"Larry Campbell is now two weeks into his extended contract as #BC 's #DowntownEastside adviser. He spoke with CBC's Stephen Quinn about his role, and how the challenges in the neighbourhood have evolved over the past half-century." #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #decriminalization youtu.be/_z1kzklElIg

"Former #Vancouver mayor and #BC chief coroner Larry Campbell, who was appointed by the province to serve as an adviser and oversee the government's approach to Vancouver's #DowntownEastside, has had his contract extended by six months." #DTES #BritishColumbia #Canada youtu.be/6bIyMnKA-z0

The DTES ‘problem’ is not a housing problem, SRO employee says | Globalnews.ca Global News requested an interview with Larry Campbell, who is more than halfway through his six-month $92,000 contract, but we have yet to receive a response from Eby’s office.

"As the #BC government deals with two failed policies designed to address the #toxicdrug crisis, a worker on the front lines of the worsening situation in #Vancouver 's #DowntownEastside says politicians have been tackling the wrong problem for years." #BritishColumbia globalnews.ca/news/1161972...

Vancouver touts Downtown Eastside housing plan for replacement of rooming houses The City of Vancouver says it has adopted a "significant shift" in housing policy for the Downtown Eastside to speed up the replacement of rooming houses.

"The City of #Vancouver says it has adopted a “significant shift” in #housing policy for the #DowntownEastside to speed up the replacement of rooming houses in the impoverished neighbourhood" #BritishColumbia #BC #socialhousing #affordablehousing #Canada vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/12/17/v...

www.tapatalk.com/groups/porch... Are taunting letters left at Vancouver BC Bus stops from the Zodiac Killer? #Zodiac #ZodiacKiller #Vancouver #BC #truecrime #unsolved #highwayoftears #downtowneastside

"Larry Campbell, former #BC chief coroner and former mayor of #Vancouver, has been named a provincial adviser. He will work to coordinate leadership to "deliver better outcomes for the #DowntownEastside." youtu.be/JqhL2ywvXFA

New Vancouver policing district for Downtown Eastside as task force results unveiled VANCOUVER — Plans are underway to establish a new policing district in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, after a temporary task force in the neighbourhood produced what police are calling significant res...

"Plans are underway to establish a new #policing district in #Vancouver 's #DowntownEastside, after a temporary task force in the neighbourhood produced what police are calling significant results" #DTES #BritishColumbia #BC #Canada www.vancouverisawesome.com/the-mix/new-...

Saving lives on the Downtown Eastside with Indigenous teachings | Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper It’s a $10 taxi ride from Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront to East Hastings and Main – the epicenter of Canada’s drug poisoning crisis that is disproportionally impacting Indigenous People.   At the Ab...

“It’s a little bit of an #Indigenous joke that it’s a traditional food, the bologna sandwich. By doing this we are also bringing a smile... We are letting them know that they matter and that they are not forgotten” #DowntownEastside #DTES #Vancouver #BC www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-09...

"The owner of a #DowntownEastside restaurant is speaking out after he tried helping a vulnerable 12-year-old girl who was alone in the notoriously rough neighbourhood." #DTES #Vancouver youtu.be/5zOGLNcYRrI

New Victoria police chief to apply lessons from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside VICTORIA — Victoria's new police chief Fiona Wilson says she faces "a very, very steep learning curve" in her new post after almost 27 years with the Vancouver Police Department, where she rose to dep...

" #Victoria 's city council recently approved a plan...to help improve #communitysafety and #wellbeing in the downtown core, including #Pandora Avenue, and Wilson said she would apply her experience with #Vancouver 's troubled #DowntownEastside to the plan" www.coastreporter.net/bc-news/new-...

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The wonderful people at the Heart Tattoo Society are running a fundraiser to keep their Monday BBQs at the Downtown Eastside going and both spreading the word and any contribution help:

www.facebook.com/donate/74448...

#fundraiser #DTES #DowntownEastside #FoodInsecurity #BBQ

PACE Is Closing After 31 Years of Supporting Sex Workers | The Tyee The result will be a dangerous lack of supports and resources for highly marginalized people, community members warn.

"PACE Society, a non-profit that supports sex workers in #Vancouver 's #DowntownEastside, is closing after 31 years ...because of “operational challenges, funding gaps, and debts,” as well as its charitable funding status being revoked" #BC #BritishColumbia thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

Vancouver council aims to activate empty storefronts in DTES Mike Klassen: 'This is not a gentrification process as much as a revitalization.'

" #Vancouver city council unanimously approved a motion Wednesday from Coun. Mike Klassen that aims to make it easier and faster for entrepreneurs, artists & others to move into the dozens of empty storefronts in the #DowntownEastside" #BC #BritishColumbia www.vancouverisawesome.com/economy-law-...

