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News and Opinions from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies for Dessert at the Community Court
Usually when a Downtown Eastsider walks into a courthouse, they expect to be served something other than jumbo chocolate chip cookies. But that's what they got this afternoon at the opening lunch of the new Community Court on Gore St. near Cordova, ...
11 views | aggregated: 1 week 6 days ago
topics: downtown
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Just Desserts at the Downtown Community Court
Usually when a Downtown Eastsider walks into a courthouse, they expect to be served something other than jumbo chocolate chip cookies. But that's what they got this afternoon at the opening lunch of the new Community Court on Gore St. near Cordova, ...
5 views | aggregated: 1 week 6 days ago
topics: crime, downtown
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Former Premier Glen Clark's Daughter Layne becomes a Columnist
The last time I saw Layne Clark, it was years ago on the evening news. Her father NDP Premier Glen Clark was in the middle of a scandal so a Vancouver news crew went to the airport to meet him. Layne was just a kid and when she saw her father get off...
34 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 4 days ago
topics: ndp, premier
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Former Premier Glen Clark's Teenage Daughter, Layne, Lands Newspaper Column
The last time I saw Layne Clark, it was years ago on the evening news. Her father NDP Premier Glen Clark was in the middle of a scandal so a Vancouver news crew went to the airport to meet him. Layne was just a kid and when she saw her father get off...
5 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 4 days ago
topics: ndp, premier
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Puppet Board Members Not Showing Up for Meetings
Remember the puppet Board that Jean Swanson and Paul Taylor installed at Carnegie in June, as a strategy for ensuring that pro-democracy incumbent Rachel Davis would not get elected? At the Sept. 4th Board meeting at Carnegie, President Matthew Matth...
5 views | aggregated: 3 weeks 2 days ago
topics: elected
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Ken Gets Cancer
Vancouver School Board trustee, Ken Denike, whose name has been linked to Soviet-style political psyhiatry practiced by the VSB, has been diagnosed with colon cancer. Denike says the cancer has been caught early and he will start radiation and chemot...
13 views | aggregated: 4 weeks 4 days ago
topics: election, npa, political, school-board
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Dr. Laura extremely disappointed in Sarah Palin Pick but will Still Vote for McCain
After John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential candidate and claimed to have known in advance that her 17-year old daughter Bristol was pregnant, I was having coffee with a Downtown Eastside friend and said, What would Dr. Laura thin...
11 views | aggregated: 4 weeks 5 days ago
topics: candidate, downtown, downtown-eastside
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City Management at Carnegie Accused of Fraudulently Manufacturing 14 Witnesses
It's not the first time City of Vancouver management at Carnegie Center have been accused of faking witnesses to support barrings and it probably won't be the last. City of Vancouver staff are accused of faking witnesses in the barring of a woman fro...
7 views | aggregated: 5 weeks 3 days ago
topics: city-of-vancouver
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City Management at Carnegie Accused of Fraudulently Manufacturing 15 Witnesses
It's not the first time City of Vancouver management at Carnegie Center have been accused of faking witnesses to support barrings and it probably won't be the last. City of Vancouver staff are accused of faking witnesses in the barring of a woman fro...
7 views | aggregated: 5 weeks 3 days ago
topics: city-of-vancouver
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Motorcycle Show 'n Shine
The 3rd annual Gastown Motorcylce Show 'n Shine -- Murdercycle is the name Kelly, a Downtown Eastside resident uses -- was held on Sunday August 20th. The bikes stretched from Gastown up to Main and Powell which is where this photo was taken....
15 views | aggregated: 7 weeks 23 hours ago
topics: downtown, downtown-eastside, gastown
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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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active: 1 hour 24 min ago |
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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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active: 3 hours 41 min ago |
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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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active: 49 min 56 sec ago |
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