids are fat because it isn't safe for them to play outside anymore. Kidnapping, perverts, drug dealers, and other sociopaths infest our streets and parks. #815544. On September 30th, 2009 at 11:14 pm, Buy Danish said: ...

Program helped addict to get off streets of Nanaimo
Canada.com
Finally he got involved in a small-time crime organization but even they grew tired of his addiction, Glover said. "That was when I hit bottom sometime ...
 

BC Liberals' homeless bill is a hypocritical farce
Georgia Straight
Truly helping the approximately 3000 homeless in Vancouver through medical and psychological help, counselling for mental illness and substance abuse, ...

September 2009

Floating hotel slashes 2010 Olympic rates
CBC.ca
(CBC) Vacant hotel rooms will be very hard to find in bc's Lower Mainland during the 2010 Olympics, but an Alberta company that is chartering a cruise ship ...
 

Two sides to secret life of David Ho
The Province
And when he can't sleep, he prowls Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for prostitutes — in order to save them, he says. He doesn't care how young or old they are ...

St. Andrew's-Wesley Homelessness and Mental Health Action Group ...
Market Wire (press release)
29, 2009) - Helping to end homelessness and furthering the work of First United Church Mission in the city's troubled downtown eastside will be the focus of ...

Vancouver hotel a sanctuary for hard-luck tenants
Globe and Mail
It's an area where tony shops share the street with panhandlers, addicts and the homeless. Ms. Heemeryck, who moved into a postage-stamp-sized room on the ...

CBC.ca New anti-sex-trafficking campaign before Games: police CBC.ca ... campaign has been running for a year, drawing attention to what it says will be a spike in human sex trafficking during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. ...

What's Up With 'It'?: The 'Homeless' Quandry - 2010 Olympics
By Trish Johnson
Recent rumours in Vancouver, BC were that 'all of the homeless would be taken from the streets and flown over to some remote Island where food and water would be made available and/or flown in. Drinking and drugs of course would be ...
 

Research Results - Insite - Supervised Injection Site - Health ...
Insite is part of Vancouver Coastal Health's continuum of care for people with addiction, mental illness and HIV/AIDS and, as a result, it has connected

UBC student wins social housing design contest
Vancouver Sun
... Vancouver's hardest-to-house? The answer could include courtyards and gardens, a bike shop, millwork space and rooms for addiction and mental services, ...
 

HOMELESS IN THE CITY: Success to desperation and back
BCLocalNews
It took about three days to adapt, and Craig spent the next four years living on the streets, a slave to the crack-cocaine addiction that spurred him to do ...

HOMELESS IN THE CITY: Between the law and a hard place
Abbotsford News
The mental health and addiction services necessary to get them well enough to move into permanent housing, even if it is available, is patchy. ...

SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - September 25, 2009
Simon Fraser University News
The BBC continued: “Drug addiction is another big challenge. The city has a four-pronged strategy (but) Gordon says that the strategy 'has never been given ...
 

Debauchery, and the art of keeping the faith
Vancouver Sun
If Alcoholic Anonymous set the treatment standard 75 years ago, today the addiction industry wrestles with the newest cravings of capitalism: prescription ...
 

Man on mission for homeless
The Chronicle Journal
Living homeless in Vancouver, he decided he had to do something for the plight of those he shared the streets with. He was one of the organizers of a huge ...
 

Richmond Addiction Services loses funding from health authority
BCLocalNews
By Martin van den Hemel - Richmond Review Richmond Addiction Services was dealt a major financial blow Tuesday when the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority ...
 

EDITORIAL: Homeless: No easy answers
Abbotsford News
Many homeless people do not avail themselves of provided shelter – due to mental health factors, lack of trust, security fears, addiction issues, ...

Salvation Army slammed over Vancouver sex trafficking campaign
Vancouverite
Part of the Salvation Army campaign highlights the possibility of increased human trafficking in association with the 2010 Olympics. ...
 

Analysis: No need for a law to pick up the homeless in the cold
Vancouver Sun
... 2009 9:03 AM Street people living in front of the Stanley - New Fountain Hotel on Cordova street on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. ...

They want a home, not a shelter
Globe and Mail
... Health Commission to develop a housing-first approach to help homeless people living with mental illness in cities, including Toronto and Vancouver. ...

Concerns over police infiltration of anti-Olympic groups spark alarm
Vancouver Sun
Those changes are now being felt at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, where the ISU decided to create "safe assembly areas" in prominent positions to allow ...
 

Korea not that bad
Korea Herald
I came from Vancouver, Canada, where homeless people roam the streets, hassling everyone; drugs are everywhere; crime is rampant; personal property is ...
 

Shaughnessy homeowner stunned by sale of possessions
Vancouver Sun - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
By Neal Hall, Vancouver SunSeptember 21, 2009 The owner of a Shaughnessy ... of her $2-million-plus home is an accused drug dealer, Robert Luigi Poloni. ...
 

DRUG DEALERS RULE
Sep 20, 2009 ... There were 5 two hundred pound Spanish drug dealers standing in front of the door escorting people in and out of the store as if it was ...
 

