News Archive
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April 27, 2011 "Vancouver Partners With S.U.C.C.E.S.S. To Help Seniors, The Homeless" Click here to read more. |
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April 27, 2011 "Hotel Eyed For Affordable Housing" Click here to read more. |
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April 27, 2011 "Homeless Activists To Build Tent Cities" Click here to read more. |
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April 26, 2011 "Housing Advocates Plan Tent Cities To Protest Vancouver Shelter Closures"Click here to read more. |
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April 25, 2011 "Last Minute Funding For Temporary Homeless Shelter" Click here to read more. |
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April 25, 2011 "Vancouver Shelter Funding Extended" Click here to read more. |
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April 22, 2011 "Vancouver Sets A Good Example On Social Housing" Click here to read more. |
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April 20, 2011 "Vancouver Protestors Now Need Permit For Street Structures" Click here to read more. |
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April 06, 2011 "Shipping Containers To House Women In DTES" Click here to read more. |
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April 05, 2011 "Container Housing On The Downtown Eastside" Click here to read more. |
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April 04, 2011 "Shipping Containers To Be Vancouver Housing" Click here to read more. |
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November 10, 2010 "Homeless Camp Not Currently An Option For Vancouver " Click here to read more. |
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November 09, 2010 "Our Homeless Neighbours Are Still Waiting For Housing"Click here to read more. |
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October 14, 2010 "Increased City Enforcement Of Standards Of Maintenance By-law Gets Results In Downtown Eastside" Click here to read more. |
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September 22, 2010 "City Issues Cattle Call For Modular Home Builders" Click here to read more. |
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September 21, 2010 "Owner Of American Hotel Refutes Downtown Eastside Rent Concerns"Click here to read more. |
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September 20, 2010 "Infamous Vancouver Hotel Set To Return" Click here to read more. |
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August 14, 2010 "Incinerating Metro Vancouver's Garbage " Click here to read more. |
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August 04, 2010 "Spy Who Loathed Me" Click here to read more. |
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July 11, 2010 "A Community Tarred With The Brush Of Disloyalty Hits Back" Click here to read more. |
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July 09, 2010 "Heeeeeere's Georgie!" Click here to read more. |
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June 28, 2010 "Spy Chief’s Remarks About Foreign Infiltration Wrong, Senior Tory Says" Click here to read more. |
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June 22, 2010 "Mental Illness Leads to Homelessness in BC " Click here to read more. |
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June 10, 2010 "Future MMA In Vancouver A Go With Caveats" Click here to read more. |
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June 02, 2010 "Housing Advocates Call For More Action" Click here to read more. |
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May 26, 2010 "Province Providing $205 Million For Social Housing" Click here to read more. |
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May 11, 2010 "Cooperation With Businesses Is Reducing Crime, Police Say" Click here to read more. |
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May 03, 2010 "Many Of Us Could Be Homeless At Some Point" Click here to read more. |
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April 22, 2010 "Housing For All" Click here to read more. |
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April 16, 2010 "Statement From Mayor Robertson On New HEAT Shelter Funding" Click here to read more. |
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April 16, 2010 "Province To Continue Funding Vancouver HEAT Shelters" Click here to read more. |
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April 15, 2010 "Homeless Shelters Reduced Police Calls" Click here to read more. |
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April 15, 2010 "Keeping Vancouver Safe: Controlling Chickens in the City of Vancouver(Chinese)" Click here to read more. |
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April 15, 2010 "Keeping Vancouver Safe: Controlling Chickens in the City of Vancouver" Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2010 "Four Homeless Shelters Will Soon Close Up Shop" Click here to read more. |
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April 09, 2010 "Jang To Minister Coleman: It’s Your Job To Pay The Operating Costs For Shelters" Click here to read more. |
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April 08, 2010 "Vancouver homeless tally increases 12% in two years" Click here to read more. |
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April 08, 2010 "Homeless on Vancouver's streets drops 47 per cent" Click here to read more. |
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April 07, 2010 "Budget Negotiations Will Determine Fate Of Homeless Shelters" Click here to read more. |
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April 01, 2010 "Doctor Issues Warning About B.C. Place Casino"Click here to read more. |
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March 31, 2010 "Voting For Change" Click here to read more. |
