Vancouver is Awesome: Locals are expressing safety concerns about a growing tent city in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The expanding encampment currently stretches down Hastings between Main and Abbott streets and several residents and business owners say the area is becoming increasingly dangerous. Alkarim Tejani is a floor manager at the Vancouver Pharmacy, a methadone clinic located at 67 E Hastings St. He told Vancouver Is Awesome that people who work at the clinic fear for their safety and patients have difficulty accessing its services.  Of course, a methadone clinic. Supposedly used to treat opioid addiction, it’s really just another drug these people use that … Continue reading Vancouver Tent City Holocausting the Comfort of Vancouverites