Gastown residents alarmed at recycling depot's relocation plans

These folks have every right to be worried. If the recycling depot moves across the street from where they live - their hood will become a living nightmare.

The best thing to do is to LOCK UP EVERY SINGLE GARBAGE BIN in the city.

Scroll down to the YouTube video posting of Hastings Street added February 17th. THAT is what this couple's street will look like if United We Can moves across the street.

City wants homeless in emergency shelters during Olympics - Vancouver Sun

A few minutes later, wondering how far I was from the office, I looked out the taxi window again. It was another city. Dozens of people stood in what looked like a breadline outside a shelter. At least 100 people sat or lay on garbage-strewn sidewalks. Surrounding buildings were boarded up. A skeleton of a woman was begging on the curb.

Had the Great Recession finally hit Vancouver? Had I been transported to Detroit?

Nope. Just another day in the Downtown Eastside, on East Hastings Street. First, I wondered if the people at Mercer had seen this. Then I wondered what our political leaders have been doing for the last five years.