Empowerment
through calendar sales One of Pivot’s most well-known
empowerment and public education campaigns has been
the Downtown Eastside (DTES) photography contest...
Remembering
missing women About 1,000 local people walked
through the local streets of Vancouver’s Downtown
Eastside on February 14. Disparues mais ancrées dans nos mémoires
RCMP
investigation: to serve & protect whom? After the RCMP investigation into Vancouver
police wrongdoing was released on March 31, the Chief
of Police, Jamie Graham, declared his department had been
cleared of misconduct...
Hope
in Shadows goes Uptown The best photographs from the past three
years of the Downtown Eastside photography contest were
exhibited from December 8 when an exhibition of their
work opened at HSBC’s Pendulum Gallery...
Lucky
Lodge uncertainty The Lucky Lodge hotel's future became
uncertain again when the new management was locked out on
May 29. The lockout came only four days after a new license...
Close
call after Burns Block shut While helping a 60-year-old First Nations'
woman move to her new apartment with a team of Pivot Legal
Society staff and volunteers, I had a "moment of truth."
It was a realization...
More
low-income housing closures Many people have been forced out of Single Room Occupancy
(SRO) hotels recently closed or converted in the Downtown
Eastside – with almost 300 low-income people losing
their homes since June 2005.