More from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. #yvr #vancouver #dtes #downtowneastside

As a founding member of SisterWatch, Carol Martin had every expectation that she would discuss changes impacting the safety of Indigenous women in the Downtown Eastside with the chief of police. #Vancouver #Indigenous #MMIW #DTES #downtowneastside #reconciliation

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#Canadianmovie #drama #scifi #film, written/directed by #DavidRay #Vancouver #DowntownEastside
Features local #dragqueen #RobertKaiser #JayBaruchel #cinema #canadasky #canadianfilm #movies

Vancouver's mayor says he wasn't behind push for $5-million DTES police crackdown | CBC News How the Vancouver Police Department got the green light for a $5-million campaign to reduce crime in the Downtown Eastside — or if it needed it outside approval at all — continues to be murky.

"How the #Vancouver Police Department got the green light for a $5-million campaign to reduce #crime in the #DowntownEastside — or if it needed it outside approval at all — continues to be murky" #BC #BritishColumbia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'We're people too': Canada's homeless population is aging, changing how shelters run VANCOUVER — Seventy-one-year-old Roger Oake sat on a bench outside the Union Gospel Mission shelter in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after breakfast.

"In major cities across the country, those who provide shelter and services for people who are #homeless say they are seeing more elderly people turn to them for help" #homelessness #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #DowntownEastside #DTES #Canada www.burnabynow.com/national-bus...

Vancouver police say Downtown Eastside crime drops after adoption of task force Police in Vancouver have released new data they say depicts the success of a task force launched three months ago to curb crime in the city’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

"Police in #Vancouver have released new data they say depicts the success of a task force launched three months ago to curb crime in the city’s #DowntownEastside neighbourhood." #DTES #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Michael Bryant's solution for the DTES will likely be for him to drive his car over everyone there.

#MichaelBryant #justiceforDarcyAllanSheppard #MichaelBryantisamurderer #DowntownEastSide #VancouverBC

Les Leyne: Fumbled hiring of Eby adviser is under fire It’s the latest chapter in Michael Bryant’s extraordinary career path.

"Hastings and Main is known the world over for its utter despair. Governments have been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the #DowntownEastside for years & it hasn’t made much of a difference." #comment #opinion #DTES #Vancouver #BC #BritishColumbia
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-...

Vancouver mom wants answers after son recounts having clothes changed by man in school basement A Vancouver mother is demanding answers from her son’s elementary school and the Vancouver School Board.

"Jasmine Barahona’s six-year-old #neurodivergent son came home from school Wednesday in a different outfit than the one he wore that morning, prompting questions" #DTES #DowntownEastside #Vancouver #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada @vsb39.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

NDP Under Fire for Rich Contract for Downtown Eastside Adviser | The Tyee BC Conservatives accuse government of ‘rewarding friends and insiders.’

B.C. Conservative MLAs have “massive concerns” that less than a year after Michael Bryant’s unexplained departure as the CEO of Legal Aid BC, the government has awarded him a lucrative contract to provide advice about Vancouver’s #DowntownEastside.

‘He came back and saved people’: Downtown Eastside grieves advocate’s sudden death - BC | Globalnews.ca In a moving tribute Saturday, community members from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside turned out to celebrate the life of Trey Helten, who died suddenly last month at age 42.

"In a moving tribute on Saturday, community members from #Vancouver ’s #DowntownEastside ( #DTES ) and beyond turned out to celebrate the life of Trey Helten, who died suddenly last month at age 42." #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada globalnews.ca/news/1117455...

Critics Want Less Police Presence Near Harm Reduction Sites | The Tyee VPD says it supports the use of Downtown Eastside sites and denies that officer presence discourages access.

"A grassroots organization is warning that the presence of #Vancouver police is deterring people who use drugs from accessing #harmreduction services in the #DowntownEastside, or #DTES" #policing #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada @vandupeople.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

Critics Want Less Police Presence Near Harm Reduction Sites | The Tyee VPD says it supports the use of Downtown Eastside sites and denies that officer presence discourages access.

A grassroots organization is warning that the presence of Vancouver police is deterring people who use drugs from accessing harm reduction services in the #DowntownEastside.

" #Vancouver 's police chief is defending a task force set up to tackle crime in the #DowntownEastside. As Amelia John reports, an investigation has been launched after an anonymous claim that the VPD was setting arrest quotas." #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada
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VPD whistleblower alleges arrest quotas in Downtown Eastside crackdown VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Board must look into an officer's allegation that arrest quotas have been issued as part of Mayor Ken Sim's "Task Force Barrage" initiative in the

"The #Vancouver Police Board must look into an officer's allegation that arrest quotas have been issued as part of Mayor Ken Sim's "Task Force Barrage" initiative in the #DowntownEastside, #BritishColumbia 's police watchdog says" #unhoused #homelessness www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Man charged with assault after police say two officers in Vancouver were set on fire VANCOUVER — A man has been charged after allegedly setting two officers from the Vancouver Police Department on fire earlier this week.

"Police say he was wanted for other offences and tried to run but was caught, and police say that's when they believe he used a flammable substance to set the officers' uniforms on fire" #DowntownEastside #Vancouver #BC #Canada www.vancouverisawesome.com/bc-news/man-...

Ha @danielwell.bsky.social That was perfect, right off a station ID. #Pure

For every victim I met in 22 months of missing women cases. #DowntownEastside.