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Description: Article taken from the Province newspaper. Homeless advocates occupation of an empty Strathcona School.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Occupy movement, Homelessness
Creator: Ip, Stephanie
Publisher: The Province
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article concerning the combined issues of COVID-19 and the Strathcona Park tent city.
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Subject: Homelessness, Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Interview in Broadview magazine with Jeremy Hunka, Communications Manager, Union Gospel Mission, and Kate Gibson, Acting Executive Director, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, detailing their respective organizations' efforts at providing services for those living in the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Charities
Creator: Olafson, Karin
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Broadview
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://broadview.org/covid-19-vancouver-downtown-eastside/
Contributor: Hunka, Jeremy, Gibson, Kate
Description: News article in The Runner detailing new initiatives initiated by government and grassroots organizations which prioritize care for unhoused people living on the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Laube, Aly
Publisher: The Runner
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: The restrictions brought on by COVID-19 have made operating safe injection sites in the DTES more difficult. Organizations such as the Overdose Prevention Society are raising funds in order to continue operations for DTES residents who are using drugs.
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Subject: Drug utilization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Cheung, Christopher
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: During the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, 2020, frontline workers and residents in the Downtown Eastside are concerned about health officials’ silence about COVID-19 cases in their community, which is contributing to misinformation, confusion and fear and hurting prevention efforts.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Winter, Jesse, Cheung, Christopher
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/03/31/Silence-DTES-Covid-Fears/
Description: With restaurant and catering business slowing down due to COVID-19, urban rats have begun looking for other sources of food, becoming an even larger health hazard for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Cruickshank, Ainslie
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/22/COVID-Rats/
Description: Article in The Tyee detailing the effect of COVID-19 on women's shelters in Vancouver's DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Wyton, Moira
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/22/COVID-Womens-Shelters/
Description: Article in The Tyee reporting on the increase of overdose deaths in BC caused by fentanyl as the province's public health authorities maintian focus on the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: Drugs--Overdose, COVID-19 (Disease), British Columbia
Description: News article in documenting the issue of tent cities in Strathcona Park and Vancouver in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, proposing sanctioned sites as opposed to camping in parks.
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Subject: Homelessness, Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: St. Denis, Jen
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article in The Tyee reporting on the recent government efforts to house individuals in Victoria and Vancouver living in tent cities into temporary accomodations in hotels and community centers. The article argues that without a coordinated approach and safe supply of drugs, there will be an increase in overdoses.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Gagnon, Marilou, 1980-
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article reporting on a provincial government initiative to distribute smartphones to vulnerable individuals living on the DTES in order to facilitate better access to information during the pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Ip, Stephanie
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Sun
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Homeless people staying in close quarters at shelters, tent cities and warming centres are especially at risk for COVID-19, according to community advocates who are working to ensure hand-washing stations and clean bathrooms are available in Vancouver.
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Subject: Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Bains, Camille
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Sun
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Vancouver Sun article detailing the increasingly worsening problem of homelessness on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: McIntyre, Gordon, Lee-Young, Joanne
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Sun
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article recording the reopening of community facilities in Vancouver's DTES following the initial province-wide COVID-19 lockdown.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Mall, Rattan
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Indo-Canadian Voice
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: In March 2020, the B.C. government declared COVID-19 a public health emergency. But in the Downtown Eastside, the novel coronavirus has amplified an existing public health emergency: the overdose crisis, which has claimed more than 4,700 lives in B.C. in the last four years.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Drug utilization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: University of British Columbia. Faculty of Arts
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: In April 2020, B.C. has enacted a public safety order to move homeless people living in tent city encampments into hotels in Vancouver and Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Ghoussoub, Michelle
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article reporting on health officials' increasing worry about the lack of services and resources for people in BC who are using drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: Drug utilization, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Bains, Camille
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: British Columbia
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article reporting on a provincial government initiative to distribute smartphones to vulnerable individuals living on the DTES in order to facilitate better access to information during the pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: CBC News report on a 60-room COVID-19 care facility created in Vancouver's DTES, in a pre-emptive strike to stop the spread of the coronavirus among the city's poorest residents.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Rankin, Eric (Reporter)
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article reporting on the federal government giving the green light for a safe supply of drugs for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside residents in light of the COVID-19 crisis, according to Mayor Kennedy Stewart.
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Subject: Drug utilization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: McElroy, Justin
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: CBC News article detailing the efforts of the BC provincial government to find housing for individuals living on the DTES. DTES advocates respond by urging government to find more permanent solutions to the community's housing crisis.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: McElroy, Justin
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: CBC News report on City of Vancouver's efforts in providing regular cleaning and meal delivery to residents at 21 single-room occupancy hotels on the Downtown Eastside.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: CBC News article reporting on the City of Vancouver's first steps to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic - part of that response was the closing of the DTES street market.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Mussett, Ben
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article detailing the efforts of a set of organizations in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside which have mobilized to support vulnerable members of the community during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Siebert, Amanda
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Inside the Jar
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article published in April 2020 reporting the success of a charity scheme to help Chinese elders who are suffering from ‘high anxiety about having to go out’ amid the pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Young, Ian James
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: A fundraising effort by the 44th annual Powell Street Festival raised more than $60,000. The program will become a part of the DTES Community Kitchen Network, which was revived as part of the neighbourhood’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Takeuchi, Craig
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Georgia Straight
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Open letter from gues contributor in the Georgia Straight, addressed to representatives of the BC Provincial government, calling for urgent actions in order to address the dual health crises affecting the DTES community: drug addiction and COVID-19
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Drug utilization, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: DTES frontline workers
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Georgia Straight
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article in the Globe and Mail detailing poverty advocates' concerns about the rising risk of COVID-19 in March 2020 among the vulnerable individuals living in the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Bula, Frances
Publisher: Toronto, ON : The Globe and Mail
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Report in the Vancouver Courier detailing the closure of the Oppenheimer Park tent city and the city's and provincial government's response to the need to provide temporary housing to the individuals who vacated the park, with COVID-19 as a backdrop to the decision-making.
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Subject: Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Howell, Mike (Reporter)
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Courier
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article in reporting on Strathcona residents' reluctance to continue paying property taxes as a response to city of Vancouver's slow response to the Strathcona Park tent city.
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Subject: Homelessness, Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Lalonde, Megan
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Is Awesome
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Some Vancouver harm reduction advocates are taking a DIY approach to B.C.’s intersecting health emergencies in order to maintain a safe supply for people who use drugs.
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Subject: Drug utilization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: During the Spring 2020 lockdown caused by COVID-19, a new wave of fatal overdoses in the Downtown Eastside has Vancouver's top doctor worried.
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Subject: Drug utilization, COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
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