tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15565398134506908112024-03-08T07:05:59.725-08:00Downtown Eastside EnquirerNews and Opinions from Vancouver's Downtown EastsideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger552125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-86564256513394668762012-03-29T16:56:00.002-07:002012-03-30T16:49:41.203-07:00Name of Former Carnegie Center Carver Surfaces in Discussion of Racial Profiling in U.S.John Williams, a native carver who used to sit on the third floor of Carnegie Centre and carve, about 20 years ago, has been drawn into the highly political case of the shooting of black teenager, Trayvon Martin. The shooting of the unarmed Martin by a hispanic Neighborhood Watch captain in Florida, has re-stimulated a discussion of racial profiling in the U.S.
Christina Lopez, a Seattle Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-4119338049196882372011-12-29T18:50:00.000-08:002012-01-29T02:47:50.627-08:00Vancouver Police Ignore Assault on Christian at ChristmasMatthew Lee, and a group of Christians paid $75 for a permit to preach at Cambie & Hastings in downtown Vancouver at Christmas time. A passerby who disapproved of their preaching shoved Mathew down onto the sidewalk, knocking out two of his front teeth.
Matthew and the witnesses had a detailed description of the suspect for the Vancouver Police, including the fact that he was dressed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-23415558597334093932011-11-18T22:45:00.000-08:002011-11-22T00:39:42.964-08:00City of Vancouver & Capilano University Strip Hundreds of Poor People of Right to VoteWith the City election being tomorrow, the City of Vancouver has sent out voting cards to Downtown Eastside residents, informing them that their voting station is Carnegie Centre. Trouble is, a large percentage of neighbourhood residents are banned from entering Carnegie Centre. These bans have been instigated by City staff running Carnegie Centre or Capilano University staff running Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-50437659582735971452011-07-22T23:46:00.000-07:002011-08-10T22:23:54.668-07:00City's subsidized meals for poor being diverted to staff making five and six figure salariesToday on CKNW, Mayor Gregor Robertson said that the City could not possibly find further places to make cuts in the budget as the City was already "goin' bare bones".
Bare bones? City staff and management continue to fatten up on the heavily subsidized meals the City provides for them daily, even though they make five and six figure salaries. These meals, meant for the poor, are a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-67013006035750977752011-07-22T23:45:00.000-07:002011-07-23T00:45:33.377-07:00Trees at Carnegie Dying under "Green" Vision CouncilUnder "Green" Vision Council, the life is being choked out of trees on the outdoor patio at Carnegie Centre at Main & Hastings.
The patio trees are surrounded by steel grates which they have outgrown. The grates are now sticking into the tree trunks, choking the trees. One guy, a nature lover, smoking on the patio a couple of weeks ago, said he complained to Carnegie Director Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-13912222692614905532011-07-22T23:00:00.000-07:002011-07-23T00:51:17.373-07:00I wish NPA Candidate Mike Klassen would answer questions.I always enjoyed reading Mike Klassen's blog, City Caucus. Sometimes it was funny. I never forgot the picture he ran of Mayor Robertson hiding under a desk. But now that Klassan is running for City Council under the NPA banner, I wish he would answer questions.
I heard CKNW's Mike Smythe interview Klassan today for the second time, and both times he avoided answering questions. &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-19103737158508023902011-07-10T21:52:00.000-07:002011-07-22T23:52:42.079-07:00Gathering Place: Are staff being hired based on sexual orientation?Are staff at the Gathering Place being hired based on sexual orientation rather than on their ability to do the job?
I have never set foot in the Gathering Place, a centre downtown which was modelled on Carnegie Centre, and set up by a former Carnegie Director, Diane Mckenzie. It has more young people amongst its clientele than Carnegie though. And it caters to many homeless and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-34521291759975915002011-07-10T21:30:00.000-07:002011-07-11T00:49:26.406-07:00Pivot Loses File of Downtown Eastside Man Allegedly Assaulted by Concord Security GuardsDoug King, a Pivot lawyer, has just announced that he is representing three low income men suing Fusion Security for allegedly brutally attacking them at Harbour Centre mall. Security guards allegedly took the men to an area with no security cameras and beat them
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Hopefully Pivot can keep track of the file.
