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"... I do not know when it was that Khahtsahlano first settled at Chaythoos (close to Prospect Point) or when his brother Chip-Kaay-am settled at Snauq (False Creek or Kitsilano, south of the peninsula), but they were both young men when they settled. Chip-Kaay-am was the first man to settle and build a village at Snauq. He was known as Chief George by the whiteman and lived at Snauq all the time except while they were up in Squamish in the summertime drying salmon ..." Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brokton Point pgs 30-31
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Home is having a roof over your head rather than living in a cardboard box or a shelter or a hospital or a prison, or on someone else's couch. Home is having your own washroom & kitchen, having a place & the ability to make it your own, rather than waiting in line for a shelter, searching for the right spot on the streets, or being squeezed into an SRO. [Single Room Occupant hotel] Home is where your heart is. It's where you are welcomed & accepted, rather than being handed coffee & a muffin & asked to leave just because time is up, or being told sorry the shelter is full, try the First United Church. Submitted by Priscillia Tait We belong to a great sacred community. Our roots are embedded in the cracks of the Earth. Community is being able to stay & go as you please 88 East Cord ova 11 www.gachet.org Community is being part offamily & friends ph 604687 24681 wed-sun 12-6 pm Community is being able to celebrate & live life to its fullest l Priscillia "Mays" Tait
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Opening reception: Friday, August 5th, 6-9pm (Exhibition runs: August 5th-28th) The Elders Say We Don't Visit Anymore, tea and conversation socials • Thursdays during the run of the exhibition from t to 3pm Michif-Michin (the people, the medicine) uses traditional plant knowledge as a starting point to think about and through community health. In this ongoing project, Miner investigates Indigenous medicines and other forms of earth-based and nonWestern knowledge and healing. Over the summer, Miner collaborated with plants in and around Vancouver, as well as worked with community members in the Downtown Eastside as part of the socially-engaged project. Miner considers himself an artist and not a medical or health practitioner. He is someone whose grandfather's grandmother was known for her ability to make healing and other earth-medicines. As such, he has a familial relationship to Metis medicines and is interested in their possible ability to heal. The title of this project, Michif-Michin (the people, the medicine), plays on the linguistic similarities between a Metis word for medicine (michin) and a word used to describe the Metis language and people (Michif). Accordingly, Miner's work focuses extensively on language and herbal remedies as being at the core to community healing. Activating the exhibition during it's run, Gallery Gachet will become a space to share tea and conversation. Miner calls this The Elders Say We Don't Visit Anymore and through this particular socially engaged artist practice, Miner will work with gallery volunteers to organize tea times where people can stop by to share tea and conversation, creating and maintaining existing social relationships. Those interested in spending time together, sharing tea and conversation, can stop by Gallery Gachet on Thursday's from 1 to 3pm during the run of the exhibition. Dylan Miner is a Wiisaakodewinini (Metis) educator, writer, historian, and curator, as well as an artist working in multiple media. Presently, Miner is Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University, as well as Associate Professor in the university's Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. A widely published scholar, Miner is a founding member of Justseeds, a graphic arts collective. He earned his PhD from The University of New Mexico and currently lives in East Lansing, Michigan with his wife, Or. Estrella Torrez, and their two daughters.
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Berry Harvesting: Multiple locations in the DTES and East Van Mon, Aug 1st, 2pm Berry Dye and Printmaking Workshop at Gallery Gachet, Wed, Aug 3rd, 2pm
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In preparation for upcoming exhibition Michif-Michin, visiting artist Dylan Miner will be conducting two events to harvest berries, make dye and create prints. Join us for one or both of these fun summertime get-togethers. Please dress appropriately, berry dye will stain clothing, and be prepared to travel by bus and by foot for the berry harvesting. If you have needs related to access and mobility please feel free to let us know in advance at programming@gachet.org, 608 687 2468 or in person at Gallery Gachet.
These events are being held in conjunction with Michif-Michin exhibition. Local Artists
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Artful Sundays An Outdoor-Multimedia-Visual Arts-Market In Napier Greenway (Napier St @ Commercial Drive)
5 Sundays, August 7-Sept 4,2016
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Volunteers of the month- July 2016 Ernie Jeff- Seniors, Pool Room Victor Lozhkin- Kitchen
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Oppenheimer Park Volunteers VS Carnegie Volunteers In Annual Baseball Game @ The Park Sunday, August 14th @ 2:00pm, Oppenheimer Park FO 0 D PREP Volunteer Dinner @ Crab PArk Wednesday, August 17th @ 4:30pm Sundae on Sunday- All you can eat Sundaes for Volunteers only (sign up required) Sunday, August 2 I st , 3-4pm, Second Floor
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Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits With busy lives, it can be hard to find time to volunteer. However, the benefits of volunteering are enormous to you, and your community. The right match can help you to reduce stress, find friends, reach out to the community, and learn new skills. It can also help protect your mental and physical health. Learn more about the many benefits of volunteering and get started as a volunteer by coming to our weekly volunteer orientations held every week on Monday and Saturday at 2:30pm.
