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The New Canada Line Culture: more urban, more engaged.
Thanks in part to the efforts of what I call the new “Canada Line Culture”, we are now more consciously participating on the urban stage. Our game face is on, and it’s amazing what is happening!... Continue reading »
VPSN Surveillance Map
With the Olympic Games in full swing, we’ve been getting a lot of requests for the map we did of all the surveillance cameras (CCTV) in the Downtown and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods. The good news is that this map is... Continue reading »
NY Times asks: “where’s the square?”
A couple of eagle eyed VPSN members alerted us to the recent travel article in the February 14, 2010 edition of the New York Times. Blame the great outdoors, but Vancouver lacks a central square — a place for citizens... Continue reading »
Can you give me an example of the words in your head and how they might be used while in Canada?
The following poem was read by Brad Cran (City of Vancouver Poet Laureate) at the city’s new tent village — which was set up yesterday afternoon on a vacant lot at Hastings and Abbott Street, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The... Continue reading »
Women’s Memorial March
A crowd of several thousand people gathered in front of the Carnegie Centre for the 19th annual Women’s Memorial March. The event honours the lives of missing and murdered women – not only in the Downtown Eastside but across the... Continue reading »