Globe and Mail BC wants to force homeless into shelters in extreme weather Globe and Mail He said the catalyst for the bill was the death of a homeless woman on Vancouver's streets in December. The 47-year-old woman, known to the police only as ...

Program changes lives of addicts, prostitutes
Canada.com
Earlier this week, Haven executive director Anne Spilker told the Daily News that Willow Wai, a program that helps sex workers and other homeless women get

Colin Horgan - Yesterday\'s Weirdness – Vancouver's Olympic drug ...
By Colin Horgan
East Hastings – though it “normalizes” as it continues to the suburb of Burnaby – is synonymous in Canada with heroin addiction and poverty. What will happen to both the gang warfare and the drug-laden Lower Eastside when the Olympics ...

Program changes lives of addicts, prostitutes
Canada.com
Having spent four months in jail and time on the streets in Vancouver, Lamillon said she discovered she needed the structure Willow's programs provided. ...

Carrall Street Green Way – Vancouver « Son of Five Rivers Blog
By Son of Five Rivers
The route will link north False Creek with the Burrard Inlet, completing a seawall loop around Downtown and Stanley Park, and connecting a series of parks, plazas and historic sites in Gastown, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and ...

Global Q & A: 'What's currently the biggest social issue in your ...
The Epoch Times
We see a lot of patients we have on the Downtown Eastside [of Vancouver]—our multiple barrier patients. They have so many things working against them and ...

Drug czar slams Harper gov't as he exits to 'next adventure'
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
Vancouver drug-policy co-ordinator Donald MacPherson says the 'war on drugs' has ... program like Insite open for a population of seriously marginalized and ...
 

Pests don't justify evictions, Downtown Eastside Residents ...
Georgia Straight
By Carlito Pablo Housing advocate Kim Kerr wants the City of Vancouver to order a Downtown Eastside hotel to get rid of pests and rodents from its building ...
 

Downtown Eastside hotel has no right to evict tenants, says city
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER -- The City of Vancouver is urging tenants of a Downtown Eastside hotel to stay put in their vermin-infested units despite an eviction notice ...
 

'Housing first' Project Holds Promise For Homeless
The Epoch Times
Somers has more than a passing acquaintance with addiction and homelessness. His father, an alcoholic, lived in a rooming house in Vancouver's Downtown ...

As one city hall star fades out a new one arrives
Vancouver Courier
Campbell understood the misery of drug addiction and the effects on the residents of the Downtown Eastside from his years as the province's chief coroner. ...
 

City of Vancouver Land Regulation By-law No. 8735 Sec. 3(d)-4 ...
By nobody@flickr.com (The Blackbird)
A homeless camper at Crab Park packs his possessions into a shopping cart under orders from an officer with the Vancouver Police Marine Unit. A person must not, without the prior consent of the manager ... construct, erect, place, ...

A plea for evidence on Olympics evictions, round-ups or displacement
I had long planned to kick off September by issuing a challenge for reporters, activists, academics, politicians or someone to come up with some concrete evidence that homeless people are being shipped out of Vancouver to clean up the city ... In one memorable incident, a Carnegie Centre outreach worker gathered money from drug dealers working the corner to help send a young woman back to Kamloops. (Her rationale to them was, You've made a lot of money off these people, ...

Farewell message from out-going drug-policy leader
I am very grateful for having worked with such a committed group of colleagues (both staff and politicians) on some of the most difficult issues that Vancouver faces – mental health, addiction, homelessness and how to support the ...

Four Pillars poobah quits; Mayor pledges new approach
24 Hours Vancouver - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
By DHARM MAKWANA Vancouver plans to reevaluate its drug strategy as the city's drug ... Mark Townsend, director of Vancouver's safe-injection centre Insite, ...
 

Scaring off drug dealers
By Doree
Scaring off drug dealers. September 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments. We routinely get reports about drug deals happening in broad daylight on side streets in our neighborhood. Most recently, Erica emailed us this weekend: ... The more you call the police the better. there used be junkies living behind my house (in Vancouver, B.C.), it was horrible. The police told me the more I called when something occurred, the more it would be considered a serious problem. ...
 

Small airlines grounded for Olympic security
Canada.com
Smaller airlines will be grounded when the 2010 Olympics and its security forces come to town. Only helicopters will be allowed, and all fixed-wing planes, ...

Behind statistics is another reality of crime
Canada.com
And then we have prostitution and property crime to keep the money flowing to those scum we call drug dealers. While drugs are a very serious concern and ...
 

Globe and Mail In death, three women shine light on a Manitoba epidemic Globe and Mail The disappearance of dozens of women, most of them drug-addicted prostitutes and the majority of them aboriginal, from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside ...

City's drug-policy chief heading out
... as a result of watching people overdose and die on his front steps, was named as a drug guy in 2001 by then-mayor Philip Owen, who made the Downtown Eastside drug issue his main initiative in the later years of his administration. ...