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March 31, 2010 "UFC Sorts Out Differences With Vancouver, Says UFC 115 Is A Go In June" Click here to read more. |
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March 25, 2010 "Council Considers Fee Increases " Click here to read more. |
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March 24, 2010 "Vancouver Observes Anti-Racism Day"Click here to read more. |
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March 23, 2010 "City Hopes Count Will Help End Homelessness By 2015 " Click here to read more. |
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March 23, 2010 "Vancouver Counts Its Homeless Today" Click here to read more. |
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March 23, 2010 "Initial Report Shows Emergency Shelters Beyond Capacity" Click here to read more. |
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March 23, 2010 "Homeless Count Underway In Vancouver " Click here to read more. |
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March 23, 2010 "Shanghai Expo Photo Exhibition Opens"Click here to read more. |
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March 18, 2010 "Province Asked To Save Historic School " Click here to read more. |
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March 16, 2010 "Chinatown Neon Light Switched On"Click here to read more. |
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March 03, 2010 "Acting Mayor Didn't Get Enough From Budget" Click here to read more. |
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March 03, 2010 "Provincial Budget Unveiled" Click here to read more. |
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March 03, 2010 "City Proclaims March 8 As International Women’s Day In Vancouver "Click here to read more. |
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February 18, 2010 "Vancouver City Councillors Reject Free Olympic Hockey Tickets"Click here to read more. |
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February 18, 2010 "Downtown Eastside Tent City Highlights Lack Of Housing In Vancouver"Click here to read more. |
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February 18, 2010 "Food-policy Failures Fan Hunger And Poverty"Click here to read more. |
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February 16, 2010 "SUCCESS Will Arrange For Viewing Winter Olympics Program" Click here to read more. |
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February 15, 2010 "Olympic Visitors Witness Vancouver Chinatown "At Its Best"" Click here to read more. |
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February 03, 2010 "Winter Olympics On Slippery Slope After Vancouver Crackdown On Homeless" Click here to read more. |
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January 29, 2010 "Red Tents To Spotlight Homelessness During Olympics" Click here to read more. |
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January 22, 2010 "Not Enough Female-Only Shelters, Advocate Says" Click here to read more. |
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January 18, 2010 "Supporting Housing Project For Women Launched"Click here to read more. |
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January 18, 2010 "Homeless Shelter Opens In Kitsilano, To Area's Relief" Click here to read more. |
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January 17, 2010 "Housing Advocates Unimpressed By VANOC Charity" Click here to read more. |
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January 11, 2010 "Vancouver Officials Expect Fewer Complaints About HEAT Shelters"Click here to read more. |
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January 11, 2010 "Plans For Two More Shelters For Vancouver's Homeless"Click here to read more. |
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January 11, 2010 "About One-third Of Shelter Residents French-speaking" Click here to read more. |
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January 11, 2010 "New Rules Aim To Curb Complaints" Click here to read more. |
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January 10, 2010 "Two New Temporary Shelters For Vancouver's Homeless Are Already At Capacity" Click here to read more. |
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January 08, 2010 "Dead Workers Remembered" Click here to read more. |
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January 07, 2010 "Community Grieves Passing Of West End Homeless Man" Click here to read more. |
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January 05, 2010 "New shelter faced with language needs" Click here to read more. |
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January 04, 2010 "More Shelters On The Way" Click here to read more. |
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January 01, 2010 "Chinatown Syndrome"Click here to read more. |
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December 30 , 2009 "Kerry Jang Pushes Vancouver City Council To Address Mental Health"Click here to read more. |
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December 17 , 2009 "UFC Officials Make Their Case For Vancouver Card In June 2010" Click here to read more. |
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December 17, 2009 "Four Low-barrier Shelters To Open This Winter" Click here to read more. |
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December 17, 2009 "City Rounds Up For MMA Debate" Click here to read more. |
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December 17 , 2009 "UFC Chiefs To Make Personal Plea To City " Click here to read more. |
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December 16 , 2009 "Vancouver Council Expected To Approve Mixed Martial Arts Events"Click here to read more. |
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December 15, 2009 "MMA Decision Could Be Made This Week" Click here to read more. |
