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Police arrest woman allegedly involved in Pidgin Restaurant incident
Vancouver :: Canada | 6 days ago
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Police have arrested a Vancouver woman wanted in connection to an incident outside Pidgin restaurant in the Downtown Eastside where anti-poverty activists have been protesting for months. Robyn Claire Pickell, 25, was spotted Monday afternoon as she
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City aims to create recycling 'hub' with proposed bottle depot move to Industrial Ave.
Granville :: France | 10 days ago
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The proposed relocation of the United We Can bottle depot away from the Downtown Eastside is part of a city plan to create a recycling hub on industrial land near Main and Terminal. The not-for-profit business, which has operated out of an aging
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Tiny plots of land hold the promise of big change in gritty neighbourhoods
Vancouver :: Canada | 1 month ago
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Story Paris Annex building located on West Hastings Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Gallery Unlike other parts of the city, there are few big sites available here for major developments. Instead, tiny plots are the
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Police-involved shooting in Burnaby sends victim to hospital, prompts independent probe
Vancouver :: Canada | 4 months ago
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A man is in hospital after a police-involved shooting in Burnaby, B.C. The incident occurred just after 1 a.m. on busy Hastings Street just east of the boundary with Vancouver. Neighbours report hearing two or three shots after police were confronted
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The Scout List
Vancouver :: Canada | 5 months ago
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Vancity Theatre is having a bit of a Charles Dickens love fest this week with old-school versions of Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). There's great acting in both Dickens adaptations (John Mills plays Pip in the former), with extra
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Public invited to question experts at meetings on Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion
Langley Park :: MD :: USA | 6 months ago
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Trans Mountain is holding three information meetings this week in Vancouver as part of its application process to the National Energy Board to double the capacity of its pipeline from Alberta to B.C. During the sessions, Trans Mountain will present
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Downtown Eastside project gets go-head despite gentrification criticism
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Despite colourful outbursts from a sex-trade worker and some anti-gentrification activists, a split Vancouver council voted to move forward with rezoning for a new Woodward's style-development in the Downtown Eastside. The mixed-use development
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Shooting victim produced a knife, Vancouver police say
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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B.C.'s new Independent Investigation Office is investigating a police-involved shooting Monday night outside a McDonald's restaurant at Hastings Street and Cassiar. The shooting occurred at around 8:15 p.m after police responded to a report of
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Women march for social housing on 10th anniversary of Woodward's squat
Vancouver :: Canada | 8 months ago
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On the 10th anniversary of the Woodward's squat, activists say little has been done to provide social housing for Downtown Eastside residents. We want proper social housing, said Beatrice Starr, founder of the Power of Women group which organized the
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Man struck by transit bus
Vancouver :: Canada | 9 months ago
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A man is in hospital after being struck by a city transit bus late Thursday night in the Downtown Eastside...Vancouver police had West Hastings Street blocked off between Abbott and Carrall streets. The transit bus sat at the side of West Hastings as
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