May 1, 2018 carnegie newsletter

MAY 1,2018

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Vancouver Moving Theatre, in association with Vancouver A.boriginal Friendship Centre and EartHand Gleaners, and developed with the assistance of PTC (Playwrights Theatre Centre). invites you to witness

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Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Chief Simon Baker Room 1607 East Hastings, Vancouver

May 17-19 & 24-26,2018 .•

Thursdays - Fridays 7:30/ Saturdays 2pm

Doors open 7pm and 1:30pm for pre-show activity with EartHand Gleaners plus others

Tickets at the door / Sliding Scale $2 - $25 / Limited Seat More information - www.weaving-reconciliation-our-way.ca

**** NATIONAL TOUR voncouver/Penticton/T. oronto/Winnipeg, May 17 - June 16, 2018 funding for this production and tour has been made possible 'with the support of Canada Council New Chapter & Arts Across Canada Programs, BC Theatre & Touring Programs. City of Vancouve r Cultural Servic es, BCGaming Multi-cuhuraiism. Vancouver Foundation, Hamber foundation and individual donors.

Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way is a story about Old One and his dream-like journey to encounter languages, have lived

reconcile with his past, his family and his community. It is also a unique cultural that weaves Indigenous storytelling, songs, cultural teachings, traditional and the ancient stick game of Slahal into an original play giving voice to those who within canada's long shadow of colonialism.

STEPHENlYlTON, an actor with Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way, is a long-time DTES resident, actor, writer, community activist and residential school survivor from the Nlaka'pamux First Nation, lytton BC. Stephen has also been honoured with the Governor General's Caring Canadian Award.

Photo: Davld Cooper

"One of the best things I've ever done is getting involved in community, getting involved in theatre. I think sharing Weaving Reconciliation: our Way will help people shed the tears, but also help ease the pain of letting go. And letting go is a must. If we are to survive as a people we must begin to look at where we are at as an indigenous people in order for us to begin to lead our nation forward.

The sad thing is our youth are dying faster than those that have been institutionalized, either through residential school, foster care, reform or the penal system.

We have to wake up and begin to look at where we're at so we can begin to be role models for those that follow in our footsteps. We have to give them some hope. This is the best way of sharing reconciliation, through the beauty of theatre."

Stephen Lytton For the full 14 minute audio interview

visit: www.weaving-reconciliation¡our-way.ca/news!

Rwandan Millennials Remember the Tutsi Genocide, 24 Years Later

By Lama Mugabo Read Lama Mugabo's cide, Liberation,

reminiscences

Decolonization,

of the Rwandan geno-

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Saturday, April 14,2018 - on a sunny afternoon, the Rwandan community of Metro Vancouver commemorated the 24th year since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis. At a memorial rally and commemoration, young Rwandans exercised the organic forms of resistance to trauma that they developed in the immediate aftermath of the genocide. This memorial showed that the lessons and healing from the genocide continue here in western Canada, amongst the informal family of the Rwandan diaspora.

The commemoration started with a march around the Douglas College campus in New W~stn:in~ter, which was followed by participants gathenng inside a c1ass- . room. The event started with a member of the community who prayed for the event and a documentary film about Rwanda's fall into the abyss in 1994. A local musician, Ezra Kwizera, played music of remembrance.

Speakers focused not only of the tragic past, but spoke about Rwanda today, describing how the country has risen from the catastrophe 24 years ago. The event was closed with a candle light ceremony where survivors remembered their loved ones, as the audience listened in solidarity.

It was a moving moment. . ..

While the five major powers on the Secunty Cou~cIl refused to intervene and stop the slaughter, people III communities around the world who learned about the

story of this preventable genocide have never wavered in their solidarity with the people ofRwanda.

This solidarity was still present at this 24th memorial event, and we are grateful for their support.

What was significant about this 24th anniversary is the fact that young Rwandans are leading the work their seniors started a couple decades ago. They emphasize three things: remember, educate, and co~tinue telling the story to preserve the memory of this tragedy and prevent it from raising its ugly head again.

