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Olympic red tents wrap-up

March 3, 2010
| Olympic Canadian Pavilion wrapped up in red tent protest. We talked to John Richardson about how the campaign went and what is next for Pivot and the National Housing Strategy protest.

14:28 minutes (13.25 MB)
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Vancouver's Megaphone speaks out

March 9, 2010
| Writer and editor Kevin Hollett talks about the Megaphone, the Olympics and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

10:57 minutes (10.03 MB)
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Social enterprise lawyers

March 17, 2010
| This week we talked to Katrina Pacey, managing partner of Pivot Legal LLP, about an exciting event coming up where they will be judged.

9:36 minutes (8.79 MB)
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Vancouver Homeless shelter dwellers meet, closure deadline looms

April 8, 2010
| Wendy Pedersen talks about planned closures of the homeless shelters opened before the Olympics.

12:06 minutes (11.09 MB)
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Red Tent on sidewalk - ticket cancelled after Pivot action

May 4, 2010
| A homeless man's Red Tent on the sidewalk outside BC's courthouse resulted in a violation ticket being handed out and then cancelled

8:59 minutes (8.23 MB)
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Dumpster diver market in Vancouver

June 15, 2010
| Tami Starlight from the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council talks about a new, organized street vendor market for binners and local people.

13:11 minutes (12.07 MB)
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Precedent set in standards of maintenance case in Surrey

February 24, 2011
| Lawyer Scott Bernstein speaks to Paul Ryan about a tenant who won her case against a negligent landlord in Surrey.

11:32 minutes (10.56 MB)
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Christy Clark: B.C. premier elect's impact on families

March 3, 2011
| What will Christy Clark's appointment as B.C. premier really mean for families? Paul Ryan asks Pivot's Campaign Director Darcie Bennett.

8:36 minutes (7.88 MB)
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Vancouver DTES women's groups shut out of B.C. Housing office

March 24, 2011
| Harsha Walia, Vancouver DTES women's rights organizer, speaks about demands for women's safety in shelters in light of recent sexual assaults.

8:17 minutes (7.58 MB)
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National housing bill killed by federal election -- what now?

March 30, 2011
| Doug King speaks about Bill C-304, a bill ensuring adequate, accessible and affordable housing, has been killed due to the upcoming federal election and now must be re-introduced after the election.

12:39 minutes (11.59 MB)
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Supreme Court to hear feds' sex work appeal

April 6, 2011
| Canada's Supreme Court has allowed the federal government the right to appeal an attempt by Vancouver sex workers to challenge Canada's criminal laws relating to adult prostitution.

11:13 minutes (10.27 MB)
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City of Vancouver fails to include homeless rights

April 21, 2011
| Pivot lawyer Scott Bernstein explains to Carolyn Wong how a new City of Vancouver by-law will limit the type, length and area of many protests.

20:36 minutes (18.86 MB)
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Five HEAT shelters shut down in Vancouver, Pivot calls for shelters to open year-round

April 28, 2011
| Pivot lawyer Doug King talks about the social impact of the HEAT shelter closing, the need for shelters to be open year-round, and the Red Tent campaign.

8:05 minutes (7.4 MB)
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Vancouver homeless shelters close

May 11, 2011
| Sean Spear from Raincity Housing talks about the need for permanent year-round shelters as a first point of contact for hard to house people.

13:20 minutes (12.2 MB)
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Hope in Shadows 2011: The camera return site

June 11, 2011
| This week, Paul Ryan interviews people on location at the Hope in Shadows camera return site in Vancouver, about photographs they have taken for the Hope in Shadows calendar.

9:28 minutes (8.68 MB)
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HIV, Law and Human Rights

June 22, 2011
| Vancouver lawyer Elin Sigurdson talks to Pivot's Laura Drake about attending the third annual Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights.

11:30 minutes (10.53 MB)
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New Vancouver sex work report

September 17, 2011
| Katrina Pacey talks about what is -- and more importantly, what isn't -- in the new report put out by the City of Vancouver on sex work in the city.

8:17 minutes (7.59 MB)
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Solutions to Vancouver's homelessness crisis

November 11, 2011
| In the run-up to municipal elections on November 19, Ivan Drury explains 3 easy steps that would be easy for city hall to implement to solve the homelessness crisis, at almost no cost to taxpayers.

26:10 minutes (23.96 MB)