Hold on to vour dreams for when your dreams die Life becomes like an empty bottle-which needs to be tilled with love, experiences that will fulfil your life to the deepest power. So hold on to your dreams be fore they vanish and life becomes lonesome. Maria Teixeira
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See Luke or Sindy if you want to help! 3rd Floor Volunteer Program Office July nine, twenty sixteen They told m my friend and barfly Scotty died today. We think he was 69 years young. I played Rod Stewart on the jukebox -Sailing was an especial favourite of Scotty. He also liked All the Beatles numbers. I do not know what part of God's hallowed land Scotty hailed from. Not Edinborough, not Glasgow. Maybe Paisley, maybe the Shetlands or the Orkneys. We talked about the Stone of Destiny caper - I think. We drank to kill the pain (as Daddy used to say). We ate pizza, played his songs, and Suzanne the dear maid is going to play a bagpipe number I am not familiar with - Flowers & something ... Bye bye Scotty -it was an honour & a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Wilhelmina
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ACTING BASICS, Silent Stories Voice, Movement, Gesture
Sat Aug 13 & 20 Wed Aug 24 & 31 2pm-4pm in the Carnegie Theatre Breath, body, speech. Imagination, action, curiosity, emotion. Flex, prepare, explore. Workshops led by Teresa Vandertuin Free, everyone welcome! For more info: 604-255-9401 thirteenojhearts@hotmail.com
From the Library If you are interested in learning about social media, please consider registering for a VPL program at Carnegie (in the Level 3 Classroom) on Tuesday August s'", starting at 2:30 - 3:30pm. Called "What is Social Media," the session will explore popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and help explain what people use them for, and what is right for you! You can also get started with a variety of instructional books and DVDs on the topic, located at the-beginning of the non-fiction section (feel free to ask for requests as well !). • In other news, I was let loose from the library & went on a roadtrip up around Pemberton. I stopped off in
Lytton and was enjoying the most delicious bannock;' (with apricot jam!), when who pulls up but none other than our very own Stephen Lytton ... in Lytton! Such a small world. I'm now on a quest to taste the best bannock. Here's some inspirational titles: A Feast for ALLSeasons: traditional Native People's cuisine (2010) by Andrew George - George is of the Wet' suwet' en Nation and is a respected chef and instructor. The recipes all include ingredients foraged from the land, sea and sky.
Eating Stories: a Chinese Canadian & Aboriginal Potluck (2007). Sharing food with friends and family is universal, and this book based out of Vancouver reveals this truth through stories and recipes from both a Chinese and First Nations perspective.
Where People Feast: an Indigenous People's Cookbook (2007) by Dolly Watts - one of the first cookbooks dedicated to Native North American food and features bannock, elk, venison, seaweed and salmon! I also wanted to give a shout-out to our very own Carnegie Kitchen and all the awesome work they do sourcing healthy, local food and creating delicious meals every day ... not to forget the amazing Pride rainbow cake we devoured. .Your librarian, Natalie
DTES Women Felt Pushed Out of Market Vancouver women living in the Downtown Eastside who felt unwelcome or pushed out of existing area vendor markets have started their own event running every Saturday on Columbia Street.
Summer 2016 JUNE 23 - OCTOBER 27
Buy Fresh Fruits Veggies at affordable prices!!
The Summer Fair, as the new vending location is called, is run by the Downtown Eastside Women's & Centre. The centre's executive director Alice Kendall said that women simply did not feel safe when vending alongside men. "Long story short, women were not being treated very well. There was some kind of abuse & exploitation of women that were participating," she said. EVERY THURSDAY - 12:00 NOON - 3:00 PM "Women are not very well represented in those spaces because of a lack of an appropriate kind of Potluck Cafe 20 W. Hastings Street (Across from Army & Navy) model or safety and security for women. The issues of violence against women in this community is WEDNESDAY CHEQUE ISSUE DAYS tolerated to such a degree that people kind of mete it 12:00 NOON - 3:00 PM as if it's an expectation." ONE SEASONAL ITEM ONLY So far the event is attracting about 20 to 30 women DTES Street Market -Area 62 vendors selling handcrafted goods or used items. 62 E>~stingS Street (Next to Pigeon Park Bank) "We had our third one (vending day) & it was a lot more successful just in terms of customers coming by," Kendall said. "I think it's going to be very successful in a fun, kind of festival environment, and it makes it attractive for tourists or community members to come out." Kendall said she worked with the city to get the space set up - Vancouver police have already supported the idea as well. The vendors will show up each Saturday, from 11am - 4pm, until Sept. 24, between E Cordova & Powell streets on Columbia. Male vendors are ot permitted at the location, August 3 - 30, 2016 though customers of all genders are welcome. Carnegie Centre Third Floor Gallery By Michael Mui (24 Hours) Main & Hastings
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Hold on to your passions for they keep your spirit alive & well. No matter what people say or do to you - you are protected for You are a creation of God and are blessed with unique gifts that make you whole - then that Spirit will lead you to a sense of freedom and peace. Maria Teixeira
The Bleaching Process
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Text and Textures on the Occultation of Self by Dan Feeney Opening Friday August S, 6 - 7 PM
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Reflections on a Day in July This Sunday morning the city is quiet. Sun shining through relatively clean air. I went to that small Park - Cathedral Square by Holy Rosary. A fountain with 3 jets gives a pleasant sound in an otherwise heavy electric buzz. The splash of water from the fountain is musical. Some birds, many seagulls & pigeons, come to drink and swim in the pool. An oasis in this desert jungle of Skid Rows. My soul is refreshed. The birds come. Aggressive & greedy from the cold night they fight & bite each other for food. One seagull gets more than its share. He has figured me out & takes the salty bread from my hand. Unafraid of this two-legged being, a friendly pigeon lights on my hand His cool claws comfort me in this cold soulless city Remembering Halifax & pigeons that lit on my little son's arms years ago .. so far apart in distance .. so close in experience A man came up to me - his McOonald's coffee cup in hand. "Do not feed these birds," he said abruptly. "We are having a party (picnic) here later." "We don't want any mess." "Oh," I said, "be sure you clean up after." He looked astonished, something rude.
