{"id":6711,"date":"2020-08-04T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2020-09-02T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:30:49","slug":"a-hero-who-saved-hundreds-of-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/a-hero-who-saved-hundreds-of-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hero who saved hundreds of lives&#8217; say friends of slain overdose-prevention worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We're talking to Jen St. Denis, the downtown east side reporter with <em>The Tyee<\/em>, about Monday's memorial for Thomus Donaghy, a 41-year-old overdose prevention site worker who was stabbed to death while on a break from work a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the murder, and they and Donaghy's friends are calling on any witnesses to come forward with any information. Donaghy is remembered as a \"hero\" who saved hundreds \"if not thousands\" of lives, since he helped co-found the original Vancouver Overdose Prevention Site in the downtown east side.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/07\/31\/Overdose-Prevention-Worker-Killed-Colleagues-Want-Answers\/\">Jen St. Denis' article.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball We&#8217;re talking to Jen St. Denis, the downtown east side reporter with The Tyee, about Monday&#8217;s memorial for Thomus Donaghy, a 41-year-old overdose prevention site worker who was stabbed to death while on a break from work a week ago. Police are investigating the murder, and they and Donaghy&#8217;s friends are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[677,678,680,679,681],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711"}],"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=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}