Media Coverage
Pivot's 2002 report To Serve and Protect which compiled 50 affidavits from local residents of the Downtown Eastside resulted in an official apology from the Vancouver Police Department in 2007. Their 2006 report on the housing crisis in Vancouver - Cracks in the Foundation - resulted in the current focus on homelessness and evictions from low-income buildings in the city and many in-depth reports by local media on the topic.
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“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)