Advocates for DTES say they\u0027re being discriminated against by Canada Post decision to suspend delivery because of carriers\u0027 safety concerns.
“If they are on welfare or disability, they would have no way of getting their cheques” on April 27, the day the next social assistance cheques are due to be delivered, said local residents advocate Brittany Graham, executive director of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
Mail delivery “cannot be at the expense of worker health and safety” national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Jan Simpson, said in an email. But she also declined to elaborate. Residents who no longer get mail are being discriminated against under B.C.’s human rights code because of where they live, said Cooper.Article content
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart was unavailable Thursday to comment on the suspension of mail services specifically or the issue of community safety in general but released a statement saying the change is temporary and the city is working on a solution. In a later news release, police said they were investigating three “completely random and unprovoked” stabbings with hypodermic needles in the DTES over the last six months, each of which were unrelated to the others.
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