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Pedestrian xing. Street press. Neon stalwart. Stilt pirouette. Shadow patrol. Protest smear. A client enters Insite, North America’s first government-funded safe injection site. The facility has drawn the ire of many, being derided by the Bush administration as “state-assisted suicide”…

The Tibetan Freedom Torch touched down in Vancouver Saturday to begin the Canadian leg of its worldwide campaign to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Tibet. By the time the torch returns to Tibet on the eve of the…

International Women’s Day protestors in Vancouver brought a local perspective to the 100th anniversary of the global celebration Saturday in a rally for indigenous women’s rights and an end to violence in the Downtown Eastside, an area better known for…

Passerbys and police look out over the intersection of Hastings and Cambie. This corner marks the boundary between the trendy Gastown district and the Downtown Eastside, Canada’s poorest postal code and last night the scene of two unrelated shootings. Policemen…

Every Valentine’s Day, the residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood band together to remember the women who have been targeted and picked off their streets by serial killers and rapists. This year’s march took on particular significance as it coincided…