Tag: W2

W2Gate: Has Irwin Oostinde Been Running Vancouver’s New “Piggie’s Palace”? (feat. The Pickton Bros.)

Jamie Lee Hamilton just made a super-interesting posting on her Facebook page. What she says not only exposes some pretty dirty information on what’s been happening at the City of Vancouver funded W2 Media Centre, but also some insights to the Robert Pickton serial killer inquiry. It seems that there’s a lot more to the …

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Is Vision Vancouver Facing A Scandal At The W2 Media Centre? (Feat. Sex, Drugs & Money…)

There’s something strange going on at the W2 Media Centre- I smell a scandal. I’ve written about them a few times in the past- my interest in the place began during an exchange I had with their (former) executive director Irwin Oostindie. He was evasive, weasel-like, and he became quite abusive when I wrote to him …

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Libby Davies, Sequel 138, Vancouver’s DTES And The Old-Left Saviour Industrial Complex®

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of when I attended my first Harsha Walia protest– I’ve been confounded by it ever since. The protest was in front of a development named Sequel 138 in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES).   It seemed like a sound project to me- the developer was taking down a derelict, unused, building and …

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Updated: Another Person’s Synopsis Of The Vancouver DTES Activistocrats…

I’ve been thinking about October 15th, the one-year anniversary for Canadian occupations. What were people thinking back when it happened, how do those from the outside view it now? So, while searching for some things today, I came across this comment from an article on the Georgia Strait from October 7th. The article is about the …

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