The years following the genocide were a t:st for Rwandans' resilience. Students who were IIIboarding schools faced a dilemma when it was time to go . home either at Easter or Christmas breaks. With no families to return to, students asked the schools if they could stay on campus. They formed a national association called Genocide Survivors Students Association (GSSA). Across the country, students from secondary and post-secondary institutions formed their own families by designating members to play the role of brother, sister, mother and father. It worked. They offered each other support during difficult times and organized parties to have fun and celebrate by reducing the isolation that often triggered post-traumatic stress disorder. . .

This organic resistance against trauma and isolation helped them immensely. Most of those students have gone on to complete their education and are .have. now formed their own families and secured Jobs III a variety of sectors.

Mukunde G. Mukurarinda is one of the students' members of GSSA. He lives in Edmonton and has written his memoir and hopes to launch the book next month.

"It was not easy to write it but once I began writing, I knew that this story had to be told. I would encourage everyone among us to tell thejr story. It doesn't have to be in the form of a book, It can be a play, a song or even a painting." .

Mukunde is right. Shortly after the 1994 genocide, several books were written about Rwanda. Gradually, Rwandans have begun to gain the confidence to tell their stories. It's refreshing to watch Rwanda's cultural renaissance unfold and the role Rwandan millennials are playing driving this new change towards a new Rwanda.

Women¡s Organization Hopeful with Legal Aid Increases to Family Law Services

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Vancouver, BC-Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS) is cautiously hopeful with Legal Services Society (LSS) announcement of increases to availability of family law services.

On Friday, April 20th 2018 LSS announced that through new funding from the provincial government they have reinstated family law coverage that was eliminated over a year ago. The funding will go to providing Family Exception Reviews, Discretionary Financial Eligibility, and very much needed Extended Family Services.

"Providing quality legal representation to women survivors of violence is essential not only to the disposition of their legal matter but also impacts their safety", says BWSS Executive Director Angela Marie MacDougall, "A woman who has been subjected to intimate partner violence also requires legal representation to address the challenges that exist due to power imbalances".

Under the Exception Review process, LSS will review the application of a financially eligible person whose legal problem does not meet their family coverage guidelines. For women survivors of violence often dealing with multiple areas of the law intersect with child support and financial matters.

Discretionary Financial Eligibility is important because income cut-offs are not realistic when it comes to the cost ofliving for women in BC. Discretionary financial coverage means LSS will review a woman's application further to determine if she is eligible for legal aid if they are slightly over financial eligibility guidelines.

Many abusive partners will use litigation as a form of ongoing control and harassment. The family court litigation process can become a tool for abusive partners to continue their abusive behaviour & can use up all the designated legal aid hours available to survivors. At which time the abusive partner has more power and '< control to affect outcomes in Family Court especially ifhe has greater financial means.

Extended Family Services means that lawyers of working women who need more time will again be able to apply for extensions. This matters to women who have built trust with their lawyer preventing re~ victimization by not asking her to continuously disclose violence she experienced. This also means her lawyer is familiar with all the ways in which her case intersects with the law.

"While this is a positive step in the right direction and will hopefully increase women's access to justice, these are not new or additional services but rather reinstating previous policies", says Harshada Deshpande Manager of Legal Services and Advocacy program at BWSS "Additionally, not atl women have the support to request a review on any of the above mentioned processes and support services like the Legal Services and Advocacy Program (LSAP) at BWSS continue to fill in the gaps supporting women survivors of violence".

BWSS supports women in applying for reviews; support women who run out legal aid of hours; in collaboration with paralegal workshops and legal interns BWSS provides women with support drafting documents, affidavits, divorce applications, child-supportlspousal support applications and financial statements.

Organizations like BWSS support women to use their lawyers more effectively and efficiently by doing the work to help maximize their legal aid hours, like filling out paperwork in advance of their meeting with a lawyer.

