{"id":34971,"date":"2021-01-27T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=34971"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:04:02","slug":"mother-of-tent-city-stabbing-victim-speaks-out-on-his-recovery-after-amputation-questions-police-and-lack-of-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mother-of-tent-city-stabbing-victim-speaks-out-on-his-recovery-after-amputation-questions-police-and-lack-of-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of tent city stabbing victim speaks on his recovery, questions police and lack of housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nA vicious assault in Strathcona Tent City last fall is now raising questions from the 25-year-old victim's mother, who is helping nurse him back to recovery after his leg was amputated.<\/p>\n<p>Connie Sinclair, a Cree woman who lives in Kamloops, has been travelling weekly down to Vancouver where her son Carl continues his recovery from a brutal attack that saw him stabbed and burned with a torch then left for dead for an estimated 12 hours. Because of the delay calling for help, Carl's infection meant doctors had to remove his leg.<\/p>\n<p>He now uses a scooter for mobility, but Connie says he is in better spirits as he seeks out support from Indigenous elders, community and traditional ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>But as a mother, the ordeal was both harrowing and enraging \u2014 she wants answers from the Vancouver Police Department, and from authorities about why the tent city residents have not been put into social housing yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball &#8212; A vicious assault in Strathcona Tent City last fall is now raising questions from the 25-year-old victim&#8217;s mother, who is helping nurse him back to recovery after his leg was amputated. Connie Sinclair, a Cree woman who lives in Kamloops, has been travelling weekly down to Vancouver where her son&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":34973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3265],"tags":[370,2335,577,4894],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34971"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=34971"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=34971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}