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...

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...

The Carnegie - Just Like Other Community Centres? Or Not?

The Carnegie Centre is owned and staffed by the City of Vancouver.  Ethel Whitty is the Director, and she manages the Carnegie as a community centre for the residents of the Downtown Eastside, taking...

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...

Carnegie Director, Ethel Whitty, Blows Hot Air on CBC Radio

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...

Blogger Story Picked Up by CBC and Vancouver Sun

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. ...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from