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HUMAN RIGHTS ART WORKSHOPS Held the following Thursdays from 1 to 4 pm July 17 Aboriginal Front Door July 24 VANDU Interurban Gallery August 21 September 18 Gallery Gachet October 18 Right to Remain Community Fair TBA. ~nkyoulo

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Revitalizing }apantown?: A unifying exploration of Human Rights, branding and place in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside "Revitalizing }apantown?: A unifying exploration of Human Rights, branding and place in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside" is a research project that's documenting the long Human Rights history of the DTES by working with the 5 founding communities: Coast Salish people, the Low-Income community, Chinese Canadians, Japanese Canad ians and African Canadians.

Secular and politically non partisan, we acknowledge and honour the fact that we're working or Traditional Coast Salish Territory.

The Right to Remain Community Fair is the arts phase of the research project. Having interviewed DTES residents and former residents about their memories and experiences of Human Rights in the DTES, we now get to bring the project to a much larger cross-section of the community by way of the Human Rights Art Workshops and the Right to Remain Community Fair. The workshops are for anyone living in the DTES who would like to join us and express th eir human rights experiences in the DTES- good or bad.

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Downtown East Village Pride Saturday, July 19th Come celebrate everyone in our beautiful diverse community

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Arts & Humanities Humanities I0 I Community Programme offers three free university-level courses for people who live in and around the Downtown Eastside and Downtown South. The courses are for people who have encountered financial and other barriers to uni versity education and who wish to expand their intellectual horizons in an accessible, challenging and respectful environment. Applicants must have a love of learning, basic literacy ski lls and be willing to attend classes, complete assignments and pa1iicipate in group discussions. Applications for these non-credit courses are , accepted not on the basis of past academic history, but on applicants' desire and ability to be part of the Hum I 0 I Programme.

Classes take place at UBC Point Grey campus on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, beginn ing in early September. You can apply for an eight month interdisciplinary course where you will study a different subject in the arts and social sciences each week, including history and politics, art, music, arch itecture, philosophy, literature, sociology, first nation studies, economics, gender studies, popular culture and more.

Or you can apply for a three-month long, hands-on writing course where a new genre and style of writing wi ll taught each week. Participants receive school supplies, student cards, bus tickets to get to and from class, meals, and childcare if needed.

Please attend the upcoming information and application sessions for more details on how to participate in th~ programme. Information is also available at humanitieslOl.arts.ubc.ca

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Saturday August 16, I I am for llum I 0 I & II um 20 I Tuesday August 19, !lam for Writing Thursday August 28, 11 am for Hum I 0 I, Hum 20 I & Writing Gathering Place Community Ctre, 609 Helmcken St. Saturday August 16, I pm for Hum I 0 I & Hum 20 I Tuesday August 19, I pm for Writing Vancouver Recovery Club, 2775 Sophia St. Wednesday August 20, !lam for Hum 10 I , Hum 201 and Writing Crabtree Corner, 533 East Hastings St. (3'd fl. room) Wednesday August 20, I pm for Hum I 0 I, Hum 20 I and Writing Downtown Eastside Women' s Centre. 302 Columbia St. (women only) Thursday August 21, I pm for llum 101, Hum 201 and Writing Humanities 101 Community Programme Dr. Margot Leigh Butler. Academic Director Paul Woodhouse, Programme Coordinator Alison Rajah, Writing Coordinator Wil Steele, Programme Assistant M ichelle Turner, Programme Assistant Madeline Gorman, Programme Assistant tel. 604-822-0028 Programme Office: #270 Buchanan E, 1866 Main Mall, U.B.C. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T lZ l Website: http://humanities1 01.arts.ubc.ca/

And "in print" in the daily media ...

The hand-wringing continues unabated in the Downtown Eastside. The weekend's Vancouver Sun detailed a laundry list of260 agencies that provide some form of'·service" to the roughly 6,500 residents in need in what we used to call the ·'Skids."

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host to the world's largest open-air drug bazaar. The DTES also contains North America's firs t supervised injection site, where heroin addicts can use to · _ . .

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The vast majority o f these fo lks cann~e fixed, . whether it is their addiction issues that caused the1r mental health issues or vice versa. It's all related.

Carnegie Community Action Project July 2 at 4:48pm · Edited · Please share! The Vancouver Sun is publishing a

series of articles and op-eds arguing that money is be ing "wasted" in the DTES. If you have a few minutes, please consider writing a sho1i letter to the ed itor Let's at least admit it.

• • (Ill • te lling the Sun that if we stopped "wasting" money society. In fact, I was stunned to learn in the Vancou- subsidizing developers, corporations and wealthy people, we could raise welfare rates and build social ver Sun that Vancouver Coastal Health was, in part, housing. funding VAN DU. Whi le it's true that VCH has to Here's one example: deal with the ramifications of drug use, it s hould not The reason that the simple model of criminalizing & be funding the e nablers who are foisting their ridicuinstitutionali zing poor people in the DTES that Leo lous views on those of us who actually pay the fre ight Knight wants to reinstate has been challenged so suefor this bafflcgab.

• we've learned it doesn't work . cessfully is because Countless studies have shown that mental health and The story is not about how much is costing, addictions issues people face in the DTES are tied to it should be abo ut how do we stop the nonsedns~·verpove1ty. Pove11y is created by the unequal distributi on . ~ 6 500 folks For the recor ' I And all of th is or ' b ~ 000 patients. But tha of wealth . .ew used to be home to a ou 5 , I agree that money has been misdirected in the DTES. ~~as before we became enlightened.

