Downtown Eastside
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Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside ‘approaching herd immunity’ as vaccine campaign enters 2nd phaseSince the health authority began its Downtown Eastside vaccination campaign, about 7,500 community members and 2,000 social and support workers in the area have been immunized.HealthApr 28
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‘The same sadness and more lives lost’: Frontline workers reflect on 5 years of B.C.’s overdose crisisSince 2016 more than 7,000 people have died of an overdose. One harm reduction advocate says "these deaths are "preventable."HealthApr 14
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Woman killed in DTES social housing in Vancouver’s 3rd homicide of 2021Officers were called to the Arco Hotel around 4 a.m. and found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. She was rushed to the hospital but did not survive.CrimeMar 17
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‘She hit me in the face’: 10-year-old girl robbed at Vancouver Tim Hortons speaks outThe young girl, who chased after her attacker, now says she wants to grow up to be a police officer.CrimeMar 11
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‘Hello, OxyContin’: Former hockey player reveals spiral into addiction, life on streets, jail timeFormer hockey player Brady Leavold has created a podcast titled Hockey 2 Hell and Back, where he frankly discusses ‘all things hockey, all things addiction.’SportsMar 5
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Advocate calls for public alert over dysentery outbreak in Vancouver’s Downtown EastsideA dysentery outbreak has sickened at least 24 people on the Downtown Eastside and sent more than 10 people to hospital, according to a Vancouver doctor.HealthMar 5
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Downtown Eastside residents offered $5 after getting COVID-19 vaccineDix called the incentive "practical" and left the door open when asked if similar incentives will be available to other sections of the population.HealthMar 1
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30th annual memorial march honours missing, murdered women in VancouverThe annual Women's Memorial March has been held in since 1992, when community members gathered to mark the murder of a woman on Powell Street.CrimeFeb 14
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‘Not a safe situation’: Staff working overtime to end Strathcona Park camp, Eby says'You're going to have 380 problems,' deadly home invasion suspect Sandy Parisian warned Vancouver council in 2019 about dispersing Oppenheimer Park's tent city.CrimeFeb 7
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Witnesses sought, man charged in alleged sex assault on Vancouver’s Downtown EastsideVictor Austin, a 49-year-old man from Vancouver, was charged in January with one count of sex assault and has been released with court-ordered conditions.CrimeFeb 2
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