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Crossing a Line
From: Fighting For Space
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In early 2012, the regional health authority that funded Insite revealed it would soon cut funding for the Rainier Hotel, a housing project that benefited from on-site treatment programs for its female tenants with addiction and mental-health issues. Like he had so many times before, Townsend took his fight to the streets. With black coffins on their shoulders, activists marched on the headquarters of Vancouver Coastal Health. Vancouver Coastal Health didn’t back down. And Townsend lost a battle that would cost him much more than the one housing project.
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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.