Mayor Sullivan's Christmas Gift To Vancouver Residents

CITY SUED, BUT CLAIMS IT HAS NO OBLIGATION TO COMPLY WITH OWN BYLAWS JUDGE SAYS PROPERTY RIGHTS NOT GUARANTEED UNDER CANADA'S CONSTITUTION In anticipation of the Olympian volume of dung that is...

New SFU art school in Vancouver's Woodward's building?

They say artists are the first wave of gentrification. An art school, however, is a whole other kettle of fish. It sucks that a lot of the longtime artists in the Downtown Eastside are being displaced by richer...

Vancouver prostitutes seek to establish brothel in time for Olympics

Is a red-light Olympics right, wrong, or both?"VANCOUVER -- A group of Vancouver prostitutes wants to open a "co-op" brothel in time for the Winter Olympics, saying it would help sex-trade workers by providing a safer working environment when the world comes to visit in...

CUPE Continues To Lock Poor Out of Services in Vancouver

Canadian Union of Public Employees has been back to work at Carnegie Center on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for some time, but they continue to lock the poor out of services.These povertarians got themselves a...

Pandemonium at welfare office as $10 cheques handed out to buy water

Call it the trickle down effect.  Today $10 cheques were handed out to welfare recipients to buy water. Hundreds of people lined up at the welfare offices at Main & Powell hoping to get a cheque.    People are broke. The monthly welfare cheques...

"Buy It or Guard It!"

There was a great exclusive from Dutchphoto on the squatter occupation in Vancouver's downtown eastside this weekend. Today there will be more classic Civil disobedience just a few steps away from NP...

Kelda may sell Aquarion, US profits fall 21% in 2004.

Kelda may sell Aquarion, US profits fall 21% in 2004. Holyoke deal falls on even shakier ground.   The UK Independent reports “Kelda mulls the sell-off of its not so profitable US subsidiary” as Aquarion reports a 21% fall in profits in 2004. Residents and DPW...

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