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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 »
Car Free Vancouver Festivals – looking for volunteers
This just in from the fine folks who have been putting on the Car Free Vancouver festivals over the past few years: Car Free Vancouver Day 2010 will once again embrace our town in forward-looking fun and funkiness, on Sunday... Continue reading »
Dancing in the Street
Street take-overs come in all shapes and sizes, but some definitely manage to convey more of a sense of fun than others. After a raucous morning of anti-Olympic protests in downtown Vancouver that saw newspaper boxes overturned and several windows... Continue reading »