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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...
The Year I Spent A Decade On The Carnegie Board
A report of my time as a Board Member for the “Living Room”
of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., "Canada's poorest postal code"
By
Rachel Davis, Member
of the CCA Board of Directors, but
not... Uncensored Voices from the Downtown Eastside: Carnegie Member Calls On Counc...
The members of the Carnegie Centre elected me to give them a voice to their concerns. I have found that to be really difficult.Many times members have told me that they feel there is a lack of accountability in... 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... Carnegie Centre Director Wants to Know the Truth About William Simpson's Barring
This is a letter I recently wrote a fellow Director of the Board at the Carnegie Centre. He had written to the board asking for information about the barring of another Board Member, William Simpson, from the... Bill's Barring Boondoggle - What's the Carnegie's real reason?
Ethel Whitty, the Carnegie's Director who works for the City of Vancouver, was recently interviewed on a CBC Radio program called the Early... Carnegie Members Respond To CBC Interviews
This morning CBC's The Early Edition aired some of the messages they received on their Talkback line regarding the interviews they held with William Simpson, Rachel Davis and Ethel Whitty. Click on the... Carnegie Board Member Rebuts Ethel Whitty's Assertion
Wednesday, Rachel Davis spoke up on behalf of homeless man William Simpson, who is barred from the Carnegie Community Centre where they are both members of the Board of Directors. They were being interviewed... Law Firm Asks Homeless Man for $1,000 Retainer
Lawson Lundell, a major law firm in downtown Vancouver, has asked homeless man Bill Simpson for a $1,000 retainer. Simpson received the request in an Aug. 18th e-mail from Tom Woods, who identified himself as head of the Lawson Lundell Defamation and Media Law... City of Vancouver bars elected official from Board meetings
William "Bill" Simpson, a homeless man who was barred from the Carnegie Learning
Centre for allegedly blogging and was elected to the Board of Directors
this month by low income members of the Carnegie Centre, has... Homeless Blogger Gets Elected
Holy brazen blogger, Batman! Bill got elected! William “Bill” Simpson, a homeless man in Vancouver who was barred from the Carnegie Learning Centre for allegedly blogging, won a seat on the Board of...Election in Canada's 'little police state that could'
There will be an election this evening in the little police state that could. A new Board of Directors will be elected at the Carnegie Centre on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a left wing organizing base which doubles as a community centre. The election comes after a year...Another Story in the Naked City
On Saturday night, a woman walked down the winding staircase inside CarnegieCommunity Centre, into the crowded lobby, and out the front door. She was naked. About 1 ½ minutes later, Dean, a musician who drops into the Carnegie Music Program, came down the winding...Vancouver Sun reporting sloppy on Downtown Eastside
After a career as a Vancouver Sun reporter spanning 25 years, Bob Sarti has admitted that he did not always let the facts get in the way of a good story. "But that's the way it was/is in the mainstream media," Sarti wrote in a letter published...Water reaching poor: more given out at Main & Hastings today
Donations of water are reaching the poor. Only minor glitches, like a CUPE member earning $20/hr. helping himself to a few bottles. See story at: Downtown Eastside Enquirer
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