aggregated from: SFU City

The first in a series of SFU City profiles, featuring instructors, lecturers and panelists in our certificate programs. Toby Barazzuol, owner of Eclipse Awards, makers of crystal recognition awards, is a young entrepreneur who tries to integrate g...

topics: downtown, downtown-east-side, sustainability

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Vancouver author Cathleen With launches her first novel, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison, at Rhizome Cafe on Thursday May 21st at 7:30pm.With is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at UBC and has previously published a book of s...

topics: arts, author, cafe, downtown, downtown-east-side

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Ray Spaxman reports back from the Downtown East Side:I have been involved with the Downtown Eastside for over 35 years. I was Director of City Planning between 1973 and 1989 and the Spaxman Consulting Group produced the Gastown Heritage Managemen...

topics: crime, downtown, downtown-east-side, downtown-eastside, gastown

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Imagine the corner of Carrall and Hastings in the 1920s. At the B.C. Electric Railway headquarters (foreground on right), interurban trains were arriving from places as far away as Chilliwack and Steveston (they angled through the building behind ...

topics: business, cope, councillor, downtown, downtown-east-side

aggregated from: Carrall Street Journal

At the opening of the Pennsylvania Hotel this morning, I took some quick videos of the event:Portland Hotel Society opened the Pennsylvania Hotel today with a pancake breakfast, gospel choir, speeches and official sign-lighting. Spot the local activi...

topics: downtown, downtown-eastside

aggregated from: Stylefinds

During the months leading up to Christmas there's always a lot of shopping and buying going on; and most of us spend a lot of money on presents for our loved ones. Now - I like shopping as much (or more) than most people. In fact I am a bit of an a...

topics: downtown, downtown-east-side

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

Harsha Walia is a well-known community activist with No One is Illegal. She was listed in the Vancouver Sun's March 27th list of 100 South Asians who are making a difference in BC.Harsha was one of the first people I recognized walking to the Vanco...

topics: activist, downtown, downtown-east-side, political

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Harsha Walia is a well-known community activist with No One is Illegal.She was one of the first people I recognized walking to the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre last Monday. She is a member of the BCGEU, as she works in a women's shelter on...

topics: activist, downtown, downtown-east-side, political

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Metro Vancouver at the Pan Pacific Hotel Tuesday 7 October 2008I had hoped to live blog this event, but the extortionate rate charged by the hotel for wifi connections deterred me (it would have cost even nore than I paid for parking!). The whole...

topics: climate-change, downtown, downtown-east-side, economy, elected

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So much happening, it's hard to keep up. Here are a few samples.The curtain has been drawn to reveal the upgraded Portland Hotel:And just down Hastings Street, another new non-market housing development in the final stages:Robert Fung's Salient Gro...

topics: condo, downtown, downtown-east-side, gastown, housing