VANCOUVER A Vancouver park that used to be the site of a controversial tent city and was closed for a full year partially reopened Monday. The west side of Oppenheimer Park, in Vancouver s Downtown Eastside, reopened after first closing in June 2020. The reopening comes as Vancouver is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, with temperatures expected to reach 34 C on Monday. The park was closed last spring after an encampment that had taken over the park for about two years was cleared. Park board staff closed the park for rehabilitation. Last June, another encampment popped up near CRAB Park, but that was quickly shut down through a court injunction. About 200 people then moved to Strathcona Park, but half of that green space was eventually fenced off to campers too.
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