In researching issues surrounding multi-barrier communities this autumn, I stumbled across an alarming projection. According to the Pivot Legal Team, Olympics-related development threatens to triple the number of homeless in Vancouver by 2010. While my work in the Downtown Eastside provides me with daily reminders of the extent of the poverty here, I found […]
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The Cost of Doing Nothing: New Homeless Numbers Staggering
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More Plastic Bags, Disastrous Surgeries, Tar Sands equal Oil Spills, Building Roads is Environmental, Canada is Anti-Semitic, Unions behind the times?
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Ya, let’s buy a t-shirt and save the environment — that’s the second-most stupidest thing I’ve ever heard! The MOST stupid is this: “A Vision Vancouver motion to phase out plastic bags in Vancouver was opposed by the NPA in Council Thursday, despite past promises from Mayor Sullivan…”
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