Losing your income is tough enough
The Province
They're people like Vancouver rock musician Adam Cassidy, whom I interviewed recently about problems in the Downtown Eastside, only to find he himself now ...

CBC.ca Downtown Eastside residents claim eviction is Olympic-related CBC.ca (CBC)Residents of a vermin-infested hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside say their landlord is trying to evict them to make room for Olympic business. ...

 

Downtown Eastside residents claim eviction is Olympic related Yahoo ...
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Experts: Bedbugs to increase after 2010 Games
News1130
Many of the complaints are coming from the Downtown Eastside, but exterminators are busy in all parts of Metro Vancouver, no matter how nice the ...
 

Brian Hutchinson: Vancouver's Insite operator cries conspiracy
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Mark Townsend is the tightly wound half of the husband-and-wife duo running PHS Community Services Society in Vancouver. It operates Insite, Canada's only ...
 

Don't fear Olympic torch protests
Vancouver Sun
A website, No Vancouver 2010 Olympics On Stolen Native Land (www.no2010 .com), is trying to drum up support for protests. And key aboriginal leaders haven't ...
 

List Of The Day: Homeless Signs Of The Day
By Cary
In downtown Vancouver there is a guy who sings for money to buy beer. He sings the word beer to the tune of the Meow Mix jingle or his special holiday edition of "All I want for Christmas is a Beer" sung to the tune of "If you're happy ...

EASTSIDE STORIES: Jimmy Bubnick ready to spread the message
Kamloops This Week
Jimmy Bubnick on the Downtown Eastside: “Every one of those people, we carried on a pretty good conversation with most of them and they all said not to take ...
 

Chiefs Ponder Protests During 2010 Olympics | No Vancouver 2010 ...
With the 2010 Winter Olympics little more than five months away B.C. native leaders are looking toward the Games as a way to highlight their increasingly ...
 

The Vancouver winter Olympics: Sliding off piste | The Economist
Sep 3, 2009 ... editor@2010homelesschampions.ca wrote: September 3, 2009 21:32. Hey u.k. Vancouver calling, money seems to be the least concern to the ...
 

Craigslist Killer An Excuse to Attack Sex Workers - Infoshop News
Sex workers are organizing a co-op brothel in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics, drawing the ire of both anti- prostitution groups and for-profit escort services. Well-meaning or not, the criminalization of sex work does nothing to ...

Appointing Aboriginal adviser on torch relay won't halt protests ...
Miramichi Leader
"The 2010 Olympics is more than a sporting event, it's a cultural celebration, and it's a unique opportunity for First Nations and aboriginal communities to ...
 

EASTSIDE STORIES: Kamloops Blazers take a walk on the wild side
Kamloops This Week
After telling his own story of drug addiction, Chip agreed to show the Blazers how he shoots up. Reaching into his pants zipper, he pulled out a “point” of ...
 

An occasional look at the extensive bid book for the 2010 Winter Games
Metro Canada - Toronto
Here's a look at some of those plans, by the book: Skis and skates are classic winter modes of transportation, but during the 2010 Olympics, getting people ...

Economist The Vancouver winter Olympics Economist Not far from the gleaming waterfront are the squalid streets of Downtown Eastside, an infamous ghetto of the poor, the homeless and drug addicts. ...

Nonprofit Injection Site Claims Canadian Mounties Ordered Up a ... Courthouse News Service - Pasadena,CA,USA By DARRYL GREER VANCOUVER, BC (CN) - The nonprofit group that runs Insite, Vancouver's supervised injection site, claims the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ...

Downtown Eastside not a "scared straight" show
Georgia Straight
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time the suggestion has been made that the Downtown Eastside be used as some kind of zoo to “educate” others [Letters, ...
 

Drug dealers need tough love, says minister
Hamilton Spectator
The model is up and running in six Canadian cities -- Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina and Vancouver -- and is directed at non-violent offenders ...
 

Playing It Safe — Vancouver Is Awesome
By Tina Ok
Teams of youth from 'at risk' backgrounds—homeless, drug addicted, two spirited, aboriginal, and dealing with mental health issues—have participated in workshops in basic filmmaking (storytelling, camera and editing) as well as in ...
 

Canada: Ecstacy, Heroin and Therapeutic Use of “Illegal” Drugs
By Craig Young
Vancouver will take on the entirety of the trial's cost, resulting in increased duration and cost of the proposed study, or the trials could be cancelled. Suzanne Brissette, head of addiction medicine services at Montreal's Saint Luc ...
 

Hello, Cloverdale
BCLocalNews - Victoria,BC,Canada
And that the tentacles of despair from the Downtown Eastside, and the web of evil surrounding the killer, reach into virtually every community in British ...
 

re:place Magazine
By re:place Magazine
One hundred and thirty years ago, the Downtown Eastside was old growth forest and salmon streams. It was named by the First Nations after the big leaf maple tree. It is hard to believe this was once the picture when we view the DTES ...

Vancouver prostitute charged after bizarre HIV prison scare
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Her statutory-release conditions include drug treatment, psychological counselling and an order not to venture near the Downtown Eastside. ...