In 2002, the province [under Gordon Campbell's Liberals] slashed 40% from the funding for the Legal Services Society. Over 80% of women accessing our services identify at least one legal issue where they require information. The funding cuts and policy changes had a strong negative impact on women survivors of violence. For decades BWSS has provided legal support to women who have experienced violence in intimate relationships, helping women navigate the Canadian legal system. BWSS Legal Services and Advocacy Program provides a matrix of legal services for women experiencing violence and interfacing with the law: Legal Advocacy Workshops; BWSS Women's Family Law Clinic; BWSS and Amici Curiae Affidavit Clinic. *Upcoming* MCFD Advocacy Clinics include: Legal Internship Program; When Battered Women are Arrested; Gender Persecution, Immigration Law and Deportation; Violence against Indigenous Women & the Indian Act. Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director, Battered Women's Support Services 'Tel. (604) 808 0507 E-mail: director@bwss.org

TEA at CARNEGIE

I need a" drink, so I can think.

What will I do?

Put on my shoe and scoot on down to Chinatown, and have a tea at Carnegie.

To learn the books and see what cooks and get the-looks when Ihave my ... tea at Carnegie.

And eat good food served in joyous mood, a fine repast that will last when I have my tea at Carnegie.

See volunteers who give their years so that the rest will have the best" while I have my tea at Carnegie.

My day is done.

I've had great fun.

I'll take my leave with a toast to a good hearted crew: I drink my tea to Carnegie.

BB Polecat

"Street Cries" At first it seems harmless, with nothing to fear.

"I can leave anytime, I don't have to stay here."

Then it calls you, it whispers your name.

It wants you to stay, and play its cold game.

It laughs when it gets you to stay by its side.

You might try to run, but there's nowhere to hide.

For the street doesn't want you to leave it alone.

It sucks you in hard when you try to go home.

It sucks you right in, makes you play its own game.

You hear the street laughing. it's feeling your pain.

Feeling-so lonely, your cries and your weeps.

You want it to stop but the street never sleeps.

Wondering when it will end, does it die?

You wish for release, you want to survive.

A small town girl playing a rebel.

Who says Ideserve, now, to play with the Devil?

My words echo loudly, down the alleys they flow.

Ineed them to help me, oh street, Let me go ...

Lesley (;rainger (submitted from BCCW)

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from the Library I'm going to be cautiously optimistic and say that spring is finally springing. By the time you read this, I predict we will all be wearing our shorts and sandals.

Rl:CONCILIATION ART INSTAllATION IN ENTRY ALCOVl:

You mayor may not have noticed the colorful addition to the main entrance way. If you haven't, This means it's also gardening season. Time to get your please check it out. It has already become a topic crops in the ground. Did you know we have a seed lifor discussion around the Centre. I wanted to probrary? We do! And not only that, but we're featuring it in vide a bit of context to what this art installation is a display this month, at the back ofthe branch, near the all about.

Fiction section. Come on in and grab a few seeds to Last year, Canada commemorated 150 years of plant, as well as some books to help you grow, and evenconfederation. In Vancouver, the city decided to tually eat them. modify the Canada 150 title used by the federal Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet (635.9671 government to mark the sesquicentennial year by G88j) will give any aspiring gardener with limited space adding a plus sign, as in "Canada 150+." This was all the help they need to grow a feast on their balcony/ done to also recognize that Vancouver is a city of windowsill/community plot, etc. reconciliation and to honor the fact that we know Get Started Growing Vegetables (635 A31g) will get you that people lived here for millennia, long before confederation. started growing vegetables. You've got to love a book title that writes its own annotation.

