Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with Twitter
I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
When Mischa Farivar first moved into a century-old Chinese Freemasons building in Chinatown two years ago, he wondered what he’d gotten himself into. The 23-year old Toronto native and . . . 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
Ask yourself if you have ever thought this: You drive down Hastings Street through the Downtown Eastside. You see the roiling parade of stumblebums and addicts on the sidewalks, the rows of ruined buildings.
Scoop.it!
Wednesday’s Vancouver council committee meeting to consider “Next Steps,” a staff report regarding four controversial community plans, began with a self-serving presentation by the city’s
Scoop.it!
What are they protesting? The location of Cuchillo restaurant (261 Powell Street) stood vacant for over 15 years.
Scoop.it!
(Article contributed by Singleton) The Rent Assembly just brought to Vancouver three days of a wide-ranging look at the functions and contexts of "ground rent [as] a historically produced, not-inev...
Scoop.it!
It's hard to have a conversation about gentrification, with all the baggage around the word. As long as many argue that any level of gentrification is to be absolutely avoided, positive and responsible change remains virtually impossible.
Scoop.it!
Photo credit: DM GILLIS After nine steady weeks of nightly protests by anti-poverty activists in front of the PiDGiN restaurant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, police have stated that they plan to arrest picketers.
|
Scoop.it!
Nearly $1 million a day is spent providing low-cost housing, social services and other support to vulnerable residents of the Downtown Eastside, a Vancouver Sun investigation has found. The newspaper compiled, for the first time in recent history, a list of every agency that operates in the Downtown Eastside or provides a service there, and also tallied the organizations’ annual revenues.
Scoop.it!
U. Morimoto & Co. dry goods rented a storefront at 328 Powell St. for only two years, in 1920 and 1921.
Scoop.it!
The post-WWII North American cities saw a decentralization of the Central Business District (CBD). This, in turn, saw an increase of private automobile usage, due to the ever expanding suburban sprawl.
Scoop.it!
Photos: DM GILLIS As summer sets in, city staff are already making preparations for the coming fall.
Scoop.it!
Vancouver’s efforts to transform “Canada’s poorest postal code” into a neighbourhood where rich and poor coexist have led to protests outside upscale businesses.
Scoop.it!
DTES residents and allies from across the city vow to continue picketing Pidgin restaurant at Carrall and Hastings until it packs up and leaves. They aren’t asking for jobs, sympathy or token charitable gestures.
Scoop.it!
Over the past few months The Gazette has worked to uncover the truth regarding the Pidgin Restaurant pickets, the harassment of Gastown small businesses and an overall hostile environment towards the greater community being perpetuated by The Carnegie...
Scoop.it!
Vancouver police are taking the unusual step of warning a small group of anti-gentrification activists that their daily protests outside the controversial Pidgin restaurant may be crossing the line into an act of criminal mischief.
|
