Supportive space opened for families impacted by hearings into missing Indigenous women

Just a month ago, the long, narrow space at 44 E. Cordova St. was a dilapidated room with leaking ceilings and no furniture and badly in need of new paint.
The Vancouver city-owned property had been left in a state of disrepair after the last tenants moved out more than a decade ago.
”It was so drab and sad,” said Mary Clare Zakmore, the city’s managing director of social policy.
But today it’s a vibrant and welcoming “safe space” for local women and their fam