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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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Pivot hosts Health, Harm Reduction and the Law: The InSite Case and the Future of Canadian Drug Policy

May 18, 2011
| Paul Ryan speaks to Darcie Bennett following Pivot's forum on the InSite supervised injection facility, a week after the federal government's final appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

7:20 minutes (6.72 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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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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No mention of national housing strategy in leaders' debate

April 13, 2011
| Pivot lawyer and head of the housing campaign, Doug King, talks about the lack of mention of a need for a national housing strategy during the federal party leaders' debate on April 12.
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7.66 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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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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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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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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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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