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Looking back, I could not see even one crumb that the pigeons & gulls had left. Such is life on the "Wet Coast"the Wilde West of Canada.
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DISPENSARY
THE GRAM Curious about cannabis news? Don't know where to start? Concerned about dispensaries? We want to
hear from you! In the last edition, we raised the question of what it might mean to have a women-run cannabis industry. This time, we will look into the many cannabis advertising campaigns in the past couple of years that were created by women for women. These are interesting to examine, as they reveal what important features the creators thought were previously lacking for women in the cannabis market! Here are a few examples: Earlier this year, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she will be launching a line of products to alleviate period-related aches & pains. including THe-infused bath salts, topical ointments & tinctures, and edibles. Bethenny Frankel branded a "SkinnyBitch" strain of cannabis to demonstrate that smoking weed does not have to result in munchies which she equates to gaining weight. (We might wonder why this is. or should be, just an issue for women ... ). Marketing campaigns in LA are creating lines of posh feminine accessories that are expanding the cannabis market to include upscale. trendy women. A lot of these lines are catering to (or creatingl) the genre of "Stiletto Stoners" - sophisticated women with successful and demanding careers who are nonetheless "potheads" . Each of the above ads. in very different ways, are attempting to push on the stereotypes of what kind of lifestyle pot enables. They seem to suggest that there is more than the lazy, degenerate, "burnout" image many of us fall back on. The potential here is that perhaps the influence of women in the cannabis market is really helping to expand this conception for us! What do you think - are the above ads expanding our understanding of the cannabis world? Do they represent woman's needs, or are they just furthering harmful stereotypes we already have about women? What other potential markets should women create or tap into with cannabis ads? SUBMIT QUESTIONS TO THE CCAP OFFICE OR FARM DISPENSARY AND HAVE THEM ANSWERED IN THE NEXT EDITION
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WOMEN COME TO CARNEGIE
On Friday 5 August 2016, from 3pm to 5pm, City Opera Vancouver is presenting a public workshop for our next commission, MISSING WOMEN. "It is extremely important that we bring this to the people of the DTES," said City Opera president Janet Lea. "We need feedback and comment at every stage. We road-test and beta-test all of our new operas at Carnegie, and appreciate the response of the community. "We always start with the words. On August 5 at 3pm we will be presenting a group of professional actors, four aboriginal and three white, and read the text as if it were a stage play. We want candid comments from the audience. There can be no music until we perfect the text." Librettist Marie Clements and dramaturge Paula Danckert will be in attendance throughout.
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WOMEN is being written by Marie Clements, the distinguished FN playwright & film-maker. Its music will be composed by the Juno-award winning Brian Current. This new chamber opera will be premiered in
November 2017, with six nights in Vancouver, followed immediately the Highway of Tears is being planned thereafter.
by another five nights in Victoria. A tour on
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WOMEN is a partnership between City Opera Vancouver, Pacific Opera Victoria, and the Heart of the City Festival. This public workshop is sponsored by the Carnegie Centre. Creation of the opera is made possible by an extraordinary' award of $127,000 from The Vancouver Foundation.
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[From CCPA] A bit of whimsy from the front At times, the Fraser Institute produces such helpful material. I hope they make their well-heeled funders, such as the multi billionaire Koch brothers, proud. However, I'm sure the Kochs are more concerned with missteps by their progeny Mitt and Ryan ... derailing their chance to buy the US presidency.
