City Admits Screwing Up on Condo Project for Downtown Eastside

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...

A Game at Poverty Olympics: Stretching the Truth

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...

Vancouver IAM Daily Blog Report: 2010 Mascots Don't Suck!, No Heroics for Ber...

Untitled Document 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...

Power of Carnegie News Editor Curbed

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...

Jailed Olympic Granny Speaks From Behind Bars

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...

Cease & Desist Order To Target Jacquie Forbes-Roberts

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...

Did Olympics kill San Francisco Pawn Shop?

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.

Driving Vancouver...Insane

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...

Surrey fashions are different from those in East Van

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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