vanc backalleys

crisis

I never said Canada is perfect. Of course it isn’t. As many developed nations it suffers a lot of problems … housing crisis, opioid crisis, industry against nature or reconciliation with indigenous past.

East Hastings and Gore Ave

What surprised me the most is the general condition of homeless in Vanc. Unlike polish smelly, dissolved in alcohol men or New York’s half-zombified heroinists, folks in Vanc supprise you with how tidy and clean they keep themselves. (Usually inhabiting tents in less popular parks.) Or their manners - trying to earn a honest loonie by holding the door for you when you go to Horton’s for a cup of coffee.

tents at CRAB Park

the skytrain

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