BC increases budget for welfare, kindergarten and forest fires
Vancouver Sun
The province has provided $2 million to keep Vancouver's emergency homeless shelters open for one more year. An additional $82 million will be spent on ...
 

Barnes media coverage cruel and shameful
Vancouver Courier
I am referring to the meal that has been made of park board commissioner Constance Barnes and her addiction rehabilitation. The story has been reported with ...
 

United Church Observer No place for a woman United Church Observer Homelessness exacerbates mental illness and can lead to addiction, says Harsha Walia, a project co-ordinator at Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Women's Centre ...

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Bird-brained anti-homeless plan in Surrey stinks
Vancouver Sun
... is the attitude it reflects on the part of public agencies towards Surrey's homeless population. In Vancouver when there are complaints about the ...

Molly'sBlog
By mollymew
The Olympic Resistance Network is primarily based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories and exists as a space to coordinate anti-2010 Olympics efforts. In doing so, we act in solidarity with other communities across 'BC' - particularly ...
 

Exclusive: Vancouver's Victory Square Block Party “Taking a Year ...
Exclaim! - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... see the Labour Day weekend as a time to reflect, prepare for the cold rainy season ahead, and to check out some rad local jams in the Downtown Eastside. ...
 

Extended bar hours in the works for 2010 Games
Xtra West
Changes to laws to accommodate Vancouver becoming a 24-hour city during the 2010 Olympics could see bars and restaurants open to 4 am and patios until 1 am. ...
 

Groups in other cities eye ruling on safe-injection site
Globe and Mail
Those plans have since been shelved, said Suzanne Brissette, head of addiction medicine services at Montreal's Saint Luc hospital. ...

Housing activists slam Olympics' 'wilful neglect' of social impact ...
Vancouver Sun - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
In recent years the provincial government has also bought 18 low-income hotels in the Downtown Eastside in an effort to stabilize rents and improve living ...
 

Globe and Mail Why did the city worker cross the road? Globe and Mail I have other weapons to use against drug-dealers and people on the street who are up to no good," she said. "Like my wrath." Ms. Hermann said as many as 80 ...

East Side residents say neighbourhood overrun with human feces ...
Vancouver Courier
Joann Fowler said in the past year her community has become almost uninhabitable because of the drug dealers, addicts and prostitutes living in and around ...

Federal study to give homeless places to live
Canada.com
"Many of the individuals will have mental illness and addictions. We won't put restrictions on people to be dry or stop using and we will still house them ...

Line, line, everywhere a line
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... but public transit in Vancouver is for getting from point A to point B—not ... its rightful place: exhausted worker drones, drunk people and drug dealers.
 

Residents frustrated by lack of action on 'crack hotels'
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... her community has become almost uninhabitable because of the drug dealers, ... No one at the Vancouver School Board could comment before the Courier ...
 

Heroin to treat heroin addicts
Healthcare Today
For the purposes of the recent study, Canadian researchers assigned 115 addicts in Vancouver and Montreal to receive diacetylmorphine (heroin). ...

Study Backs Heroin to Treat Addiction Ontario Now It is now believed that the best treatment for intense heroin addicts is not methadone or the drug of their choice, but heroin. A program in Vancouver ...

First Post Jasmine Fiore murder suspect found dead First Post In January 2007, after being convicted of assaulting a woman in Calgary, he was ordered to undergo treatment for sex addiction. In the meantime, the cable ...

Mounties' chicken sh*t solution to the homelessness problem « A ...
By Robert Jago
“Our neighbors in Vancouver seem to have a little better approach to the problem of dealing with the disease of substance abuse.” One local on 135 Street said on Saturday that there were at least two visits by city trucks dumping the ...

Volunteers map Vancouver's public surveillance cameras
Vancouver Sun - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... dozen volunteers took photographs of video surveillance cameras and noted their locations in the central business district and the Downtown Eastside. ...

Opium: The real enemy
Ottawa Citizen - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Cheap Afghan heroin has flooded into Vancouver. ... driving up opium prices and thus increasing profit margins for drug dealers and the Taliban while making ...
 

Policing with Intelligence: Vancouver Police Department Urban ...
By Alan
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, British Columbia, once a thriving business district in the heart of the city, is a historic neighbourhood that is home to over 16000 persons. Unfortunately a serious public health and public ...
 

Vision Vancouver politicos could get sandbagged by provincial approach
Georgia Straight
Jang appears in the news from time to time to defend the city's handling of addiction and homelessness issues. It's not always a big vote winner. ...

Homelessness/Transientism « A Victim's Tale
By kevinjamesbarr
The Housing rate is zero (0) because there are simply no rooms left due to redevelopment and the Cursed 2010 Olympics, so as more of these SRO's are destroyed there will be more Homeless people on the “Streets” of Vancouver, ...
 

Lock up your children
Squamish Chief
But that legislation — which would have created an independent board that could detain youths in danger of sexual exploitation, drug addiction or other ...

