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Income inequality is killing thousands of Canadians every year A new study from Statistics Canada shows that income inequality is associated with the premature death of 40,000 Canadians per year.

Income inequality is not only bad for our quality of life and economic productivity, it is directly related to the deaths of Canadians on an almost unimaginable scale IThe crash of an airliner is a tragic disaster that triggers major investigations and quick action to make sure the same problem doesn't occur again. As a result, these events are, thankfully, extremely rare. Imagine the response, from industry, government and the public, if a plane crashed every day.

And yet a recent report by Statistics Canada highlights a preventable cause of death that is having exactly that kind of impact, but which is being largely ignored.

The study demonstrates that income inequality is associated with the premature death of 40,000 Canadians a year. That's equal to 110 Canadians dying prematurely each day. To put that into context, imagine a Bombardier CS-lOOjet airplane full of passengers falling out of the sky every day for a year.

How does this report arrive at this conclusion? It followed 2.7 million Canadians over a 16-year period and calculated death rates from a wide range of diseases and injuries as a function of the person's income. Canadians were divided into five quintiles of

approximately equal numbers from poorest to wealthiest. The researchers then compared the number of deaths of the wealthiest 20 per cent of Canadians to the other 80 per cent.

They came to the conclusion that if all Canadians were as healthy as the top 20 per cent of income earners, there would be approximately 40,000 fewer deaths each year, every year. Of these, 25,000 fewer deaths would be among Canadian men and 15,000 among Canadian women. These numbers are comparable to eliminating all deaths from coronary artery disease.

The report also calculates the relative rate of mortality, comparing the likelihood of death between someone in the poorest 20 per cent of Canadians and one of the wealthiest 20 per cent of Canadians. Overall, this figure is 1.67 for men and 1.52 for women, indicating that a poor male has a 67 per cent greater chance of dying each year and a poor woman has a 52 per cent greater chance than their wealthy counterparts.

The study goes into further details, outlining incomerelated statistics for specific diseases. Poor Canadian males have a 63 per cent greater chance of dying each year from heart disease than their wealthy counterparts. For women it's a difference of 53 per cent. The excess cardiovascular deaths associated with not being as healthy as the wealthy are 19 per cent for men and 18 per cent for women.

In relation to mortality from diabetes, the figures are even more striking. Poor Canadian men have a 150 per cent greater chance and poor women a 160 per cent greater chance of dying from diabetes than wealthy Canadians.

This means that if all Canadians were as healthy as wealthy Canadians, there would be nearly 40 per cent fewer deaths from diabetes and nearly 20 per cent fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease every year.

Similar numbers showing a profound difference between wealthy and all other Canadians appear for virtually every known potentially fatal health problem, including cancer, respiratory disease, injuries, HIVAIDS, and many more.

In the United Kingdom, the publication of figures like these has been the source of much public concern over the last 40 years. In Canada we have no such response. There is little media attention to these kinds of studies, and major disease associations refuse to acknowledge their implications for preventing lifethreatening. Meanwhile, politicians at all levels have

ignored the relationship between income inequality and health, preferring to forgo difficult discussions about how to redress the problem. Instead, our leaders focus on a reactive health-care approach to illness that precludes important consideration of broader determinants shaping the unequal distribution of premature death.

Income inequality is not only bad for our quality of life and economic productivity, it is directly related to the deaths of Canadians on an almost unimaginable scale.

Canadians are increasingly concerned about growing income inequality and are becoming more aware of its health effects. It's time for a serious response from policy-makers, media and the public. Otherwise we'll simply continue to watch 110 Canadians falling out of the sky every day, each day, 365 days a year.

By DENNIS RAPHAEL & TOBA BRY ANT (ILLUSTRA TION BY LOLA LANDEKIC) Dennis Raphael, PhD, is professor of health policy & management at York University in Toronto. He is co-author of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts, which can be down loaded at no cost. Toba Bryant, PhD, is an assistant professor of health sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology; author of An Intra. to Health Policy.

"There are a variety of religions in the world formulated by different propounders. But instead of enhancing the spirit of unity in the human society, these religions have actually increased disunity and rnutualconfllct. How many wars have been fought in the name of religion? So, far from being a unifying force, religion should be seen as a cause of disharmony." (1) Reference 1. AFPS-2, Human Society Is One and Indivisible - 2

Jenny Kwan, MP Vancouver

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NDP Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Critic

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What happens in B.C. doesn't stay in B.C:) Did you hear about the provincial government that is receiving enormous political donations from foreign companies in exchange for contracts?

Did you know that in one province, government officials are taking meetings with industry lobbyists 14 times per day, on average?

