tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15565398134506908112012-01-29T02:47:50.433-08:00Downtown Eastside EnquirerNews and Opinions from Vancouver's Downtown Eastsidereliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5511100tag: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 in black reliable sourcesnoreply@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 the reliable sourcesnoreply@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 cut above a reliable sourcesnoreply@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 Ethel Whitty reliable sourcesnoreply@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. Today reliable sourcesnoreply@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 street people,reliable sourcesnoreply@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 law reliable sourcesnoreply@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 other things aroundreliable sourcesnoreply@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 allowed film reliable sourcesnoreply@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 adequate reliable sourcesnoreply@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 ignored a reliable sourcesnoreply@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 to the Gathering reliable sourcesnoreply@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 article reliable sourcesnoreply@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 Whitty, said that shereliable sourcesnoreply@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 word." He reliable sourcesnoreply@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 order reliable sourcesnoreply@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 shoulder length reliable sourcesnoreply@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 nothing had been done.reliable sourcesnoreply@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 response to a reliable sourcesnoreply@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 reliable sourcesnoreply@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.reliable sourcesnoreply@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.reliable sourcesnoreply@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.reliable sourcesnoreply@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 Gillis' at a reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-6205713267088756832011-04-25T01:15:00.000-07:002011-04-25T13:22:09.447-07:00Speech Police Order Comic who Insulted Lesbian to Pay $15,000, and Ban him for Life from Performing "Similar Acts" in BC
Photo: Lorna Pardy at BC Human Rights Tribunal
In March 2010, I sat through a four day hearing at the BC Human Rights Tribunal of a complaint by a lesbian that she had suffered discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation by a comic in Zesty's restaurant on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. (See coverage "Ugly Dyke" and "Dildo" Insults by Comic Leave Lesbian Attempting to Replace Human reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-44800285519171671022011-04-16T22:26:00.000-07:002011-04-17T10:58:55.413-07:00Van Gogh at the IvanhoeA friend took this photo today of a painting of the Ivanhoe Hotel that hangs in the Ivanhoe Hotel. The artist's name was too smudged to read. The style reminds me of Van Gogh. When I left the Ivanhoe Hotel about 5 p.m. today with my friend and walked up Main St., an unmarked car with a red light on top stopped at the intersection at Main & Terminal. There were four stiff looking men in dark reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-77395610158643358112011-04-03T09:45:00.000-07:002011-04-25T01:32:08.183-07:00Mayor Robertson Accused of Pay Off to Police Chief Jim Chu who was Supposed to be Criminally Investigating himThis is something you might expect in the Chicago political establishment. Mayor Gregor Robertson is accused of giving a payoff to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, while Chu was continuing to evade a request for a criminal investigation into evidence of criminal activity on the part of Robertson. At the very least, Robertson 'rewarded' Chu with a five year contract extension worth over one and areliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-20424421827590556572011-04-02T04:04:00.000-07:002011-04-04T19:33:38.694-07:00Young Man Stabbed at Balmoral HotelA 24 year old man was stabbed at the Balmoral Hotel on Hastings St. on Friday night at about 11 p.m. He was reportedly trying to break up a fight on the dance floor.As I look at these photos of police officers at the Balmoral after the stabbing, I'm reminded of something I've been noticing over the past couple of years: female police officers seem short to me, considering that there is a large reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-23639546774083698292011-04-02T03:18:00.000-07:002011-04-04T19:38:28.854-07:00Man Attacked while sitting in front of Waves Coffee Shop at Hastings & RichardsA man got a bloody forehead when a bunch of guys attacked him as he sat in front of Waves coffee shop at Hastings and Richards on Saturday at 3:30 a.m. The attackers were banging up against the window of Waves, according to the Downtown Eastsider who submitted these photos. A group of police officers arrived almost instantly and broke it up; somebody had apparently called them earlier. Police reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-67915632131107243112011-03-29T16:15:00.000-07:002011-03-29T16:33:58.970-07:00Carnegie RenovationsCarnegie Centre has been undergoing extensive renovations over the past few months. I snapped this