As part of Canada 150+, the City was providing some grant monies to agencies, including city facilHemsley + Hemsley: Good + Simple (641.563 H49g). ities, to further their own reconciliation work withHemsley & Hemsley are two sisters (?? I'm guessing) in community. To that end, we applied for and who like to make good, healthy, simple food. The picwere successful in receiving some funding. A small tures look tasty, so I'm assuming the recipes are too. portion of that grant was used to do a temporary art Eat! The Quick Look Cookbook (641.5 S42e) is a most- installation on the theme of what reconcil ialy visual cookbook. It shows you how to make everything tion means to individuals & community. This profrom Beef Bourguignon to Donuts using only simple vis- cess was led by Indigenous community artists ual diagrams. through a community engagement process over the past several months at the Centre, the park and durHappy Reading Eating! ing the HomeGround festival. What you see in the Randy, your librarian. entry way alcove, is our DTES community mem----------------------+bers' contribution both in words and art pieces. This art installation is not yet completed. The Submission by Velma Demerson art is not permanent and will be a temporary installation only, with the location perhaps becoming a nd On April 22 Mayor Robertson and Council offered an place where we install temporary art shows. apology to the Chinese for racial discrimination against the Chinese community, He also apologised to the ChiSharon Belli, Director nese for denial of citizenship until 1947.

However, he failed to apologise to the Canadian women who lost their Canadian citizenship due to marriage to a Chinese man prior to 1947. China did not give them citizenship and they became stateless. This continued until 1998 when the Canadian Citizenship Act was repealed and citizenship was returned.

I request that Mayor Robertson offer an apology to the wives of the Chinese who married before 1947.

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a certain personality to be a politician, to live life as an extended popularity contest, in a permanent spotlight that becomes an addiction so powerful the politician will do almost anything to remain so intensely, brilliantly lit.LD Taylor was such a politician.

Born in 1857 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, his infatuation with the newspaper industry started early; young Louis had a paper route as a kid. He trained as an accountant, and his ambition led him to Chicago and a founding partnership in the North and Taylor Bank. So far so good, but in 1896 he left town in a hurry - abandoning his wife and child - one step ahead of arrest on charges of breach of trust, fraud and embezzlement; he landed in Vancouver that same year. Unable to find work locally he signed on with the CPR out of Revelstoke, worked a few odd jobs, and abruptly dropped everything to head north when the Klondike Gold Rush exploded in 1897.

Prospecting proved too much like work for his grifter sensibilities and he soon returned to Vancouver; later he would downplay his ignominious return as "a yearning for a normal life & steady employment."

LD Taylor: Grifter, dead-beat dad, embezzler, Mayor

By Debra McNaught

Louis Denison "LD" Taylor spent 11 years as mayor of Vancouver, elected 7 (8? 9?) times between 1910 and 1934. He was a popular mayor, known for his red tie and ever-present cigar, the kind of politician people crossed to road to shake hands with. He supported the 8-hour workday, universal suffrage for women, and was considered "a man of the people," friend oflabourers, longshoremen, cannery workers & loggers. He pushed for the first airport on Sea Island, for amalgamating South Vancouver and Point Grey with the City of Vancouver, established the Water Board, and advocated for regional co-operation and city planning.

All this doesn't sound terribly scandalous, but politicians are animals of an entirely different stripe. It takes

He found work as circulation manager for the Vancouver Daily Province and discovered an ability to schrnooze with advertisers and business owners, fostering a network that would later prove invaluable. When in 1901¡it was announced the Duke of Connaught (the future King George V) would visit Vancouver - the first ever visit by Royalty - he was appointed chair of the Decorating Committee, successfully coordinating the efforts of all 15 committees to temporarily beautify the city streets. Buoyed by this popular success, in 1902 he ran for one of two Licen-cing Commissioner positions, a job that further advanced his public profile. His political ambitions solidified: the following year he suggested one way to keep a lid on rampant liquor consumption would be to issue only one liquor licence for the entire city. This resulted in earning him the nickname "Carrie Nation," after the infamous US prohibitionist, and he was attacked in the press for being "too extreme," an accusation that would later prove highly ironic. Meanwhile, his relationship with the Province on the wane, he had begun publishing the BC Mining Record, the Oil and Mining Record, and the Critic, a paper devoted to local issues. By 1905 he had purchased the Vancouver World newspaper and used it to blatantly promote his political aspirations; by 1912 he had mysteriously acquired enough

