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October 25, 2024
Sport builds community in the DTES
Members of a Downtown Eastside Indigenous soccer team, First Nations BC, are looking ahead to...
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Supportive housing providers unite to combat homelessness
More than 20 experienced and innovative providers of low-barrier supportive housing have come together to...
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Pure joy: how it feels like to move into PHS housing after sheltering and homelessness
PHS Community Services Society opened two new housing developments in late 2023. There was 80-unit...
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Housing is healthcare and harm reduction
We’re opening new housing in Vancouver and Victoria to bring people in from the cold....
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The drug crisis demands political unity
If ever there was a non-partisan issue, it’s the drug poisoning crisis. It’s hitting all...
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Nathan Edelson was a champion of the Downtown Eastside
Nathan Edelson was an urban visionary. He was a City planner who advocated for social...
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Insite at 20: Still saving lives, still giving hope
When Insite opened in September 2003, it wasn’t just the first sanctioned site in North...
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Pigeon Park Savings: the Downtown Eastside’s bank
As we come up to our 20th year of low-barrier community banking, Pigeon Park Savings...
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Vancouver study: homelessness is a medical emergency
Research demonstrates the devastating health impacts of homelessness, for individuals and all society. Homelessness is...
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Dr. Perry Kendall: the way forward
The toxic drugs public health emergency is a crisis of incomprehensible scale that has claimed more...
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