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Description: Update by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS announcing the opening of a new COVID-19 testing site on Vancouver's DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
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: Open letter from the Pivot Legal Society addressed to the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), calling for a change in VPD's COVID-19 response within the DTES community.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease), Drug utilization
Creator: Pivot Legal Society (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Description: Open letter published by the Pivot Legal Society calling for the VPD to change its policing methods as a result of the COVID-19 public health crisis in the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Drug utilization
Creator: Pivot Legal Society (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Description: Website of Right to Remain, a four-year research project (2016-2020) that examines the Single Room Occupancy (SRO) buildings in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES).
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Subject: Rental housing, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Right to Remain
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Research project website
Contributor: deGrey, Tom, Pranteau, Sam, Grant, Erica (Community organizer), Masuda, Jeff
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892-test/*/http://www.righttoremain.ca/
Description: Annoucement released by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority detailing its response strategy to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vancouver's inner-city and vulnerable communities.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: On April 23, 2020, the VDLC issued a media advisory and a list of urgent actions needed to ensure that the COVID-19 response in the DTES puts fairness for frontline workers, and worker and resident health and safety at the forefront.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Vancouver and District Labour Council
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Labour organization website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/http://www.vdlc.ca/vdlc_raising_concerns_dtes/
Description: The Youth Collaborative for Chinatown (YCC) is a network of youth doing awesome things in, for and with Vancouver's Chinatown through a collaborative, culturally-based and intergenerational approach.
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Subject: Community organization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Youth Collaborative for Chinatown
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/http://ycc-yvr.com/
Description: The people who work the front lines on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are sound the alarm over how the novel corona virus is being managed on the streets. Some say there’s a potential catastrophe brewing for people with addictions and the ongoing spread of COVID-19.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: House, Tina
Publisher: Winnipeg, MB : APTN
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Video
Description: Official statement by the Atira Women's Society's CEO regarding the violence directed against women during the protest taking place at Oppenheimer Park in 2020.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness
Description: Announcement published by Atira Property Management detailing its corporate response to the COVID-19 spread throughout its properties.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Atira Property Management
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Corporate website
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: Podcast discussing the rising difficulties experienced by people who use drugs in the DTES as a result of COVID-19.
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Subject: Drug utilization, COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: Drug users in British Columbia are facing two overlapping public health emergencies: COVID-19 and the overdose crisis. With countries closing their borders due to the pandemic, the price of street drugs have also started to rise, resulting in a large spike of overdoses in Vancouver.
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Subject: Drug utilization, COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: Open letter from the president of the VDLC addressed to the BC Premier, BC Minister of Labour and to Vancouver's Mayor calling for a set of better conditions and COVID-19 guidelines for DTES workers.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Sychowski, Stephen von
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Labour organization website
Contributor: Vancouver and District Labour Council
Description: Online newsletter detailing DEWC's response to COVID-19, as well as other news related to women's issues living in Vancouver's DTES.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Newsletter
Description: Information brochure targetted at residents of DTES living in Single Room Occupancy, meant to help them stay informed about the then-rising COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: DTES SRO Collaborative
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
Description: Home page of the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, which provides a space for community members on the DTES and fosters an improved quality of life.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Downtown East Side Neighbourhood House
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
Description: DTES Response is a coordinated effort comprised of organizations in the DTES to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensure this threat does not disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in the community.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: DTES Response
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://dtesresponse.ca/
Description: Personal website of Karen Ward, community organizer in working in Vancouver's DTES. The website contains articles and views about the current issues affecting the DTES community.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness, COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Ward, Karen (Community organizer)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Personal website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://free-futures-society.org/
Description: La Boussole is a non-profit organization acting as a community and social center located in Vancouver that caters to Francophones in need. Through the provision of Francophone social and community programs and, La Boussole strives to meet the needs of its members and to facilitate social integration. La Boussole is the only Francophone non-profit organization with this mission based in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: La Boussole
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
Description: News release by the provincial government of British Columbia announcing a grant of $200,000 from the Canada-BC Workforce Development Agreement in support of skills training and employment.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: British Columbia. Ministry of Advanced Education
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Government report
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020AEST0026-000946/
Description: An update from the City of Vancouver, in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and BC Housing which identifies and implements immediate measures to help protect people who are experiencing homelessness, living inSROs, and in the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Vancouver (B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Government report
Contributor: Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, BC Housing
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 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.)
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.)
