Documentary: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside - Life on the Margins

This is Free Speech Radio News for Thursday, December 30, 2010. Coming up on today’s program, we bring you a special half-hour documentary on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a historic neighborhood in Canada’s third largest city and home to about 16,000 people. It's also known as Canada’s poorest postal code. The area is infamous for its high rates of poverty, drug addiction, disease, crime and mental illness...but also for community organizing and pioneering harm reduction strategies. Our reporter Zack Baddorf brings us this exclusive documentary, “Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: Life on the Margins.”