Instead of s ubs idiz ing renovations to heritage buildLeo Knight is a for mer ~olice officer, security expert ings and giving big developers tax breaks, our focus shou ld be on ending poverty and homelessness. Inand host of primetimecnme.com. stead, rents in the DTES are skyrocketing, there's a 15,000 person waiting list for socia l housing and welfare rates haven't been raised s ince 2007.

Poverty costs BC about $9 bi llio n annually. The costs o f housing people- which even the Federal Government now agrees is the firs t s tep - are far lower.

There would be no need to have 260 agencies working in the DTES if we addressed the root causes of poverty and homelessness, starting with rais ing welfare rates and building soc ial housing. \

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Sense of belonging in DTES Re: A ghetto made by outsiders, June 28 I have lived and worked in the Downtown Eastside for 30 years and I don't know of any low-income resident here who refers to this neighbourhood as a ghetto.

Scott Clark is by no means unique in promoting a diaspora scenario for poor local residents. The real estate community constantly laments restricted opportunities to move undesirables out of the neighbourhood and replace them with shirt and tie professionals.

Some city councillors believe the same.

It's always a puzzle to me why it is considered a horrific civic burden to have a segment of like-minded people who share common beliefs, culture and an understanding of the indigenous texture of a neighbourhood living together in the same place. Isn't that what each of us strives for: a definable sense of belonging and acceptance? People find that in the Downtown Eastside.

It's not. OK to arbitrarily move people around like game pieces to communities where they're not welcome and where they only stagnate through neglect.

IAN MACRAE Re: Lack of cooperation means lwme/essness likely to persist, June 30 Gregor Robertson, Rich Coleman, and the social could smother each other in kisses and comaoencies o pliments and we'd sti ll have a homeless crisis.

It's not impossible to end homelessness. We need money and policy change.

I remember when we had almost no homelessness in Vancouver; it was when welfare had a lot more purchasing power and governments built almost 800 units a year of social housing in the city alone.

Raise welfare rates; people need more than $375 for rent and $235 for everything else. Who do you know who rents a decent place for $375?

With 2,770 homeless people in Metro Vancouver and over 10,000 on the B.C. Hous ing waiting list, all the co-operation in the world can't sq ueeze people into units that don't exist. We need social housing.

While the public may think a lot of social housing is being built, it is mostly the same old units being announced, re-announced and then bragged about. Only about 150 units a year are planned in B.C. over the next five years, not nearly enough to get homeless

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We need the Residential Tenancy Act changed so landlords can't raise rents as much as they like when people leave. In a tight rental market like Vancouver's, this is an incentive for them to evict and even pay people to leave. We need the city to s low dov.n the gentrification pushing up property values and rents, making it impossible for people to afford to live in the city.

JEAN SWANSON, Vancouver

Letters to the Editor c/o Ouawa Citizen To the Editor,

I quite enjoyed reading Steve Rennie's Saturday July 5, 2014 article, 路'Refugee health cuts 'cruel and unusual'.'' This federal Tory government's bullheaded intransigence is both symptomatic and reflective of its leader's tyrannically inflexible mindset.

By appointing dron ing obfuscators to key government command pos itions, Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper has repeatedly underscored his secret desire to bend Canada to his neoconservative will. Examples of these include: Peter " I prefer women bare loot and preg nant in the kitchen" Mackay Jason ''Get me another drink immediately or you' II forfeit your pay and I' II have you sent back to your country of origin" Kenney James ''I'm not my brother's keeper (or child minder, either)" Moore Rona " We backed out of Kyoto because it was ruining our chances to maximize our revenues via coldblooded destruction of the environment" Ambrose Using his hackneyed "death by a thousand incremental cuts'' approach, I larper is stealthily convincing Canada that Canadian healthcare is untenable. lie started by cutting refugee medical program eligibility, and he ' ll end by renaming disappeared medicare as "Money talks, and if your annual income is less than $100,000, too bad for you because now your new, glorious private health care insurance is unaffordable'' Yours s incerely, Rolf Auer

From 1:he Library In celebration of pride and diversity, the library is featuring a display and reading list from the "Native Out" website on two spirit peoples. VPL has a great selection of GLBTQ materials, and Carnegie branch has these titles in-house among others ...

Blood, Marriage, Wine and Glitter (20 13) by S. Bear Bergman: 306.76 B49b. The writing is described as being tender, humorous, and defiantly queer with stories on family, gender and sexuality. Bergman is also the co-author of Gender Outlaws.

She Walks for Days Inside a Thousand Eyes: A Two Spirit Story (2008) by Sharron Proulx-Turner: 821 P968s. Proulx-Turner explores the lesser known history and tradition of two spirit women through her poetry and narratives.

Two-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality ( 1997): 306.766 T974j.

This book includes a variety of voices who are exploring sexual identity within First Nations' cultures and beyond. It is considered a classic introduction on two spirit perspectives.

If you would like to request more items from the "Native Out" reading list please don't hesitate to ask the information staff to track them down for you.

Your Carnegie Librarian, Natalie

Just looked at calendar Wow! Calculated dates And realised I've been on this solid Earth -83 yrs Came to Van as a child -8 Had to pass through Go to New Res School On Vancouver Island.

Our people & many of our kin Died from either cancer or Tuberculosis Now people have help!

My Grandparents saved many As they knew what herb To use to aid people.