town policy" on the proliferation of vice and crime in Vancouver. LDs tide had begun to turn; it was public knowledge he was living with Alice Miller Berry, a woman struggling with an opium addiction, and after they married he became mired in bigamy and divorce scandals. When he lost the election in '28 he claimed a power interruption had prevented As a strategic port city, Vancouver has always had a his supporters from getting to the polls. During his murky underbelly. Gambling, prostitution, drinking final term in the darkest years ofthe Depression he establishments and heroin (opium) have always been present, and LD's suddenly reversed and famously re- lost the support of the unemployed men he had laxed attitude ("We ain't no Sunday School town") led championed in better times by cutting them off relief to policies that viewed vice as an activity better regulat- if they did not sign up for the provincial work camps. ed than abolished; he instructed the VPD to With his political life in its death throes, it's been "concentrate on major crime" instead of vice because" suggested Taylor only kept attempting a comeback certain number ofbootieggers, brothels, and gambling because he needed an income, and he did live in joints were to be expected." Although commendable in meagre circumstances towards the end. As his releits refusal to legislate morality, there were darker reavance dissipated so did the heat of that public spotsons for his hands-off approach: organized crime, cor- light, leaving him a man without a purpose. rupt business figures, the VPD and the Mayor's office LD Taylor died in 1946, age 88. itself were openly profiting by their involvement in vice. Taylor's terms in office were staggered over sevSources include: The West Ender, Eve Lazarus in Vancouver eral years (1910-11, 1915, 1925-28, 1931-34) and he was not serving as mayor when prohibition arrived in Confidential, and LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of 1917, but as the West Ender reported, "Over the next Vancouver by Daniel Francis. several years, prominent figures like corrupt [former] mayor L.D. Taylor, mobster Joe Celona and crooked prohibition commissioner Waiter Findlay reaped the benefits of the illegal liquor trade." Prohibition was voted out by 1920, but in its brief rein, "scandal and .... dirty laundry" ran rampant. capital to commission the beautiful building at Pender and Beatty we now know as the Sun Tower. But LD's ambitions were loftier than press baron: in 1910 he made his first successful bid as mayor.

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Re-elected in 1925 it was business as usual but by 1928, with corruption at the heart of his city an open scandal, Taylor's soft-on-vice position resulted in an inquiry into the shenanigans at City Hall. The Lennie Commission heard from the police commissioner, numerous VPD detectives and officers, as well as LD him self. Testimony revealed that several gambling and opium dens in Chinatown were left off the list of regular raids "because they were operated by a Chinese businessman who had helped the mayor get elected," and constables were ordered not to close down certain liquor establishments and brothels because the mayor specifically wanted them left alone. And although anyone who read a newspaper knew Joe Celona was a notoriou bootlegger and brothel-keeper Taylor claimed, despite famously partying with him in his Point Grey mansion, he knew nothing of these activities.

Although the Lennie Commission cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing, the inquiry blamed his "open

THE CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION BOARD ELECTION WILL BE HELD IN THE CARNEGIE THEATRE ON THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2018 @5:30PM Nominations for the Board will be made on Thursday, May 3, 2018 in the Carnegie Theatre @ 5:30 PM To nominate someone at this meeting you must have a membership card dated no later. than APRIL 3, 2018

To be a candidate for the Carnegie Board a person must: Have a membership card dated no later than April 3, 2018 Be over 16 Live or work (paid or unpaid) in the Downtown Eastside area Be an active member of the Carnegie Community Centre Have contributed 30 hours of volunteer work to the Carnegie Community Centre or the Association during the year prior to the election

To vote at the AGM on June 7, 2018 â&#x20AC;˘ Your membership card should have a date no later than MAY 8,2018

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The Carnegie Community Centre Association will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 7th, 2018 @ 5 :30 in the Theatre @ 401 Main Street. The election for members of the Board will be held at this meeting. To run for the Board, you must have a membership card dated no later than April 3rd, 2018 and have contributed 30 hours of volunteer work to the Centre in the previous year and you must be present at the meeting. To vote at this meeting you must have purchased a membership card on or before MaÂĽ 8th, 2018. Registration will take place between 5:00 and 5:30 pm.