photo of workmen in the gym last week to test the quality of my new cell phone camera. Cell phone cameras have difficulty getting enough light so photos are often of poor quality.reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-35621216166899670242011-03-24T21:47:00.001-07:002011-04-09T15:31:01.219-07:00The Drugs at Main & Hastings didn't get him but the Bugs in a British Hospital DidAt the Tuesday night cabaret at Carnegie, a woman told me that former Downtown Eastsider Ken Stook, who some people knew as "Kane", had died. She said he had died over five years ago. I hadn't known. He put me up once ; he helped me out until I found an apartment and I helped him out with his rent. Ken lived his last few years in Vancouver in the Ford building at Main & Hastings. He didn't reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-59665412759634070112011-03-19T22:40:00.001-07:002011-03-22T19:59:09.736-07:00$hitty Hall's Failed Toilet ExperimentI just received this photo but it was taken around the 2nd last week of February at 2:30 a.m. on a Thursday, shortly after patrons streamed out of the No. 5 Orange strip bar at Main & Powell St.My guess is that this toilet across the street from the No. 5 Orange was broken by one of their patrons, as the bar had just closed. Downtown Eastsiders have long said that much of the vandalism in the reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-70720395895836159362011-02-25T23:45:00.000-08:002011-02-27T13:38:23.991-08:00$10,000 from Edgewater Casino to be given to Vision/COPE Friends Hosting an Under-the-Table Gambling Operation for Chinese Men at Carnegie CentreThe City of Vancouver took $10,000 from a licensed gambling operation and now plans to give it to their political allies hosting an unlicensed gambling operation. On Feb. 17, City staff recommended that $10,000 from the "social responsibility" fund, money collected from the Edgewater Casino, be given to Carnegie Centre. It is not news to City staff and management that Carnegie has for years reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-90726166769984634672011-02-25T23:30:00.000-08:002011-03-21T13:30:05.788-07:00The Naked CityWe told you so. Lies are in David McLellan's comfort zone. We warned you in January when McLellan, the City's General Manager of Community Services, was appointed by City Hall as media spokesperson on the departure of Deputy Chief License Inspector, Carlene Robbins. Robbins' exited City Hall shortly after a fire at a flophouse in East Van killed three men.I can still see in my mind's eye, the reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-86156747427194297462011-01-27T22:12:00.000-08:002011-02-07T17:48:50.678-08:00After Showing that Lies are Within his Comfort Zone, David McLellan is Appointed Media Spokesperson by City on Carlene Robbins AffairIf Mayor Gregor Robertson wanted the community led to believe that what looks like the firing of Deputy Chief License Inspector Carlene Robbins was not a firing, it would be convenient to assign the task to David McLellan. McLellan has demonstrated that lies are within his comfort zone, lies so persistent that police have been asked to conduct a fraud investigation. McLellan is the City's reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-78278210678631603952011-01-24T20:38:00.000-08:002011-01-24T23:00:23.718-08:00Jim Sinclair Conceals his own Record of Benefiting from Slave Labour Practices, while Calling for a Review of Khaira Enterprises' RecordTalk about the pot calling the kettle dirty. Jim Sinclair, president of the BC Federation of Labour, this morning asked the BC government to set up an independent review of unfair labour practices experienced by tree planters working for Khaira Enterprises, and to enforce labour standards. Sinclair was responding to the case of workers who say they were treated like "slaves" while working at a reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-72145292428858814262011-01-11T18:00:00.000-08:002011-01-11T19:17:08.777-08:00Emergency at Brian Adams' StudioTwo fire trucks showed up at Brian Adams music studio today at about 5:4o p.m. Adams' studio is at Columbia and Powell St, on the same block as the fire station. One truck left soon after arriving; the other stayed for about 20 minutes. Fire trucks can arrive for anything from fire to medical emergencies. I guess whatever happened, even if it cut like a knife, it feels alright.We'll never know reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-57460054431027768472011-01-02T17:01:00.000-08:002011-01-02T17:23:34.079-08:00Carnegie Staff Thumb Noses at Jenny KwanWhat Jenny Kwan did, Carnegie management has undone. Last November, Jenny Kwan, MLA for Vancouver East, got a call from a Carnegie member, also named Kwan, who had been unjustly barred from the Carnegie for four months. Jenny said she would help him. He believes she had one of her staff call Carnegie, as his barring was lifted and he wasn't required to go through the usual meeting with Security reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-7570827188034981192010-12-30T19:42:00.000-08:002010-12-30T19:42:42.269-08:00New Social Housing Building on Station Street Strict about CrittersIt will be a happier new year for a longterm resident of the Cobalt Hotel who just got into social housing after about 8 years on waiting lists. He got into the new building on Station Street by Pacific Central station.The management told him that he won't be allowed to simply move his belongings from the Cobalt, which has bed bugs, cockroaches, and mice. They are going to quarantine any reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-21615600319495993072010-12-29T20:59:00.001-08:002011-01-15T18:50:20.759-08:00Chaos at the CobaltWhen I saw pastor Barry Morris on the front page of the Province newspaper yesterday, I recognized him. Years back he was a pastor at First United on the Downtown Eastside, until he knocked up one of the church women.Morris has been in the news this week, along with City Councillor Susan Anton [NPA], calling for an independent inquiry into the death of three men in an East Vancouver flophouse. reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-68547610367740174662010-12-29T19:44:00.001-08:002010-12-29T20:00:42.014-08:00An Ethel Sighting on Boxing DayAfter a year of sitting in her office rubber-stamping barrings of Downtown Eastsiders from Carnegie Centre, Ethel Whitty was spotted on Boxing Day. She was in the Carnegie theatre helping to serve turkey dinner to those still allowed through the door. The dinner was free but you had to have been given a ticket by staff.It was a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Instead of the reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-69842777821998925352010-12-25T21:27:00.000-08:002010-12-26T17:31:52.925-08:00City Workers Force Low Income Man to Eat Cabbage Rolls Instead of Turkey Dinner on Christmas Day A Downtown Eastsider who had not had a turkey dinner in several years, didn't want to miss out this year. He had been told by other Downtown Eastsiders that the Christmas dinner at the Salvation Army can be counted on to be good, and the volunteer servers are always eager to ensure people enjoy their dinner. So he headed over there today. But he got there too late; the security guard told himreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-293553113738266392010-12-07T22:57:00.001-08:002010-12-07T23:07:10.814-08:00Jenny Kwan Helps Man Unjustly Barred from CarnegieA Chinese man who has been going to Carnegie for 20 years, says Carnegie Security boss Skip Everall told him, "You have a big mouth." The Chinese man who speaks broken English, responded, "A lot of people around here don't like you." Everall barred him. The barred man's last name is Kwan, like the MLA, Jenny Kwan. When Kwan was barred, he recalls, "I was really angry." He called Everall a "reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-12365502437011287932010-11-17T22:17:00.001-08:002010-11-18T22:16:07.221-08:00City Staff at Carnegie Go on Name Calling RampageAs the City of Vancouver hikes residential taxes and community centre fees, we are reminded of the "services" being funded. A City staff person at Carnegie Centre left a series of comments at this blog last week in response to our latest post, "Man Banned from City Services without Evidence." It is obvious that the comment was written by a staff person as they referred to "J", a barred man reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-42487412130738240892010-11-17T21:39:00.001-08:002010-11-22T17:55:05.271-08:00Did Larry Campbell Split from his Wife?Did former Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell split from his wife, Dr. Enid Edwards? I wondered when I read an interview that I stumbled on today as I googled articles on the Olympic Village going into receivership. In the interview dated Oct. 2010, the reporter mentioned that Campbell had moved into a one bedroom condo he purchased at Olympic Village, from a bachelor suite in Kitsilano. A reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-46085795078002054232010-11-17T17:08:00.001-08:002010-11-18T21:02:57.528-08:00Apple iphone found in VancouverA Downtown Eastside resident walking by the bus stop at Main St. & Terminal about 11 a.m. yesteday found an Apple iphone. The phone apparently belongs to a person named Cascas. Your dad has called 10 times, and Delena too. Laisse has left a message, "Cascas where r you?" We can't answer because the phone is password protected. There is a photo on the screen. If you are the owner, you would reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-83089429827605861052010-11-04T16:10:00.001-07:002010-11-05T20:26:21.374-07:00Man Banned from City Services Without EvidenceOne would think that while the 'Fraud Foursome' -- Mayor Gregor Robertson, Penny Ballem, Ethel Whitty, and Skip Everall -- face a criminal complaint for knowingly allowing the City “Security” database to be chronically used to make fraudulent entries about Downtown Eastside residents, they could resist recidivism. But last week another Downtown Eastsider became the target of security fraud. "J" reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-83390536646404320312010-10-12T20:09:00.000-07:002010-10-19T21:05:22.553-07:00Ashley Machiskinic had a Beer in Regent Pub before Flying Out 5th Floor Window to her DeathWhen Ashley Machiskinic went flying out the 5th floor window of a room at the Regent Hotel to die in the alley below, a guy who frequents Carnegie Centre was sitting in the Regent Pub having a beer. He is a regular at that pub. Another guy in the Pub said to the Regular, "You know that girl who was just sitting at the bar having a beer? She went upstairs and jumped out the window."The Regular wasreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-37613540418513191782010-09-28T20:25:00.000-07:002010-10-02T22:18:21.914-07:00Carnegie Managers Cashing Pay Cheques for Half a Million Dollars decide the Poor should Pay an Extra 25 Cents for MealsIt is common knowledge that Carnegie Centre managers whose wages collectively top half a million annually, received a 25% raise over 5 years. And now these managers have ordered each poor person to pay an extra 25 cents