‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents – CBC

‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents

Oct 22, 2014

Signs of hope and ongoing troubles in North Central Regina

The former executive director of the North Central Community Association said from the day Maclean’s Magazine published the ‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ article he saw it as a positive thing, and he still holds that view.

“For the first time at least we got some attention for the things we were struggling with in the inner city,” Rob Deglau told CBC’s iTeam.

However he said the neighbourhood could be doing much better if the many agencies and levels of government working there coordinated their efforts.

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