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...
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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...
created by Rob Peters | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1102 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
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...
created by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 376 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by jr | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 408 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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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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