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CTV’s BC bureau has found a potential cause célèbre on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where enterprising YouTube documentarians sometimes like to stroll around with their iPhones and capture footage of the filth-strewn drug-zombie wasteland, putting themselves at obvious risk of robbery and violence (and occasionally depicting both) as they do so... Most of these videos have hit counts in the thousands, but one made by an American, Tyler Oliveira, has become an especially big hit. Oliveira has an entire online oeuvre of frightening mini-tours of skid rows and tent cities across North America... Well, CTV’s Isabella Zavarise heard about this extremely...

Vancouver police break laws in policing the poor: report VANCOUVER (CP) - City police routinely break the law and abuse the very rights they are supposed to protect in the country's poorest postal code, says a report released Tuesday. The conduct of Vancouver police in the drug ghetto of the Downtown Eastside meets the legal definition of abuse of authority and, in 12 cases, met the United Nations definition of torture, according to the Pivot Legal Society. "A police culture that ignores, if not permits, police misconduct makes us all potential victims and condones police practices that demean both the...