Nowhere in Canada is the gulf between privileged and deprived so stark as between the Gastown and East Hastings neighbourhoods
had its beginnings here. Tourists roam its brick-paved streets. Locals flock to its pubs and bistros.
I stopped at a fragrances company that sells little bottles of body lotion for $98 each. I walked into a running-shoe store where Air Jordan 3 “rust pink” sneakers were going for $350. Another pair, covered in Swarovski crystals, glittered in a glass case at the counter. Price: $6,500. I walked west toward Main Street. I saw a young man and woman, half clothed, slumped against each other with a plastic hookah resting between them. I saw several people drawing on drug pipes. I saw several more sprawled passed-out on the pavement. This went on for block after block.
Others sat in clusters on the sidewalk, surrounded by pizza boxes, broken-down bikes, carts piled with their stuff, and drug paraphernalia, the day-to-day necessities of street life. The smell of urine filtered up from the pavement.
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