More importantly, why should you care that in the resource-rich province of British Columbia, giant corporations seem to have more influence over government decisions than the voices of its residents?

Make no mistake about it: decisions made in B.C. affect the rest of the country. Whether it's a decision on First Nations rights that sets legal precedent, a foreign energy company given free reign to devastate a pristine ecosystem, or favouritism towards industrial projects that go against our Paris climate commitments, political decisions in B.C. change the face of Canada, It's a no-brain er. Allowing this kind of big money into the political system anywhere in Canada is nothing short of an existential crisis for our country.

That's why National Observer [an online news service with actual investigative journalists] has called for a corruption inquiry in B.C. Like me, you might be thinking that it's crucial to learn more about how private money is affecting major government decisions in B.C., and to get this infor. mation to voters before the election in May. Here's what National Observer revealed last week: • Donors to Christy Clark's Liberals got $758 million in B.C. contracts • Oil, gas and mining lobbyists defend torrent of donations to BC Liberals • Call in the Mounties. There's a new police probe in Christy Cl ark's B.C. And we know there is much more to this story that we should be looking into.

But here's the kicker: We need at least 50 new subscribers by next week to keep digging into this story.

So please, dear reader, subscribe now and help us get to the bottom of the political donations situation in B.C. Make a decision to reinforce crucial reporting in Canada. Because journalism matters, more than ever before. And so do you.

- Jorge Amigo, Director of Engagement [If this interests you google National Observer. Ed.]

Raise the Rates Campaign Organizer Contract hour : ~ 20 hours per week Pay rate: $20/hr. plus. 15% in lieu of benefits , Commencing: Ideally during May 2017

NEVER FORGOTTEN They exist in pictures only.

Women, young and old.

Nightmares of stolen lives.

Silenced. Their stories never told.

Mothers. Daughters. Sisters. Aunts.

Fallen angels, by evil hands.

They look at us with pleading eyes.

To speak, to take their stand.

Women we call sisters Vanished. Prey of brutal crimes.

Strong and brave through all their horror Through these years of frozen time.

These women laughed, lived and cried.

What's left? Their tears of dust.

Snatched from friends and family.

Forever gone from all of us.

Their faces look to us with hope.

Screams of terror. No one to trust.

We promise we will not forget As we search from dawn to dusk.

The silence is deafening.

As years and time fly by.

Still hope through loving memories Of our sisters, in their prime.

You are gone but not forgotten.

In us you put your trust.

We will sing and march for you Until you're home with all of us.

They exist in pictures only.

Women, young and old.

Nightmares of stolen lives.

Silenced. Their stories never told.

All My Relations (1 wrote this poem as a prayer and tribute to the Missing Women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. September 24,2016. Dawn Houle)

Raise the Rates is a coalition of community organizations, faith based groups & unions working to get gov ernment to raise welfare rates, build more social housing, eliminate arbitrary barriers to accessing welfare, raise the minimum wage & raise taxes for the wealthy.

Raise the Rates uses a variety of activities & events to raise public awareness of the many reasons to significantly increase the present poverty welfare rates in BC Duties/Responsibilities -Organize actions/events involving local residents and community organizations to raise the profile of the campaign -Convene, support & report to regular Raise the Rates meetings -Act on the decisions of Raise the Rates' meetings -Support Raise the Rates volunteers -Create media releases and organize & host press conferences to cover events of campaign -Liaise with local community organizations, Raise the Rates coalition partners and supporting organizations about the work and plans of Raise the Rates Ensure ongoing financial stability for Raise the Rates Skills/Knowledge *Strong knowledge of poverty issues and issues facing the Downtown Eastside Community *Previous experience leading lobbying campaigns or anti poverty campaigns *Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal *Ability to listen and treat people with respect, and build good working relationships based on trust and cooperation *Ability to use e-mail and social media to promote Campaign Email resume plus 2 letters of reference plus a half page essay on the causes of poverty to jean.swanson@gmail.com. by April 21, 2017.

BASIC INCOME - A Conversation with former senator HUGH SEGAL It's time for a Guaranteed Income for people with disabilities. Join us for a conversation with its Canadian champion -- Former Senator Hugh Sega!.

This event is at the Roundhouse Community Centre on Monday, April 10. Come at 6:30 pm for a Reception with refreshments, then join the conversation from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.

Musical guests, m'girl- an ensemble of indigenous women - will start the evening by singing and drum ming in celebration of life, love and harmony.

FREE ADMISSION.

Everyone

is welcome.

"We want a country without poverty, where everyone belongs & where everyone is valued. We also want to replenish souls. We believe Basic Income will do that."

