Vancouver’s Mayor Sam Sullivan announced that he had picked up the phone this pre-election week to ask police to investigate a leak from a meeting about a planned City bailout of the Olympic Village developer. So a Vancouver woman figures Sullivan can pick up the...
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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,...
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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,...
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The Carnegie Newsletter, which acknowleges receiving donations from Member of Parliament Libby Davies [NDP], continues it’s defamation campaign against William “Bill” Simpson, a homeless man who was elected to the Carnegie Board of Directors.Carnegie members were...
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The Left got organized to get trusted comrades elected to two vacant positions on the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Center last evening, Thursday, January 10th. That’s the same Board that homeless Bill Simpson was elected to in June 2007, only to be banished two...
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Carnegie Director Ethel Whitty declined an invitation by CBC's Early
Edition to be interviewed yesterday along with William "Bill" Simpson,
the homeless man barred from Carnegie Board meetings two weeks after
being elected to the Board. But Whitty turned up on the show...
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The mainstream media, first the Vancouver Sun and then CBC Radio, have picked up a story that the DTES Enquirer blog has been publishing for a year. The DTES Enquirer had also posted the story on internet news sites, first NowPublic and later Blogger News Network. ...
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The strike of CUPE members was supposed to have been over last month. But the poor are still being locked out of services on a semi-regular basis at Carnegie Center.
Last Thursday, Nov. 1, a Carnegie member...
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The Carnegie Learning Center is in a tough spot during the current strike of Canadian Union of Public Employees in Vancouver. It is on the third floor of the Carnegie Center, a building operated by CUPE members...
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Lucy Alderson, Co-ordinator and teacher at the Carnegie Learning Center, sent out a mass e-mail last Thursday, August 30th: "Hi, Everyone! Well, things are not looking good for re-opening the Learning Centre at the beginning of September.”
The Learning Center is run...
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The basement of Carnegie Centre flooded last evening. A patron says, "They kicked everybody out at 8:30." Usually people are allowed to sit around in the building playing board games or talking until 11 p.m., although most services such as the library, computer...
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CUPE members would rather be talking turkey. But today they were cooking turkey.
CUPE members are on strike in Vancouver. Today was Day 24 of the strike in which inside and outside...
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Suspicions that City Hall staff are spying on bloggers who criticize
City managers were supported by statements made at a Carnegie Center
Board meeting on Thursday evening in Vancouver.
One such statement was
made by Margaret Prevost, Carnegie Center Association President,...
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