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Past Tense: Harm Reduction, '50s Style
In the recent hullabaloo over Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site for drug users, critics of the facility are doing their best to create the impression that harm reduction is the recent product of radicals.... Past Tense: “The Dope Craze that’s Terrorizing Vancouver”
I recently heard a senior city planner say that economic decline in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside preceded the drug problem now associated with the area. The point he was making was valid – that the drug trade... Firemen Put Out Roof Fire at Best Pizza
It's the second time it's happened. Late Monday afternoon, something on fire was thrown from the Balmoral Hotel near Main & Hastings onto the roof of Best Pizza next door at 151 Hastings. It was a sweltering... Distrust at Carnegie Center Results in Request for Recount of Election Results
Carnegie members don't trust the results of the June 5th election for Board of Directors at the Carnegie Center operated by the City of Vancouver on the Downtown Eastside. James A. announced at the meeting... Crimes against Carnegie? Or Crimes against Democracy? You be the judge!
May 22nd, 2008 On March 6th, 2008 the Carnegie Centre Association Board of Directors sent me a letter asking me to resign. They gave no explanation for their reasoning. For 2 months I have been trying to learn... "Cooking Drugs" Causes Flood at Glory Rooms
Last week a guy was “cooking drugs” in his room on the top floor of the Glory Rooms near the Gassy Jack statue at Carroll and Powell St. on the Downtown Eastside. But his home cooking accidentally... Woman Jumps from 7th Floor of Regent Hotel
The word on the Downtown Eastside is that a woman jumped seven floors inside the Regent Hotel on the afternoon of Thursday, May 22. She died.
In the attached photo, a police officer in the background... Lawyer Accuses City GM of "dictatorial" conduct "contrary to the rule of law"
Vancouver lawyer Gregory Bruce has accused Jacquie Forbes-Roberts, City of Vancouver General Manager of Community Services, of acting in a “dictatorial” manner “contrary to the rule of law”. Bruce made the accusations in a March 11, 2008 letter about... Taser incident hits official visit to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
A good commentary by Darren Fleet, one of the students at the UBC School of Journalism, on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the policing of area:"Michelle Jean says art can bring change to Vancouver’s Downtown... Blue-Scarf Housing "STANDS" Spread to 13 Vancouver Street Corners as Olympics...
Every Saturday people wearing blue scarves and holding blue banners meet for an hour between 1 and 2 p.m. on street corners in Vancouver. They are demanding more social housing, less conversion of rental housing to... Hope in Shadows: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in photos
Hope in Shadows, an important book about Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, launches today."Hope in Shadows began five years ago as a fund-raiser for Pivot. The premise was simple: distribute disposable cameras to... Volunteer of the Year Barred from Carnegie Center
Ada D. returned to Carnegie Community Center last Wednesday after being barred from this City of Vancouver building for two weeks at the beginning of April.Ada, a middle-aged woman with long brown hair originally from Newfoundland, was barred when another kitchen volunteer,... The Meeting the Carnegie Board Didn't Want You to Attend
The absence of posters announcing the Special Meeting at Carnegie Community Center last Thursday evening suggested to members that the Board would rather they not show up. But over 50 people did show up, more... Emergency Response Team Enters Jubilee Rooms
Good Friday evening, the police Emergency Response Team with guns "resembling miniature AK47s", according to a witness, entered the Jubilee Rooms on Main St. on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Their... Pedestrian Killed by Tour Bus at Main and Hastings
A "Top Class Limousine" tour bus was at the bottom of it's class last night when it had a pedestrian under it's wheel. The pedestrian was struck at about 9 p.m. as the bus turned off Hastings St. onto Main in Vancouver.
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