- AI Etmanski, Plan Institute Presented by: BACI, Plan Institute, BCANDS, Disability Alliance BC, InclusionBC, Vancity

Volunteers of the month- March 2017 Kam Cho- Kitchen, Special Events Peter Lau, Learning Centre

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Congratulations! !

Volunteer Committee Meeting Wednesday,

April 12th @ 3:30pm, Classroom

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Volunteer Dinner Wednesday,

April 19th @ 4:30pm, Theatre

This week is an opportunity for ALL volunteers to be applauded for their many contrib~tions and positiv~ effects you have on our Community' It's to recognize and celebrate your profound desire to assist in multiple capacities for the Carnegie Community.

We want to acknowledge the incredible efforts of volunteers and say THANK YOU. National Volunteer Week is when we can all take time to recognize volun. teers and celebrate the power of volunteer ism in our community.

Volunteers reach out beyond themselves, to engage in kindness and caring for others. People from all walks oflife engage in volunteerism for a variety of reasons, some of which are: to tackle the issues of poverty, homelessness, to promote social inclusion, and most importantly, to be the voice and hands of compassion and hope. Help us make this week special for all our volunteers and thank them for helping us every day.

They are the reason Carnegie is the amazing place it is. THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!!

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Volunteer Recognition Party + Awards Celebration Friday, April 2 l", 4:30 pm in the Theatre ... please pick up dinner and party tickets in the Volunteer Program Office.

Every year there's a Volunteer of the Year selected.

He or she will have met a high standard of performance consistently throughout the year. It is always a very tough decision because there are so many volunteers deserving of recognition. At this Celebration the Volunteer of the Year will be announced for the first time, plus the names of four other volunteers for special merit recognition.

This party is for YOU -IT WON'T BE ANY FUN WITHOUT YOU ... food, entertainment, your favorite T-shirt of the year, door prizes and more. Please pick up your ticket in the Vo!. office.

Directly following the Recognition Party will be a DANCE, 7-9:45pm, in appreciation of our wonderful volunteers! Come and join the fun!

Volunteer Appreciation Party .

Friday, April 21st

Sindy & Luke, coordinators

@ 4:30pm, Theatre

Before you speak ...

Burrito Dinner

TIDNK

Monday, April 24th @ 5:00pm, 2nd Floor

VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION

WEEK

. APRIL 16th - 22nd (Look for Event Brochure Monday, April }'d)

T = Is it True?

H = Is it Helpful?

I = Is it Inspiring?

N = Is it Necessary?

K= Is I Kind?

2017 FEDERAL HOUSING BUDGET Details

Total Amount

Contribution to Provinces and Territories

Tackling Homelessness

Housing for Indigenous Peoples not living on-reserve

"Construction of new affordable housing units; the renovation and repair of existing housing; rent subsidies and other measuresto make housing more affordable; and other initiatives to support safe,independent living for Canada'sseniors, and persons with disabilities:'

"Direct support and funding to communities acrossCanadafor projects to prevent and reduce homelessness, including Housing . First initiatives that help homeless women and men secure stable housing while providing them with support for underlying issues,such as mental health or addiction:'

"This funding will provic assistancefor needed capital repairs, help ensure the continued affordability of units previously supported b the former Urban Natlv Housing Program and encourage developmen of new housing:'

$3.2 billion over 11 years

$2.1 billion over 11 years

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How many social housing units could this build, if it ~ Whole country BC Vancouver

Housing facts & Notes

$290m/year 1,450 units

$190m/year 950 units

. $38m/year .190 units

$25m/year 125 units

$5m/year 25 units

$3m/year 15 units

There are over 10,000 people on the BC Housing waitlist.

In 2016, 1,847 people were counted as homeless in Vancouver. Homeless people have half the life expectancy of other BC residents.

$20.4m/year 102 units

In Vancouver's 2016 homeless count, 38% (420 people) of the respondents identified as Indigenous.

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Targeted support for northern housing

Notional Housing Fund

"Funding to the "The fund will be used territorial governments to encourage greater to help offset the higher collaboration and cost of construction in investment in housing; the north, and support to expand direct lending territorial efforts to for new rental housing improve housing supply and renewal: conditions across the support for innovations region. $24 million will _ in affordable housing; be provided to Yukon, to preserve the $36 million to the affordability of social Northwest Territories, housing; and to support and $240 million to the social housing Nunavut:' sector:'

$300 million over 11 years IS

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Contribution to Research and Statistics

"The government will provide federal lands and buildings available to housing providers at low or no cost for the development of affordable housing"

"$241 million over the next 11 years to CMHCto improve data collection and analytics. And $39.9 million over five years, and $6.6 million per year thereafter, to Statistics Canada to develop and implement a new Housing Statistics Framework."

