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Why Picket the Pidgin Restaurant?

Wendy Pedersen & Homeless Dave Mar 8, 2013

Determined picketers have been opposing the very pricey gentrifying Pidgin Restaurant since it opened in early February. Pidgin is located on Carrall Street right across from Pigeon Park which for many years has been an important public space for DTES residents. We have been on the picket line…

We need homes

Jean Swanson Mar 8, 2013

The City and Province are trying to create the impression that lots of housing for low-income people is being built…

How do we know that gentrification is pushing up hotel rents?

Jean Swanson Mar 8, 2013

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

Ivan Drury Mar 8, 2013

The view of Pigeon Park that gets shown on the media is an outsider's: gawking from the window of a commuter's car…

Questions and answers about the Pidgin Picket

Jean Swanson Mar 8, 2013

Question: Why are you protecting drug users/ misery? Answer: Drug users are human beings with dignity. …

Displaced & then replaced

Therese Lulf Mar 8, 2013

We, the displaced, and about to be displaced, are wondering what happened to some of our neighbours. We feel…

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