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Vision Vancouver calls on Suzanne Anton to apologize for ‘negative and insulting’ comment about Downtown Eastside
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Back and forth Excerpts from the Twitter scrap: @VisionVancouver: We’re calling on @suzanneanton to apologize for calling all of Downtown Eastside “pimps and dealers.� @VisionVancouver: As part of opposing new social housing for teenage girls, @suzanneanton + NPA call DTES all “pimps and dealers�. More negative NPA attacks @NPAVancouver: We are for housing for vulnerable girls, but it is common sense that we put them in a safe location. Re-read @visionvancouver
column critical of the project. “It is a very concerning project,� he said. “We think the Downtown Eastside is a neighbourhood whose challenges have really been front and centre in a lot of people’s minds for a generation.� There’s no need to apologize, he added, because it was a just a big misunderstanding. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS
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A rescued male California sea lion is tended to on Thursday. Vancouver Aquarium sta successfully pulled out a large ďŹ shing hook swallowed by the animal, saving its life in the process. Story, page 6.
The Twitterverse was filled with heated exchanges between the Non-Partisan Association and Vision Vancouver Thursday after a controversial tweet made by the NPA about the Downtown Eastside. On Wednesday night, the NPA tweeted: “Neighborhood of pimps, dealers, needles and violence — would you want your daughter here?� The debate centred around a new supportive-housing development for teenage aboriginal girls that will be built in the DTES. Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs said while he welcomes a debate about the project’s location, the approach the NPA took reflected a “divisive and negative attitude.� Vision also called on NPA mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton to apologize to DTES residents. But NPA city council candidate Mike Klassen admitted they made a mistake by not putting quotation marks on some of the words, and pointed out it was a direct quote from a Vancouver Courier
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