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all used towards constructing new social housing? $27m/year 135 units.

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In Nunavut alone, 3,000 households are estimated to be homeless and waiting for social housing.

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What To Do If You're Going Bald Okay guys, I don't know about you but I'm like a lot of guys I see around here: I'm starting to go bald. I guess I should have said that I am partly bald. You see, it's even hard for me to admit it. But I'm taking action. Yes I am. I'm not going to let it beat me down to the ground.

To me bald is old. I'm also over 70 and I'm told that's old, too. But you tell me if it's old. Maybe it's the new 40. Fat chance. Anyway, one day I took a look at my bald pate or my shiny noggin nd I thought the solution was to shave my head and become Yul Brenner in his prime. But then I thought: no I won't. I don't even look like him. Besides there can only be one Yul Brenner, may he rest in peace.

Anyway, as I was saying, I'm bald and I want to hide it. I still feel young, and some days and feel I want a chance to meet some gorgeous girl who thinks I'm pretty swell, too. If! look bald, I wouldn't have the confidence to even say hello. I couldn't do it. Maybe I'm chicken; well, so be it. I'm chicken. Anyway, somebody recommended vinegar for re-growing your hair, but I can't stand the smell It's only good on salad I remember when I had my last haircut; the barber held up a mirror to point out I was going bald. That was an eye-opener let me tell you. His solution? Shoe polish.

So I bought some dark brown. Now, I'm also turning grey; they call it salt and pepper. I know it won't be a perfect match, but what the hell, I got to try someI thing. You got any better ideas? No? Well a big help, you are. Come on, I need some moral support here. And don't start laughing or I'll kick you in the ass. That's right, I'm serious.

So I got this brown shoe polish, eh, and I sure hope it isn't poisonous. Do you know ifit's poisonous? Anyway, it's like I said: I'm desperate so I'm going with the shoe polish. You just take a little dab and massage it into your scalp. At least that's what the barber said to do and I know he wouldn't bull shit me. So I did.

Very carefully and little by little, I massaged the shoe polish into my noggin. I got good results. I couldn't tell where the shoe polish started and where my hair left off, something like that. The only drawback is that my head smells like shoe polish but I think a shower and some cologne will take care of that. And I got to tell you, it's cheaper than a hair transplant and it's like you can't tell where I'm bald and where I'm not. I even asked a few people if I looked bald and do you know what each of them said?" They said: "I

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INTRODUCTION In 2016 the average rent in privately owned and run SROs hit a higher than ever $548 a month. while the rate of change in Chinatown for the foreseeable future is 362 to -4. or 362 unaffordable units will be built while 4 affordable units will be lost.

It is also the first year in the history of the Downtown Eastside when homelessness escalated to over 1000.

972 homeless people were actually counted in the DTES (1) in the 2016 March count. which. even the counters admit. misses a lot of people. With a total population of about 18.000 in the DTES (2). that means about 1 in 18 people is homeless in our neighbourhood.

Every day residents watch police. city workers. and outreach workers descend on homeless people who sleep on the street in tents or under awnings. or simply on the sidewalk.

They force the homeless people to wake up and move their shelter and their belongings. If it's raining. homeless people are forced to move all of their sopping wet stuff and pack it around all day until they set up again at night only to be moved on in the morning.

Not surprisingly. homeless people have about half the life expectancy as other BC residents. (3) a clear fact that

should be enough to get governments to provide housing that everyone can afford. If that fact weren't enough to create the political will to end homelessness. the fact that it's cheaper to house the homeless than leave them on the street (4) should do it. But governments seem to want to ignore both facts.

On Monday. March 20. the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) released its 8th Annual Housing and Hotel Report. "Out of Control: Rents and Rate of Change and in the Downtown Eastside: CCAP's Annual Housing and Hotel Report is conducted each year to monitor rent and qentrification in the DTES. In 2016.

CCAP surveyed 84 privately owned and operated single SRO hotels. Rent information was gathered from 68 of these hotels with 3.170 rooms or 95% of the rooms in all the privately owned and operated hotels.

CCAP's 2016 Housing and Hotel report. "Out of Control" is summarized in this month's CCAP newsletter.

Homelessness in the DTES is a humanitarian emergency. Keep reading to learn what has changed in the last year in our neighbourhood and find out what can be done to end the crisis.

L CCAP's 8th annual hotel survey and housing report is designed to report on whether low-income people can afford to stay in their community.