for a meal at Carnegie Centre. Ethel Whitty who was making well over $100,000 even before the latest raise, has announced to the poor that they will now have to pay $3.25 for reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-8665299869436111822010-09-28T18:03:00.000-07:002010-10-01T12:35:43.407-07:00Confidentiality Laws Ignored under Carnegie Director Ethel WhittyIt was a test. When a barring at Carnegie occurred in April 2010, a decision was made by the victim not to tell anybody. The goal was to expose the level of disregard for privacy law under Ethel Whitty. Word spread fast. Within days, all staff in the cafeteria knew and soon the customer base got wind of it. Five months have gone by. This weekend, the victim of the barring reportedly heard reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-72717842731125178342010-09-16T19:18:00.000-07:002010-09-16T19:43:58.969-07:00Mayor Robertson has begun to "question how worthwhile democracy is"The Province newspaper began today's editorial by calling Mayor Gregor Robertson, Gregor "Robinson". But after that stumble, they quoted Robertson admitting on his trip to China that he finds democracy frustrating: "You can be critical of lots of regimes around the world and you can question how worthwhile democracy is in a lot of countries right now which frankly are ignoring the biggest reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-57698025155014041932010-09-15T17:50:00.000-07:002010-09-15T18:04:03.450-07:00An Ellen SightingI spotted City Counselor Ellen Woodsworth looking snazzy this afternoon in her black and white knit jacket and black pants, with her galpal, as I darted into Carnegie. Crossed my mind that Woodsworth may have taken time out from her schedule to work on the damage control strategy being used by Ethel Whitty and Skip Everall as they continue their undemocratic barring policy at Carnegie. It's a reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-76263135428707406612010-09-08T18:23:00.000-07:002010-09-08T19:34:40.509-07:00Marilyn WhiskeyJack's Murderer Could be Back on Downtown Eastside Streets SoonTerry Allan Herman had 67 previous convictions before he murdered Marily WhiskeyJack at Main Rooms at 117 Main St. (next to the old UBC Learning Exchange) on Sept. 14, 2007. Herman, 38, was found guilty of manslaughter in June, 2010 at his trial for WhiskeyJack's death. Herman, a big man with short dark hair and glasses, represented himself today at his sentencing hearing in New Westminster reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-83574122106990574202010-08-31T14:23:00.000-07:002010-09-08T12:02:13.146-07:00VPD Assault 65 yr. old Woman Over Eight Cent TomatoYears ago, a native guy told me, "People think the police are goody goody but they're not, you know." After living for years on the Downtown Eastside, I do know. I have seen enough to know that the police are abusive with Downtown Eastsiders. Here's a message we got from Audrey Laferriere, a Downtown Eastsider who ran in the last civic election and got a lot of votes for an independent:"You reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-69771188394201058822010-06-22T10:39:00.000-07:002010-07-10T19:11:32.879-07:00For 57 Days City Hall has Avoided Giving Barred Carnegie Member Reason "in writing"A witness who has spoken up about the use of the City of Vancouver "security" database at Carnegie to make fraudulent entries about critics, has found herself barred from Carnegie Centre for 57 days now, with no end in sight. She is not allowed to enter the building, not even the Vancouver Public Library branch there. She was notified of the barring on April 25, 2010 and immediately asked to be reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-1521250878768909012010-06-20T19:17:00.001-07:002010-06-23T16:14:40.922-07:00Vancouver Library Eliminates Public Computers for Seniors at CarnegieA million dollars worth of City management staff put their heads together and decided that the popular public computers in the Carnegie Seniors Lounge that had been going full tilt 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the past 15 years, were best eliminated.Those computers were one of the most in-demand services in the Centre. People would sign up and sit and wait for half an hour or more for reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-32031171614067471992010-06-14T19:29:00.000-07:002010-06-14T22:11:52.110-07:00Blogger Assaulted by CUPE RepresentativeWhen a CUPE representative abuses a blogger, does anybody see? The above video of a CUPE representative roughing up a pro-Israel blogger last month for using a video camera at a rally, was posted on YouTube. But the public generally doesn't see video footage of abuse tactics employed by CUPE members against people who don't share their political views. Certainly the public doesn't see CUPE reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-36459967811097032162010-06-05T20:56:00.001-07:002010-06-05T21:19:03.330-07:00Guy at Carnegie was Right about Cleaning Up the Oil SpillLast night Richard Hoagland, a former science reporter for Walter Cronkite, was on Coast to Coast explaining that the BP oil spill can be cleaned up using oil-eating microbes. It's a process called bio-remediation. It works, he said. It was done 20 years ago in Texas.Hoagland asked listeners to e-mail the White House recommending that they try this.I actually first learned that microbes could reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-69711597603215104372010-06-01T22:54:00.000-07:002010-06-02T09:48:49.340-07:00Hamburger HelperHave you heard the one about the guy who