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December 09 , 2009 "Canadian Alliance Of Chinese Associations Meeting"(Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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December 09 , 2009 "Canadian Alliance Of Chinese Associations Meeting" (Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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December 09, 2009 "Vancouver Planning More Homeless Shelters " Click here to read more. |
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November 29, 2009 "UFC One Step Closer To Reality In Vancouver" Click here to read more. |
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November 28, 2009 "Mixed Martial Arts Crowd Isn’t “Hooligans”, Fighter Says After Vancouver Event" Click here to read more. |
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November 28, 2009 "Vancouver Hosts First MMA Fight In Two Years" Click here to read more. |
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November 27, 2009 "Promoters Going By The Book " Click here to read more. |
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October 28 , 2009 "What To Do About The Homeless?" Click here to read more. |
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October 23, 2009 "Homeless Count" Click here to read more. |
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October 23, 2009 "Western Canada's Largest Climate Day of Action Oct 24th 2009" (Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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October 23, 2009 "Western Canada's Largest Climate Day of Action Oct 24th 2009 (Chinese)" Click here to read more. |
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September 24, 2009 "Proposed provincial law allowing removal of homeless from streets may violate Charter rights" Click here to read more. |
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September 22, 2009 "HST’s impact on sales of Olympic Village units" Click here to read more. |
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September 16, 2009 "Swag Revealed" Click here to read more. |
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September 3, 2009 "Downtown Hotel To Become Site Of Housing Project" Click here to read more. |
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August 25, 2009 "City Councillors To Request City Support For Inquiry" Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2009 "COPE and Vision Cooperate To Address Issues Relating To Sex Trade" Click here to read more. |
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July 22, 2009 "VANDU's Ticket Blitz Demands Out Of City's Jurisdiction" Click here to read more. |
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July 13, 2009 "Province, City Eye Former Jail To House Homeless " Click here to read more. |
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July 10, 2009 "Vancouver Council Taking Landlord To Court Over Repairs" Click here to read more. |
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July 09 , 2009 "Shelter Closed But Not Forgotten " Click here to read more. |
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June 25, 2009 "Temporary housing waiting on provincial funds " Click here to read more. |
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June 25 , 2009 "Thousands back keeping shelters open" Click here to read more. |
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June 24, 2009 "Councilor Kerry Jang troubled by False Creek North residents' push to close homeless shelters" Click here to read more. |
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June 24 , 2009 "US Couple tells State Department False Creek North is Unsafe " Click here to read more. |
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June 22, 2009 "Fearful Residents urge city to close Vancouver Homeless Shelters" Click here to read more. |
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June 11, 2009 "Vancouver Waits for Homeless Shelter Funding from Province " Click here to read more. |
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June 11, 2009 "Sex-Worker Outreach Program in Jeopardy" Click here to read more. |
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June 09, 2009 "Vancouver Emergency Shelters Draw Fire From Neighbours" Click here to read more. |
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June 09, 2009 "Neighbours Want Homeless Shelters Shut Down" Click here to read more. |
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May 21, 2009 "Mayor's Optimism Can't Convince Homelessness Researchers " Click here to read more. |
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May 21, 2009 "Vancouver Homeless Shelters due to Close in June" Click here to read more. |
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May 13, 2009 "Vancouver's Last XXX Theatre Can Stay Open, Councillors Rule" Click here to read more. |
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April 20, 2009 "Stand Up for Mental Health Vancouver " Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2009 "Homeless Victim's Murder Sparks Call To Action (Chinese)" Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2009 "Residents Rattled By Death" Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2009 "Homeless Man's Murder Prompts Calls For Housing" Click here to read more. |
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March 27, 2009 "Stand Up for Mental Health 2008-2009 Update" Click here to read more. |
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March 10, 2009 "Shelters Get Three Month Extension" Click here to read more. |
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March 10, 2009 "Shelter Doors Open for Three More Months " Click here to read more. |
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March 09, 2009 "Province To Fund Emergency Shelters Until May" Click here to read more. |
