Vancouver Sun- MP Hedy Fry stands by decision forcing Granville Island newsstand owner out
Chia-Ning Chen’s Tuck Shop, which sells a wide range of newspapers and necessities, “does not fit” the federal housing agency’s future vision for the Island, says Hedy Fry
“The island is expanding its arts and culture and increasing the diversity of the people who have shops on the island,” Fry told Postmedia. “The Tuck Shop does not fit into these things,” as they were outlined in the Granville Island 2040 report.
h/t Cameron
What to know what’s wrong with this country?
Look no further than the ugly truth that Hedy Fry keeps getting reelected.
IMO it’s not fixable.
Exactly. Now multiple that times all the rest of the ridings in Canada. As we can clearly see, there is no hope left for this country.
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Hedy’s constituency office is still closed ‘due to Covid-19’ – the sign on the door reads. Oddly enough, her campaign office was wide open last fall while she was busy vying for another term at the trough. Is there anyone who better exemplifies the need for term limits than this MP?
Ed..
Was about to post something near Identical.
That’s the Lower MAOland for ya…
i had no idea that lying sack of puss was still in government
Another reason for me to hate Lotusland……
DO NOT dismiss all of us in Hedy Fry’s riding! I seriously resent this sweeping statement. I have not been represented in parliament for the past 25 years. Having lived in this riding for years, there are at least 25-30% who never voted for her, the greenies nor the NDP. I have worked for conservatives here in the past and was a scrutineer, so know how this vote splits. She gets in on the alphabet vote plus urban well-educated males and females, especially. Not this Alberta-born chick. I voted for Max, for leader, and in the past election.
Who put the federal Nazi Party in charge of local development in BC? The federal Nazis are the ones that declared the Enabling Act to enforce parking regulations in Ottawa.
hahahaha. Come on, man!
There’s a park dedicated to long-time Trudeau cabinet minister Ron Basford on Granville Island. It’s always been a Liberal redoubt.
When I was at UBC more than 40 years ago, we used to call the place “Granola Island”.
Times have changed, somewhat …
Obviously Chia-Ning Chen did not contribute enough money to the Liberal Party or the Trudeau Foundation.
Chia-Ning Chen came to Canada for the freedom create a small business and advance society through productivity. Chia-Ning Chen didn’t realize he actually settled in Trudeauland and its fascist regime.
I always liked this shop and supported it with little purchases.
*she*
If you read the 2040 report that Hedy Fry references, the report focuses on diversity, earning tourist dollars and getting rid of parking. That means that we locals will be unable to carry but a single bag of food, or will not go, so the expanded market will die in non-tourist season, which is 8 months of the year. Chia-Ning Chen’s business serves diverse locals with international papers – how does that business not meet the goals? She also serves local people and touri with stuff they need.
I do love going to Granville Island by ferry, as I live in False Creek, but if I want serious food, I bring my car to transport several bags.
Hedy Fry – not retired enough!!!!! brick bats to sylphs on the planning committee.
The could at least have had the decency to bankrupt the place with a lockdown before chucking him out.
her
If your minority group has had a tendency to be successful – sorry, but you don’t count. We only subsidize failure here.
Hetty sees Crosses burning where ever she waddles.
Pretty much sums up our urban comrades,when a creature so ignorant and evil constantly gets reelected.
It’s for arts and culture and diversity. The liberal orgasm trifecta.
Do you think the decision was racially motivated? Didn’t fit the neighbourhood profile? Isn’t that racial profiling?
Or was it only political?
“We want to get back to being a very groundbreaking, innovative place where we’re grappling with some of the big problems of the world,” Apparently losing your livelihood isn’t a big problem in Hedy’s world.
Don’t know anything about Granville Island, but how is a shopping area going to “grapple” with any “big problems of the world?” All I want to know from a shopping area is if they have the goods that I want, or need.
big problems of the world
To the avacado toast class, not being able to get your pumpkin spice latte when you want it, where you want it is a world-scale catastrophe.
Barb – great question. and BAD – an appropriate answer. Hedy is an elitist, clearly.
Granville Island, is a federal property. CMHC”owns” it.
It has always been a politically controlled entity, and we KNOW how the LIEBrawls love to control everything.
And yes, Hedy Fry signifies much of what is wrong with this country, she has plenty of company in that regard. Canada’s Barbara Boxer. Dumb as a bag of hammers, but everything is a nail to these fcking tyrants!
Hedy Fry has always been a stupid b!#ch.
“…increasing the diversity of the people who have shops…” = “Asians GTFO”? Mental illness on display in L.A. North, what else is new…
Well the elites certainly have come out from hiding their light in the bushes, sniff they really do loath us don’t they?
Just wondering if the proper response going forward is that everyone attending future protests should pin the Star of David on their sleeve?
Would be a real problem then if they sent the riot police to break up the protest wouldn’t it.
Very good quality image here:
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/cabinet_030_calame_jon_001.jpg
You could print it out at home or even make one. There’s bound to be people who’ll be offended, but how you handle that is up to you. Tell them why and you might find a few with open minds.
The offending stall is smaller than one Ocean concrete truck.
Hedy Fry is a prime example of a Liberal MP
Ms. Chen was probably not sufficiently supportive of the Communist Party of China and word was passed down to Little Potato to put the pressure on her.
Can’t make it up can you? “We’re pushing diversity and inclusion. You’re the odd one out so we’re getting rid of you.”
It’s always the same. The name of the thing is just the opposite of what it is.
During the last federal election, which color was the political support sign in front of her business?