Pivot lost the file of "J", a Downtown Eastsider who they were representing in a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-73765352702678230572011-06-29T00:31:00.000-07:002011-06-29T00:35:50.253-07:00Cop with Dog Orders 20 Teenagers to the GroundOn the grassy edge of the parking lot at Terminal and Main, there is shrine by a tree to Chris Poeng, the 13 year old boy who was stabbed in that parking lot a few years ago, and died just hours later in hospital. The teens who knew him haven't forgotten him. They return every May on the anniversary of his death, and again in June when school is out.
They leave flowers and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-47181608738927938252011-06-28T20:40:00.000-07:002011-06-29T20:55:51.355-07:00Dal Richards and the Murderous Muriel Honey
If your wife continued gasing people after one person had suffered gas poisoning, would you continue to find her attractive?
That's a question for Dal Richards. Richards is a Vancouver musician married to Muriel Honey, director of the Film Office at the City of Vancouver. For ten years Downtown Eastsiders have asked Honey to stop gasing people.
For ten years, Honey has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-30582914200898203512011-06-21T21:26:00.000-07:002011-06-23T18:09:59.201-07:00Cops deserve credit for Restraint shown at RiotFor as long as I can remember, police have been criticized for clobbering people with billy clubs. Last week's riot showed that they are listening. I recall in the 1994 riot, innocent people were seriously injured by police brutality.
Obviously the VPD were under instructions last week to put human life first, before property.
If the Mayor, Police Chief, and City Manager had made Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-71913774762159785802011-06-20T19:32:00.000-07:002011-06-20T19:38:38.338-07:00Riot: City Manager admitted today that she Never Read Recommendations to Avoid Violence -- and Downtown Eastsiders know it's not her first timePenny Ballem admitted to the media this morning that she had never read the Report on the 1994 Riot containing recommendations on what to do differently to avoid future violence. This is the City manager who is notorious for micromanaging at City Hall, and once defended this management style to the media. "That's why they pay me the big bucks."
This is not the first time Ballem has ignoredUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-70209561085766045222011-06-18T00:11:00.000-07:002011-06-18T00:21:19.024-07:00Bicylist Collides with Car in Dunsmuir Bike LaneAt about 5 p.m. Friday, a bicyclist collided with an SUV in the Dunsmuir St. bike lane. An SUV was driving on Dunsmuir and turned left onto Homer, headed toward Pender St. A homeless man heard a thud. The bicyclist had crashed right into the SUV.
The Chinese guy driving the SUV stopped. The bicyclist managed to get up.
The witness couldn't stop because he was rushing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-87214608150689235982011-06-16T03:42:00.000-07:002011-06-16T20:15:41.213-07:00Mayor Robertson who interfered in a requested criminal investigation into evidence of his own links to violence, now promises perpetrators of Stanley Cup violence will be held accountable After Wednesday night's Stanley Cup game riot, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said the perpetrators of violence will be held accountable. Interesting, when he was facing investigation for his own links to violence against a female critic at Carnegie Centre, there is evidence that he got busy witness-tampering and paying off police chief Jim Chu. Following is a reprint of an April Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-33785902310468337072011-06-15T23:59:00.000-07:002011-06-16T20:12:01.264-07:00Ethel Whitty "never around" say Carnegie members, despite her pay cheque of well over $100,000 annuallyWhere is Ethel Whitty?
It's been a long time since I've seen her at Carnegie. A woman who goes to Carnegie almost daily commented the other day, "She's never around. She's never there." She doesn't remember the last time she saw Whitty. I've heard both women and men express amazement at how invisible Whitty is at Carnegie.
