National Post (CA) · the top story · first seen 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC · 18:02 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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Outlet: National Post (CA) (nationalpost)
Position: The top story
First seen: 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC · 18:02 in Toronto
Last seen: 2026-10-11 03:12 UTC · 23:12 Sat in Toronto · 32 polls · on the page for 5 h 9 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL: https://nationalpost.com/feature/vancouver-downtown-eastside-british-columbia
SHA-256: 9bcec72932a63b799627b0469168066ebce005fa72c382bd71f5a7d7dffa64f7

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 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 this headline the top story · 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC → 2026-10-11 03:12 UTC · on the page for 5 h 9 min

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Wayback Machine · this pageCaptured 2026-10-11 00:04 UTC — view the capture.
Wayback Machine · the story pageCaptured 2026-10-11 00:19 UTC — view the capture.
OpenTimestamps · BitcoinConfirmed in Bitcoin block 970837, mined 2026-10-10 22:28 UTC. The proof.
This site’s copy of the front pageKept 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC, when the poller read it; SHA-256 1cb9d707b5bc4de9b525926027ec6527a5d6cb1d6d1f53c7fb0d9d457ee4c067, listed in manifest #1235 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970834. The page itself is not published.

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256: 9bcec72932a63b799627b0469168066ebce005fa72c382bd71f5a7d7dffa64f7

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970837, mined 2026-10-10 22:28 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

The record pageCaptured 2026-10-11 00:04 UTC — view the capture.
The story pageCaptured 2026-10-11 00:19 UTC — view the capture.

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Hash the record: sha256sum headline-9bcec72932a6.json prints 9bcec72932a63b799627b0469168066ebce005fa72c382bd71f5a7d7dffa64f7. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-9bcec72932a6.json and headline-9bcec72932a6.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-9bcec72932a6.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 1cb9d707b5bc4de9b525926027ec6527a5d6cb1d6d1f53c7fb0d9d457ee4c067 for the page this site kept 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1235, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970834: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1235.txt.ots.