Posts Tagged ‘ neighbourhood ’

Olympic Neighbourhoods – The West End

Feb 17th, 2010 | By John Horn | Category: Features, Local

As a key media outlet for the 2010 Olympics, the Daily Gumboot is excited to bring you our “Olympics Neighbourhoods” series. Here’s how it works: each week, Managing Editor, Kurt Heinrich, and Editor-in-Chief, John will profile a different Vancouver neighbourhood with a specific focus on things that might interest out-of-town visitors who arrive in The [...]



Our NIMBY Dilemma

Jun 4th, 2009 | By Kurt Heinrich | Category: Local, The Cultural Landscape, Uncategorized

We live on Commercial Drive. Behind our apartment is an alleyway frequented by dozens of bottle scavengers as well as a growing colony of homeless people and drifters. The colony is lodged under an overhang parking area. During the winter time, my partner sometimes dropped off hot soup or food for the residents living there. [...]