got barred from Carnegie Centre for the crime of free speech in the theater program?A woman eating with us on Sunday night at Carnegie said she had run into a guy at Tim Hortons who she used to see at Carnegie a lot. I recognized his name, but I won't use it. She asked him why he didn't come to Carnegie much any more. He said he couldn't stand the dirty reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-84849252876274915442010-06-01T22:52:00.000-07:002010-06-02T09:40:42.255-07:00CBC: Biased Coverage of IsraelClose-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF SoldiersToday, as I listened to CBC Radio coverage of deaths on an aid ship to Gaza boarded by Israelis, I got the impression that Israeli soldiers were senseless murderers whom the world needed to keep in check. I knew there must be a lot not being said. So I looked to see what truepeers at Covenant Zone blog had to say and found the reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-66429304526287832192010-05-29T12:02:00.000-07:002010-06-01T20:36:06.595-07:00"We're fuckin' closed!": Courtesy of a Carnegie Cafeteria CashierMessage from Dan Tetrault of the City of Vancouver: a man can abuse a woman at Carnegie and it's not a problem.The attitude of Carnegie management is that we won't talk about abuse, we'll keep it quiet, keep it in the "family" -- successive Carnegie managements have actually referred to Carnegie members they are regularly stripping of human rights as "family".A couple of months ago, I asked a reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-92056148492096861522010-05-29T01:56:00.001-07:002010-05-29T11:58:22.251-07:00Engulfed in GolfI watched the Gulf oil spill out of the corner of my eye for the first few weeks, avoiding looking directly at so much harm being done. Then last week, with the spill going on and on and on, I started to look at some of the coverage.I watched a YouTube video of Bobby Jindal talking about how the federal government wasn't giving Louisiana nearly enough boom to protect their coastline. And Jindal reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-70419788076443429012010-05-23T14:01:00.000-07:002010-05-23T20:24:13.826-07:00Entire TD Bank Window Lies on SidewalkLook at the amount of glass on the sidewalk. On Sunday, May 23 at 12:30 a.m., a couple of Vancouver Police officers were standing outside the TD bank on Main St. at Pender, and more officers were walking around inside, surveying the damage.Thanks to Terry for sending us the photo.The real story here is that the two officers didn't interfere with the photographer. Under Chief Jim Chu, the VPD havereliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-33384613136572354462010-05-19T21:53:00.000-07:002010-05-20T21:49:20.521-07:00If you're Poor, Eat MolassesSeems everybody and his dog on the Downtown Eastside has a diagnosis of Bi-Polar Disorder. I don't. But because I've known so many people with this diagnosis, I was fascinated by an interview with Dr. John Gray on Coast to Coast a few days ago. Gray believes he has a cure for Bi-Polar; then he caught himself and said he's not allowed to actually call it a "cure".Gray believes bi-polar is caused reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-74629630370756021752010-05-12T16:50:00.000-07:002010-05-23T20:05:54.107-07:00Rush Hour Traffic Stopped to Protest Closure of Health Contact CentreAt rush hour on Monday, traffic was stopped at Main & Hastings by people protesting the closure of the nearby Health Contact Centre. There was another planned for Tuesday afternoon outside the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre. Protesters were chanting, "Save the Contact Centre, the Contact Centre Saves Lives." Those povertarian jobs are union which is why the BCGEU yellow flags were there.I was reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-18137329247969047842010-05-11T15:10:00.001-07:002010-05-11T23:32:38.884-07:00Marilyn WhiskeyJack's Son Recalls the Day he Learned his Mother had been MurderedMarilyn WhiskeyJack was murdered at Main Rooms in the Downtown Eastside in Sept. 2007. Her son Jerry WhiskeyJack sent the following message to us recalling the day he learned of his mother's death and his hope that justice will be done.Dear Judge,It has been a very hard couple years. Our family is trying to deal with this tragedy. I remember when the phone call came in, it felt like a movie. I reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-49804182469381520972010-04-30T22:43:00.000-07:002010-05-07T23:58:25.490-07:00Brenda Prosken: Donating Money to Human Rights Abusers she is supposed to be Supervising I was at the Vancouver Public Library central branch and there was a gigantic tourquoise banner hanging in the window. You couldn't miss it as you walked in. Brenda Prosken's name was on it along with other top financial donors to the library.Prosken is giving money to the Vancouver Public Library while allowing VPL abuses to continue at Carnegie, under her supervision. She supervises Carnegie reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-18232490014745684082010-04-24T16:47:00.001-07:002010-04-26T18:57:48.100-07:00UBC Learning Exchange Cleans UpPhoto: George, who the Learning Exchange forces to stand outside on the sidewalk.Computer aid or Molly maid?Have you ever read one of the media interviews granted by UBC Learning Exchange Director Margo Fryer, assuring funders and taxpayers that the Exchange is helping Downtown Eatsiders. In a Globe & Mail interview, Fryer said she learned so much from "troubled" people and that there is really reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-57391978150611888282010-04-24T14:19:00.000-07:002010-04-26T18:59:45.686-07:00FireIn February, I was walking out of Nester's Market in the Woodwards building and saw a fire across the street. It was apparently a simulated fire in the Simon Fraser University art studioNew SFU studios will be opening in the Woodwards building. reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-91364628534964062752010-04-23T22:02:00.001-07:002010-04-26T19:01:44.549-07:00Get a Cash Advance on Your Welfare ChequeA woman on the Downtown Eastside -- actually she is a "trans" something or other, a man dressed as a woman -- told me that at Pigeon Park Savings people can get a cash advance on their welfare cheque. On the Tuesday before welfare Wednesday, you can get a $20 advance. But you have to be an established customer in good standing, she said.Another Downtown Eastsider who lives at the Cobalt Hotel hasreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-69454369360999424992010-04-23T15:57:00.000-07:002010-04-23T16:05:00.728-07:00reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-44329498999960187782010-04-19T23:30:00.000-07:002010-04-20T15:04:24.430-07:00Kim Kerr's Defense: BC Housing Didn't Give DERA Enough MoneyThe Statement of Defence was filed on Thursday in the BC Housing v. DERA Housing case. Thanks to a reader who sent us this update:"Cameron Ward (lawyer) is pleading if Kim Kerr was corrupt (that is, not doing what he should ) then it was because BC Housing did not give him enough money to do his job so he had to cook the books. The DTES housing providers are going to love this as all they do is reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-18768895941902130222010-04-19T23:00:00.000-07:002010-05-02T14:11:13.649-07:00Human Rights Trial Wrap-Up: When is a Comic Not a Comic? Photo: Painting behind chair in which adjudicator Murray Geiger-Adams sat at BC Human Rights Tribunal while hearing lesbian's complaint against comicWhen is a comic not a comic? When he takes insults about "dykes" and "c*nts" off stage, when he twice marches over to the table of two lesbians in the audience, when he later grabs the sunglasses off the head of one of the lesbians after insulting reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-88324902897072827892010-04-17T19:35:00.001-07:002010-04-17T21:20:10.621-07:00Ujal Dosanjh: Proud Man or Con ManPhoto: Suzanne Dahlin, 2007 I heard Ujal Dosanjh interviewed on CKNW radio yesterday morning about today's Vaisakhi parade in Surrey, the one he was advised not to show up at as his safety couldn't be guaranteed.Dosanjh was giddy during the interview; he giggled several times -- odd, since the topic was violence -- and at other times he was busy portraying himself as an upright man. The reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-21297644151081282212010-04-16T14:12:00.000-07:002010-04-23T22:01:33.145-07:00Sarah Palin's Canadian RootsWhen Sarah Palin spoke last night in Hamilton, Ontario, she said the Palin family -- her husband's family -- have two grandfathers from Canada, one from Saskatchewan and one from Manitoba. But she said she visited Canada often as a child with her own family.Here's a verbatim transcript of Sarah Palin's comments about Palin ancestors in Canada: "Relatives from Canada too. We have the foundation ofreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-54826196465577892782010-04-14T20:26:00.000-07:002010-04-14T21:41:26.875-07:00Art Bell Spends $18,000 on Flying CatsThey're not unidentified flying objects. They're cats.Art Bell said on Friday night while guest-hosting the Coast to Coast radio show, that since marrying a Filipina woman, he has moved back and forth between the U.S. and the Philippines -- and he's moved his three cats with him.Bell has spent $18,000 flying his cats back and forth. He realizes that's "ridiculous", but says he has a "No Cat Left reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-14025210339858169662010-04-14T19:30:00.000-07:002010-04-15T17:34:40.469-07:00Human Rights Trial: The Lesbian Who Won't TalkWhere was Zoey? The lawyer for lesbian Lorna Pardy appeared thrown by a question about the failure of Pardy’s ex-girlfriend’s to testify at the BC Human Rights Tribunal. The question was asked by adjudicator Murray Geiger-Adams during last Friday’s wrap-up of a hearing into homophobic remarks that Pardy was subjected to by comedian Guy Earle, just after her then girlfriend kissed her at ’open micreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-29578291900721081522010-04-09T14:01:00.000-07:002010-04-21T18:53:37.104-07:00Human Rights Trial: Free Speech Chilled at Zesty's 'Open Mic' Comedy Night, Owner TestifiesIt was a human rights hearing that at times sounded like an ad for Corona beer. A discussion with waitresses about getting a round of cold Corona was the first in a chain of events that led to a hearing last week at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, a hearing in which Zesty’s restaurant in Vancouver and an MC at their ‘open mic’ comedy night were accused of discrimination based on "sex and sexual reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-40325181945443557962010-04-02T18:23:00.000-07:002010-04-04T21:45:50.807-07:00‘Ugly Dyke’ and ‘Dildo’ Insults by Comic, Leave Lesbian Attempting to Replace Human Right to Free Speech with Bogus Human Right Not to be Offended Photo: Lorna Pardy leaves Human Rights Tribunal on Monday Lorna Pardy ended up hurting herself when she laid a human rights complaint against comedian Guy Earle for discriminating against her as a lesbian and a woman. That was obvious this week at the BC