Security rules likely to ground small airlines
Vancouver Sun
By Fiona Anderson, Vancouver SunAugust 20, 2009 Several small airlines will be grounded when the 2010 Olympics and its security forces come to town. ...
 

Vancouver Courier Witnesses confess lack of trust in 911 responders Vancouver Courier The people who found a barely conscious homeless man in a city park July 29 didn't phone 911 right away because they didn't believe the aboriginal man would ...

BC man's death sparks furor Winnipeg Free Press Eric Schweig (left) shows family members where homeless man was left laying in the heat. VANCOUVER -- A Winnipeg man is in the middle of a controversy about ...

CBC.ca Heroin more effective in rehab than methadone: study CBC.ca (CBC) An experimental Vancouver program suggests that using a key ingredient of heroin is more effective than methadone at keeping addicts in drug treatment ...

ModernMedicine Heroin Component May Be Effective in Addiction Treatment ... ModernMedicine ... in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned 226 long-term heroin users who had failed previous addiction treatment (including methadone) to ...

Real benefit in rare cases
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Given the federal government's discomfort with Insite, a facility where addicts ... Initiative (NAOMI) - which conducted trials in Vancouver and Montreal, ...
 

Inquest sought for homeless man who died in east Vancouver park
The Province
Schweig and a colleague called an addiction group for help, but when they didn't arrive after 45 minutes, the pair called 911. "The fire-and-rescue guy said ...

Donors help fund drug-treatment trial
Metro Canada - Vancouver
It would be called the BC Centre for Excellence in Addiction and Concurrent Disorders. A handful of “community leaders” in Vancouver have donated about ...
 

Addiction Treatment With Heroin Injections Seems Possible » Self ...
By admin4
Oviedo-Joekes and colleagues studied 226 addicts in Montreal and Vancouver. Only 54 percent of those who got methadone stayed in treatment for a year, they found. But 88 percent of those who got diacetylmorphine shots did. ...
 

Topless PETA activists picket Canadian consulate
The Australian
"With Vancouver's 2010 Olympics approaching, we're basically here to show Canada that people all over the world are just furious that hundreds of thousands ...

Downtown Eastside Enquirer: Veranda to be Built at Mcdonalds will ...
By reliable sources
At one point an older manager, a Chinese guy with his head shaved bald, did start insisting that the homeless move their shopping carts away from the front door. "We can't have this," I heard him tell them, asking them to at least park ...

Vancouver Coastal Health and Drug Addicts
Addicts get a lot of services from Vancouver Coastal Health....like millions upon millions of dollars of services that are geared to keeping them very ...
 

Time to get tough with Skid Road misfits
North Shore News
... behaviour of drug addicts into a non-deviant medical issue. You may recall that since 2000, the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health authority ...
 

Refurbished park will feel like a 'living room'
24 Hours Vancouver
By MATT KIELTYKA, 24 HOURS Downtown Eastside residents don't have to wait much longer to reclaim one of their parks. Once the centre of activity in the ...
 

Good to Grow: A Series Funded by Tyee Readers
TheTyee.ca - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
But in Vancouver, greening the city just seemed to mean growing a lawn, ... The Hastings Folk Garden is two doors down from the Insite safe injection clinic ...

Canada's 2010 Olympics will hear world protest: STOP killing baby ...
Examiner.com
The 2010 Olympics will be held in Vancouver, BC, next year. An event that conservation and animal rights groups will seize as an opportunity to shine the ...
 

Special needs kids may lose taxpayer-funded daycare
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... because these kids will be the addicts and the drug dealers and criminals. ... The foundation then leased the building to the Vancouver Native Health ...
 

Stop the trophy hunting of bears in the Great Bear Rainfores ...
By Cher C.
Stop the Trophy Hunting of Bears in the Great Bear Rainforest Ahead of the 2010 Olympics ! TAKE ACTION ! Stop the Trophy Hunting of Bears in the Great Bear Rainforest Ahead of the 2010 Olympics ! TAKE ACTION ! ...
 

Big Brother IS Watching, You and You and Me « Colleen Anderson
By colleenanderson
The 2010 Olympics will see a gigantic increase in security forces in and around Vancouver. They will be putting up many more cameras than are already up, by government and private businesses. After the Athens Olympics all extra cameras ...

Crime concerns raised
Burnaby Now
... most in the area are drug-addicted and don't have access to addiction and recovery resources, which tend to be concentrated in Vancouver's east end. ...
 

Disinherited daughter fought back
Vancouver Sun
In some cases there may be “valid and rational” reasons to disinherit a child — severe drug addiction, for example — or to leave a larger portion to one ...

Six months until Vancouver Olympics: Civil liberties at risk
Rabble.ca
There are now over 10500 homeless people in the province and homelessness has more than doubled in the Metro Vancouver region since the bid process began. ...
 

FACE TO FACE/O'NEILL: Lawlessness must be addressed on Downtown ...
Tri-City News - Coquitlam,Port Coquitlam & Port Moody,BC,Canada
The Downtown Eastside is a haven for drug dealers and users, alcoholics, ... Given all this, the Vancouver Police Department's recent crackdown on bylaw ...