Such is life - now it' s AIDS Christina

Our beloved Volunteer Coordinator, Colleen Gorrie wi ll be back July 21st.... We lcome back Colleen we missed you!!

Volunteer Dinner, July 16th @ 4:30pm Volunteer Outtrips: Strathcona Picnic, Tuesday July 22nd@ 11:30am Movies, Thursday July 17th@ 11:30am Sign up at Volunteer Program offi ce .

A Day in the Life Chosen not Frozen A day like any day Here at the Ova/tine A Legend from the good old days of Skid Rowe Neon Lights Booze all day Sunday Contemplating existence: licking my wounds Here in the "promised land" The weather Up and Down Hot and dry cold and damp A Scotch mist or foggy foggy dew West wind blows away the smog Manmade Rain washes the greener than green grasses On its way to brown Plants growing like hops Our discomfort none of their own As I enter the Gate I observe their progress upward Seeking the source of their existence*//// Blossoms wither and die in this time exposure shot Season turns, turns back Green world more resilient than our mood Homeless, gormless, houseless Sleepless is the Order of the Day Brother can you spare a twoonie, a ciarette, a glass of biere However they are techno-rich, laptops, memory sticks and lapdogs abound Eyes down, texting , twi ttering, chirpi ng their signals in the vast concrete jungles In the beginning was the Mouth Word actually a later evolvement Nothi ng preserved.

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Does It Matter What Happens to the CBC? Hubert Lacroix is the chief executive officer or CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the last few weeks, the 59 year-old Montreal lawyer has announced a series of brutal cuts to the CBC. These cuts and the coming layoffs of more than a I ,000 people may well doom the CBC. Stephen Harper's government has already chopped the CBC.'s budget by $250 million a year.

"This is a terrible thing," one loyal listener to the CBC. told me. But I'm a progressive and my reply is, "Is it terrible?'

First off let's remember that the CBC. has never been a progressive broadcasting service. Sure it's been an im portant Canad ian broadcasting service but progressive service to Canada? Not that I can remember.

Richard Bedford Bennett, the usually ultra conservative Prime Minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935, set up the CBC to put forward a Canadian perspective on the radio. At first CBC was set up as a network of radio stations across Canada. In the 1950's it branched out into televis ion. "Bennett was proud of his work in establishing the national broadcasting network," says Bennett's biographer John Boyko. Even though I detested most of what the reactionary Bennett did as Conservative Prime Minister I think Boyko is right in praising Bennett for his establishing the C.B.C. Yet let's not get carried away here. Under success ive federal Liberal and Conservative governments, the CBC remained a very conservative broadcasting

system. Its lead ing lights like Peter Mansbridge, Nancy Wilson, the late Knowlton Nash, his niece Alison Smith and others were never progressives.

"Advertisers do not tell me what to do," Mansbridge told me in effect in a letter. This is true but beside the point. Advertisers don't influence the CBC 's journalist since most of the top reporters, or stars of the system are already conservative when they get to their present jobs.

Sometimes a fewâ&#x20AC;˘progressive journalists on Radio Canada or the CBC 's French side slip into top positions. The late Rene Levesque, Quebec's first sovereigntist premier, and Michaelle Jean who later became a Governor-General, definitely leaned to the left.

Both had high profile jobs on Radi o Canada. Linden Macintyre, the talented host of "The Fifth Estate' is progressive. He recently resigned his job on the 'Fifth Estate' to protest the cuts to CBC Carol Off, the li vely host of ''As It Happens' is progressive. And so may be Anna Maria Tremonti the head journalist on 'The Current' All the other journalists on CBC are either fede ral Liberals or Conservatives. Rex Murphy the high profile host of 'Cross Country Check-Up' is an ultra conservative and is also one of the big columnists on the very conservative 'National Post' paper. Murphy has verbally slammed in print members of the Carnegie Centre Action Project.

Next time we'll look at how the CBC. covered the DTES in the 1990's and later.

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Newsletter Read CCAP reports: http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com

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CITY REFUSES TO USE ALL ITS POWER TO REDUCE HOMELESSNESS

BY JEAN SWANSON What is Vancouver's response to the highest homel ess count ever in 20 14? O n July 8th City Manager Penny Ballem told city council that they could do four things to end street homelessncss by next year. Street homelessness only includes people who actually s leep on the street, not people who have to live in shelters or people who couch surf or sleep in their cars. According to Ballem, in March 2014, the city had a total of 1798 homeless people who were counted. 538 of them were living on the street at the time they were counted.

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Vancouver ·s 2014 Homeless Count: Highest Homelesss Count Ever The four things that need to happen to end c;treet homelessness, according to Ballem, are: I) The province has to provide funds for 160 ~hcltcr beds. Last year they only provided enough for 105.

2) The province or federal government have to come up with money to keep the Bosman Hotel open. Thi~ is one p lace where the At Hnme Chez Soi study took place. The three year study proved that it's cheaper to house homeless people than leave them on the street. While the fede ral government says it now be lieves in housing the homeless, they are n't even funding the housing of the very people who proved the strategy they say the y support 3)The new housing being built on Princess Street can 't be delayed past March 2015 4) The province has to fund I 00 re nt supplements for people who live in hotel rooms If this happens, Vancouver will ~till have at least 1260 homeless people. They'Ll just be langu ishing in shelters. Unless the c ity takes more action to preserve hotel rooms at rents people on welfare, d isability and basic pension can afford. there will be even more homeless in the city.

