{"id":574451,"date":"2026-04-01T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/574451\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:00:08","slug":"provincial-adviser-for-vancouvers-downtown-eastside-admits-he-underestimated-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/574451\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial adviser for Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside admits he underestimated task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 16:26<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Former Vancouver mayor and B.C. chief coroner Larry Campbell, who was appointed by the province to serve as an adviser and oversee the government&#8217;s approach to Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside, has had his contract extended by six months. He told CBC&#8217;s On The Coast that he initially underestimated how complex his task would be, and he wants to ensure the money spent in the neighbourhood is going where it&#8217;s needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 hours agoNewsDuration 16:26 Former Vancouver mayor and B.C. chief coroner Larry Campbell, who was appointed by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-574451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}