Human Rights Tribunal where witnesses were calmly asked, "Did you hear Mr. Earle say, "Don’t you have a strap-on dildo so you can take your reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-84738070691924120032010-03-27T18:03:00.000-07:002010-04-01T14:44:24.714-07:00BC Housing Sues Downtown Eastside Residents AssociationPhoto: Libby Davies, Member of Parliament (Vancouver East) and DERA founder Photo: Audrey Laferriere, ousted DERA Board memberDERA Board member Audrey Laferriere was the first person I heard whistleblowing about wrongdoing at the Downtown Eastside Residents Association. DERA responded to the whistleblowing by borrowing Carnegie Centre's recipe -- there is some overlap between political operators reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-62256406207135360142010-03-15T15:11:00.000-07:002010-03-27T22:25:13.649-07:00UBC Learning Exchange Flirts with Funding FraudThe UBC Learning Exchange on the Downtown Eastside is dabbling in the type of funding fraud that was prevalent at Carnegie Centre for years: taking money from taxpayers to provide services to low income people and then locking the doors to those services for the flimsiest of reasons.Despite making a big deal in the media about the services they provide to the Downtown Eastside poor, staff at the reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-89179723013766237132010-03-15T15:10:00.000-07:002010-03-18T16:12:56.723-07:00One Small Step for Skip Everall, One Giant Step for Carnegie MembershipIt's the same old story. I hear it so many times.A photographer complained last week to Carnegie Security boss Skip Everall about the threats being directed at him when he attempts to use Vancouver Public Library computers at Carnegie Centre. The photographer said a native woman -- he said her name -- who is sometimes on duty as computer monitor is abusing her access to publicly funded Carnegie "reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-77279551973452118872010-03-11T15:06:00.000-08:002010-03-11T15:15:08.902-08:00Email from a former Downtown EastsiderI've been out of touch with the happenings of DES and today I thought I would catch up on the [Carnegie] newsletter. Now, I haven't read it in a couple of years, but it was like looking back in time. Same people patting each other on the back. Looks like a mutual admiration society to me.[...]I suppose there was some good to Ms. Prevost, but I never got to see it because I wasn't in the circlereliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-39299870566027491042010-03-11T14:15:00.000-08:002010-03-11T15:25:51.437-08:00Pacific Central Kills the French ,At the Pacific Central train and bus station, they used to announce arrivals and departures over the loud speaker in English only. Just before the Olympics, I noticed they were making the announcements in both official languages. But as soon as the Olympics were over, so was the French. Announcements are once again in English only.reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-64660093959104405732010-03-01T11:26:00.001-08:002010-03-01T16:30:54.618-08:00Olympic Finale: A Mob of Maple Leafers with Digital CamerasI was in the crowd on Granville St. last night, the last night of the Olympics. Every few seconds, somebody would cheer in celebration of Canada's hockey win. I pointed out to my buddy that by the looks on the faces of many people walking by me, many weren't having that a great time. "Yeah," he said, "It's forced."There really wasn't much to do, other than wander up and down Granville St. lookingreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-51684822242434289982010-02-26T23:56:00.000-08:002010-02-27T19:02:47.207-08:00Downtown Eastsider who Threatened President Obama and Sarah Palin Arrested Again and Released AgainPhoto: George C. asked an acquaintance to take this photo of him in front of the UBC Learning Exchange on the Downtown Eastside It’s the second time George C. has been arrested for issuing threats and it’s the second time his legal aid lawyer has gotten him released onto the street.Over the past year, George, a homeless man, has been making threatening phone calls and sending threatening letters reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-82676659900429964732010-02-20T20:04:00.001-08:002010-02-20T20:30:24.467-08:00Homeground Festival provides Downtown Eastsiders with "No Media Zone" during Winter OlympicsA Downtown Eastsider took this photo of a woman on stilts standing in the crosswalk next to Oppenheimer Park today. The entertainer was at the Homeground Festival, an event to provide Downtown Eastsiders with "sanctuary" from the media during the Winter Olympics. There was a man at the festival taking video with a sign on his back saying, "Official Photographer", but there was also a sign up reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-42315300979441530552010-02-20T16:56:00.000-08:002010-02-20T17:20:21.174-08:00Chinese New YearSaw these Chinese New Years decorations on a rooftop in Chinatown Saturday.Tinseltown mall was crowded with Olympic tourists Saturday afternoon, the busiest I have ever seen it. Usually that mall looks on the verge of bankruptcy.reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-83023614999790831982010-02-16T15:25:00.000-08:002010-02-19T20:21:01.580-08:00BC Civil Liberties Assoc. on Hot Seat over taking Orders from Olympic ProtesterQuestions are being raised about the neutrality of the BC Civil Liberties Association and its director David Eby in the wake of Saturday's violent protest by anti-Olympics anarchists in downtown Vancouver. Eby told CKNW that the BCCLA had not sent "Legal Observers" to the event. He said the organizers of the protest had asked the BCCLA not to send Legal Observers because they were concerned that reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-37314592451778896642010-02-14T03:15:00.001-08:002010-02-14T15:24:17.529-08:00Riot Promised for 2010 Olympics Happened SaturdayPhoto: Demonstrators gather at Thornton Park on Saturday, the morning after the opening of the 2010 Olympics.Anarchists in Vancouver, Canada have been promising "Riot 2010" for a few years now, and it happened Saturday. A crowd of roughly 200 people, mostly in their 20s, many dressed in full black regalia with their faces covered by cloth masks, assembled this morning at 8:30 at Thornton Park reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-87123853306823488622010-02-08T16:03:00.000-08:002010-02-09T15:49:29.857-08:00Man on Stilts at Poverty Olympics Sunday at Japanese Hallreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-74894756915706123942010-02-08T10:14:00.000-08:002010-02-08T10:18:22.007-08:00Better Dead than in the RedLast week, a longtime Carnegie Centre volunteer was eating a meal at the Carnegie cafeteria and began to choke on his food. The volunteer, who is paralyzed on one side, made his way to the counter where staff sell food, and collapsed. A young metrosexual with long blond hair who operates the cash register, always with an undercurrent of resentment, acted quickly. He left his cash register and reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-29376918197462691082010-02-07T21:12:00.000-08:002010-02-07T21:15:12.339-08:00Margaret Prevost Passes AwayMargaret Prevost, a longtime Downtown Eastside activist, passed away on February 6th. She was born in 1956.There will be a memorial for her at Carnegie on March 4, 2010 at 1 p.m.reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-74915724192427999012010-01-18T01:46:00.000-08:002010-01-18T01:57:35.350-08:00Carnegie Holding 30th Anniversary CelebrationsThis week, Carnegie Centre is holding 30th anniversary celebrations all week.The primary celebration will be this Wednesday. They're holding it on welfare cheque day, a day when the fewest possible poor people will show up.reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-24623166103640407002010-01-18T01:16:00.001-08:002010-01-18T02:10:33.025-08:00The Olympics are Here and so is the FearThis evening I went to the salad bar at Whole Foods at Cambie & Broadway, and afterwards went across the street to Wendy's restaurant for coffee. There were people in there with a range of accents, and a group of Quebecers speaking French, leading me to believe that some of these people were early arrivals for the Olympics.A Chinese man who spoke perfect English, dressed all in black with a reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-23245581173662539292010-01-06T16:30:00.001-08:002010-01-07T02:19:11.435-08:00Missing Women Stop Traffic at Main & HastingsGirls and women missing or murdered on the Highway of Tears were a focus of a gathering at around 4:30 p.m. at Main & Hastings on Sunday. Traffic in the intersection was blocked briefly.Above photo: Gathering for missing women at Main & Hastings, with Carnegie Centre in the backgroundreliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-87173541016837015502010-01-04T22:22:00.000-08:002010-01-05T14:40:02.583-08:00Dean DiesThere are some sad people at Carnegie. Dean Obrol, a longtime musician in the Carnegie Music Program, has died. Dean wasn't a drug or alcohol abuser, so his death came as a surprise to Carnegie members. He was found in his apartment in a social housing building on Hastings.Dean had worked in a fish clearing house in the past, and now was often seen playing his guitar at Carnegie or sitting in reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-18055848517439681632010-01-02T22:59:00.000-08:002010-01-02T23:48:43.910-08:00Frustration Mounts at Carnegie over Blocking of WiFi Access to PoorJohn B. is one of many Carnegie members expressing frustration at the decision by City management at Carnegie to block the poor from accessing WiFi at Carnegie. As reported earlier on this blog, people like John can no longer sit on the third floor at Carnegie and access WiFi with their laptops or netbooks.The only WiFi access remaining at Carnegie Centre is in the tiny Vancouver Public reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-88342374141776131162009-12-25T21:39:00.001-08:002010-01-04T00:26:58.422-08:00Recession Showed Up at Christmas Eve Dinner Hosted by BC Federation of LabourJim Sinclair, President of the BC Federation of Labour dished up turkey at the event.The recession was evident at this year's 15th Annual Labour Community Christmas hosted by the BC Federation of Labour at the Maritime Labour Hall on Vancouver's east side.The portions were smaller and they discouraged people from going back for seconds, although one man and woman told me they did sneak back. reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-75513306946472078572009-12-25T15:47:00.000-08:002010-01-07T02:21:26.095-08:00Photographer with Zoom Lens Creates Discomfort at Christmas Day Dinner at Sally AnnOn Christmas Day, the Salvation Army, Harbour Light, on Cordova St. near Main in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside served their annual free Christmas Dinner to anyone who wanted it. The turkey dinner with all the trimmings was reportedly tasty, with pie for dessert.A man volunteering as a server walked around squirting extra whipped cream on everyone's pie, exclaiming, "It's Christmas!"Some people reliable sourcesnoreply@blogger.com0