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Community groups shut out of Missing Women's Inquiry

May 26, 2011
| Public interest groups and organizations working with women in the Downtown Eastside were shocked by an unexpected decision to deny them funding to participate in the Missing Women's Inquiry.

8:01 minutes (7.34 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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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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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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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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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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Pivot's social change through Vancouver public space

February 16, 2011
| John Richardson, founder of the Pivot Legal Society, delivers a short talk at Change Through on Pivot's role in using Vancouver public space for social change.

9:37 minutes (8.81 MB)
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Call for an independent police panel in B.C.

February 9, 2011
| Paul Ryan talks to Doug King about the need for an independent panel to investigate police misconduct in British Columbia.

9:02 minutes (8.28 MB)
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