Police moved into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on Wednesday morning as the city began carrying out its plan to remove a street encampment from the neighbourhood.
East Hastings Street, where people have been living in tents and make-shift structures, has been shut down at Main Street while the process begins.
It was a culmination of eight months of tensions over the encampment, the fourth major one in Vancouver in as many years, as bylaw officers and police worked in tandem over the cries of opposition from those in the tents and those advocating for them.
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is a historic residential and commercial neighbourhood of more than
