“Some people, like us, use dumpster diving for food items as a supplement, freeing their family up to be able to afford other things. Others are resorting to it as a means of survival.”
"'Means of survival': From street pantries to dumpster diving, how Metro Vancouver families combat high food prices" as told by @SarahGrochowski via @VancouverSun
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
https://t.co/C10FHax2Fv
Parks, pools and community centres are what make our cities wonderful. We’ve got to start acting like it and make these important safety and maintenance investments.
Amidst all this real estate wealth, why all this cultural (with others) poverty
"From street parties to fireworks: Why Vancouver’s festival scene is on shaky ground" as told by @SarahGrochowski via @VancouverSun#bcpoli#vanpoli#vanre
https://t.co/48j4gfbdZr
Forget the fake outrage over the Kits Pool nothing-burger.
There are actual, absurd restrictions on using Vancouver pools:
At the Kensington Community Centre pool, a mom was told that she was not allowed to teach her own daughter how to swim.
https://t.co/cBXxjEPpYV
@SarahGrochowski on her experience volunteering with a DTES running group illustrates how the Vancouver Sun Run is about building healthy, connected communities. Hope to see you at the start line with 50k participants on Sunday - biggest run since 2010. https://t.co/BEKibB5ymf
This is just the saddest story from my colleague Tiffany Crawford - to think this family could have had answers in 2008. https://t.co/IyafYlqkNY via @VancouverSun
#VanRE@SarahGrochowski Diversion of prescribed opioids. Alleged scheme involving incentives offered by dozens of pharmacies to patients, doctors & housing providers that prescribed drugs were being trafficked provincially, nationally and internationally. https://t.co/5iY9b97M9f
“Forever neighbours, never neighbors.”
Funny, but some consider this "hate speech."
Message highlights the difference in Canadian and American spelling.
It's also a swipe at Trump’s suggestion Canada become the 51st state.
Nice, via @SarahGrochowski
https://t.co/VVMTxGgb8u
'Seeking to avoid scrutiny?'
Vancouver council suspends integrity commissioner's work.
Commissioner would not be able to investigate complaints. Via @SarahGrochowski
Extreme suspicion warranted.
#vanre#vanpoli#bcpoli
https://t.co/h2mlJm6SBi via @VancouverSun
The woman who fought for Vancouver's @DrPeterCentre_, Shirley Young, is dying of cancer, but making one last appeal to help people living with #HIV#AIDS, the illness that claimed her son’s life, by @SarahGrochowski https://t.co/4RMwU47sqB via @VancouverSun
#VanRE#cdnpoli@SarahGrochowski Inquiry finds foreign interference may have cost him his seat is calling on the Liberal gov’t to follow through with its promise of a foreign agent registry … the extent of the impact of foreign interference is unknown, https://t.co/i5VZYlNR4e
“It was bad & is only getting worse... It is not OK that people are sleeping under underpasses for shelter & risking fire to keep themselves warm” - @KeirMacdonald_
More shelter space needed now in Tri-Cities: advocate
by @sarahgrochowski#bcpoli#SDoH
https://t.co/dLlCI9aeId