National Post (CA) · slot 5 of the front page · first seen 2026-10-09 13:42 UTC · 09:42 in Toronto

Block after block of death and despair. This is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where all hope is now lost

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The record

Outlet: National Post (CA) (nationalpost)
Position: Slot 5 of the front page
First seen: 2026-10-09 13:42 UTC · 09:42 in Toronto
Last seen: 2026-10-10 21:51 UTC · 17:51 in Toronto · 193 polls · on the page for 32 h 8 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL: https://nationalpost.com/feature/vancouver-downtown-eastside-british-columbia
SHA-256: eae89cd4497c252d26ce6fb45300d0d32e8d1dcce3dcc096d7a4803067fdb38d

The story

The other wordings of this story on National Post (CA)'s front page, as this site's poller joined them: by the same link within 72 hours, or by a rewording within 24. As of now; not part of the record.

Block after block of death and despair. This is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where all hope is now lost the top story · 2026-10-08 15:40 UTC → 2026-10-08 21:12 UTC · on the page for 5 h 32 min
Block after block of death and despair. This is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where all hope is now lost this headline slot 5 of the front page · 2026-10-09 13:42 UTC → 2026-10-10 21:51 UTC · on the page for 32 h 8 min
Block after block of death and despair. This is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where all hope is now lost the top story · 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC → 2026-10-11 03:52 UTC · on the page for 5 h 49 min

Timestamps

Wayback Machine · this pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 5 of the front page.
Wayback Machine · the story pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 5 of the front page.
OpenTimestamps · BitcoinConfirmed in Bitcoin block 970641, mined 2026-10-09 13:59 UTC. The proof.
This site’s copy of the front pageKept 2026-10-09 13:42 UTC, when the poller read it; SHA-256 cb8c961e5d4157c5bf531bb66200a4bbd4c2c7481ad53eb27edde2f28471f34f, listed in manifest #1048 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970639. The page itself is not published.

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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Download headline-eae89cd4497c.json

SHA-256: eae89cd4497c252d26ce6fb45300d0d32e8d1dcce3dcc096d7a4803067fdb38d

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970641, mined 2026-10-09 13:59 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

The record pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 5 of the front page.
The story pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 5 of the front page.

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Hash the record: sha256sum headline-eae89cd4497c.json prints eae89cd4497c252d26ce6fb45300d0d32e8d1dcce3dcc096d7a4803067fdb38d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-eae89cd4497c.json and headline-eae89cd4497c.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-eae89cd4497c.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.
If someone shows you this front page as it was, hash it: sha256sum prints cb8c961e5d4157c5bf531bb66200a4bbd4c2c7481ad53eb27edde2f28471f34f for the page this site kept 2026-10-09 13:42 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1048, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970639: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1048.txt.ots.