So back to the Fraser Institute and to three of their recent reports. 1. As Canada (and other countries) have increased their level of "market reedom" as measured by the Fraser Institute's flagship Economic Freedom of the W orId report (and other measures of market freedom and deregulation), our productivity growth has declined - as Andrew Sharpe and Don Drummond recently highlighted. Of course the relationship between these and other economic factors is complex (it makes little sense to directly compare Switzerland and Ethiopia) but ~ couldn't help but notice that a number of countne~ that in recent years climbed to the top ranks of their "economic freedom index", such as Iceland, Ireland, UK and the US, subsequently suffered most from the economic crisis (and then have dropped in their rank-
ings as their economies have tanked). 2. As Andrew lackson recently pointed out on this . blog, Canadian provinces ranked at the bottom in their indices of labour market (de )regulation, but top in their index of labour market performance. Many states in their top rank of labour market deregulation (public sector employment as share of total, minimum wages, and unionization) performed worst in terms of labour market performance and growth. 3. And just last week the Fraser Institute released its 2012 annual report on "The Price of Public Health Insurance". According to the media reports and summary BS on the Fraser Institute website, this study supposedly demonstrates that Canada's public health care system costs the average Canadian family over $11,000 a year throughthe taxes they pay. Some columnists have even suggested that the average Cana.dian family pays more for public health care than US ::::families pay for their health care. Of course, this is all completely false, as anyone who actually takes the time to read the seven page report and do some basic on-line research can easily find. The Fraser report actually says that Canada's public health care system will implicitly cost an "average Canadian family" $7,670 a year in taxes this year. This wasn't enough for the Fraser Institute's misinformationmeisters, ~o they used a larger than average sized family with a higher than average income level (over $100,000) as their "average family" in their releases, no doubt confident that journalists wouldn't read all the way to page 3 of their report to get this information. In fact, as data from the OECD & Canadian Institute for Health Information show, not only does Canada spend far less on total public and private health care per person than the United States (in 2010, US$4,445 per person in Canada vs $8,233 in the US), but Canada also spends less per person than the U.S. on our public health care system, (US$3, 158 per person in Canada vs $3,967 per person in the US) while providing coverage for everybody with better quality and outcomes, while the US system leaves 50 million people uninsured. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation's authoritative annual report on health benefit costs, just released in September, the average annual costs of employer health care premiums in the US is $15,745 for family coverage this year and $5,615 forsingles. '2.. (;0,,+,
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July 9th was an important day for housing justice in Vancouver. In the Downtown Eastside, a tent city was erected at 58 W Hastings that is still going strong. In Metrotown, a empty rental building, soon-to-bedemolished, was occupied in protest against the mass demolition of affordable housing in the area. The occupation lasted 12 days and was eventually shut down on July 20th.
58 W. Hastings Tent City exposes the everyday crisis of homelessness in Vancouver
Vancouver's Tent City has gotten a lot of attention from the media, and recently from City Hall. It all began on July 9th with the Housing Justice Day of Action. The Housing Justice March was attended by approximately 250 people, ending at 58 West Hastings. As community members gave speeches, and volunteers prepared for the community feast, organizers announced a new tent city would be set up on the site. The tent city grew, slowly at first, but soon reaching capacity at about 80 tents. The tent city - one part direct-action and one part emergency survival- is a critical response to a homeless count and homeless deaths that continue to grow as Gregor Robertson's expired promise of ending the homelessness crisis fades
into the distance. Homeless people come to the tent city out of necessity - fleeing the daily harassment of cops and security - but also because of the community, support and safety that exists at the site. Tent cities also makes the everyday crisis of homelessness visible. In the words of tent city organizer, Samona "When we're all together, people can drive by and say "Holy! Look!" But when we're spread out through the alleys and the parks we're not visible to the public. They see people one at a time and it doesn't add up the same as when they see us all together. Gregor sees it as bad for Vancouver's image but I think it's great. We need to show the world what happens to us every day:' On July 12, representatives of the Tent
City and other community groups went to City Hall, to present their demands and speak with the Mayor himself After being blocked from attending City Council, and being kept waiting all day, the Mayor eventually met with the delegation of residents. The delegation asked the Mayor to meet the Our Homes Can't Wait campaign demands: ten new buildings of social housing in the Downtown Eastside, measures to improve SROhotels and rent control. Residents also questioned the City's new definition of social housing, which excludes people on welfare, emphasizing
that social housing must rent for the welfare/shelter rate of $375 per person if the City wants to end homelessness. VANDUmembers also spoke to the importance offunding housing, instead of increasing the policing budget. The Mayor has committed to meeting with residents in the DTES,and will be coming to Carnegie next week to meet with residents of the Tent City and community members. So far he has refused to provide bathrooms and washing facilities. "It's because he doesn't want us to stay there;' Samona says. "But we're not going home and we're not giving up."
Battle of 58 West Hastings: The History of a Fight for Housing, 2007-Pre~ent In 2008, Gregor Robertson built his successful mayoral campaign around the tragic death of Darrel Mikasko, a homeless man who burned to death trying to keep warm after being turned away from a Kitsilano shelter. But while Gregor was campaigning on a soon-broken promise, low income people in the Downtown Eastside were actively fighting against a new threat of displacement posed by Concord Pacific - this time on a property down the street from Woodward's. The address was 58 W Hastings, evicted and demolished ("demovicted") by Concord Pacific that same year.
For the past decade most people have known 58 W Hastings as an empty lot, with the recent exception of a community garden managed by the Portland Hotel Society. But the address across from Save On Meats once housed music studios, a popular pawn shop, and Field's discount store before being demolished in 2008 to make way for a Concord Pacific's condo project, titled "Greenwich" after the neighbourhood in NYC. DTEScommunity residents and the CCAP however were quick to mobilize against the proposed plans for 58 W Hastings Street.