With about 9.000-10.000 people on welfare and disability (10) most with only $375 a month for shelter. and with about 4.000 seniors with about $433 a month for rent or less. most residents have only about $375-433 a month for shelter.

About 1 in 18 people who live in the DTES is homeless.

Between 2009 and 2016 the average lowest rent in hotels surveyed increased from $398 to $548.

Between 2015 and 2016 the average lowest hotel rents increased by $31. the highest ever year over year increase in 8 years.

85% of hotel rooms now rent for over $425 a month.

Residents surviving on social assistance of $610 and paying the average SRO rent of $548 have only $62 a month. or about $2 a day. left for everything else including food. hygiene. laundry. transportation. etc.

Average rents in the 9 fastest gentrifying hotels are $1.101. an increase of $196 over last year's

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Only 11 new units of welfare/ pension rate housing opened in the DTES in 2016. These units don't come close to meeting the need of the 1.000 homeless people in the neighbourhood.

The rate of change of new unaffordable (condos. market rental and social housing with rents above welfare shelter rate) housing units to units at welfare/pension rate in 2016 was a whopping 46:1. with 510 expensive units being built and only 11 welfare rate units.

The rate of chance going forward into the foreseeable future with proposed and approved new developments is 5.4 to 1. with 1.510 new unaffordable units scheduled to open and only 252 units at welfare/pension rate.

The rate of change for the immediate future in Chinatown is a whopping and inexcusable 362 unaffordable units to an actual loss of 4 SRO units.

The rate of change in Chinatown for 2016 is 36: 1. with 398 unaffordable units opening up and only 11 at welfare/pension rate.

SAMPLE INFORMATION 2013

2014

2015

Number of hotels checked

81

79

85

Number of hotels that provided rent information

64

68

67

2016 84 68

Number of rooms in hotels that provided rent information

3071

3004

3156

3170

Percent of rooms that are in hotels that provided rent info

93%

96%

93%

95%

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RENTS Most hotels have rooms that rent at different rents within the building.

CCAP doesn't have access to the owner's books. Instead CCAP surveyors use the "mystery shopper" method.

Investigators posing as prospective tenants ask managers and desk clerks questions a out rents and vacancies in each hotel. We complement the information we get from managers with information from tenants and Craigslist. CCAP checked only hotels that are privately owned and run.

For most of this report CCAP has conservatively grouped hotels by the lowest rent in the rent range. This means that it is likely that hundreds of people actually pay higher rents than

it appears by looking at most of our data. For example in some cases CCAP has classified a hotel as having rents that begin at $425 even though we know some rooms in the building rent for $550 or more. This also means that there might be longer term tenants who pay a lower rent than reflected by our data.

For 2016, CCAP found that the percent of hotel rooms that rent for the welfare shelter rate of $375 is about 6%, with only about 200 rooms in privately owned and run hotels with these low rents. There were no vacancies in these rooms. We also found 2701 rooms renting for $425 or more ..

The average lowest rent in all the hotels we got rent information for is a whopping $548 per month, $31 higher than last year. This means that a person on'~he basic welfare rate of $610 ajmonth has only $62 a month left for all necessities including food, after paying the average rent in a privately owned and run SRO hotel.

SEVEN YEARS OF HOTEL SURVEY FINDINGS

2009

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% of hotel rooms where all rooms rent for $375 or less

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GENTRIFICATION This year, like last year, CCAP looked at the hotels with the highest rents. In 2015 the average rents in these hotels was $905. For 2016 the average rent is almost $200 higher: $1,101.

Hotels that raised rents to a seemingly mere $500 or so in 2009 after Woodward's open~~, are now charging double tH~n;: The highest rent in an SR@ hotel in 2016 was $1,600 at Georgia Manor and there are now over 19 hotels with rents above $1 ,000 J month.

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RATE OF CHANGE Rate of change used to be an important concept for the City of Vancouver. That is. for each unit of market housing. one unit of social housing should be built. Back in 2005. social housing meant housing that low income people can afford. But in 2014. the City changed the definition so that now only a small percent of new social housing in the city is for low-income people (13).

Back in 2005 planners wanted a rate of change of 1:1 because they realized that if market housing was built at a faster rate than social housing. the neighbourhood would become gentrified and low income residents would be displaced. In 2014. this concept was abandoned.

In 2016. the rate of change in the DTES was 46: 1. 51 0 new condos. market rentals and social housing units that rent over welfare rate opened. Only 11 units at welfare rate opened. If you count only new units in buildings that have been approved and proposed for 2016. the rate of change going into the foreseeable futu re is 6.5: 1.

In other words. almost all of the housing that's being built in the DTES is for people who can afford market rents. People who are homeless and people who need to move out of unhealthy SRO units have very little to expect in the way of new social housing.

