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  • ‘It takes a toll’: These Chinatown residents share an Ottawa building with a controversial safe-supply clinic
  • Downtown Women's center project rises at 501 E. 5th Street
  • Man stabbed to death in Downtown Eastside in Vancouver's fourth homicide of 2026

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ottawacitizen.com /1 month ago

‘It takes a toll’: These Chinatown residents share an Ottawa building with a controversial safe-supply clinic

New Dawn Medical has been facing months of public backlash over a sustained increase in crime and safety concerns in its area.

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la.urbanize.city /1 month ago

Downtown Women's center project rises at 501 E. 5th Street

Downtown Women's center project rises at 501 E. 5th Street Steven Sharp Tue, 04/28/2026 - 06:10 Wood framing is starting to rise above the concrete podium of a new...

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vancouversun.com /3 weeks ago

Man stabbed to death in Downtown Eastside in Vancouver's fourth homicide of 2026

A man and a woman are under arrest after a fatal stabbing at East Hastings and Columbia streets.

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vancouversun.com /3 days ago

B.C. health minister says overdose prevention site won't open 'at this time' in downtown Vancouver

Josie Osborne says government heard concerns from the community and businesses about the proposed site at 900 Helmcken Street

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

Eat Streets: Vancouver's Yaletown a place to eat, drink, and 'to see and be seen'

'Yaletown's the scene': Vancouver's urban village began the 20th century as one of the roughest parts of the city, and ended it as one of the bougiest

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vancouversun.com /2 days ago

Eat Streets: Vancouver's Main Street remains valiantly local, international and eclectic

Think foraged fir tips and Michelin stars, vats of craft beer, and you'll get the the picture

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vancouversun.com /3 weeks ago

Eat Streets: The hidden gem of Burnaby Heights

Several blocks surrounding the 4100-block of East Hastings Street in Burnaby are packed with restaurants

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

Eat Streets: Where hippies used to gather on West 4th Avenue, foodies now flock for the old and the new

People are drawn to West 4th's proximity to the beach, shopping, and the dozens of food outlets that line the four blocks between Burrard and Vine

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vancouversun.com /3 weeks ago

Eat Streets: The hidden gem of Burnaby Heights

Several blocks surrounding the 4100-block of East Hastings Street in Burnaby are packed with restaurants.

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

Eat Streets: New Westminster gets fresh life on Columbia Street (and in a SkyTrain station)

The historic street had its ups-and-downs over the years but makes for a fun walk today

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vancouversun.com /3 weeks ago

New Vancouver overdose prevention site faces threat of lawsuit, but top doctor pushes back

'They just made this agreement a few months ago. It's crazy to me that they would breach it right away.' — Vancouver resident Mike Wilson

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

'Downtown is stabilizing': Mixed signals from latest downtown Vancouver business report

'When I look at where we were last year, this is an improved report,' said Jane Talbot, CEO of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

Eat Streets: North Vancouver's Lower Lonsdale reinvented as a foodie destination

The makeover of the district's derelict industrial shipyards is part of the magic of a blossoming food destination

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globalnews.ca /1 week ago

‘Completely ridiculous’: $547,000 in B.C. government funding for 2 tenants in Vancouver SRO

From at least late March to mid-May, there were only two tenants at the Colonial Hotel at 122 Water Street in Gastown, as the SRO operated by Atira prepared to close.

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gothamist.com /1 month ago

Homeless women sought shelter in NYC. They found chronic violence and dysfunction.

The Tillary Street Women's Shelter sits in the shadows of new development in Downtown Brooklyn on April 27, 2025. Fights, assaults and deaths have long plagued the Tillary Stre...

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vancouversun.com /4 days ago

See Vancouver's Sen̓áḵw towers, from the inside out

This week, the first Indigenous residents will move into the first tower, and calls will start going out to others that have registered for a chance at the market rental units

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

Chinatown summit in Vancouver looks at ways to revitalize historic neighbourhoods

Leaders from around North America are trying to preserve the cultural heritage and economies of such neighbourhoods, which are 'at risk of disappearing'

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vancouversun.com /2 weeks ago

Eat Streets: Kerrisdale transforms from typical British fare to a world of delicious new flavours

Anyone who lived here in the 1990s may miss the Cheshire Cheese with its hearty pub fare, but If you walk 41st Avenue between West Boulevard and Balsam you will find your tea — alt...

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la.urbanize.city /1 month ago

12-story supportive housing complex rising at 554 S. San Pedro St. in DTLA

12-story supportive housing complex rising at 554 S. San Pedro St. in DTLA Steven Sharp Tue, 04/21/2026 - 06:15 Construction is in progress for a third supportive h...

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vintagelasvegas.com /1 month ago

Downtown Las Vegas c. 1979

Downtown Las Vegas c. 1979In the foreground is Mesquite Ave at N 9th & N 10th Streets. The areas of Buck’s Subdivision and Grandview Addition were suburban Las Vegas of the ‘00...

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ny.eater.com /2 weeks ago

The Best Lower East Side Restaurants

The Lower East Side — extending to Houston Street on the north, Chrystie and Pike streets on the west, and the FDR on the east and south — is a neighborhood that flaunts its modern...

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globalnews.ca /1 month ago

Elizabeth Fry Society’s shelter closes after lease extension denied

The site along Fort Road near the Belvedere LRT Station was meant to be a temporary home but since the Elizabeth Fry Society hasn't found a new one, it has been evicted.

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

This Day in History, 1986: Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists

The retired logger had lived at the Patricia Hotel in the Downtown Eastside for six decades before he was evicted

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allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com /1 month ago

The City of Vancouver has eliminated one of two sex worker safety planner positions as it continues…

City of Vancouver cuts sex worker safety planner positionThe City of Vancouver has eliminated one of two sex worker safety planner positions as it continues to work through “organi...

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