{"id":30283,"date":"2014-11-01T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30283"},"modified":"2014-11-01T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T08:10:46","slug":"vancouver-man-files-human-rights-complaint-over-advance-poll-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/01\/vancouver-man-files-human-rights-complaint-over-advance-poll-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver man files human rights complaint over advance poll locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30284\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DTES_aerial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30284\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DTES_aerial.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Downtown Eastside and Woodward's site from Harbour Centre. Bobanny \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DTES_aerial.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DTES_aerial-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DTES_aerial-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DTES_aerial-900x759.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the Downtown Eastside and Woodward&#8217;s site from Harbour Centre. Bobanny \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014A Vancouver man has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal claiming the city\u2019s most vulnerable people are being shut out of voting in advance polls for the Nov. 15 civic election.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Handley says in a statement that the locations for the advance polls are too far away from Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside where many of the city\u2019s homeless and poor live.<\/p>\n<p>His complaint says poor people living in the Downtown Eastside, East Hastings, Mount Pleasant and the Grandview-Woodlands neighbourhoods are being discriminated against, with preferential treatment given to wealthier people living on the Vancouver\u2019s westside.<\/p>\n<p>Handley says the eastside\u2019s advance polling stations are an average of 50 blocks away from the downtown core and many of the area\u2019s poor can\u2019t afford to travel outside of their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that many people in those neighbourhoods can\u2019t register to vote because they don\u2019t have access to a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver human rights lawyer Barbara Findlay says there are five advance polling stations on the city\u2019s west side, while the east side has three and they aren\u2019t easily accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014A Vancouver man has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal claiming the city\u2019s most vulnerable people are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":30284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}