In 2008 the global financial crisis put a pause on developments underway across Vancouver, inclueing Concord's 154 units of condos at 58 W Hastings. Before and during the 2010 Winter Games, Olympics planners ("VANOC")arranged to use the empty Hastings Street lot as a parking space. But the community had different plans, and by early February the pieces were in place for a radical alternative at 58 W Hastings - an Olympic Tent village that would ast throughout the Games. Sympathy across the city surged, building on the nearly 100 groups who endorsed the opening of the Olympic Tent Village. But since the erection of the very first tent, the City of Vancouver exerted continued pressure to shut it down.
In late February the local government escalated its opposition and issued an official eviction notice. While the community was ultimately unable to stand up to police repression, the tent city highlighted the power of self-organized resistance and pointed to the glaring contradictions of the "world class" city.
only 15% of units will rent at shelter rate, despite record high homeless counts and an unprecedented loss of SROrooms in the Downtown Eastside. If these plans are allowed to go through, the overall effect -like Woodward's - will be displacement and a continued overall loss of affordable housing.
In 2011, Vision Vancouver made a land swap with Concord Pacific. In return for relaxing inclusionary zoning bylaws, which required Concord to build social housing in False Creek, the City gained ownership of the still vacant 58 W Hastings lot. Four years later, in the summer of 2015, the City announced 58 West as the home of one of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency's (VAHA)seven sites of "affordable housing."
The iot at 58 W Hastings has been at the heart of numerous campaigns since the Olympic Tent Village, including the Downtown Eastside Neighborhood Council's "Ten Sites" campaign, and more recently the Our Homes Can't Wait campaign. Now, almost ten years later, the battle over 58 W Hastings continues. Homelessness and community resistance have now culminated this month in a second tent city at 58 West Hastings - may it live long!
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Do you think that a Guaranteed Annual Income, sometimes called a Basic Income, would be a good way of reducing or ending poverty? Lots of low income people do. But would it really help? The answers are: it depends on the details and the devil is in the details.
I Some people in corporations, for example, want a Guaranteed Income so they wouldn't have to pay decent and living wages. The Guaranteed Income could be a top up of abysmally low wages.
Other folks want a Guaranteed income to "consolidate" all the social programs. But this could also mean, "to abolish" the social programs like social housing, old age pension (which is about $1300 a month now), even medicare. A group in Kingston has come up with a Basic Income "Charter" which outlines some principles for a GAl that would really help reduce poverty: "A successful national basic income guarantee program will be: universally available, subject to income level, regardless of work status; adequate to meet needs for food, physical and mental health, housing, clothing, transportation, and internet/communication services; provided directly to recipients, and used at their discretion; provided in a manner that is respectful and free of stigma and
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oversight; a complementary part of a broad social support system including affordable housing, child care, dental care, pharmacare, and programs that assist those with particular needs and vulnerabilities designed so that no one will be worse off as a result." Right now the federal and Ontario governments are researching the idea. There is some talk of Vancouver Council wanting to work with the feds on a pilot program here. But a key question is: will governments that have kept people in poverty for so many decades, actually come up with a plan that will end poverty? Before we advocate for any kind of GAl, we need to understand all the details of what is being proposed, because it could turn out to be more Guaranteed Poverty with a different flame.
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 newsletter.
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Brave tenant wins another $1200 from slumlord ening to Jack. Jack did everything by the book, getting a witness, calling police, etc. As a result he had all the paperwork to win the case at the Residential Tenancy Branch.
"I hereby order ...Parkash Sahota and Triville enterprises a/a the Regent Hotel to pay the Applicant, Jerald Gates, the sum of $1200.00." That's the order from L. Bell, an arbitrator at the Residential Tenancy Branch. The decision happened because of a lot of work by the SROCollaborative and Jack Gates who lives at the Regent Hotel. Jack was trying to get the hotel to protect his right to "quiet enjoyment" of his room at the Regent. But another tenant was playing drums and music loudly, disturbing Jack and the other tenants at all hours of the day and night: It turns out that the noisy tenant also worked for the landlord and was threat-
"I favored the Tenant's submissions as they were forthright, credible, consistent, and supported by witness testimony and a witness's written submission," the arbitrator wrote in her decision. The arbitrator also said that Jack can apply for more money to compensate for "loss of quiet enjoyment." Now the only problem will be collecting the money. Jack was also awarded $1600 in a previous decision and had to • go to small claims court to try to get it because the owner of the Regent Hotel wouldn't pay it. This means he will probably be headed to small claims court again for the $1200. "We have to make sure that all tenants know what is happening and that the door is open for them to take action like I did", said Jack. "Jesus Christ walked on water and they say I'm walking on thin ice in there. But I feel very safe. I may as well be walking on rocks."
