A persistent number of false alarms in social housing buildings across Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are putting undue strain on firefighters, building staff and residents alike, renewing pressure on officials to find a solution to a problem that plagued the residences for years.
A member of the Immigration and Refugee Board questioned why police and the Canada Border Services Agency appeared to have let a man now linked to two deaths in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside "fail over and over again" when he was supposed to be governed by strict release conditions.