International investing | Finance Articles
By Admin
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - Aug. 12, 2009) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. NEW GLOBAL VENTURES INTERNATIONAL LTD. (the “Corporation”) (TSX VENTURE:NNG) is ... He said the rise in crimes such as bank robberies, ATM thefts, store robberies and vehicle thefts showed that Joint Operation Chihuahua has managed to hurt the drug dealers' cash flow. Drug dealers are turning to other crimes to make ...
Drug addiction isn't something to celebrate
Georgia Straight
Personally, I think every schoolkid in Greater Vancouver should be required to take a field trip to the Downtown Eastside. This might do more to discourage ...
 

Drug injection sites studied for Toronto and Ottawa
Orillia Packet & Times - Orillia,Ontario,Canada
White compared the area around Vancouver's Insite to "a Beirut war zone," with ... the initial funding Vancouver police received when Insite opened in 2003. ...
 

'They don't understand how hard it is'
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
By Darah Hansen, Vancouver SunJuly 17, 2009 Manager Aaron Munro leans on a stack of ... Residents complain that the shelter has attracted drug dealers, ...
 

Program launched to turn Games rental windfalls into gold for ...
The Canadian Press
People looking to cash in on the 2010 Olympics by renting out their homes are being asked to share some of the wealth with Vancouver's homeless. ...
 

2010 Olympic homestay program to help Vancouver's homeless - Soundoff
By soundoff
VANCOUVER — Two Vancouver charities that help the homeless will be the beneficiaries of a unique program to match visitors to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics with homestay accommodation. Jeff Lee. Link to this blog · E-mail; Print; Share ...
 

Jonathon Narvey: 'Free speech zones' for Vancouver Olympics - Full ...
By NP Editor
A great zinger from BC Civil Liberties Association executive director David Eby on free speech concerns in the run up to the 2010 Olympics (Vancouver Sun): Rule 51 of the IOC Olympic Charter prohibits any “demonstration or political, ...
 

Vancouver's Pilot Medically Supervised Safer Injecting Facility ...
research demonstrates one of the ways Vancouver's Insite is meeting this goal—by providing a safe space, away from the dangers of the ...
 

Morning Brew: I think I smell a rat
By Sean
CKNW host David Berner thinks we should stop giving money to agencies such as the Women's Centre, Bladerunners, Insite, AIDS Vancouver, Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, WISH, PACE, and Building Opportunities with Business and instead ...
 

Health authority to cut funds for mental health and addiction ...
Vancouver Sun
By Rebecca Tebrake, Vancouver sunaugust 5, 2009 The Fraser Health Authority is cutting funds to external mental health and addictions service providers, ...
 

Feds, Vancouver won't lend staff to 2010 Olympics
Globe and Mail
The federal government and the City of Vancouver say they have no plans to loan staff to the 2010 Olympic organizing committee. ...

Two dead in Vancouver in separate incidents
Canada.com
Police had also been called to a parking lot in the city's notorious Downtown Eastside where they discovered a man's body. The death is being treated as ...
 

The launch of “The state of your health care”
SDNN
MS: Vancouver has a serious inner city homeless problem. At times it feels like they swarm the city like undead.... Todd: People do live on islands and ...

Our love/hate relationship with the 2010 Olympics
Squamish Chief
Squamish – What a difference a year makes when it comes to the Olympics. Last summer there was an air of disappointment and a looming sense of not just ...

Social problems, not traffic, put pedestrians in peril
Georgia Straight
It's visibly obvious some folks in the Downtown Eastside just don't think about their personal safety. And that's the root of the problem. ...
 

Some Heroin Junkies Struggle For Life, Narconon Drug Rehab
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA
Vancouver British Columbia's downtown east-side provides many different detox ... these detox programs are released right into the hands of drug dealers, ...
 

Money Mart extortionist gets probation
North Shore News
But the endeavor eventually fell victim to the pair's cocaine addiction -- a habit shared by acquaintances Chong and Norris. Barnicott later resurrected the

US tourists cruising to Alaska after bin-diver finds their stolen ID
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Three Nevada residents are enjoying their Alaskan cruise thanks to the combined efforts of a Downtown Eastside binner and two Vancouver beat ...
 

Protesters call for attention to homelessness, not Olympics
editor@2010homelesschampions.ca. June 14, 2009 - 8:25 AM. Flag this as Inappropriate. POLITICS AND NONPROFIT SOCIETIES do not mix. nonprofits in the dtes ...
 

The Drug Trade in BC: You're Soaking In It.. | Ian Bell
By Ian
The Economist pegged the drug trade in BC (with Vancouver as its distribution hub) at greater than $7 Billion per year and employs between 90000 – 150000 people. This includes the importation of heroin and cocaine (which frequently serves as a form of payment for the ... Fortunately, drug dealers and growers buy cars, clothes, boats, and consumer electronics … they also buy expensive dinners, go out on the town for drinks, and throw cash around enjoying themselves. ...
 

