As Vancouver gets ready to host fans from around the world for the FIFA World Cup, some may notice that the city is looking a lot cleaner than perhaps it has in the past.
On the Granville Street strip, which is now closed to vehicles and buses, every piece of trash is being picked up and a hand-washing station has been installed.
In Yaletown, new sanitation carts have appeared on the streets and sources tell Global News that as many as 80 city workers are temporarily redeployed to clean-up duty.
For the first time in many years, the Plaza of Nations has been cleaned up with new art and flags and fresh paint.
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Derelict boats from northeast False Creek have all sailed down the inlet, past the Cambie Bridge.
With five government agencies sharing responsibility for False Creek, derelict vessels have been a perennial problem.
“We often get bogged down and quagmired in our own cross-jurisdictional issues,” Vancouver Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung said.
“The city is definitely a willing partner.”
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Kirby-Yung said they hope these moves lay the groundwork going forward.
“I think it’s really been a question of priorities and for our council,” she said. “It definitely has been a right-sizing of some of those functions. This is definitely a trend that we want to see continue.”
Forget about the DTES. I’ll be down on Davie Street sucking c0ck. Gay Pride 2026 Holla!!
I realize the absolute number of people in a given race on welfare is irrelevant. On the other hand nobody tops out the white trailer trash in the DTES. Since the white junkies live off welfare and steal bikes and break into cars and rob people everyday then maybe they’re the problem not anyone else. Maybe we need to send all the white trash junkies off to an island somewhere, and maintain a quarantine. The trailer parks on Vancouver Island maybe
I realize the absolute number of people in a given race on welfare is irrelevant. It’s the percentage of them that is on welfare that is. Nobody tops out the natives. If the whites received the kind of financial benefits and tax relief and housing subsidies they do, they’d flourish instead of how the natives end up, in the toilet. Maybe we need to send all the natives off to an island somewhere, and maintain a quarantine. The Queen Charlottes maybe.
All that aside it’s still a fact that there’s more white people on welfare in Canada than any other race. I can go on and on about First Nations (And I will) being the problem but it’s actually the white trash scab face junkies that are ruining Vancouver and leaching off our tax system. Not to mention stealing everything in site to buy fents. I think we need to stop with it all now. I’m kind of sick of it.
That being said, Indigenous individuals, First Nations, and Bands have much better access to various federal and provincial subsidized and affordable housing programs, both on-reserve and off-reserve. It’s sad how badly they squander almost all the money and support they’re given. I think we need to stop with it all now. I’m kind of sick of it.
JV is right. Most of the tent people living downtown are of caucasian decent. Same with the SRO’s downtown. All caucasian people
At least the copycat troll speaks the truth about himself
My ex boyfriend is Russian, so now I use that as a derogatory term to people that make me mad. He was a jerk, although I absolutely loved his big co ck up my loose azz.
So Sims and company CAN clean up Vancouver “if the price is right!” eg FIFA.
White trash losers and Russian bots. Welcome to the Global BC comment section
Lol man I love in when white trash f**king losers like Bob B (Aka Bob B1tch) can’t handle the fact that most of the homeless people In Vancouver are white. Too funny 🤣
Anonymous – Maybe we should send them to your hometown in Russia
We do need to round up the chugs and their supporters and either ship them away to some island like they did with Australia long ago, or just snuff them out. They’re worthless drains on society.
Bob B – Awww someone’s upset. Too much reality for you hey buddy. What’s the matter? Are you upset because some of your white trash family ended up in the DTES? I bet your sister sucks d*ck for crack just like your mom did back in the trailer park 🤣🤣
North Korea polished turd
Bahaha JV wow it’s sooooo easy to troll you. Lol, as reported by the -National Indigenous Homelessness Council on CBC. Look it up.
“ The report also highlights Indigenous people represent 34% of those experiencing homelessness, despite being only 2.4% of the regional population. The findings are a stark call for governments to prioritize homelessness prevention and better address the disproportionate impact on Indigenous communities, where 54% of Indigenous respondents were unsheltered compared to 42% of non-Indigenous individuals”. And the Lands Stewards care for their own eh! 😜
And here is JV our FN key board racist coward talking all tough again like child behind the teacher.
99% of FN are so mixed raced now you wouldn’t even be able to tell.
J-Vag the biggest pussy on the board.
Please go Fact check those numbers I dare you!
Wow you are do triggered!
wow so pretend its something its not LOL
A lot are saying it’s the most disgusting city to ever host a world event.
What is to blame here? It’s Eby and the Asian Blok who put a gym in and constantly raises taxes, a failed mayor with his sidekick taxing horse.
Cant have people seeing what our city is really like can we Eby…
Tobad FIFA is bringing all that carbon to the “greenest city” in the world. Wonder how the city workers will clean the air !
#boycottfifa
Bob B – Where did you get those numbers from Bob? Naz1 Statistics Canada?
We can always count on f**king losers like Bob B to blame First Nations for whatever problems he’s crying about on a daily basis. This time it’s the DTES. Meanwhile the last time I drove through the DTES 99% of of the junkies I saw were white people. Isn’t it funny how Bob’s racist white trash opinions always seem to differ from reality…
Cleaned up and swept on to a bus to small town interior.
Call it what it really is tempomaxxing, temporary cleanup once FIFA games are over it will all go back to the same, does any Vancouverite remember 2011 Winter Olympics! History repeating itself again??
Vancouver will be known as world class shiithole country!
@ Bob B – we are delusional if we think for one minute it will last.
At Kate: why are smaller communities getting the addicts? It’s been estimated and reported in the Daily Hive that 70% of the homeless in Vancouver are not from Vancouver. Apparently 30%of those 70% were kicked of out their own FN communities, 20% from the GVRD and the rest are from the interior BC and other parts of Canada.
Our problems in Vancouver would 70% smaller if other communities and the FN looked after their own.
At Lorree: at least it’s finally getting done 15 year of progressive city council’s prior to ABC is what is to blame here.
Inviting, welcoming, supplying, supporting and pandering to the country drugs addicts and their advocates is what started the mess.
Makes me puke. So the city is capable of cleaning up the streets? So it’s fine for us to constantly trip over the junkies, but god forbid if tourists have to.
The same as “company is coming”, we better clean up.
What about those of us who live here. Why is this not cleaned up for the tax payers.
Most readers on Global are smart enough to realize government does not have it;s own money.
The money is taxpayers. So we can clean up and spend OUR money for company, but not for us.
Current government theme for everything,
Canadians pay, but nothing for us.
Vancouver might be cleaning itself up of homeless and drug addicts for FIFA but Vancouver is sending these ppl are being sent to other countries communities. Why are smaller communities having to deal with the crime and drugs and violence. Vancouver should not shove their problems on other people but deal with it properly.
Fixed with a band aid
Have they scraped up all our street zombies in the DTES too?
When they see Hastings Street…… “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore”
Wait until all the videos go viral out to the world showing our DTES. Vancouver, the biggest sh it hole.
What about Main and Hastings? Will that section of the city be cleaned.