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Rallem also said that the city would be looking into requiring owners of hotels that have poor maintenance to have non profit management as a condition of their business license. This is a suggestion that CCAP made at a meeting with Bal lem in June.

But Ballem could have called on the city to do a lot more to end homelessness.

In a June meeting with Ballem, CCAP asked the city to use the section of the Standards of Maintenance Bylaw that allows the c ity to do work and bill the owners of residential hotels that arc not properly maintained. CCAP al-;o want<; the c ity to interpret the Single Room Accomodation by law to prevent the type of conversions ami renovictions that Steven Lippman and others are doing in hundreds of units. The SRA bylaw's definition of conversion is "'a repair or alteration to a designated room or any improvement or

tlxturc in it l>r a replacement of any such improvement or fixture, cx~.:cpt for repairs or alterations that are minor in nature and have no material effect on the enjoyment by permanciH residents of their living accorn moJation.'路 CCAP argues that the city could use th is bylaw to stop conversions because in many cases the repairs and alterations do have a ''material effect on the enjoyment by permanent residents of their living accommodation .'' Or at least they would have an effect if the tenants weren't evicted. These repairs and alterations include putti ng in laminate flooring, remodeling the common washrooms, halls and laundry fac ilities, putting fridges and

cab1neh and better -..inb m the room-... But city staffer Celme Maubouleo.; told council that the city interprets conver-;ion to mean 路'adding a kitchen or bathroom or taking down a wall.路路 Govemments could actually end all homelessness, not JUSt street homelessncss, if they raised welfare rates and built thousands of units of social housing. The money to do this would be available if government would tax the rich at the same rate they were taxed in the year 2000, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The city could also usc a lot more of its power to stop renovictions and to buy land for housing.

Low-income ho11sing units at St. Elzlmo Hotel (425 Campbell Ave) are also at risk c~f being converted and lost if the City does nor use its SRA by-law to prevC'fll itfrom happening 3

MORE ON WHAT THE CITY CAN DO TO PREVENT RENOVICTIONS I. Enforce standards of maintenance In cases like the Cl ifton Hotel, landlords have let buildings get into such a bad state that they can then legally evict tenants to renovate. The City already has a tool for making sure that this doesn't happen, and to force landlords to keep buildings in a humane and liveable condition. The Standards of Maintenance Bylaw lets the Ci ty go in and do necessary work for buildings that have lots of complaints registered on the City database and then bill it to the landlords. A City lawyer once told us that the City could demand non-profit management as a condition of obtaining a business license for landlords whose buildings have received many complaints and violatio ns. If you live in a SRO and have noticed bad conditions, blocked fire escape exits, or other maintenance issues. make sure to call the City by dialing 31 1 to register complaints.

If you don't have a phone, come to the CCAP office to call.

2. Enforce the SRA Bylaw The City has another tool it can use: The Single Room Accommodations (SRA) Bylaw. The SRA Bylaw is supposed from to stop SROs from bein!!~路 chancred ;;;, low-income housing to tourist hotels or wealthier peoples' housing. Unfortunately,

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the City has not been enforcing it. The Bylaw defines "conversions路路. and CCAP argues that conversions take place when rooms are renovated and marketed to students, yqung artists or others with more money than most poor DTES residents.

The SRA Bylaw says that landlords must give tenants the first ''right of refusal'路 for a room that has undergone renovations, and it must stay at the same rent. [f the tenant wants to move after their old room has been renovated. landlords are responsible for finding them rooms at equal or lesser rents and in decent condition. If the tenants can't move back. the City can collect $15,000 per room from the landlord for a housing fund.

We had lots of other s uggestion~ for the City. The City can use the municipal

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CIRCLE ON HOUSING Come And Contribute, Make Your Voice Hea rd At Carnegie Co mmunity Centre Theatre On July 18 At 1:00 t o 4:00 For more info For 604 697 5662 Your Hosts Are Carneg1e Commun1ty Act10n Plan & Aboriginal Front Door Society

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CLIFTON HOTEL RESIDENT WINS $2300 FROM LANDLORD FOR POOR MAINTENANCE

BY JEAN SWANSON Shawn Thorpe didn't want his picture taken but he had a huge smile when I talked to him about winning a Residential Tenancy Branch decision that means his landlord owes him $2300.

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Shawn lives at the Clifton Hotel on Granville where maintenance is deplorable and there are many outstanding city orders to fix up the building. "I was too tired of this crap happening in here," he told me. "There was no cleaning, no repairs ." Tenants call one room in the hotel the bird sanctuary because a window is missing and birds fly in and poo all over the floor and walls. So Shawn got an advocate

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to comply with the Act and make emergency repairs for health or safety reasons.

In the end, Shawn didn't get all he wanted. But he did get an order on Oct. 23,2013, granting him $2300, the equivalent of $100 a month for 23 months for the "loss of quiet enjoyment due to the continued infestation of bedbugs and a general lack of maintenance."

Shawn abo \von an onJcr for the landlord to replace m1s~ing or broken window panes. repair his re ntal unit door and door frame, have regular dail y cleaning of washrooms, have regular daily removal of garbage from common areas. hire a professional pe~t control technician to asse~s and treat any pest control problems, to make repairs/renovations to ceiling flood damage subject to WorkSafe BC order.

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The case is great for othe r S RO tenants because it means that they can get personally compen sated by landlords who don't maintain buildings properly if they go to the Residential Tenancy Branch and follow through with well documented complaints . lf you need any he lp taking your landlord to court for poor maintenance. come to the CCAP office on the second floor of Carnegie and we'll try to find an advocate for you.