RATE OF CHANGE FOR DEVELOPMENTS DEVELOPMENT

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150 E.Cordova

Concord Pacific

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Read the 'full "Out of Control: Rent and Rate of Change in the Downtown Eastside" 2016 Housing and Hotel report on www. carnegieaction.org/housing-reports/ or obtain a hard copy at the Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main Street, CCAP Office, second floor.

REGULAR CCAP VOLOUNTEER MEETINGS 111.15 EVERY FRIDAY The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) is a project of the board of the Carnegie Community Centre Association. CCAP works mostly on housing, income, and land use issues in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver so that the area can remain a low-income friendly community. The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) usually meets every Friday 11:15 on the 3rd floor of the Carnegie. All lowincome residents are welcome to join!

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EVERY TUESDAY

The Carnegie African Descent Group (CADG) is pleased to invite you to a weekly lunch gathering at the Downtown Eastside Neighborhood House. Come, cook, talk and enjoy African dishes with us. The lunch will take place every Tuesdays, from 11:00 am till 1:30 pm. The group has the same mandate as CCAP, but with particular focus on issues that Black and African Descent community members experience. DTES community members who identify as Black and or as of African Descent are we~come to the lunch. For more information, contact: Imugab07S@ gmail.com CONTACT CCAP Office: 2nd floor of the Carnegie, 401 Main Street Email: info@carnegieaction.org Website: www.carnegieaction.org Phone: 604-665-2105

Vancity

Thank you to Vancity for supporting CCAp¡s work. Support for this project does not necessarily imply that funders endorse the findings or contents of this report.

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heroin town, another port city born to the British trade triangle of sugar, tea and opium. All the hard-drinking loggers and fishermen spent their winter downtime camped out in the hotels and beer parlours that crowded every block.

Katherine kept herself busy, volunteering and helping wherever she saw a need and just like today there was plenty of opportunity for that. She counselled kids, she taught arts & crafts at Britannia school for Grades Lives Lived - Katherine Kosta 1 and 3; she volunteered as a baker for the Lion's Den

By Debra McNaught Rec Centre, and worked at the' 44 Multi-purpose CenKatherine Kosta was born in Vancouver in 1923, and tre. She never did any of this for money; in her words, raised in a house at Keefer and Gore. Her father, a "all I'm looking for is somebody to say, 'Hi, how are blacksmith, had immigrated from Russia in 1912, and you?'" She didn't believe in feeling sorry for yourself, her mother had been born in Saskatchewan of Russian that life was tough and that's the way it goes so get Doukobor stock; in the one lone photograph I could out there and quit whining. When the Carnegie finally find she has a strongly Slavic face, features rounded opened after years of City Hall road-blocking stupidiand somewhat blunt. It's the kind offace you don't ty she served as a Board member. But I believe the biggest service she ever did our community was upmess with.

Her father owned a blacksmith shop - a smithy - on dating the voters list for the DTES. Keefer Street, but with the increasing popularity of the The New Democratic Party had asked her to captain automobile in the 1920's business must have been the campaign to update the voters list for an upcoming noticeably slowing. She mentions he was blacklisted (Federal?) election. The existing list was a shambles during the Depression but does not elaborate on why. of missing names that hadn't been rectified from as far Conditions during the Depression made looking and back as 1953, and she went at it with spectacular zeal, fighting for work pretty much a political action, and hunted down all the missing names & got them registhe Communist parties, labour organizers, and armies tered. It seems that despite the working-class flavour of unemployed were terrifying governments and busiof the DTES voter apathy was, I suspect, deliberately ness owners alike. In any event, to support his family encouraged by the political nabobs that run this counafter he had been blacklisted he dug graves at Frasertry - who needs a bunch of lefty skid road bums on view Cemetery. â&#x20AC;˘ the voters list? But she got out there and pounded the Katherine was extraordinarily self-sufficient and list, found hundreds of lost names and cajoled them fiercely proud. She married young, had 10 kids, but into registering and later voting, and the result was the her husband turned out to be a loser. After the marbiggest voter turnout in DTES history. The NDP even riage finally ended she lived with one of her kids but came out from Manitoba headquarters to present her got into a fight so she up and left, sleeping homeless with an award. But what she did was far bigger than for several nights in the old wooden bus terminus in just browbeating people into voting: what she did was Stanley Park, too proud to ask friends or other family contribute to the idea that residents of the DTES matfor help. She managed to get a room at one of the SRO tered, to making sure people understood that their contribution to the political process could make some real hotels down here and discovered she had a knack for helping people worse off than she was. From what I change, that their voices and concerns had the right to can work out this would have been in the late 1960s or. be heard. early 70s, a time when the Downtown Eastside really Victories like this tend to encourage the seeds of powas "Skid Road." The Carnegie didn't exist yet, the litical consciousness in a community like ours that, at business and entertainment district had long left Hasthe time, was not as organized as it would become. To tings and moved further west to Granville, and our be sure, Libby Davies and Bruce Eriksen and our very neighbourhood was in commercial decline. The street own Jean Swanson were already working to better the drugs of today mostly hadn't been invented yet: alcolives of the people who live here. But in order to make hol was the bigger problem, but this has always been a: change you have to be part of the bigger picture; being

