Situated in the southern portion of Canada's British Columbia province, Vancouver is sandwiched between ... homelessness and crime because of its proximity to the Downtown Eastside, which borders ...

At a news conference Thursday at City Hall, Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer and Mayor Ken Sim announced what they called a “long-term initiative to dismantle organized crime.” They called ...

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a “humanitarian crisis” of crime and violence that has reached a tipping point, Mayor Ken Sim said as he unveiled a taskforce to ...