To Jaye Elizabeth Loyer, Morning Star, "Bright Eyes"
"Young Man" I wish I could be That young man you need then you'd be proud to hold hands with me. This time was too late too much was taken What's left to give with all trust forsaken? I tried ... then I cried I could feel all your sorrow Yu can't love me today I can hope for tomorrow. I remember the laughter and the tears that we shared We had us a moment for each other we cared. I hope you will find Someone like me and all that man needs is for your man to be I will still love you Until the stars shine no more If you need me I will find you and we'll laugh like before. If this life should deny you that young man you need Next life true love knows you because that young man I will be! Douglas Forster [Editor's note: This piece appeared last issue with typographical errors & a misspelling of the author's name. I apoloqise.]
eighth of an inch from my heart. Somebody called the ambulance. I went into shock. There was blood all over me. I went to St Paul's & they stopped the bleeding but I had to throwaway the jacket. I asked for a phone and called my mother to tell her what had happened. She j list about had a heart attack. She said she could fix my jacket but I didn't want it .. didn't want to be reminded of being stabbed .. so I left it in the garbage. When I got home 1 called the police & one officer came. I told him everything that had happened. I said, "Let me go with you. I know exactly where she lives and you can arrest her." He said no. I gave him the address & apartment number but found out later that he didn't even arrest her. It was attempted murder! I was lucky to be alive. So when you drink be sure you know the people very well. Marlene Wuttunee
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The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, working with a host of community partners.
When History Cries "Emergency!" Ever ask yourself, "How did the Germans ever allow themselves to be duped into electing a monster like Adolph Hitler as leader of their nation?" How could they-a people whr produced geniuses on the order of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (arguably History's greatest writer ever), Albert Einstein (one of the greatest physicists ever), Ludwig van Beethoven (one of the greatest musicians ever); the list goes on--be so stupid as to make their leader a man so evil that the word genocide has nearly become mundane? "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." -- George Sanatayana America has forgotten the past-how Hitler murdered 6,000,000 Jews and others, and nearly destroyed the world with World War 1I--and is about to elect a demagogue, Donald Trump, as president thus setting
the stage for a repeat of history as Santayana wrote. We know Trump is a demagogue, that is, a politician who sways people by manipulating their prejudices and fears, by appealing to their emotions instead of their reasoning abilities. Wiki "demagogue" and you find it has classically led to the worst sorts of tyrannies. Adolph Hitler, Huey Long, Joseph McCarthy--these are examples of leaders who are modern demogogues. They all have sordid histories of leading the people astray. (The last two were Americans.) What's Trump talking about, "Make America great again"? Who says it isn't great? Trump? What nonsense! Of course it's great! One has only to look at soine of its best people to verify this: Emily Dickinson--poet extraordinaire; "Because I could not stop for death." Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)--gifted storyteller; Tom Sawyer. Abraham Lincoln--US President; The Emancipation Proclamation. Alexis De Tocqueville--writer; Democracy in America. Henry David Thoreau=philosopher; On Civil Disobedience. If Trump thinks America's not great, he's talking through his hat. America, are you sure you want to elect Trump as your President? If so, why? Consider: 1. Trump is a proven liar. This is almost a direct quote from Tony Schwartz, the writer who ghostwrote Trump's famous book, The Art of the Deal. 2. Trump will say anything to get elected. Please read any of the annotated, fact-checked speeches of his. 3. Trump is the face of big business today. You know them well: they're the ones that brought you the Flint, Michigan fiasco, a sad story of catastrophic job losses due to outsourcing, an unapologetic betrayal of workers' loyalties endlessly replicated across America. 4. Trump cares nothing for the average worker. He's not even going to raise the minimum wage. 5. Trump cares nothing for women, except how to exploit them. Please read the firsthand account of one in Rolling Stone titled "Ex-Trump Employee Speaks Out on his Treatment. of Women." America, if you elect Donald Trump as President, you will never forgive yourselves. Please think twice about this! If you're complacent and let philosophical nihilists dictate your future, no future is what you will end up with finally. You deserve better than that! By ROLF AUER
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cost of family health care premiums has almost doubled in the US over the past decade, rising by 97% since 2002, while the Fraser Institute's calculations of the implicit cost of public health care for the average Canadian family has increased by 59,8%. While employees in the US directly pay for about a third of these private health care premiums, they pay far more when they get sick through annual deductibles. eo-payments and "eo-insurance" which a large majority of all US plans have. For instance, the average family deductible is at least $1.000: eo-payments for emergency room visits over $100 per & average "coinsurance" rates close to 20% The cheapest medical insurance my cousin. who is a doctor at a family clinic in New Hampshire, could get for his three person family was -$10.000 a year with an $8,000 deductible - and they are all in excellent health and physical shape. In effect it's catastrophic health insurance. He's fortunate and can deal directly with his family's medical problems: most of course can't No wonder the reason most people go bankrupt in the United States is because of medical problems. even among those with health insurance. Much lower costs for employee health insurance premiums provides a major competitive advantage for Canadian firms compared to the US, which they should pay back through higher taxes- but don't. Despite the media reports, the Fraser report actually confirms that public health care is an excellent deal for most Canadian families. particularly for middle and low income families. as the CCPA's report on Canada's Quiet Bargain also demonstrated a few years ago. Yes. it's true that that higher income individuals and families may pay an implicitly higher amount for these public services through progressive taxes (when they pay them) but overall costs are much 10\\ er. so we all or at least 90'% of us are much better off We could reduce the overall implicit costs ofhealth care for families in Canada if we changed the tax system so businesses paid a higher share of tax revenues - but organizations such as the Fraser Institute continue to push hard in the opposite direction lobbying heavily for cuts to business taxes and shifting taxes onto households. Good work over there! Yet another enlightening report from the Fraser Institute. (With adversaries like these ....)