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TWO MORE EXPENSIVE DEVELOPMENTS PROPOSED FOR CHINATOWN

BY JEAN SWANSON Developers arc proposing two more developments in the Downtown Eastside that wi ll exclude low income people and gentrify the ne ighbourhood even more.

the current rules which would allow about 9 stories to 12 stories that the developer wants . The project is close to Andy Livingstone Park and Sun Yat Sen Gardens.

One development. from the Beedie group. is proposed for I 05 Keefer St. It wi II include about 140 condos with ~tores on the ground floor. It requires a rezoning from

At an Open House about the project on June 23rd, the developer hacllots of drawings about what the project would look like.

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and arti~t re ndition~ of the project present a strcctscapc that erases current low-income residents; there were images of people enjoying coffee at the antic ipated cafes, both in the plaza out front and in the alley; people walking. etc . but no one (for example) pushing a shopping cart or vendi ng on the street.

Poor people arc air-brushed out of the public spaces. so as not to disturb the desired aesthetic of upscale living."

The developer has not submitted a formal development permit application yet. No social housing is required or proposed for this project, which is right across the alley from the New Sun Ah rooms, one of the on ly remaining places in the DTES that has rooms that rent for less than $425 a month. If this project goes in , it will probably increase surrounding property values and taxes and create upward pressure on rents at the Sun Ah.

An artisr rendition of 450 Gore Ave., a development proposal that will further displace low-income people throuxh gentrification and cause the community\路 beloved Chinatown to disappear

These two proposals are just what the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan is about, ovdwhelming the low income community and creating more zones of exclusion for people who call the DTES home. Both proposals still have to go to a public hearing so we will have a chance to say what we think. Whether this council will listen is another question.

The second proposal is for upscale market housing at 450 Gore Ave .. just south of First United Church. The developer is GMC Projects which has an office in Gastown. This project also requires a rezoning. from the current 3 stories to 6 stories. The project is for 65 rental units. This is the same developer who is working on the market rental project at 245 E Georgia. Like the Support for this project does not necessarily imply Vancity's endorsement of the findings or other project, no social housing contents of this newsletter units are proposed or required.

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Acquiescing to Big Biotech: Relentless Drive to Force GMO Crops into Britain

By Colin Todhunter

[GM =Genetically Modified; GE =Genetically engineered; GMO =Genetically Modified Organism ] The Committee says that the Government should do more to inform the public about "potentially beneficial impacts" ofGM crops under development, but, according to Genewatch UK, the report fails to inform the public that the commercial GM crops that would actually be grown commercially are tolerant to companies' own-brand weed killers, such as Monsanto's RoundUp Ready crops.

The "potentially beneficial impacts" of GM crops just don't stack up. For instance, non-GM farm ing in Europe has outperformed GM farming in the USA [2] and poisonous pesticides, destructive fet1ilisers and patented GE seeds can't even match 1890 or even 1760 AD yields in India [3].

Director of Gene Watch UK, Dr Helen Wallace, says: "RoundUp Ready GM crops are the crops which could be grown in England perhaps as early as next year. Blanket spraying of these crops with weed killer would lead to massive loss of habitat for birds and butterflies and a plague of superweeds for farmers. The costs of segregating GM and non-GM would push up food pri ces for everyone, and non-GM farmers would lose out financially if their conventional or organic crops become contaminated".

Monsanto' s or Syngenta's RoundUp Ready GM maize (NK603 and GA2t), which are blanket sprayed with the weedkiller glyphosate (brand name RoundUp), are in the commercial pipeline for EU cultivation approvals .

Again, some of the ''potentially beneficial impacts" of RoundUp Ready GM crops inc lude the growth of herbicide-tolerant superweeds and the loss of habitat for birds and butterflies: leading, for example, to a crash in the population ofthe Monarch butterfly in the United States [4,5]. Aside fro m the environmental dangers, there are very strong links between glyphosate and a very wide range of serious human ai lments and d iseases (6].

In the UK, there are no national measures for co-existence of GM and non-GM crops and for liability for the costs of contamination incidents, which can cost conventional and organic farmers many millions of pounds in lost markets for their products [7]. Contamination seems of little concern to the global biotech sector, though. It has al ready reck lessly contaminated the environment with its poison [8] and, as far as GMOs are concerned, it is more a case of the more contam ination, the better [9].

The EU 'opt out' proposal adopted by EU ministers in June, which will now go to the European Parliament, could speed up Gl\11 crop app rovals in England by loosening Eu rope-wide regulations that are currently in place.

Countries opposed to growing would opt out by imposing regional bans on the cultivation of specific crops. Scotland and Wales will opt out from growing GM crops, but the Government wants England to press ahead. T his 'opt out' proposal is regarded as constituting little more than pa11 of a 'Monsanto-friendly' [1 0] strategy, which is being facilitated by Minister Owen Paterson, who has worked closely with the GMO industry on UK policy, incl uding on aPR strategy which seeks to avoid discussion of RoundUp Ready crops and the multinational companies that sell them [ll]. Paterson appears little more than a misinformed puppet ofthe GMO sector (12] and seems content to be a part of that sector's multi-pronged political subterfuge to force GMO onto the British public [ 13].

Such a pity that Paterson and others are content to c limb into bed with a company that has such a long history of duplicity and criminality (14].