Description: Blog section of the Binners' Project website, where news and other updates is shared for members, donors and partners of the organization.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Binners' Project (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.binnersproject.org/blog/archives/03-2020/
Description: The Binners’ Project is a group of waste-pickers aided by support staff dedicated to improving their economic opportunities, and reducing the stigma they face as informal recyclable collectors. In this letter, addressed to Provincial Minister Shane Simpson, the organization is advocating to the Provincial Government for better economic protection for its volunteer binners.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Hoyt, Landon
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
Contributor: Binners' Project (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: Interview conducted by Ian Busfield with City of Vancouver Councillor Jean Swanson, discussing hte BC Government decision to move residents camped in Oppenheimer Park to temporary accommodations in hotel rooms and community centres.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness
Creator: Bushfield, Ian
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News website
Contributor: Swanson, Jean, 1943-
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: 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.)
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: A petition started by a local community organization addressed to various health authorities, community organizations and local government, urging action to find housing for the DTES residents experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness
Creator: Carnegie Community Action Project
Publisher: Change.org
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Online petition
Description: Homepage of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, a registered charity founded in 2011 to honour a culture and community established in Vancouver more than 100 years ago. The organization is characterized by a spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and a passion to help the revitalization of Chinatown, one of Canada’s most iconic neighborhoods and the historic heart of Vancouver.
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Subject: Community organization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Vancouver Chinatown Foundation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.chinatownfoundation.org/
Description: Announcement regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the services offered by DENH, as well as their plans to overcome said difficulties.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.dtesnhouse.ca/news-updates/covid-fundraiser/
Description: Fund raising campaign created as a response to the spread of COVID-19 in the vulnerable community of Vancouver's Downtown-Eastside. The raised funds have been used to provide meals, snacks, hydration and PPE for DTES unhoused community, firekeepers, infrastructure and other core needs at the new tent city in Strathcona Park.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Fund raising, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Svelnis, Rianne
Publisher: GoFundMe
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Corporate website
Description: Hua Foundation is a youth empowerment non-profit working on racial equity and civic engagement issues on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory known as Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Our mission is to empower youth in the Asian diaspora to fully participate in advancing social change through exploring our racialized identities and building resilience in communities.
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Subject: Community organization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Hua Foundation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.huafoundation.org/
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: Open letter from Jenny Kwan, Canadian MP for the Vancouver East riding, written on March 19, 2020, addressed to both the federal and provincial ministers of health in which the MP urges an urgent and quick response to the COVID-19 situation developing on Vancouver's Downtown-Eastside.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Kwan, Jenny
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Government website
Description: An update published by the Red Braid Alliance detailing the responses and feedback the organization had received in April 2020 with regard to the earlier Stewart Squat event. The update answers community concerns in the form of a written Q & A.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
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.)
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: Public statement released by the FNLC expressing condolonces to the loss of an infant in the DTES as a result of improper use of Port-a-Potties. The leadership asks that these be removed and replaced with trailer-style washrooms that would offer better staff monitoring and increased sanitation.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: Open letter from local First Nations chiefs addressed to Premier John Horgan and other provincial government officials urging for an immediate government action towards protecting vulnerable individuals in the DTES from COVID-19 transmission.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Phillip, Stewart, Tom, Don, Wilson, Judy (Kukpi7), Teegee, Terry
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
Contributor: Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Description: Update by Union Gospel Mission detailing its response to the Covid-19 pandemic within the DTES community the over the spring and summer of 2020. The page contains an option fo donating towards UGM's continued response.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease)--Religious aspects, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness
Creator: Union Gospel Mission (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Religious organization website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.ugm.ca/covid-19-pandemic/
Description: Union Gospel Mission impact report from March to July 2020, covering the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and its appearance and presence within the DTES community.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Union Gospel Mission (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Description: Online newsletter detailing UGM's response to recent cases of COVID-19 within their shelter.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Union Gospel Mission (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
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: 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.)
Description: Article from March 2020, detailing the difficulties faced by the community of DTES in the face of the then-rising COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Homelessness
Creator: Smith, Penny (Reporter)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Labour organization website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/27/vanh-m27.html
Description: Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice 世代同行會 supports youth and low-income immigrant seniors in Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside. They combine service provision and grassroots organizing, with a core belief that service work is political and that as a community, we have the tools we need to take care of one another.
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Subject: Community organization, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) , Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.yarrowsociety.ca/
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