In all likelihood, there wasn’t one because everyone already knows the NIMBY state of mind in that area.
Your lieberal government that has run up a $1,218,000,000,000 debt
https://www.debtclock.ca/
Making business decisions, it’s beyond laughable.
Here’s a bigger problem. Yes, you will feel the impact.
https://usdebtclock.org/
Chen is undoubtedly a racist, misogynist (don’t ask me how, this crap isn’t supposed to be coherent) member of a fringe group. That’s all it takes to void all of your civil liberties in the Trudopia dictatorship.
Charge her with mischief and freeze her bank accounts.
60 days to comply with our plans set 18 years into the future.
It’s amazing that one could run a business in such headwinds by simply giving the market what it wants. I guess that’s the core of the problem.
Fifteen years ago the young owner of a software engineering company bought a two-storey Victorian style house in Scarborough and had plans to renovate it for his wife who’s wheelchair bound. He followed all of the municipal rules and had the plans on view at city hall for 1 full year before the scheduled starting date. One week before construction he was informed by the City of Toronto that his house had been declared an historic site without even bothering to tell him the process was underway.
At the same time an architect in Toronto was tired of having to pay to have her office building exterior constantly repainted because of vandalism. She decided to think outside the box and held a competition for the local graffiti artists, the winner getting the honour of having their work on display for all to see without threat of repainting. One of the wonderful women on city council forced her to cover it because she, the counselor, had a degree in art appreciation and she thought it was ugly. That was her reasoning.
Forcing a business out of an area because they’re the wrong kind of diverse is par for the course in this country.
“Around 275 businesses employ 2,500 people on Granville Island. For staff at the market’s various cafés, food stalls and bakeries, Chen’s store was a place for them to grab necessities such as tampons, eye drops or batteries.”
Sounds like the Byward Market. If you want designer bubble tea, you’re in clover. If you need a light bulb you have to drive to the Canadian Tire on Coventry Road (ironically enough) since the last hardware store closed.
Our blessed retail sector is geared towards selling luxuries to people who have done precisely nothing to earn them. The rest of us are expected to be content with whatever crap we can just about afford at Dollarama.
Our blessed retail sector is geared towards selling luxuries to people who have done precisely nothing to earn them.
It’s been that way for more than 40 years.
The old Woodward’s chain, which had stores in B. C. and Alberta, went under for that very reason. It made its reputation with newly-arrived immigrants, partly because that’s where many of them worked. It sold basic items, whether it was dry goods or groceries, at reasonable prices and it built a loyalty among those of us from the old country.
In the late 1970s/early ’80s, it started chasing the yuppie market. The outlet near where I lived at the time reflected that by changing its inventory from the aforementioned basics and emphasizing brand-name items that appealed to those people. Immigrants and deplorables weren’t the kinds of customers the chain was interested in.
It came as a bit of a shock that the company declared bankruptcy shortly after celebrating its centenary, leaving a distinct hole in that part of the economy.
some friend of the management has the the short cut to remove her. she is too successful and jealous eyes have asked for her place.
Something similar happened in Southgate Shopping Centre in Edmonton about 20 years ago.
Back then, there was a shop that sold coffee and tea. It was located beside what had then become the Sears outlet. (It was originally the now-defunct Woodwards, taken over by the now-defunct Eaton’s, and Sears abandoned its now-defunct Heritage Mall location and moved a few km north to Southgate. Is that location cursed, by any chance?)
I regularly went there to buy tea after the old Woodwards Food Floor stopped stocking Twinings. I eventually was on speaking terms with the original owner, because I was frequently there, and he was relieved when Eaton’s took over that spot as much of his business came from employees at that location.
Sometime in the mid- or late 1990s, the store changed hands. I still went there as the Woodwards grocery store had changed into Safeway and it didn’t carry loose tea.
In the late 1990s, Starbucks opened up two outlets in Southgate. One was beside where Coles Books used to be and the other inside the Safeway. A few years later, the shopping centre management ordered the coffee/tea shop to make about $100,000 worth of renovations, or else.
The owners couldn’t afford the expense and, soon afterward, closed the place. I think it was taken over by a health food store or something like that. (That whole section of the shopping centre is undergoing a massive renovation, which has been in progress since a few months after Sears went out of business.)
I wouldn’t be surprised if the pressure on the owners of that shop came from Starbucks.
As for my source of loose tea, someone opened a similar shop at the south end of the shopping centre at roughly the same time. I went there a few times, but it stocked only a few blends of tea, which was way over-priced. That location is now a Tim Hortons.
I’ve since reduced the number of tea blends I have at home. My only sources now are stores such as SuperStore or SaveOn Foods. I can buy, say, half a kilo of a black Indian tea for much less than what some specialty shop charges nowadays.
“A new “food innovation district” will allow visitors to participate in local food production, processing and culinary art programming.“ Sounds like something subsidized. Why is the government running a mall. Good place to start when a conservative government gets in.
Before you flame me note the small c in conservative.
If you are looking for tea try one of the T&T shops in Edmonton or a Chinese grocery. They improved my diet.
Putting my two cents in. Why does this little shop not fit into the future vision for the island? The question I have is does the fact that this little shop sells cigarettes have any bearing on things? Or do they have a lease lined up for a large drug store type retailer? Just wondering?
“We want to get back to being a very groundbreaking, innovative place where we’re grappling with some of the big problems of the world,” he said.”
Priceless! A business selling artisan food will help solve the world’s problems.
Do these guys read their own BS?