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Building Allies
From: Fighting For Space
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After repeatedly hitting a wall when it came to better government support for harm reduction, the Downtown Eastside activists strategically started seeking allies. The residents of the affluent west Vancouver, who had woken up to the treat drug addiction posed not just for the homeless population, but their own children too, were the answer. Livingston, Osborn and Wilson played key roles to allying up support. In the meantime, Thomas Kerr worked on making the supervised injection site a reality by drawing up the detailed plans and presenting the report to the health council.
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.
