Shaughnessy residents have given up their fight to stop the building of new townhouses on the outskirts of the neighbourhood. They caved in after three years of opposing a development they fear will open the way for more high-rise buildings throughout the wealthy neighbourhood. The area has traditionally been made up of individual homes, rather [...]
A large group of disheveled people waited recently at a downtown Vancouver SkyTrain station for a ride east to Collingwood neighbourhood. They smoked cigarettes and rubbed their arms trying to keep warm. A couple of them wore backpacks or carried grocery bags stuffed with their belongings. They represent a community on the move, and this [...]
James Min emigrated to Canada from South Korea 13 years ago. Like many Korean immigrants, he found it hard to find employment when he arrived. He spent three years working menial jobs before finally opening his own business. Now, Min is the owner of the Robson Relax Centre, a massage studio located in the food [...]
Six years ago Stetson was a high functioning Vancouver businessman and father with a daily cocaine habit, regularly scoring on Vancouver’s skid row in the Downtown Eastside. “Many professionals get an easy hit, blocks from their downtown offices, while funnelling thousands of dollars into Main and Hastings and fuelling the drug economy,” he says. The [...]
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