Two outreach nurses who have worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 40 years were honoured with the Order of B.C. on Monday.
Evanna Brennan and Susan Giles were announced as two of the fourteen recipients of the province’s highest honour on Monday, joining the actor Ryan Reynolds, conservationist George Reifel and public health officer Dr. Penny Ballem among others.
Brennan, 76, and Giles, 70, have worked as a duo in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood since the 1980s — witnessing how it became an epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before the proliferation of crack cocaine in the 1990s and the onset of the ongoing toxic drug crisis.
Giles says the honour for her and Brennan reiterates that the residents
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