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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.

Updated Sept 1, 2010

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