Another woman who generally doesn't criticize Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-48688026302297950692011-06-15T23:58:00.000-07:002011-06-16T22:51:45.811-07:00Unfair NHL Referees throughout Series Contributed to Riot in Vancouver
A native guy in his sixties came into McDonald's restaurant at Main & Terminal at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, where people were sitting on the stools in front of the big screen televisions waiting for Stanley Cup Game 7 to begin. As he grabbed the last available stool, he told us, "The word is that if the officiating is unfair again tonight, people are going to riot. That's the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-25467015814417215212011-06-14T01:15:00.000-07:002011-06-14T01:34:14.799-07:00Luongo's Missing McNuggetsStaff at the Mcdonalds restaurant at Main & Terminal say Roberto Luongo, the Canucks goalie, grabs a bite to eat at their drive-thru window after games sometimes. That restaurant is also popular with Downtown Eastsiders who drop in for coffee -- and free refills.
A supervisor said they once got Luongo's order wrong and forgot his "10 mcnuggets." I don't know whether they got his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-67193932741727861622011-06-09T23:13:00.000-07:002011-06-09T23:22:36.402-07:00Women Arrested for Scratching and Hitting PedestriansA twenty-something woman was drunk late Thursday afternoon and was scratching and hitting pedestrians at Main & Hastings. She was arrested on Hastings next to the Royal Bank.
At least seven uniformed police officers, two on bicycles, arrived at the scene, along with two paramedics. There was a police paddy wagon and one ambulance.
The woman arrested was native, slim, with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-33773503831437137682011-06-09T21:38:00.000-07:002011-06-11T18:58:42.762-07:00Seventy Year Old Woman Abused at Carnegie, Security creates No ConsequencesA 70 year old woman had a bottle of water thrown at her by a man as she stood waiting for the elevator at Carnegie. She said the bottle could have broken her ankle, as it landed near her foot. She reported the incident to Skip Everall, Security Co-ordinator.
Everall spoke to the man who had thrown the bottle and then dropped the entire issue. The woman was puzzled that nothingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-68841963790065353432011-06-09T21:00:00.000-07:002011-06-14T00:47:23.010-07:00Rigged Complaints Process at Carnegie: Woman has been Waiting almost Two Years for City staffer Dan Tetrault to Respond to Abuse IncidentThere is evidence that the process for the many Carnegie members who have complaints about staff abuse is rigged. Complaints about staff abuse or other forms of misconduct are regularly sent to CUPE member Dan Tetrault. That's where the rigging is: complaints against CUPE members are sent to a CUPE member to be addressed.
It has now been almost two years, and there has been no Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-6945932902904201582011-06-06T22:13:00.000-07:002011-06-15T21:12:11.441-07:00
I took this photo last season on Robson St. near the Central library after a Canucks game, but the date on the camera was wrong.
I hate this stuff, the hit to Bruins' forward Nathan Horton. It takes the fun out of watching a game when I know some guy is probably going to have to suffer the effects of a concussion.
Even though the NHL now has a ban on blindside hits to the head of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-71799107889672277352011-05-02T18:54:00.000-07:002011-05-02T18:54:12.359-07:00New Face of the Polling StationI voted on the Downtown Eastside at about 5:45 and I had to wait five minutes as there was a short line up. What struck me was the gentrification in the polling station. Several of those voting in front of me were well turned out, middle class women in their twenties or early thirties. They've probably purchased condos nearby.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-18677837542299286712011-05-01T11:24:00.000-07:002011-05-01T11:24:00.150-07:00Almost...not quite
A few months ago, I saw an interview with Jack Layton in which he announced, "I'm almost vegan."
On the campaign trail at Montreal's Schwartz Deli in April, he was photographed chowing down on a smoked meat sandwich.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-43844948501391253992011-04-27T03:02:00.000-07:002011-04-27T03:05:15.907-07:00Rainbow at Main & Terminal
On Tuesday evening I was walking by the Ivanhoe Hotel and it was raining and the sun was shining. I thought, "There's gonna be a rainbow." By the time I got to Main & Terminal, there it was.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-17462405501001684982011-04-26T01:40:00.000-07:002011-04-28T23:40:14.115-07:00Is the Fix In? Vancouver Canucks vs. Chicago BlackhawksThere's a book out called, "The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR", by Brian Tuohy. I've heard the author interviewed a couple of times by Ian Punnit on Coast to Coast, and once on a Vancouver radio station too. He convinced me that there's fixing going on, even in the NHL.
So I didn't think it was just sour grapes when I watched GM Mike GillisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2