Homeground Pre-Olympics Festival "for Homeless & Underhoused"

For three days, from Friday to Sunday, Feb. 22,  Dunlevy St. between Cordova and Powell by Oppenheimer Park was blocked to traffic.  That was so the Homeground Winter Festival "for Homeless and Underhoused...

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...

Protester Lies to Media about being Homeless

Poor people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are demanding that millionaire developer Robert Wilson return the food money he took from them. The Carnegie Action Project produced "WANTED" posters for Wilson,...

Olympic logos on school supplies not getting much love

When I was a kid, my favourite school supplies were Holly Hobby items I inherited from my sisters. What, I didn't have any brothers. Shut up."A Vancouver 2010 plan to sell a wide range of school supplies bearing...

Vancouver Olympics Protesters Say: "Free the Fish, Homes for People"

There were five or six large, brightly colored cardboard fish held by people standing on the steps on the Vancouver Art Gallery today.The weather was more suitable to fish than to people, wet with puddles. But the sun appeared shortly after about 60 people gathered in front...

Olympics "Civil City Slam" marred by hypocrisy

Vancouverites are fighting over preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics, preparations that involve efforts to curb aggressive panhandling, sleeping, crack smoking, pissing and even shitting on the streets by...

Loving Nat Bailey Then And Now

by Lynn Whenham for The Vancouver Observer You’d think it would begin with the anthem, but that’s almost the middle of the piece. It begins with the charge up the grandstand to the thirteenth row, our seats, the cheap seats, high over the third base line. Gotta get...

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