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since the second hovel was built to keep six on the other then selfishists helped themselves to mass dehumanisation like bargaining from a kneeled position is this any way to help race relations there is someone who always wants to help thin out thy herd, Gun disease & Christianity were our gifts to them as we destroyed their way oflife alive or dead it is in our very nature to make sure we come out ahead like a concentration camp with too few guards & oh so many that must be murdered, the words of witnesses carry a lot of weight with pieces of truth in every line sympathy must be earned now imagine that with common sense combined let it destroy the destroyers who I am not surprised to say that would be us, the things we've done the laws we make up to save ourselves world leaders would shake their heads & wish they'd come up with such ideas sorry only used once the Sun will soon destroy us for now just wants to feel yu like the bones in your body as you go under a bus, from child soldier to gang member to war veteran the thre stages ~f life we seem to want to see but not feel get of any time you want we own it all though you will never see it in your lifetime like the Earth being an apple as a crow savagely peels it all away Please watch your head as they put you into the insanelands car your sanity dripped out of your head giving others a.headache & that is completely unacceptable who did you think you are you will always have your name printed on your shirt so every institution member knows exactly who you are.
the indian giver The rites of war past/present & future are to keep us busy make us jump with horror & joy, like poor junkies blamespotting & writhing in pain mental anguish is a hell of a game when I grow up I want to be a boy, Do you see yourself as a loyal subject or world leader Do you buy your car with four tonnes of rolled coins or a cheque you wife beater cancer is your Cracker Jack box prize some evils never change, the 2ND Opinion Repair Shop cannot help you out thrice like being at a stoning death marriage throwing rocks instead of rice life links time to chains, like biblical assassins killing off those who do not believe here come those loyal leaders ready to rip you apart any final thoughts or words or are you happy to leave no more waking up going thru the motions of being alive, like a sequestered jury throwing a No Year's Eve party last year's newspaper for wrapping up gifts for people you've really come to hate just find the guy guilty his death would have happened anyway you've just made sure it did not come late if a conscience lurks within you your own death shall shortly arrive, like 'all the land we saw we liked we took' mistake or welllearned we cheated a lot of human beings it was up top them to figure out they'd been burned like any victory the spoils usually float to the bottom of the top, the Strata ghetto had already begun to grow under your feet & above your head as soon as the spoils get spoiled it doesn't take a nuclear scientist to tell us we will soon be dead bum it all I'd rather not be remembered as a monster Oh yeah kill all the kids & the cops, roomful of empty people getting emptier every day as another Kettle family member passes away well Monte what's ehind Dante Level of Hell number two? The years we walk by letting time destroy it all without retaliation they were gullible we are wasteful so what is new if they had had Oscar Schindler eleven hundred could have been saved We are a pitiful race . constantly losing screws our rage must be measured inept & pristine must be kept together no Third Reich hierarchy here thank you To sympathise is to be human to be still is to admit emotional defeat while we have not extincted ourselves yet anyone in your l'il yellow book will be the true taker of all around whose heart does beat there is nothing to lose but fear itself little old fear, this occupational hazard of occupation has consumed the Earth
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The things that make you happy. brings you great joy You have a beautiful fulfilled life with much tenderness Day after day the heartfelt imprints that have touched me deeply There are people that have a quiet inner glow that shines brightly for all to see Your laughter and glow envelopes everyone along your path Joy is how you live your lite. never forgetting to bring it to others. while being humble and yourself ~ Being Human is not about perfection Thejoy that appears is all of you in your happiest moments Holding onto that Joy is selfish. when giving the Joy away. zives happiness to the world . ~
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ATTITUDE Losers He tells me he sees losers upon riding through the Hastings street-scene He's like every other anus on an acreage that moved me to move away from his piece of the world Privilege entitles him to judgement as if addiction to money warrants superiority and capital renders one better than and us less than him, so sold and bought and owned by property and money boxes he won't spend a penny on quality Such cheap poverty of spirit wants me to build on top of a dilapidated structure over foundations of shifting sand He's selling it anyway will let the next guy worry I'm a loser living on Hasting's edges but not such a loser that I would build on rot let the next guy deal with my crap I "lose" in a community that cares about a wee bit more than owning stuff real estate's values stock portfolios a community where humanity trumps money where every encounter makes me a winner We have soul to spare around here We don't measure faults or pass judgements against one another We have love around here I get more in a day than I got in twenty years living on the propertied side of town Money's nice and thanks but no thanks What I create with heart is square plumb level sound elegant whenever possible worthy of roots and spirit in my community What I build is worthy of the father and uncle honest farmer and framer who taught me carpentry Gilles Cyrenne
