One of the three stood up and stepped towards me, the tension in his shoulders easing. He said someone else had just come through the alley, filming everything on his phone without saying a word, and it pissed him off.
“So what’s this story you’re working on?” the guy asked. I explained a little more about the issue, and that I was looking for people who had accessed safer-supply prescription narcotics, or might want to.
The man, who declined to give me his name, said he hoped to get on the program soon, because the street drug supply he relied on was so dangerous. I asked if I could make a few photos of the three of them.
Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly-awarded journalist and documentary maker. His investigations have sparked four commissions of inquiry. SHARES Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds the signed Article of Impeachment against President Donald Trump at the US Capitol on Jan. 13.
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The impeachment of Donald J. Trump for a second time was necessary. But it would be foolish to imagine our powerful and dangerously wounded neighbour to the south is on the mend.
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Downtown Eastside Grieves Man Shot Dead by Police
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users held the vigil to protest what they say have been too many incidents of heavy-handed policing.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES The Downtown Eastside vigil on Monday drew many people angry about the police killing of a community member named Chester.
Photo by Maggie MacPherson.
People who live in the Downtown Eastside rallied Tuesday to show their outrage and grief after a man living in a supportive housing building was shot dead by police on Jan. 5.
Such decisions reveal the complexities of healing and memory. Let’s support choice.
Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. SHARES Lower Post residential school has been a daily reminder of pain and suffering for residents of the community in BC’s far north.
Photo via the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
The decision to demolish the Lower Post school one of the few remaining residential school buildings in the country is the right one for the northern B.C. village.
Tools exist to screen them from all top jobs. Washington’s nightmare is our wake-up call.
Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The Tyee. SHARES An epidemic of Trumps? A US study of corporate professionals found rates of full-blown psychopathy 15 times higher than in the general population.
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The Inuit coined the word Kunlanget for someone who “repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women.” The Yoruba people of Nigeria describe an Aranakan as an individual who “always goes his own way regardless of others, who is unco-operative, full of malice, and bullheaded.” Remind you of anyone with access to nuclear launch codes?