It’s too easy to get sentimental about every do-good program in the Downtown Eastside. Some, quite frankly, don’t really do much for the people they’re supposedly helping. The people who created this chocolate-making business at East Van Roasters aren’t sentimental. As Mark Townsend, from PHS, pointed out to me: People like to kid themselves that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Downtown Eastside'
Chocolate-making delivers a way out for women in the Downtown Eastside
September 19th, 2013 · 4 Comments
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City breaks with social-mix policy in megaprojects to get controversial site on Hastings
January 17th, 2011 · 65 Comments
This is a complicated story to understand all the details of, but essentially the city’s planning department is recommending that, instead of requiring Concord Pacific to reserve land for affordable housing in its new Northeast False Creek phase, that the city accept two other properties Concord owns on Hastings Street instead. One of those properties, […]
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Full text quotes: Gregor Robertson, Suzanne Anton, James Ridge
April 28th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Because this topic seems to be generating a lot of controversy, I will do a bit of notebook dumping here to give everyone all the evidence available before they come to a verdict. And then we can move on to other things.
Tags: Developer World · Downtown Eastside · Homelessness · Uncategorized
A resident advocate’s view of the Downtown Eastside
February 20th, 2009 · 45 Comments
In case some of you missed this in the comments, here is Wendy Pedersen’s take on her neighbourhood, which she advocates for through the Carnegie Community Action Project. FROM WENDY PEDERSEN Hello. If you want to know what low-income DTES residents think about their neighbourhood, you can read this report: http://ccapvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/ccapvisionwebsm.pdf Its called Nothing About […]
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The never-ending quest to transform the Downtown Eastside
February 16th, 2009 · 18 Comments
Vancouver’s defining neighbourhood has been in the limelight this past month, with two media outlets (the Province and the Globe and Mail) running extensive series on how to fix the neighbourhood, while police chief Jim Chu put out his own report on what to do. The unspoken message behind all of this is, “Yikes, the […]
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New police crackdown spreads in Downtown Eastside generates protest
February 12th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Vancouver police brought out their 2009 business plan a few weeks ago, which was unusual in the numbers it attached to some of its efforts. Among them, police set a target of increasing ticketing for bylaw infractions in the Downtown Eastside by 20 per cent, ticketing for Safe Streets Act offences by 10 per cent, […]
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What are the next steps with the Burnaby Centre for the mentally ill and addicted
January 27th, 2009 · 25 Comments
Monte Paulsen asked a good question about my recent story on the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health & Addictions, which is a 100-bed facility out near BCIT that is pioneering an incredibly comprehensive and high level of care for those people whose problems with combos of mental illness, addiction, and physical disabilities are so severe […]
Tags: Downtown Eastside · Homelessness
B.C.’s new centre for the homeless after six months
January 26th, 2009 · 8 Comments
I got a chance recently to go out to the new Burnaby Centre for Mental Health & Addictions, the centre that was announced last February by Premier Gordon Campbell as part of a new push to treat the mentally ill + addicted + often homeless and physically sick. It’s been open since June and taking […]
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A new light in the Downtown Eastside
January 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments
To start the new year on a (somewhat) cheery note, I saw in my travels through the Downtown Eastside around Christmas Day that the beautiful new neon sign for the Pennsylvania Hotel — a replica of the sign that used to be on the building in the 20s — has gone up at Carrall and […]
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