Special article to the Downtown East online edition, March 23, 2013
Daniel Boffo is a young developer born into a family real estate development company far from poverty and the streets.
That’s why, at last month’s public information meeting about the condo project he wants to build on…
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Monthly Archives
March 2013
Responding to media attacks
Pidgin’s owner said he wanted to start a conversation - he got more than he bargained for! Low-income people are…
Why Picket the Pidgin Restaurant?
Determined picketers have been opposing the very pricey gentrifying Pidgin Restaurant since it opened in early…
We need homes
The City and Province are trying to create the impression that lots of housing for low-income people is being built…
Evicted and replaced with condos and Pidgin Restaurant: A speech by Ada Dennis
Many of you know Ada Dennis: Carnegie kitchen volunteer of 5 years, winner of the City of Vancouver's Volunteer…
How do we know that gentrification is pushing up hotel rents?
How do we know that gentrification is pushing up hotel rents? In 2005, before Woodward’s was developed into 536…
Pigeon – a recent peoples’ history of a peoples’ park
The view of Pigeon Park that gets shown on the media is an outsider's: gawking from the window of a commuter's car…
Sid Tan’s letter to the Editor of The Province about Pidgin Picket
This letter was written to the editors of The Province newspaper but not published. We are publishing it here as a…
Questions and answers about the Pidgin Picket
Question: Why are you protecting drug users/ misery?
Answer: Drug users are human beings with dignity. …
Displaced & then replaced
We, the displaced, and about to be displaced, are wondering what happened to some of our neighbours.
We feel…