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Welfare outreach puts workers where the homeless a
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Welfare outreach puts workers where the homeless areMay 23, 2008Wendy Sinke remembers wishing the cameras were there one rainy afternoon a few months into her new job. She was on a downtown sidewalk, balancing an umbrella over her homeless client's scooter so he and her laptop wouldn't get wet while he filled out the income-assistance forms she'd brought him. Sinke figures a photo would have been worth a thousand words at that moment as a symbol of changing times. An outreach worker with the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance (MEIA), Sinke is part of a new government strategy that ...
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Peak-oil spike reshapes the suburbs
Georgia StraitA series of interviews about the impact of rising gas prices on places that are car dependant.But the recent rise in gas prices is more to do with short term supply issues than an awareness of peak oil plus the rapidly growing demand fr...
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topics: business, downtown, employment, house-prices, housing
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CMHC: Lower Mainland housing markets moderating
CMHC release - Following a year of near-record new home starts and existing home sales, the Metro Vancouver housing market will moderate slightly in 2008 and 2009, according to the Housing Market Outlook report released today by Canada Mortgage and H...
25 views | aggregated: 26 weeks 4 days ago
topics: abbotsford
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Mayor pleads guilty
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Port Coquitlam Mayor Scott Young today pleaded guilty to assault charges on his ex-girlfriend. He needs to stop attending those mayor conferences; he's picking up habits from the mayors of big American cities. STUDY FINDS WEB MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE ...
43 views | aggregated: 26 weeks 1 day ago
topics: coquitlam, mayor, port-coquitlam
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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A Piece of Glass
With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
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