Let's Speak Up! Board Governance Workshop

Childcare and transportation subsidies are available for the Workshop Series. Dinner will be included each Workshop Series that will run on Wednesdays May 9, night. Commitment and active participation is re16,23, and 30 from 4:30 - 8:00 pm at the Neighbourhood House. Applications are due May 3 & include a quired. Bursaries will be awarded to those that combrief interview. Contact matt@dtesnhouse.ca to apply plete all 4 workshops. Seats are limited to 12. Maximum 2 people per organization.

Key concepts for the series include: 10 Responsibilities Leadership

for Nonprofit

Boards

vs Management

Value of diversity, inclusion & democracy Identifying

passion

Matt Campbell Leadership Development Coordinator - Let's S8eak Up! - DTES Neighbourhood House 6042152 30 573 East Hastings Street, Vancouver,

BC

The War Where nobody Came

round of drunks?

Like Yankee-doodle-dandy cops shooting an unarmed 22 year-old black man eight times six in the back that eighth shot in his thigh hit an artery but getting their story together was much more important than trying to save his life just another day in the United Prisons of America .. Enough is fucking enough.

Being closer to the ending than the beginning so many see life as a form of war like "Have Harvested Organs Will Travel" how very hardcore all that is made to destroy can truly in a future near you be sunk

Like bragging about being shot but very quiet every time they are caught like getting a loan at a food bank times have eclipsed being evil&rough, like being beaten with flowers&balloons (have all those non-broken bones healed) for a pathetic gang-banger your gangmates are coming down hard now this is for real you are like inflation hated by anyone with a conscience or a breath of life still in them Go to Hell oh yeah you live there

Like milestones becoming tombstones those damned Second Amendment blues way to many one trainwreck minds this of course is not breaking news will people never get tired of making others dead or worse

Like being in charge of the Property Room Evidence in any police station is like putting kids in charge of a candy store the conflict could come any time lives change&jobs are shredded or rearranged instead of War (organized death) this costume party called life is so sad but this is a sadness that is not all mine to live & see a war that is shunned so intensely that nobody shows up no guns no bombs the bottom of my humaniIfpoliticians god&the devil would be willing to take tarianistic heart truly tries to avoid opportunistic times lie detector tests do not see that happening so many whimper&scream at the bottom of the day they will to break that news with a sledgehammer I am no longer anything confess things like Harvested Organs R'Us - blessed but almost everything beats any kind of mankind that is to say I do not feel cursed. so many monsters the worst kind are the ones who don't care, like a disguise in a blessing evil dances

