The City of Vancouver admits it screwed up. And on Tuesday groups opposing accelerated gentrification in Vancouver in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics fought back.The Carnegie Community Action Project and...
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Just two years before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Poverty Olympics were held on Sunday. Participants marched up Hastings St. to Carnegie Center on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside carrying...
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This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from VancouverIAM where you will find the best blogs from Vancouver, BC as well as video uploads, social networking, rumors, and blog...
Some saw it as the end of a dictatorship. Others saw it as the end of the Carnegie Newsletter. At a raucous public meeting at Vancouver's Carnegie Center Thursday evening, Board members had to decide whether to curb the power of Paul Taylor, a fifty-something...
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Betty Krawczyk, the 79-year-old grandmother currently serving a
10-month prison sentence for her stand against Olympic development at
Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver, B.C., is no stranger to politics,
protest...
A few members of the Board at Carnegie Centre discussed getting a Cease & Desist Order against Jacquie Forbes-Roberts, General Mgr. of Community Relations at the City of Vancouver, at a meeting on Thursday, July 26th at Carnegie. They believe her...
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The San Francisco Pawn Shop is dead. After 50 years, its doors on Hastings St. across from Save On Foods will shut at the end of August. Story at Downtown Eastside Enquirer.
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Today's Safety Tip for driving in Vancouver is: bring sedatives for when you get caught in the maze of subway construction thrown in your path like obstacles on a hero's journey, unless, of course, you really are a...
In the BC election of 2005 you would be hard pressed to find a would be MLA south of the Port Mann speaking against the Gateway Plan and the subsequent twinning of the bridge. On the televised leaders debate all but...
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