Chinatowns across Canada are under threat. In Edmonton’s Chinatown, six months after two men were killed, people are fighting to save a district long troubled by crime and disorder.
City council approved a $15.2 million investment to fund a joint dispatch centre in Chinatown, with some hoping the province would help pick up the tab.
Edmonton city council has approved $15.2 million to set up a new operations hub in Chinatown as part of the city’s safety plan it unveiled in May, it agreed at a meeting Monday.
Three days before two men were fatally beaten, RCMP officers dropped off Justin Bone, 36, in the city even though bail conditions prohibited him from being in Edmonton unsupervised.
An independent third-party review will probe the circumstances leading to the arrival of the man accused of murdering two men in Chinatown in May despite him having court-ordered conditions not to be in Edmonton.