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Liberal- Tory oil price stand blasted

— page 3

Wednesday, July 25, 1984
Newsstand Price 40° Voll. 47, No. 29

Unite for
democracy
urges Chile

manifesto

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Affordable Housing Committee representative Adolf Ingre (r to 1),
COPE alderman Bruce Yorke, Building Trades Council president Roy
Gautier, Communist Party leader and Vancouver-Centre candidate
Maurice Rush and Solidarity organizer Jean Swanson were among

Officials who took part in the walking tour of Vancouver's Downtown
Eastside July 20 to see first-hand the housing crisis that has emerged
in the wake of Expo and B.C. Place development. The Downtown
Eastside Residents’ Association, which organized the tour, told par-
ticipants that contrary to the widely-held view, the area is ‘‘the most
Stable community outside Dunbar” and has 10,000 permanent resi-
dents. But because of new development, more than 2,000 housing
_ Units will be lost, unless action is taken, the organization warned.
Significantly, however, neither Socred government representatives
nor Tory MP Pat Carney took part and although Expo 86 chairman
Jim Pattison did, he offered little indication that Expo is prepared to
do anything. But DERA is hopeful that the tour focused new atten-
tion on the issue. (Emergency plan urged, page 2.)

some 30 politicians, labor and community leaders and government

Transit company

veto scuttles
bus return plan

‘TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

Time for city autonomy
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Trades target Expo board
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