One positive aspect of the Committee's report is the recommendation that Government reduces dependence on imported soybean for animal feed, warning that increased demand for protein from emerging economies threatens current supply lines. Much of this imported soya is GM. The Committee also recommends that the UK takes steps to become more self-suffi cient in fruit and vegetables, supermarkets shorten their supply chains to support more local food; and better long-term weather prediction for farmers is developed.

In response to this, Helen Wallace states: "It is a pity that these valuable recommendations on food security are likely to be drowned out by this Committee's mis leading claims on GM crops. Reducing dependency on imported GM soya. used to feed anima ls in Britain, would be a big step forward in making our food s upply more sustainable and secure." 路Food security' and 'sustainability' are nice sounding terms. However, acquiescing to big US biotech concerns does not guarantee either. It's not meant to. Quite the opposite in fact (15, 16].

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Notes [ I) House of Commo ns Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Comm ittee. Food security. Second Report of Session 20 14-15.

(2] Heinemann et al. (20 13) Sustainab ility and innovation in staple ctop production in the US Midwest. International Journal of Agricultural Susta inab ility. Publ ished online: 14 Jun 20 13.http://www.tandfonline.com/doilfull/l 0.1080/ 14735903.20 13.806408#.Ub9AU5zXryU (3] http://www.glo balresearch. ca/i nd ia-genetically-modified-seeds-agricultural-productivity-and-politicalfraud/5328227 (4) For superweeds see: Benbrook CM (2012) Impacts of ge netically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. -the first sixteen years. Environmental Sciences Europe 24(1):24.http://www.enveurope.com/content/2411/24; BBC report 19th September 20 12:http://www.bbc.co.uklnews/science-environment- 19585341 ; GM crops: Farmer to Farmer:http://gmcropsfarmertofarmer.com/ ; Greenpeace "Growing Doubt" video, October 20 12:http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/agriculture/problem/genetic-engineering/GrowingDoubt/; more videos of superweeds on: http://www. gmfreeze.org/why-freeze/v ideos-and-clips/.

[5] For Monarch butterflies see: http://www.guardian.co.uklenvironment/20 13/apr/ 18/tracking-causes-m'onarchbutterfly-decline ; Pleasants JM, Oberhauser KS (20 13) Mi lkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population. Insect Conservation and Divers ity 6(2): 135-144. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do i/ 10.1111/j.l752-4598.20 12.00 196.x/abstract [6] http://www. gmoevidence. com/wp-content/uploads/20 13/09/G lyphosate-Destructor-o f- Human-Health-andBiodiversity.pdf [7] GM Contamination Register: http://www.gmcontaminationregister.org/ (8] http://www. greenmed info.com/b log/roundup-weedki ller-found-7 5 -ai r-and-rain-sarnples-gov-stud y-finds [9] http://www .globalresearch.ca/contam ination-and-bio-poll ution-the-cri m inal ity-of-the-gm -biotechiindustry/5371517 [I 0] http :1/corporateeurope.org/food-and-agricu lture/20 14/05/biotech-lobbys-fingerpri nts-over-new-eu-proposalallow-national-gmo [II] GeneWatch UK PR: UK Government and GM industry collusion exposed. Tuesday 6th May 2014. http :1lwww .genewatch.org/article.sh l rn I?als[cid]=492860&als[ itern id]=57 449 5 [ 12] http://www. independent. co. uk/news/uk/pol itics/tory-mp-says-progm-environment-secretary-owen-patersonis-industry-pup pet-8686 133.html [ 13] http://www. globalresearch.ca/monsanto-syngenta-and-bayer-cropsc ience-the-gmo-biotech-sector-cant-winthe-sc ienti fie-debate-the-options-are-co-option-deception-and-collus ion/53 8 1725 [ 14] http://www.wakingti mes.com/20 14/06/20/complete-history-monsanto-worlds-evil-corporation/ [ 15] http://www. grai n.org/article/e ntries/4929-hungrv-for-land-small- farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a9 uarter-o f-all- farm land [ 16] http://www .democraticu nderground .com/d iscuss/duboard. php?az=view all&address=3 89x 336573 5 Copyright漏 2014 Global Research

Paste-Wasty's Theoretical Competition with a Slug in a Petrie Dish, and the Gullibility of 800 lb. Gorillas 1guess I should explain who Paste-Wasty is first, eh?! Yeah, well, Paste-Wasty is this weird and I mean -'Aiice-Cooperscousin-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-summoning-flyin'-monkeys-to-steal-a-pair-of-red-shoes-Eivis-would-look-good-in"- kinda weird ghost toasty critter, whom firstly hates all humans, and secondly panders to the every whim of silly psychics who don't understand that just because a ghost tells ya something it doesn't make it true. And Paste-Wasty? Well, he, she or it (depending on whoever he, she, or it is impersonating today) gets off on fooling humans. Especially the ones who are a tad nearsighted in the psychic realm but can still sort of hear Paste-Wasty.

Humans call people who do that Paste-Wasty thing Con Artists. Yeah kiddies, people do try to fool each other now don't they. So do some ghost toasty critters. (Yeah, bozos call that a life lesson instead of a crime. That's why we call 'em bozos.(We are?)P Unfortunately, psychics, whom haven't lived much or know that the universe is an impartial place sometimes call ghost toasties who do that kind a thing "their spirit guides". Not realizing that they've been had, cause ya know what happens when someone who doesn't have much self esteem begins to be either flattered or given "super duper secrety information" by a Con Artist, ghost or corporeal. If you have any life experience at all you know what happens next in that scenario.

