Supply & Demand
Cut scenes from an upcoming photo essay documenting life in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside.
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North America
A Police Scene on Hastings
Passerbys and police look out over the intersection of Hastings and Cambie. This corner marks the boundary between the trendy Gastown district and the Downtown Eastside, Canada’s poorest postal code and last night the scene of two unrelated shootings. Policemen…
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Missing Persons March
Every Valentine’s Day, the residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood band together to remember the women who have been targeted and picked off their streets by serial killers and rapists. This year’s march took on particular significance as it coincided…
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International Village
A centerpiece of the Vancouver city council’s much-ballyhooed attempts to resurrect the derelict downtown eastside, the upscale International Village shopping mall has become a classic example of how not to draw suburbia-bound shoppers back to the city core. Positioned upmarket…
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'Anonymous' Activists Raid Vancouver Scientology HQ
Worldwide branches of the Church of Scientology came under attack today from members of the loosely-knit internet collective ‘Anonymous’. Bound by a mantra of “We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us”,…
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Revolving Restaurant
Perched atop the 191-metre high Calgary Tower, the Panorama Dining Room is Calgary’s highest restaurant and offers unbroken city and mountain views on clear days. The restaurant completes its 360 degree circle in sixty minutes, approximately the time it takes…
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Industrial Calgary After Dark
Exploring the Ogden area east of downtown on the coldest night of 2008. Plumes of blowing snow cascade over concrete silos and warehouses. Airplane landing lights streak over the silos of Canada Malting, part of one of the largest barley…
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