Canwest News Service
Kelowna.com
... Greater Vancouver, which will lose its funding — provide services like adult counselling for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, addictions ...
 

More treatment, fewer HIV infections
Canada.com
So far, Prince George and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are the only communities chosen for ongoing studies. Executive director Katrina Jensen said AIDS ...

Olympic Newsdesk -- Canada Eyes Possible 2022 Winter Games Bid ...
Around the Rings (subscription)
Rudge seemed sympathetic to a bid from Quebec City, which tried to secure the COC's vote to bid for the 2010 Olympics. "There's not a more beautiful ...
 

'Norman Gray is a miracle'
The Province
Gray just completed a counselling course at Vancouver Community College and hopes for a career as an addictions or career counsellor. ...

Vancouver Olympics wants private industry to loan and pay for 1500 ...
Miramichi Leader
Like the plan to forcibly round up and relocate Vancouver's homeless population during the Games. Or the idea to restrict protestors to two or three ...

Hysteria reaches Critical Mass in Vancouver
Georgia Straight
If the concern about Critical Mass is related to the 2010 Olympics, then why aren't the media and Robertson being up front about it? ...
 

RICHARD MacKENZIE: 'The Olympics are just another Ponzi scheme ...
By goyodelarosa
The government's priority is the 2010 Olympics, full stop. How do I know this? First, the government told us that the criminal courts will be closed during the Games because the police will be too involved in security matters to give ...
 

Controversial homeless shelter to shut down Aug. 7 - Soundoff
By soundoff
If you are homeless, welcome to Vancouver. If you are a drug addict, welcome to Vancouver. We have shelters and housing available. We have ample of dealers around to serve your needs. We have facillities and nurses to make sure you know ...
 

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Maligned Vancouver shelter closing; residents to get better digs
Globe and Mail
... under the Granville Bridge last winter, saying the facilities were attracting drug dealers and that crime and unacceptable behaviour were increasing. ...

Four charged in alleged drug-trafficking bust
CTV British Columbia
Four people have been charged with various drug offences, including drug trafficking, as part of the Vancouver Police Department's 'Project Trapdoor. ...

Globe and Mail Controversial Vancouver homeless shelter to close Globe and Mail ... shelters opened under the Granville Bridge last winter, saying the facilities were attracting drug dealers, crime, and generally unacceptable behaviour. ...

The Simpsons go curling in upcoming Vancouver 2010 Olympic spoof ...
By soundoff
First it was The Bachelorette, then it was Gordon Ramsey. Now it's The Simpsons. America's klutziest family will be hitting the curling rink in a February episode spoofing the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.A Damian Inwood ...

Metro Vancouver massage parlour worker found dead in the trunk of ...
Vancouver Sun
Last Friday, the body of Lisa Arlene Francis, a 41-year-old Downtown Eastside sex trade worker, was found floating in the Fraser River just west of ...

Turning Point hits 'bad timing'
Richmond News
Meanwhile, women in Richmond who are seeking recovery from addiction continue to be sent to Vancouver or Abbotsford (the latter being the only one that ...
 

Society supports mentally ill city-wide
Vancouver Courier
The Kettle is based in East Vancouver, not the Downtown Eastside, and has been providing its unique mix of services and support for close to 35 years. ...

Proposed social housing site worries Strathcona residents
Vancouver Courier
... Vancouver Business Improvement Association, said aggressive panhandling and other problems downtown dropped after more shelter was provided for homeless ...

Letters of the week
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
It is impossible that Mark read all the research surrounding Insite in Vancouver, because if he had, he would realize that his claims are baseless and his ...
 

Homeless fume over smoking raps | Tobacco Facts.
By admin
Last Friday, several councillors attended a protest run by Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), to protest 1000 tickets issued last December in the Downtown Eastside for infractions such as jaywalking. Vision Vancouver Coun. ...
 

Enjoy our city, obey the rules
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
If you are a tourist, welcome to Vancouver, where, if you go outside right now ... we offer a few bits of information: - If you see a sign that says Insite, ...
 

Cernetig says Vancouver council "loopy" for musing about ticket ...
By CityCaucus.com
You know, they want to ask petty drug dealers to wear orange coveralls and paint local children's parks as an alternative to paying the fines directly. Who are they kidding? Do they really think that the folks who were issued these ...
 

US mum on whether armed guards will enter BC for 2010
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... refused to comment when asked if there's any agreement in place to allow armed US security forces to enter Canada during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. ...
 

No new clients at detox as VIHA takes over facility
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
... 2009 Patients are now being treated in hospitals while the Vancouver ... Severe alcoholism is the only addiction for which patients face the risk of ...
 

Amnesty for being poor means no penalty for lousy citizenship
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
But there is a place where all the usual rules governing the niceties of urban life apparently don't apply -- the Downtown Eastside. ...
 

41-year-old sex trade worker found floating in Fraser River identified
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
... year has been identified as Lisa Arlene Francis, also known as Lisa Arlene Kireche, a 41-year-old sex trade worker who lived in the Downtown Eastside. ...

