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July 2006

   

Target-shooting note triggers questions about police chief's judgment
Whatever was going through Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham's mind when he placed a folded target with bullet holes through its head and heart on the desk of City Manager Judy Rogers? [more]
[Vancouver Sun, July 29, 2006]

Safer law: moving from theory to practice
The criminalisation of HIV transmission may be the starkest - and most publicised - intrusion by the law into the lives of HIV-positive individuals, but it is certainly not the only way that the legal system is changing the face of HIV in the United Kingdom in 2006.
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[aidsmap news, July 19, 2006]

Outcry greets plan to shut hotel for poor
Loss of rooms will increase homelessness, advocates say, but ministry, city disagree.
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[The Globe and Mail, July 19, 2006 SUBSCRIBERS ONLY]

 

Low-wage housing squeezed
Pivot Legal Society’s David Eby says 514 low-income rooms were lost between 2003 and 2005. Pre-Olympic Vancouver is about to be hit by a wave of gentrification, according to a Pivot Legal Society lawyer, and Woodward’s is the “beachhead”. [more]
[Georgia Straight, July 13, 2006]

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