Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

• Downtown Eastside shelter spokesperson says privacy rules keep guests safe

  A shelter spokesperson says it's not only friends or family who try to find people in the Downtown Eastside.

  Health

  Aug 10, 2017
  
• Spate of drug overdoses in Toronto wakeup call: Experts

  Toronto Police are still trying to determine why so many drug fatalities occurred in such a short amount of time.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2017
  
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• WATCH: Volunteers hand out meals, love to those less fortunate on Christmas Day

  Volunteers were hard at work in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Sunday, making sure no one went hungry on Christmas Day.

  Canada

  Dec 26, 2016
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• Scared Straight initiative hopes to warn youth of horrors of drug, alcohol abuse

  It's the poorest postal code in all of North America, says Pierre Morais, founder of the 'Scared Straight' Tour. Morais refers to the Downtown Eastside as having the unfortunate distinction of being North America's most "infamous skid row."

  Canada

  Nov 22, 2016