reminded that voting is a fundamental democratic obligation may have done much to put the DTES on the political map, and hopefully gave a few politicians something to worry about at night.

I found Katherine's story in Hastings and Main: Stories from an Inner City Neighbourhood, a collection of interviews of people who lived down here, conducted and complied in 1987 by Laurel Kimbley.

To Kimbley it was essential those interviewed spoke in their own voices, and although you are conscious while reading that embellishments are unavoidable, the voices still read very real. The collective theme rings true because many of the events discussed overlap, corroborating the essential history of the stories being told here. There's a copy of Hastings and Main in the library at the Camegie; ask Natalie or any of the dedicated staff to help if you can't find it. It's great reading. Better yet, get online: the Vancouver Public Library has been revisiting Hastings and Main to celebrate its 30th anniversary and audio files of the interviews are available online, along with other supplemental material, and there is talk of another edition of the book, and new interviews to be conducted. Check it out at www.thisvancouver.vpl.ca.

At the end of her interview Katherine had said, "Very few fight for what they really want." She did, and the DTES is the better for it. Thank you, Katherine Kosta.

PS: I heard word she was also known as Katherine Gallant.

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rroro the LibrarY With Spring finally arriving and the trees in bloom, it feels appropriate to highlight an interesting event called "Sacred Trees, Sacred People of the Pacific Northwest" on Saturday April 15th at 2pm to 3:30pm in the Theatre. BC author Sharon McCann will read from her book that explores how trees have been and should be revered, and she plans to lead the audience in a meditative journey. Everyone welcome. Please come with an open mind!

Next time you're in the branch, take a look at our display, "Don't Judge a Book by its Movie!" We know there are some serious movie buffs at the Carnegie, and perhaps some of your favourites were based on books? Here's some adaptations coming up in 2017.

The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013). The suspense , movie will feature Emma Watson, involved in a creepy internet company taking over the world by controlling memory, privacy, and distorting democracy.

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The Gunslinger by Steplien King (1988). The Old West meets the apocalypse, as the Gunslinger pursues the Man in Black who holds the secrets of the Dark Tower.

The Shack by William P. Young (2007). A hugely popular book about a father, Mack who believes hi~ daughter was murdered in a shack in the Oregon will derness. He receives a divine note to return to the site I of his nightmares four years later.

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach (1999). Moggach was behind the bestseller and movie, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and her latest looks to be darker, set in 1630s Amsterdam. A romance between painter Jan van Loos and the married woman he's painting, leads to tragedy.

The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman (2007). A true story set in Warsaw, Poland during WWIl about the fearless individuals who saved hundreds of people from the Nazis by hiding them in the bombed out zoo.

Theres mention of this in another incredible biography called frena's Children about Irena Sendler who saved , thousands of Jewish children.

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How to RememberMarch 24th to May 7th, 2017 *How to Remember* contains a range of documentation ~hat combines graphic illustration, knitting, bookmaking, embroidery, journaling & poetry. The artists have formed creative records that serve as a kind of memory. Their work documents time embedded for example, in acts of gentrification on one's neighbourhood or in transitional states of mental health-these at times imperceptible changes that, without notation, become difficult to track.

All of the artists engage research and experimentation as they document. Their work has developed necessar ily through dialogue and social intervention employing a range of practices that address health, pain, ability & access-all of which is approached through experiential means.

Lived experiences with disability, addiction, precarious labour, long-term hospitalization, chronic illness and displacement become personal, political and pedagogical. Yet, the visual outcomes are compelling, generative and dialogic as they form connections, determine wellness and foreground the will to thrive.

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*The Salon Shop Presents - Karen Irving and Elizabeth May* The Salon Shop is a 8ft x lOft exhibition space within Gallery Gachet that features the work of artists from our neighborhood as well as Gallery Gachet's volunteer, associate and collective members.

Karen Irving and Elizabeth May are two painters who explore their world through gestural abstract representation on canvas. Irving & May communicate through colour, composition & varied means of paint application to connect with the viewer and tell their stories.