By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y with what we call the truth what a useless word that "To live is to suffer. To survive is to find some meanhas become it reminds me of the crimefighter called ing in the suffering." -Friedrich Nietzsche The Shadow who's now afraid of his own that makes my heart numb this voice has heard the audio portion of Jesus Christ I've never been one to follow a flock of soon-to-be-dead sheep, milestones become tombNewsletter Readers stones great writers (not me) seem to die young well so does the common man who is usually a musician eveSince mid-February the Newsletter has been done ryone hs a place to come from look at Noah - a serious with Desktop Publishing software. This is new! You job put in his hands he shall earn his bounty yet weep may notice glitches here & there as the Printer & the editor learn to provide what the other expects. The upLife is nothing but a costume party so people can hide side down pages last time are a case in point. their deceit shame t:Qatthis city I once loved becomes for millionaires only some go to find god He is busy What's become apparent is that there was quiet help putting His extremities into the Hollywood Walk of given at Budget Printing over the 3 decades the paper Fame selective pride makes me so fucking ill, like does was printed there. Every Printer contacted wants much the pope & his own flock believe in crossfire creamore money for doing the same essential jobs, so there tion&disposal seem to build upon nothing other than a was likely a 'friends & family' rate at Budget. mass funeral pyre me&the Invisible Man argue about Thi bri th . th th t34. hi icture id if . I' b¡ b k IS nngs e pom ome-over e nex - Issues everyt mg except picture I enti ication ve m rea - th ¡11b 11f d ti t hId f . ti ing news with a hammer the rest of said day I sit at my ere WI e a ea ?r ona IOns 0 ~ p . e ray p~m mg . dOWSI, ¡11lik costs an have the twice-monthly publication contmue. very own wm lege ttimg a cas h Ioan from your local food bank I'm sure your local nerve agent If anyone enjoying the Carnegie Newsletter has any would know better places to shop or kill many have amount of money just burning a hole in their pocket, people jumping over each other to die or glow - is it yearning to be spent on something that makes a differimmunity from reality or is it like buying the first ence, please make a donation to the Carnegie Community Centre Association, memo Carnegie Newsletter!

What else is going on...

Dear Carnegie, I have so much to share with you today.

First: The federal and Alberta governments are leading a full-court press to secure the Kinder Morgan pipeline, and offering up billions in public money in support of the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project. Their key claim is that the project is in the national economic interest. But as Marc Lee's recent analysis shows, the economic benefits from increased oil sands production would largely be accrued to Alberta, while BC would shoulder most of the risk of potential spills on land or at sea. And that's not to mention damages from climate change that would impact Canada and the world (the TMX would facilitate the release of an additional 84 million tonnes of C02 per year)

years, been debunking economic arguments for the TMX and casting a critical eye on the reasons for its approval, I could keep writing about this for quite a while. But instead of making this email into a War and Peace-length volume, I'll instead direct you to a new page we've set up to house all our research and com-

mentary on Kinder Morgan.

Moving on to other news, I'd like to share with you a new report about. .. well. .. movement. A new report by Marc Lee looks at how fair mobility pricing might address Metro Vancouver's transportation challenges.

Mobility pricing is based on the principle that drivers must pay for what they use, taking away the illusion of "free roads." Marc's report argues that mobility pricing could go a long way to relieving congestion and funding better public transportation-but that fairness needs to be a part of any mobility pricing scheme.

Next, I'd like to share a piece I co-authored

with health policy researcher Colleen Fuller, which lauded a move by the BC government to prevent unlawful extra charges for medical services. While we've been pleased with the BC government's recent health policy announcements, we were less impressed with their response to the latest report of the Fair Wages Commission. Our recent press release expressing disappointment that farm workers will remain excluded from the basic minimum wage, despite the BC government's commitment to phase out minimum wage exemptions and lower rates for some other workers.

In addition to the lopsided distribution of costs and benefits, pipeline proponents have conveniently ignored the significant Indigenous opposition to the TMX (in the form not only of massive protests, but also of court challenges that may well succeed), and the project's dubio s economics=choosing instead to frame the BC government as the pipeline expansion's key opponent.

Trudeau and NotJey's narrative is a dream come true for Kinder Morgan-and in more ways than one. Not only is the company positioning itself to transfer investor risk to the Canadian public should the pipeline go ahead; it is also gaining fodder to make the case before a NAFT A tribunal that BC is unfairly harassing the project and sue Canada for damages if the TMX is cancelled.

