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Thousands march to 'welcome' the Olympics
Thousands of anti-Olympic protesters marched in the hours leading up to the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics today.Thousands march to 'welcome' the Olympics
View ArticleOlympic Tent Village opened in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
A group of over 500 Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents and their supporters gathered at Pigeon Park in Vancouver today at a rally called "No More Empty Talk, No More Empty Lots." A five-storey high...
View ArticleHomes, not Games! Pro-social housing actions sweep Vancouver's streets
Coordinated actions concerning housing and homelessness are sweeping the streets of Vancouver at the height of the 2010 Olympic Games, with hundreds of activists and handfuls of organizations...
View ArticleLondon Free Press links Harper to terror(ish) attack
The news is all atwitter that an "unstable intruder" got close to U.S. VP Biden, but now, as this London Free Press press clipping shows, we may know the intruder better than we thought.
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Vancouver Airport restaurant workers on strike today
UniteHere40Airport.jpgVancouver Airport restaurant workers on strike today Three hundred striking HMS Host workers have not had a contract since March 2009, the key issue being job security.
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Politics in the ring: Sports, politics and protest
SportsWorkingTV.jpgPolitics in the ring: Sports, politics and protest With the Vancouver Olympics just around the corner, acclaimed sports journalist and author Dave Zirin speaks about sports, politics...
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CEP Union wins case upholding "hot edict" against Telus ads
cep_hot_copy.jpgCEP Union wins case upholding "hot edict" against Telus ads The Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newspapers have lost a four-year battle to publish advertisements over the objection...
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Olympics can't mask country's human rights record on indigenous peoples
Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation at Victory Square in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. (Photo: Blackbird)Olympics can't mask country's human rights record on indigenous peoples
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2010 Olympics: Gold medal for activism
Downtown Eastside residents and their supporters march for homes.2010 Olympics: Gold medal for activism
View ArticleIn the end, the Olympics are a multi-billion dollar bash
When it's all said and done, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is sure to declare the Vancouver Olympics the best Games, as they do for the Games wherever they take place. But much of the world...
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End poverty. It's not a game
A placard posted at the Olympic Tent Village in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.In the end, the Olympics are a multi-billion dollar bash
View ArticleIndebted Olympic nation
I don't much like my country these days, indeed haven't for the last week or so. Is it simply a case of me being an anti-Olympic no-fun grinch? Maybe.Or maybe it's something else.One of my...
View ArticleEight billion dollars got Canadians high on the Olympics. Was it money well...
Now that the circus has left town, it's time for a serious debrief. In other words, what the military call a "hotwash." What went right, what went wrong, what could be improved, and so forth.So here...
View ArticleVancouver's poverty rate leads country
Thanks to Jean Swanson for drawing to my attention a new report from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities called Mending Canada’s frayed social safety net: The role of municipal governments. The...
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Walt Whitman's Secret: George Fetherling
Wed, Jun 2, 2010 In George Fetherling's wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one entirely. In George Fetherling's wonderfully imagined novel, Walt...
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Chaingate: PMO office forges protest controversy
According to Harper's press secretary, Libby Davies organized Vancouver Insite "Welcome Committee."Chaingate: PMO office forges protest controversy
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Downtown Eastside dreams
February 11, 2010A Thousand Dreams tells grim stories of missing women, sardine and cat food diets, epidemic illness and the crippled support systems that struggle to manage the situation that is life,...
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Torch relay disrupted
Hundreds of protesters follow the torch through East Vancouver. Protesters disrupt torch relay
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