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A new report on the Downtown Eastside indicates the problems with the community's single-room occupany hotels are far worse and more extensive than anyone thought
Photo-Dan Toulgoet
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Hotel 911
One of the most comprehensive reports ever conducted on single-room occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside reveals the extent to which life is unsafe, unhealthy and miserable for the people who live there.
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Neighbour smoking them out
Tamara Szymanska-Golik's asthma has escalated dramatically over the past year because of a new chain-smoker next door.
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Councillor says smokers can take it to the streets
Smokers must be banned from bar and restaurant patios in Vancouver and should take their habits to the sidewalk, says a Vancouver city councillor.
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12th & Cambie
NPA boarding tonight.....Heritage Hall on Main Street will never be the same after tonight's political smackdown.
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Political ads on buses okay, for now
As politicians in Ottawa prepare for a possible spring election, the B.C. Court of Appeal confirmed its November 2006 decision to allow political advertising on the inside and outside of buses.
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Sounds and the city
The tap of tennis balls, the rhythm of the ocean and the shuffle of feet were some of the elements of an impromptu composition when Vancouver New Music hosted a "sound walk" this past Sunday in Stanley Park.
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Gladstone neighbour unhappy about extracurricular activities at school
First it was soccer players swamping his neighbourhood, and now it's churchgoers.
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New way of assisted living suits many seniors
Vancouver Coastal Health hopes two new housing complexes in South Vancouver will help seniors cope with old age and bridge a gap in the provincial health-care system.
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UBC midwifery students sign on for African expedition
When Dr. Mickey Rostoker worked in Uganda last year, he noted how the hospitals there lacked modern equipment, medication and even basic medical supplies.
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