Just remember a con artist will mix a blend of half truthes into the nonsense they want you to believe. And if yer brain works at all you'll already know that the ghost is looking for a slave. 'Cause they're ghosts and need gullible people to help them out in their madness.

So in an open letter to psychics everywhere who have so-called spirit guides who'll let the human think about the concept of course ... let me posit a hypothetical. To those whom have Paste-Wasty lunatics running their subconscious, well, good luck gettin' that freak outta yer life. Superstitious people call those ones evil spirits.

The hypothesis: We have a// been had. Seven Billion fools in other words.

Unfortunately (again) if that were true, how many so-called psychics would re-think their interactions with the unknown after learning the truth that they were fools working for con artists versus how many wouldn't care or stop helping Paste-Wasty because their overgrown egos wouldn't let them see just how foolish they were bei~g; giving their free will into indentured servitude. Why does the word "minions" want to jump in here? Social conditioning?

Which brings us to that slug in a petrie dish and 800 lb. gorillas. The short answer that actually doesn't fully explain all the in's and out's has to do with human mythic history that is out-of-wack with the universe we live in. But give it a chance.

Remember that bozo Alastar Crowley? He was what you'd call an 800 lb. gorilla; An ordinary insecure bozo like you or me, but one with a funny wiring in his brain that made him very psychic and susceptible to his own egos desires and delusions which whatever Paste-Wasty critter had Alastar in his pocket fed, and overfed into a reputation that could be used, a couple of different strange religions, & an ongoing philosophy that touches down anyplace you can find con men or people who can talk with ghosts.

It's sort of disconcerting when you consider that according to various studies these days when people are asked what they would "most like to be" the overwhelming answer is the single word 'famous'. Not that Alastar was responsible for that. Remember I mentioned "mythic" history which is a sum-totality kind of concept. Simply put, the more psychic 800 lb. gorillas that you have running around maintaining the agenda of different bored ghost toasty bozos the more their base level appeals to ego affect society in general. leading to everyone demanding fame from an impartial universe that might even grant it, but eventually another concept rears it's pointed little head. One I've heard repeated recently; The concept is in the word deevolution, and taken to it's illogical conclusion the slug in the petrie dish is the final destination for Crowley's kind. Oh, and I guess every other 800 lb. gorilla demanding fame from an impartial reality. One that plays no favourites.

1guess the question then is: Why would Paste-Wasty want humans to de-evolve into slugs in petrie dishes? Personally I think everyone's favourite super hero comedian "Captain Obvious" has the best answer. 'Paste-Wasty hates humans, so be careful that ghost toasty yer listenin' to isn't a con artist".

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HAPP'I MOTliER~ DA'I MA

and what not do to and I think we turned out pretty good

Next time l see you I'm going to give you a nice big hug make you a nice hot cup of tea, start supper early ..

Ma, we needed yo u grO\路Ving up.

We still do tho we don't say it, prolly never will you need us now .. A little bit of time a hug or two. a residential school survivor from the backin the day when you and your friends didn't speak english, It was deadlier ... no hugs for you or the others you stole food for

While we're waiting, we can sit and talk, like you like to do I'll let you know how your grandchildren are doing and your great-grandchildren ..

You wi II ask about our friends and our crazy experiences I'll try to remember all of those who keep telling me 'Oh I love your mom, tell her l said hello and we miss her ... " I've learned so much about you through them and their children, how you've helped & shared what you had.

While we're talking I'll take out of my bag of aromatherapy lotion and gently massage your hard working hands hands that worked so hard for us kids growing up ...

You were still so young.

Hands that hauled logs, rowed the canoe to gather bark & kindling hands that picked and picked at the farms for what little money was paid so we could have food Sorry for screaming & crying as they drove you and all the other workers away in the back of the big big truck .. !

Hard-working hands that knitted sweaters cut wood, made oven bread, frybread and the best food aro und. cut and canned fish, Crushed berries n sugar into coke bottles for us to eat with a switch Hands that gave us a spanking once in a while, in that back-in-the-day way, when we got out of hand and even though we ended up getting into trouble anyway as we grew up drugs or alcohol or other stupid stuff In the end you were right we would know what to do

So when I see you soon ma my arms are ready to hold you just to let you know that I love you Happy Mother's Day ma.

It's your day every day.

Kat Norris- Coast Salish Musings

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With a "we could die any day'' type attitude tell in' you one way or the other We will meet our Maker whether or not we like it much goddamn it's a good day any day I don't spit blood in the morning feels awesome for 'da ol' timer' Sun is shining I ain ' t in pain

skin ain' t gonna shine this way again so just sm ile no need to complain ain 't never gonna Shine this way again AI

ME AND GEORGE ORWELL..

