Downtown Eastside
How to Laugh at an Opioid Crisis
If you ask comedian and former addict Mark Hughes, everyone should be thinking and talking about fentanyl—not just users and Downtown Eastside activists.
BC Will Fight Fentanyl Overdoses with ATV and Bike-Riding First Responders
Following a record number of OD-related 911 calls last week, paramedics are getting sweet new all-terrain wheels.
What It’s Like Saving Lives on the Front Lines of Canada’s Opioid Crisis
"Within the last 12-month period, we're looking at over 1,000 overdoses requiring the use of naloxone," says one of the operators of North America's first supervised injection site.
Portrait of a Crisis
We talk to users at the heart of the opioid crisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Meet the Man Drug Users in Vancouver Call a ‘Secret Kind of Hero’
Hugh Lampkin walks the streets of the Downtown Eastside saving lives.
This Back Alley ‘Harm Reduction’ Tent in Vancouver Isn’t Asking Permission to Operate
Just a half block from where the royals passed through this weekend, the self-supervised injection site is a DIY response to the fentanyl crisis.
Vancouver Drug Users Fight Poverty Tourism by Gawking at Yuppies
They walked around until a rich prick told them to fuck off.
Do Young People Care About Gentrification?
We interrupted some millennials' $5 coffee to ask if they think about displacing the poor.
Drug Users in Canada Are Being Trained as First Responders to Fentanyl Overdoses
As the crisis fuels a record number of emergency calls for Vancouver's official first responders, users are stepping in to save lives.
Snoop Dogg Is Really Mad Canadian Cops Hassled Him About Weed
"Y'all need to raise up off me Canada."
I Went to a Bathhouse to Figure Out Why Bathhouses Still Exist
The naked man sitting across from me has slicked-back hair and Ric Flair's skin. I am trying to figure out the appeal of the Hastings Steam & Sauna.
People Are Outraged Over Serial Killer Robert Pickton's New Memoir
Robert Pickton is serving a life sentence for the murder of numerous women, whose remains were found on his pig farm. The new book Pickton: In His Own Words, professes the convicted murderer's innocence and positions him as "the fall guy".