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A little over 13 months after a fire displaced 39 residents from a single-room occupancy building in Vancouver's Chinatown, the provincial government has stepped in to return the now-vacant property to the city's low-income housing stock.
Posted: May 02, 2021 8:00 AM PT | Last Updated: May 2 Lexi Fisher, a social worker, works at Kilala Lelum Health Centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. (Ben Nelms/CBC) Indigenous advocates and front-line workers are pushing to include more traditional ways of healing — conversing with elders, smudging, sweat lodges and drum circles — into substance abuse treatment. According to the First Nations Health Authority, Indigenous people are five times more likely to experience an overdose than non-Indigenous people. Advocates and experts say this is because they face past and continuin...
‘A safe place’: Metro transit police reach out to Indigenous youth with cadet program Metro Vancouver Transit Police, through the Blue Eagle Community Cadet program, hopes to change the perception of cops and build bridges with First Nations youth Author of the article: Denise Ryan Publishing date: Feb 25, 2021 • February 25, 2021 • 3 minute read Metro Transit police Indigenous liaison officer Kirk Rattray, flanked by Norm Leech (left) of Vancouver’s Aboriginal Policing Centre and Vancouver police Cst. Rick Lavallee (right), says ‘I would encourage kids just to come...
�� Listen to Post Left: Workers posing outside the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre. Top Right: Norm Leech, executive director, Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre. Bottom Left: The logo of the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre. (all submitted) In what has been a bleak year for Vancouver’s overdose crisis, seven community-led initiatives have received $100,000 in funding to further support their vital cause in the city’s hardest-hit neighbourhoods. The projects are being undertaken by the Vancouver Community Action Team, a group of representatives...