{"id":2746,"date":"2026-02-05T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:36:15","slug":"managing-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/managing-access\/","title":{"rendered":"“Managing Access”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ways Vancouver’s authorities typically address the city’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood lie on the continuum connecting problematic to harmful. Jamming up the media<\/a> is commonplace:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An inquiry by B.C.\u2019s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has found that news media faced numerous problems accessing the scene of a decampment operation on April 5 and 6 in 2023, despite the Vancouver Police Department\u2019s continued claim that there were no restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actions police took to bar media from entering a two-block stretch of East Hastings Street during the forced removal of numerous tents set up by homeless people was \u201cnot in accordance with human rights standards,\u201d the inquiry\u2019s\u00a0final report<\/a>\u00a0found. That in turn affected the rights of the vulnerable unhoused people living in the encampment, the report found. …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a joint statement, the City of Vancouver and the VPD responded: “The City [brought] the encampment to a close due to significant and intensifying worker and public safety concerns. To ensure worker and public safety, the City requested VPD support to manage access to the active work area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

From The Tyee<\/a>, Vancouver’s independent, online news source. (It’s very much worth supporting<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ways Vancouver’s authorities typically address the city’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood lie on the continuum connecting problematic to harmful. Jamming up the media is commonplace: An inquiry by B.C.\u2019s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has found that news media … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,105],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-journalism","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}