Body of 41-year-old sex trade worker found floating in Fraser River
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — The city's 15th homicide of the year has been identified as a 41-year-old sex trade worker who lived in the Downtown Eastside. ...

Homeless fume over smoking raps
The Province
Kerry Jang, another Vision Vancouver councillor who was at Friday's Downtown Eastside protest, insisted police are not actively targeting homeless people in ...

Robertson hit the right balance with Olympic by-law restrictions ...
By CityCaucus.com
Downtown Eastside poverty groups have stormed council meetings demanding that the poor and marginalized not be swept up and moved along during the Games. Even some local media outlets are complaining that the elimination of their ...
 

Even Perfect Man not welcome here
The Province
If I can't manage to live the way I want to live in a rental apartment, how the hell can those poor homeless people living in a 40-mattress shelter under ...
 

Council to reverse 1000 tickets given during Downtown Eastside ...
VANCOUVER — City councillors pledged this week to try to reverse up to 1000 bylaw tickets given to.
 

Legal threats prompt 'quality' changes to SROs: City inspectors
TheTyee.ca - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Three single room occupancy (SRO) hotels in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood were singled out as test cases. Owners were warned in May that if the ...

Minister of Justice in Vancouver to Discuss Drugs, Gangs and ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Drug Treatment Courts encourage the accused person to deal with the addiction that motivates their criminal behaviour. This legislation aims to better ...

Please Boycott the 2010 Olympics !! - News and Current Events
Please Boycott the 2010 Olympics !! Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars for rich people to party for 2 weeks? Right now there is a systematic push to get the homeless and other poor people out of Vancouver. ...

"We can't cancel tickets. It's not in our mandate," says Jang ...
By CityCaucus.com
It didn't take long for the blogosphere to explode yesterday after Jeff Lee broke the story that Vision Vancouver is considering ripping up 1000 tickets issued to residents in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. ... Never mind that nobody forced addicts into addiction (in most cases). Never mind that as adults, unless they're judged incompetent, they are legally and morally obliged to bear the consequences of their actions. Never mind that according to a recently published ...
 

Olympic bylaw debate disrupted by protesters
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... meeting was hijacked by a group of protesters angry over a recent ticketing campaign they say targets poor people living in the Downtown Eastside. ...

Report reveals 'broken' mental health-care system for Vancouver
Vancouver Courier - BC, Canada
The health care system for people suffering from severe mental health disorders and addictions in Vancouver is "broken and must be fixed," according to a ...
 

Opposition to Vancouver homeless shelter gets filthy
A threatening letter and a bag of human waste were hurled at a controversial homeless shelter on Vancouver's Howe Street this month, occupants and ...
 

Homeless shelter targeted by vandals as residents differ over ...
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
He suspects they're prostitutes or drug dealers but has no proof. "Nobody hates these people, it's just all the negative stuff that comes with it," said ...

Abstinence versus harm reduction
24 Hours Vancouver - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users organizer has often come to ... "The Insite data has shown ... you can't access programs and get help if you're ...
 

Leader straddles cultural divide
Canada.com
Atleo said both academic and traditional teachings guided his career: He's held high positions at a First Nations addiction treatment facility and a family ...
 

H5N1: Canada: H1N1 politics in Vancouver
By Crof
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is a famous mess, largely populated by drug addicts, drunks, prostitutes, the homeless, and persons with both physical and mental health problems. It is also one of the liveliest communities in Vancouver, ...
 

Jenny Kwan demands action on housing to reduce H1N1 pandemic risk ...
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
"There are major concerns about swine flu in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood where individuals live with chronic health conditions, commonly have ...
 

Is Addiction a Disease or a Human Failure? - BCMA
People seeking addiction treatment are frequently turned away because of a lack of treatment beds and detox spaces; As many as 1 in 10 visits to Vancouver General Hospital's emergency room is related to substance abuse
 

Vancouver's INSITE Service and Other Supervised Injection Sites ...
2008 report prepared for the Minister of Health (Canada) by the Expert Advisory Committee on Supervised Injection Site Research.

Inside the controversial Howe Street homeless shelter
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
VANCOUVER — Nine o'clock on a sunny weekday morning and the business of the day is already well underway at the Howe Street homeless shelter, tucked under ...
 

SIXTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED 'SECURITY FORCES' AT VANOC GANGSTERS ...
By goyodelarosa
This is a scandalous misuse of Canadians' taxdollars, and is effectively a huge racket being perpetrated on the people of this country by the thuggish Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee, otherwise known as 'VANOC,' in cahoots ... Just think of how many detox beds, rehab facilities and decent social housing facilities that could provide for our vulnerable homeless citizens, and one realizes how absolutely corrupt the Establishment WAR PARTY politicians have become. ...
 

Crime, Drugs and Health Problems Face Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Unfortunately, an all too recognized reputation is the growing drug problems facing Vancouver's downtown eastside. "Our drug rehab program ...

Strathcona violent assaults on the rise
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - It's known both for its proximity to the Downtown Eastside as well as its history, character and affordability, but people who call ...