One fine night I went for a walk in the park sunshine & basic human needs arc forbidden as l continue on in the dark an astonishingly older man out of place offers me room on the bench we unplug the stars & begin to talk the unspeak, in berween rejoice & dismay he speaks the truth & noth ing I offer my nothings leaving out the buts to my delight I am talking to Mr. Orwell right arm We begin with the little things this cool nig ht like pee li ng back the corner ofth Universe just to take a peek. as tough as nail polish & as sturdy as the driving rain & more with concepts for every con he could write a 2-page book & have them lined up like an army of fi ri ng sq uads all arou nd the biggest bookstore .. afterwards we' d go fo r a pint at the Tar & Feather Pub, The ra in fores ts are d ropping cats&dogs on top of o ur heads the Un iverse w rithes un intended prop hecies go & come but it should be in our hands not the 路Ink Police' k iller cops & their th uglites Saint Minus got me th is fa r He can dec ide the whole truth & nothing is w hat got me goi ng & I am in charge of his ever-growing fan club, like colourblind racists & A TMs on the Moon, we talk of ani mal farms & nuclear bombs & destroying the untruths yet keeping the real truth ' in tune' is so uncouth as identity theft is taught in Kindergarte ns where kids are put into boxes and told to shut up & obey We are g lobal leaches & make it q ui ck, me & mr Orwell are on the same page as we speak the unspeak & watch o thers like there's a garbage bag tied around the ir chest full of h uman waste what a g rimly conceived mess only made worse w hen they hear the ground beneath them tick, George te lls me all about the 5 continents that want to die & the 5 oceans that want to scream cuz soon they won't eve n be ab le to cry pipelines & dreams are this generation' s schemes the Whv Bother Solution Agency have booked Pussy R iot to play Vlad Putin's birthday by death sentence ' invitatio n only' some of us have not been waiting for such an event for years, we wonder what the chained g uests wil l be chanting about as his superheroes like Caligula & Atilla the Hun po1iraits will be raised to opinions' individual ity & pens we are left at the door with your greatcoats, purses, wallets, cars & housekeys & anyth ing else that once was yours, nobody li kes a quitter as smokes are lit the smoke is for hid-

ing your tears. like handing out awards for the Year's Best War.. George & I get up to stretch our legs he asks me if I've met the Affliction Finder my drunken soul propels me into a bathroom stall as I think of all the evil I've witnessed in my lifetimes worth of worthless reminders of oh-too-many wasted years, like falling comfo11ably onto the tracks of a train the Ink Police keep pounding on my door again & again the cost of dying has gone up so they let me live Me & George discuss whic h is worse living or dying in our fear, The days of dominance and freedom are to one day start up again meanwhile memories & other floor d roppings shall be released by the god in charge of rain, so many cultures would have killed us by now still democracy isn't great when the alternatives are death camps & starvation & so much human pain 2014 ain't a who le lot better than 1984 but it'll have to do, like bakeries for the rich 'n stale bread for the poor if this was the States I'd grab my guns and turn your insides out & all over the floor but I can't so words wi ll have to do the talking.. what's that George you have other miseries to attend you are alright my friend to the end of a new beginning maybe another walk in the park sometime soon ..

By RbBERT McGILLIVRAY 'To care is to admit interest; to care less is to admit defeat & distress have interest in you.'' Saint Minus

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You'll Never Take Me Alive, Copper A cop blasts me with his siren for walking across a street the other day. l was about a hundred feet from the lights and he was about the same distance from me, so his progress was not the least bit impeded by my jay walking, a dastardly crime of which I'm an enthusiastic perpetrator.

The cop slows to a stop and says. "Better watch ityou could get huti," and offers a shit-eating grin. The guy's baiting me. Cops in Vancouver are forever baiting citizens in the Downtown Eastside.

"Your use of the siren was both redundant & puerile," l tell him.

My attitude is both haughty & contemptuous and this pisses him off (I doubt it's actually the words "redundant" & "puerile" -their definitions, I assume are only vaguely grasped by this baiting bully). '路C' mere,'' he demands. "C'mere wiseguy."

"You'll have to catch me first, Chipperfield," I tell him, and I take off with the utmost alacrity through an all ey. As far as I know he did not give chase. Perhaps my calling him "Chipperfield" put him on his heels, so to speak.

Why did I call him Chippertield? Well, Constable Lee Chipperfield is a member of the Vancouver Police Department and in 2007 he shot and killed an animator named Paul Boyd on Granville Street. It's a shooting of such profound unrighteousness and appalling callousness that if one were to imagine the tragedy and portray it in a piece of fiction and have it end, after a bizarrely protracted investigation lasting over five years, with this police officer not being charged-or even losing a day's pay-few would find the tale credible.

Why? Because it's unbelievable that a cop can shoot a man eight times, methodically, with five other cops alongside him doing no shooting, some with their weapons still holstered, some telling Chipperfield to hold his fire, most of the shots tired on an unanned and crawling Paul Boyd, the last bullet going into Boyd's head downward from point blank range.

So, yeah, I ran like a jackrabbit when that cop asked me to come over to discuss my wanton disregard for the law.

And I will continue to flee every time a cop says 路'C'mere."

Because as Alfred Hitchcock knows- and he really said this-there's nothing scarier than a cop . (And who knows what's scary better than The Master of Suspense.) More and more the police are being granted enormous leeway in their dealings with the public & there is little that they cannot get away with, since the Establishment needs them as their protectors.

So I will always run when a cop beckons me. Let him shoot me in the back. Perhaps a back shooting might be too difficult for even the cops to justify. ln fact, come to think of it, what if everybody in the DTES-and greater Vancouver-when dealing with a police officer just turned & hightailed it right after blurting, "Don't shoot me, Chippertield!" Wouldn't that be a fine thing? Yes indeed, I'm recommending it!

And if, due to a physical problem, you're not up to running, just say, "Don't shoot me, Chipperfield!" and then walk away. You' ll be risking a beating, but if they see enough of this, it'll give them pause & they'll know two years after their "investigation" ended that people remember and are still pissed.

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