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January 29, 2009 "UBC psychiatry professor and city councillor Kerry Jang has passed a motion that will lead to Vancouver dealing more effectively with issues of mental illness." Click here to read more. |
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January 23, 2009 "City badly needs mental health advocate" Click here to read more . |
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January 07, 2009 "New shelter to accomodate 100 homeless" Click here to read more . |
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January 02, 2009 "Vision councillor calls for mental health advocate" Click here to read more. |
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December 12, 2008 "Kerry interviewed by the Observer" Click here to read more. |
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October 28, 2008 "Ways We Can Win!"Click here to read more. |
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September 21, 2008 "Incumbents Return to Vision Vancouver Council Slate " Click here to read more. |
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September 19, 2008 "Stuart Mackinnon and Adrian Dix join together to support Kerry Jangs's and Andrea Reimer's Council Nomination Bids "Click here to read more. |
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September 16, 2008 "Nomination Day September 20th"Click here to read more. |
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September 15, 2008 "Milk and Cookies Not The Problem in Downtown Eastside"Click here to read more. |
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September 09, 2008 "Reimer, Jang, and Dhaliwal Call for Three Month Car Free Trial on Davie, Commercial, and in the Punjabi Market" Click here to read more. |
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August 27, 2008 "Vision team says Vancouver should intervene in Insite appeal to defend supervised injection site from Conservative legal attack "Click here to read more. |
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August 12, 2008 "Reimer & Jang Take to the Streets to Recruit Transit Users for TransLink "Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2008 "Kerry Jang Seeks Nomination under Vision Vancouver Banner" (English and Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2008 "Kerry Jang Announces He is Running for Vancouver City Council" (English and Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2008 "UBC Professor Kerry Jang Seeks Vision Vancouver Nomination" (English and Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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Jul 24, 2008 "Andrea Reimer – Kerry Jang Joint Launch Statement"Click here to read more. |
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February 5, 2008 "Can this be true? A Vancouver police department study reports that more than 30 per cent of police service calls city-wide involved the mentally ill, with that number approaching 50 per cent in some neighbourhoods." Click here to read more. |
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February 4, 2008 "UBC professor Kerry Jang has told the Straight that a new Vancouver Police Department report suggests that officers on the beat are “truly in crisis mode”. Jang, an expert in psychiatry and statistical analysis, claimed that a lack of mental health facilities in Vancouver has led to a shift in how the VPD functions." Click here to read more. |
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January 17, 2008 "Kerry Jang, a Vision Vancouver member and a declared aspirant for a slot on the party’s council slate, said the nomination rules allow for flexibility in working with COPE. Vision councillor George Chow noted that there’s still plenty of time for the two parties to work out their differences before the election". Click here to read more. |
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April 13, 2007 "Under the mayor's Project Civil City initiative, city hall hopes to develop long-term and sustainable solutions to homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness by 2010. However, Think City board member and public health expert Dr. Kerry Jang says the city's harm reduction efforts must focus on all drugs, including alcohol. Dr. Jang cites a just-published study in the British medical journal the Lancet that finds alcohol is more dangerous than many illegal drugs as one more reason why the proposed liquor outlet expansion has to be carefully considered." From Think City Minute April 13, 2007. |
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January 29, 2007 "According to Think City board member and UBC Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Kerry Jang, the Sullivan plan does not provide any details on the medical justification for the treatment program, what specific drugs addicts will be prescribed, or how addicts are to be reliably monitored or followed up by those administering the program." From Think City Minute January 29, 2007. |
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January 17, 2007 "Think City board member and mental health expert Dr. Kerry Jang says NPA Councillor Kim Capri needs to retool her Project Civil City initiative, saying council has the wrong solution and is largely ignoring the needs of homeless people who are not mentally ill." From Think City Minute January 17, 2007. |
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May 3, 2006 In a Vancouver Sun letter to the editor, UBC Prof. of Psychiatry Kerry Jang argues: "It's very sad to see that Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan prefers to blame his political opponents for the furore over his 'research' on drug addiction instead of recognizing that his actions were simply irresponsible. There is no excuse for providing substance abusers with drugs just to see what happens." Click here to read more about what Kerry wrote. |