Dear friend/community member/family/ally, You are invited to Totems of the Balmoral Hotel! Our opening reception will take place at 6:00pm in the Interurban Gallery (1 East Hastings) on Tuesday, August 23 and be followed by an exhibition open from 1:00 to 5:00pm from Wednesday, August 24 to Saturday, August 27. Danny Dennis was an Indigenous artist from the Kispiox Valley. Living and working in the DTES in the 1980s, he painted three totem poles on the support pillars of the Balmoral Hotel, located at 159 East Hastings Street. To this day, two of the totem poles .are still standing. Sadly, Danny passed away on May 29, 2012, but his artwork still stands as testament to his resilience as a person and artist. In early 2016, three of Danny's friends- Jo McRobb, Barbie Wallace.iand Tom Detlor - came together and decided to find a way to preserve this hidden treasure of the Downtown Eastside (DTES). We took photographs of the two remaining poles in April and May, which had survived the years of water damage and graffiti. However, in early June, the ceiling of the Balmoral pub collapsed and the pub was closed. We have no information about when or if the pub will be renovated and if the poles will be saved. We are excited to present Totems of the Balmoral Hotel with the support of the Vancouver Foundation the Neighbourhood Small Grant and Greenest City Community Grant! Danny Dennis Born in 1951, Danny Dennis grew up in the village of Kitwanga, British Columbia. A Gitxsan Indigenous artist of the Frog Clan, Danny was one of the rare Northwest Coast artists who produced original paintings. Danny began his artistic career in 1978. He worked in the mediums of gold, silver, and ivory as well as silkscreen prints. He was inspired by master artists Francis Williams and Robert Davidson. Danny exhibited in Germany as well as many Canadian galleries.
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Free university Humanities 101 Community Programme (Hum) offers four free university-level courses for low-income people who live in and around the Downtown Eastside and Downtown South. The courses are for people who have encountered financial and other barriers to university education and who wish to expand their intellectual horizons in an accessible, challenging and respectful environment. Applicants must have a love of learning, basic literacy skills and be willing to attend classes, complete assignments and participate in group discussions. Applications for these non-credit courses are accepted not on the basis of past academic history, but on the applicants' desire and ability to be part of the Hum Programme. Classes take place at UBC Point Grey campus on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, beginning in early September. Hum 10 1 and Hum201 are eight-month interdisciplinary courses that run twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. A different subject in the arts or social sciences will be taught each week, including history & politics, art, music, architecture, philosophy, literature, sociology, first nation studies, gender studies, economics, popular culture, creative and critical thinking and more. Writing 10 1 and Writing201 are three-month hands on writing courses that run every Tuesday evening. Each week a new genre and style of writing will be taught, including creative fiction and non-fiction, poetry, song lyrics, life writing, journaling, manifesto writing and more. Participants receive school supplies, UBC student cards, bus tickets to get to and from class, meals, and childcare if needed. Anyone interested in applying for a course must attend one of the following information/application sessions: Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings St. (top floor classroom) • Saturday August 13th at 11 a.m, for Hum 10 1 & 201 • Monday August 15th at 11 a.m, for WritinglOl & 201 • Wednesday August 17th at 2 p.m, for Hum 101 & 201 + Writing 10 1 & 20 I Gathering Place Community Centre, 609 Helmcken St. (meeting room) • Saturday August 13th at 2 p.m, for HumlOl & 201 • Wednesday August 17th at 11 a.m, for Writingl0l & 201 Crabtree Corner, 533 East Hastings St. (third floor room) • Monday August 15th at 2 p.m, for Hum l Ol & 201 + WritinglOI & 201 Vancouver Recovery Club, 2775 Sophia St. • Tuesday August 16th at II a.m, for Hum 10 1 & 201 + Writing I 0 1 & 20 I Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, 302 Columbia St. (women only) • Tuesday August 16th at 2 p.m, for Huml01 & 201 + WritinglOI & 201
Public Programmes For those of you looking for some intellectual stimulation over the summer, why not attend a study group: A Taste of the Middle East at the Gathering Place, Very Close Reading, Aloud! in the top floor seminar room at the Carnegie Centre, and documentaries for thinkers in the Carnegie auditorium. Here are the details: A Taste of The Middle East Every Monday from 6 - 7.30 p.m, Gathering Place, with Shahla Masoumnejad Middle Eastern countries have a rich culture, and although they are frequently identified as one region, each country represents a distinguished culture that is rooted in ancient traditions. In this study group we enjoy and explore the beauty of these cultures. rd Very Close Reading, Aloud! Every Saturday from 12.00 - 2.00 p.m, Carnegie 3 fl seminar rm, wiSteve Wexler This group meets every Saturday to read & discuss some tirne-honored literature. Texts are supplied at the group. nd rd Documentaries for Thinkers Every 2 & 3 Saturday of the month from 6.00 p.m. Next screening, August 13. Where: Camegie Centre Auditorium Curator: Terence Lui Twice a month you can catch the latest scintillating documentaries from filmmakers across the globe. These films cover politics, nature, art, society, philosophy, science and more. Snacks and beverages are provided.
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