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Tea & Two Slices: On Viewing The Wildlife Of The DTES And Asking The Hard Questions

by Sean Orr | Slow driving zone to be introduced to Hasting Street on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. That way it can be like a Yosemite kind of thing where you drive through the wildlife, gawking and taking pictures. You could even have special viewing cars made with bullet-proof plexiglass bubbles and shit! “Ma! Look at that one!”

The Province gets down to brass tacks and asks some hard questions, such as: Do you like Katy Perry’s blonde hair?

In the Courier, Anton still blames Robertson for the riot while Mark Hasiuk spies on the mayor, or at least pretends to. We’re supposed to imagine the mayor in a green feather boa parading in front of a mirror? I’m sorry, but this is homophobic hack journalism, full of innuendo and sophomoric indifference.  Plus it’s not even very good satire.

The mainstream media finally catches wind of the Rocky Mountaineer strike: Rocky Mountaineer urged not to use replacement workers during lockout. Urged? What did they do, send a strongly worded email to the guy?

First of 14 supportive housing projects finally opens in Vancouver. Wow, the government actually built something that isn’t completely hideous!

Bula: The landmarks may be slightly different, but the conversation is the same. Legendary Noodles is gone?

Bonus: Todd Maffin finds Vancouver’s worst website.

There are 6 comments

  1. The slow down is for those with mental illness & addiction not to mention the elderly & children who live there. The walk signs with the addition of the numbered countdown to the crosswalks has been helpful. A slow down through out the city might encourage people to get out of their cars & take transit~ only a positive seen here

  2. Regarding the slow down zones:
    Doesn’t this again open the discussion that we are treating the people of the DTES like babies?
    Any thoughts?

  3. I think it’s just that we’ve resigned all responsibility of the chronically addicted, the mentally ill, and the marginalised so that now we are just focused on them not dying.

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