I used to live in the Northwest and I was familiar with the Vancouver area scene which had 2 sides of it, one was the escort and massage scene,
where there were very high quality, model style, some glam looking girls...
Then there was the East side of Vancouver street scene where my only business was to drive through on my way to downtown but you just couldn't miss
the garbage happening around this area and this is the only place in Canada that I have been that reminded me of American cities / ghetto scene and
needless to say, what I saw there were unthinkable / untouchable for regular folks like us....
So the article must be true for the scene that I described as this area was in the news all the time for all the wrong reasons.