Morning Brew: Bingo! Bango! Bongo! Luongo!

Posted by Sean
Filed in News
October 1, 2008

Either it was a slow news day or I'm taking crazy pills... again.

Temporary Transportation. Streetcar project to alleviate 2010 transit chaos. Hey, let's build a monorail while we're at it, and a gondola across false creek!

Temporary Housing. Activists offer plan to quickly house Downtown Eastside's homeless. Better yet, let's build a whole fake city to impress the empress.

Apathy Ale is the brew of choice amid voter disinterest in election. Oh you're just so clever! You've come up with some cute little beer's to match the candidates! "Stephen's Stout is brewed in Alberta and doesn't go over particularly well at gallery openings and theatre award galas." Oh that'll get the liberal hordes in a tizzy! How witty! No but seriously you should never write another editorial for as long as you live.

Students back gay-friendly course. Is this apathy John Martin? Its in your own home town. Seems you're a little out of touch...

Like Rob Anders.

Comment on yesterday's Morning Brew: "I am moving to Vancouver from London next month/ I have a place arranged on 350 East 2nd Avenue/ is this counted as one of the bad areas or is this too far south?"

Video: Who Killed Canada?

Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City.

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thanks sean!

Posted by: nofutureface at October 1, 2008 9:25 AM | Quote Comment

Its great to see students from my former highschool protest this typical bullshit going on in Abbotsford.

Posted by: JDP at October 1, 2008 3:18 PM | Quote Comment

Temporary Housing. Activists offer plan to quickly house Downtown Eastside's homeless.

Therin lies the fundamental flaw with SRO hotels. These are privately held business properties, and so long as they are paying their taxes and are up to code - the state hasn't got the right to tell private citizens what they should and shouldn't do with their assets. If an owner feels that renting rooms to addicts and mentally ill is a sound business model - then that's their perogative.

Pressuring property owners to deal with the government's problems is just plain wrong. If the city wants to offer special incentives for private properties to house the homeless then great - but at some level someone has to step up to the plate and start asking the tough questions like why we need to house the least functional members of our society in prime real estate - while many of the working poor are unable to even live in the city.

How much responsibility is to be shouldered by Vancouver tax payers for the legions of homeless that descend on this city from around the province, around the country and beyond..

Ladner's response to the Tyee is worth reading

Posted by: jerry Incognito at October 2, 2008 10:20 AM | Quote Comment

Let's be real here, jerry. Gentrifying the DTES isn't about opening up "prime real estate" to the working poor, it's about opening up prime real estate to the ever increasing influx of yuppies who have gotten bored of the suburbs.

Posted by: jen at October 2, 2008 6:03 PM | Quote Comment