Robert Pickton [1]
Canadian True Crime
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The Downtown East Side of Vancouver, British Columbia
The downtown east side is one of the poorest neighborhoods in canada. It's a small area east of the central financial district, about two kilometers by less than one kilometer in size. With its open air drug trade and relatively cheap housing it ends up being the location of last resort for people struggling with mental illness or addiction. The problem started in the 19 seventies and 19 eighties when police pushed sex workers from other safer residential areas to this unsavory neighborhood. Decades later, despite government funding and attempts at revitalizing the area, this neighborhood has never managed to shake its repute as canada's poorest postal code.
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