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Money

The money pitComment298

$1.4-billion in public and private money has been spent on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since 2000. Results? Limited progress at best. 13/02/09 11:59 PM Comment298

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Wish upon a czarComment20

Any hopes the Games would spur civic leaders to finally address the systemic problems of the anguished DTES have all but vanished 13/02/09 8:16 PM Comment20

The real Eastsiders

Downtown Eastside

Downtown's DenizensComment44

You can't fix a place if you don't understand its people: Why did they come here, from as far off as Montreal, and why do they stay? 13/02/09 6:53 PM Comment44

By the numbers

Downtown Eastside

Exclusive demographicsComment8

With a per capita income that's less than half the national average, the neighbourhood is among the poorest of the poor. Compare key stats 13/02/09 6:54 PM Comment8

Public Forum

Downtown Eastside

Experts on fresh solutionsComment

Our readers debated as our reporters blogged from the public forum hosted Tuesday night by The Globe, CTV and UBC 25/03/09 2:21 PM Comment

 

Canada's Slum: The Fix

Woodward's gets its welcome mat readyComment13

Officials preview the new project, hopeful it will spark a revival in Vancouver's drug infested Downtown Eastside 03/04/09 5:00 AM Comment13

 

Canada's Slum: The Fix

Public forum video

The Globe, in partnership with CTV and UBC, brought together experts with fresh solutions for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 25/03/09 2:45 PM

 

Your Pictures

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Popup

Globe readers sent us these shots of the DTES 16/03/09 9:39 AM

 

Canada's Slum: The Fix

Troubled residents can teach us a thing or twoComment28

People in the Downtown Eastside are eager to help their community, Margo Fryer says 08/03/09 10:02 PM Comment28

 

The democratic solutionComment16

Community organizer Jim Green believes in a women-and-children-first fix for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. 02/03/09 9:21 AM Comment16

 

The universal solutionComment27

Human settlement expert Aprodicio Laquian looks to the world for ways to solve the problems in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 23/02/09 11:38 AM Comment27

 

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Breakdown

Canada's mental health crisis

The Globe and Mail's special series on the enormous, unaddressed cost of mental illness to Canadian individuals, families and society. 10/02/09 11:54 AM

 
 

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With the 2010 Olympics coming to Vancouver, the eyes of the world will be on the city's Downtown Eastside. The millions poured into the neighbourhood seem to have had little impact on its squalor, its people or their problems with addiction. What should be done? Where would you start? How would you fix Canada's slum?

 
 

 

Public Forum:

On March 24 at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET, The Globe, in partnership with CTV and the University of British Columbia, will bring together experts with fresh solutions for the Downtown Eastside at a sold-out public forum.

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Submit your questions in advance. CTV's Mi-Jung Lee will put questions from across the country to our panellists at the forum.

Participate
Join the debate on Twitter and on a live blog at www.globeandmail.com/thefix and www.ctvbc.ctv.ca on the night of the forum.

Watch
A video of the public forum available beginning March 25.

 

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