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Cooking Drugs Triggers Flood at Glory Rooms
Last week a guy was cooking drugs in his room on the top floor of Glory Rooms near the Gassy Jack statue at Carroll and Powell St. on the Downtown Eastside. But his home cooking accidentally triggered the sprinkler in his room. (The late City Councillor Bruce Erikson, Libby Davies husband, fought to have sprinklers installed in all Downtown Eastside hotel rooms because people were dying in...
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Cooking Drugs Triggers Flood
Last week a guy was cooking drugs in his room on the top floor of the Glory Hotel near the Gassy Jack statue at Carroll and Powell St. on the Downtown Eastside. But his home cooking accidentally triggered the sprinkler in his room. (The late Ci...
64 views | aggregated: 26 weeks 6 days ago topics: councillor, downtown, downtown-eastside
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Poor Locked Out of Carnegie Learning Center on Saturday
On Saturday, Carnegie locked the Downtown Eastside poor out of the Learning Center. The Learning Center is supposed to be open Monday-Saturday all year long, including holiday weekends.It was open today, Monday of the holiday weekend.The poor were l...
35 views | aggregated: 28 weeks 2 days ago topics: downtown, downtown-eastside
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They Got Away With It
Tonight when I walked by the Sally Ann soup line, I spotted homeless Bill Simpson and stopped to chat. He said he had passed Ethel Whitty on the street on the Downtown Eastside a few days ago and she said hi to him. It eats me up inside , he said. ...
36 views | aggregated: 28 weeks 1 day ago topics: downtown, downtown-eastside, elected
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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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Kristin active: 2 hours 19 min ago |
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