Their side by side exhibitions: Irving's *Here and Now* and May's *Paint Love.*

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Two: While putting this band together I was living with Peter Hayes, who knew how to grow pot & was an unfortunate witness to a thug robbing an elderly couple. Because he saw this our house became the life like movie of a home invasion while Pete was able to dive through our small bathroom window. The gang

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V6AIM9 Three: To lose the ability to care is something no one wants to endure yet me & Al were using Jeff's guitar pedals as collateral for drugs while totally knowing we were throwing our future away.

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When orces PlaY Some time ago I was taking the ferry to Victoria, and as we were passing through the Gulf Islands, the captain announced that we were about to join a large group of orcas.

Everyone rushed to the railings, both port & starboard where we could see the whales rising silently from the deep, shining silently, a huge fin in the water here, a whale breaching there in a glitter of white foam. The orcas swam with such effortless grace and surges of power that we were transformed.

Children were beside themselves with excitement.

They called to the whales, not in words for words are a second level of experience, but in pure joyful song that the unperceptive would call screaming. Those mighty, moving, mysterious beings touched the children, and the rest of us too, in some deep, hidden part of our being that is the source of joy.

We were amazed at the beauty and power of those whales. Something in us rose high when they burst into sunlight, and dived deep when they sank beneath the water. We felt intensely alive, and it was the orcas who were giving us this gift. We held them in awe.

We loved them. We understood, if only for a few seconds, that we and the whales were linked together, and that we had been linked together for eons & eons.

After a short time the orcas went their way, and the ferry went its way. We re urned to our seats, our newspapers, our coffee, and our French fries. Our eyes were a little brighter, though, and we talked to each other in a more open way than usual.

"Maybe we humans really are a living part of Nature," I mused, "and maybe that economic stuff about us being isolated and hedonistic creatures who pursue our own self-interest in the so-called market is absolutely wrong."

"Maybe that sense of reaching out, of standing in awe, of feeling related to, is an expression of our truest self.

Maybe those orcas are our older brothers and sisters, and maybe we have much to learn from them - before it's too late."

By SANDY CAMERON

An essay? Creative non-fiction? Prose? What about a story? Writing comes in many forms and there are different forums both inside & outside this building.

The Learning Centre hosts an in-house group facilitated by Phoenix Winter, calling itself the Firewriters.

Writing prompts - a word, phrase, image or objectact as an impetus to put stuff on paper and then share with others present. Even constructive criticism is minimal; just enjoy writing. Wednesdays, I] :30am There is the Writing Collective that meets in Oppenheimer Park on Thursdays from 2-4pm. This group has been responsible for several [chat?]books wherein six to a dozen participants have had their work published.

Back to the title of this article: This is a sneaky way I to make those 'idea' lightbulbs go off in your (gentle reader) mind. For several issues now there have been pieces of writing on stuff from poverty to the police to snow to 'how to be good at' to local history to meanness in politics & policy to great activities in the 'hood and MAYBE you have thought "I can write about ____ !" Now why would you think that?? Well...

The 2016 writing contest was so well-received that we have decided to hold another writing contest in 2017!

One of the finest writers to ever appear in this paper was Sandy Cameron. H~ wrote consistently over a couple of decades OR a wide variety of subjects, with a recurring theme of social justice, spiritual links in anything and how everything is necessary to our growth.

Over the next several issues different writing will be featured, hoping that you will think of starting and/or polishing your own work. The essay topics can be whatever the writers want to write about -- memoir, biography, opinion, humour, etc. As long as the story is original and based on true events, it will be considered for the contest. Of course, any writing that does not meet the publication guidelines regarding bigotry will be excluded from the contest. The common denominator in the writing that won last year's contest was that it all covered some aspect of life in the DTES. The Learning Centre has tutors and writers willing to sit one-on-one to mentor, assist & help in editing.

Lucy and Betsy, staff, are here through June. If this looks interesting, talk to them, go to one of the Writers' groups and look at stuff in here. There are possibilities (almost) unbounded for affecting change. , The contest will be announced in the May 15th issue of the Carnegie Newsletter.

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Cover art - Max size: 17cm(6 :y.')wide x 15cm(6')high Subject matter pertaining to issues relevant to the Downtown Eastside, but all work considered.

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Size restrictions apply (i.e. if your piece is too large, it will be reduced and/or cropped to fit).

All artists will receive credit for their work.

Originals will be returned to the artist after being copied for publication.

Remuneration: Carnegie Volunteer Tickets Please make submissions to Paul Taylor, Editor.

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