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Establishing Insite
From: Fighting For Space
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The new Mayor of Vancouver finally gave in to the demands of the Downtown Eastside activists and the groundwork for “Insite” was laid. This chapter talks about the logistics of establishing such a place and the laws that had to be circumvented to accommodate this ground breaking initiative.
Contributors
Travis Lupick
Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He has more than a decade's experience working as a staff reporter for the Georgia Straight newspaper and has also written about drug addiction, harm reduction, and mental health for the Toronto Star, the Walrus, and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets. For his reporting on Canada's opioid crisis, Lupick received the Canadian Association of Journalists' Don McGillivray Award for best overall investigative report of 2016 and two 2017 Jack Webster awards for excellence in B.C. journalism. He has also worked as a journalist in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, and Honduras.