That's all from me for now. But there's much more to come, so stay tuned. All the best, Seth Klein, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

[The CCPA has some ofthe best analyses & research on economic & social justice in the world. ccpabc.ca]

Jenny Kwan MP Vancouver Immigration,

East NDP Refugee

and Citizenship Critic 2572 E Hastings St Vancouver,

BC V5K IZ3

T: 604-775-5800 F: 604-775-5811 Jenny.Kwan@parl.gc.ca

Given that the CCPA-BC

and others have, for many

Metro Vancouver Alliance - ORGANIZING FOR THE COMMON GOOD

Fares Fair Transit Assembly May 12 -1-3pm, First Lutheran Church, 5745 Wales Street From Joyce Station, take thee 41 UBC bus 6 stops to Wales Street.

Busfares: MVA is going into action to make life more affordable in our community. Please RSVP and make sure your members are signed up to represent your organization as we stand together for the common good.

Minister Shane Simpson and TransLink will be attending to respond to our proposals to address transit affordability - specifically for children, youth and low-income fares. This is our opportunity to follow-up on our work on the TransLink Fare Review and work towards affordable transit for all.

Members of Camegie who are impacted by transit costs are invited to the event. The Association is registering each person from the community organization as soon as possible. Extra bus passes are available, so we need to let MYA know as son as possible how many are needed. Bring your kids

An Afternoon Concert with Patsy Klein, Tony Wilson & Friends They will be performing original compositions by Wilson and Klein as well as a wide range of covers, by artists such as Aimee Mann, Buffy Sainte Marie & P.l. Harvey to name a few.

Saturday, May 5, 2-3 PM Carnegie Centre Theatre

To: First Nations brothers/sisters

eastside,

We the American Indian Movement AIM are here in BC Vancouver to represent our people to the fullest against government all levels, VPD whom don't care about our people a VPD that thinks it is all good in the hood and with First Nations, that is wrong. They are part of the problem that needs to be dealt with, a First Nations Policing Director that thinks it's okay to have his peoples' rights being violated -he 'won't lose sleep over it'. We are opposed to Friendship Centre policy that has Aboriginal Day at Trout Lake an event for all Nations that is wrong. We are opposed to social housing how it is as it is now. We are opposed to VPD violating people's rights eastside, being bullies, VPD doesn't serve & protect eastside or First Nations as other communities and races.

We are a urban Warrior Society we will represent the best interest of our people. We help feed people with pot shops, one on June 26, 2018 Oppenheimer Park.

We stand with Standing Rock, we stand with First Nations against any oil going through sovereign First Nation Territories. We are not Canadians we are first nation citizens we were never conquered, and we neve surrendered, that means we are sovereign nations, Nation to Nation. We are in the hood you'll see our jacketslhoodies. We are AIM not just supporters, we are political arm and para-military of AIM! Free the People

Free Leonard Peltier

In the spirit of Crazy Horse, in total resistance: Larry Carlston, Jacob Telek AIM Council BC Facebook: Red Power Entertainment American Indian Movement Security

Modular Housing - an update The photos are of 1) a 'completed' 39 units of temporary housing at Franklin & Glen and 'under construction' of another 39 units on the northeast corner of Powell & Jackson. It's being touted as answering the homelessness and affordability crisis in Vancouver. If you believe that maybe you should get a little more information.

At last count (about a year ago) there were 2138 people found & counted - this means the actual number is certainly higher - so take it at face value. This means that with 39 units resulting from at least three years between idea & completion, it will take thirty years to house those who are homeless today. Those who get one ofthese completed units think it's great: Finally!

But before you think the problem is solved, read information at places like Carnegie Action Project or Raise the Rates websites and see what is actually being done as a sharp contrast to what could or should be being done. ' Our Homes Can't Wait is more than a slogan. The sleazy practice of purchasing housing only to flip it as soon as the market (or cosmetic changes) increases its value is driving the affordability crisis. Speculation is seen as a sacred tenet of capitalism, but this only allows greed to trump responsibility.

The housing crisis is real to anyone looking and real steps to alleviating it require political will. Bailing out in the middle of a storm is a selfish act. Telling yourself that what's being done is sufficient is just wrongheaded & anemic.

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