Blog by Peter Jensen

Press: Garbage Plans Dumped!

August 10th, 2007

Hello Everyone!

Well, I don't think we're getting as much coverage as Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan but we were "newsworthy enough" to rate the following articles:

(This is the title used by 24 Hours newspaper)

You can view the 24 Hours newspaper article here:

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/08/10/4406838-sun.html

Or view page 3 coverage in "The Metro" newspaper:

http://www.metr ...

(Trying to) Help Keep our City Clean

August 8th, 2007

Wow!

We wanted to help out by getting some garbage picked up…big mistake.


We are NOT going to have garbage picked up.

We started to receive phone calls from CUPE members and their legal counsel. Soon we had 8 CUPE members
out front picketing our office. I went out front to let them know that we are not going to do the pick ups and so they left…(but I did get some interesting photos…)

O ...

Helping our City..

August 8th, 2007

Ah, the garbage strike. We thought that the city and the workers would reach an agreement. With every single other municipality reaching agreements, we assumed that the dispute would quickly come to an end however, it was not to be...

Myself and my colleague Ric Dai have decided to do our part to help keep Vancouver clean. We are providing free garbage removal service to 400 homes in the ...