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Worker cleans street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. Image credit: Josh Berson/BC Labour Heritage Centre
History in the making: How one organization is documenting the pandemic's impact on workers
Chelsea Nash | "COVID Chronicles" is preserving workers' experiences for future historians.
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Report exposes widespread racism in B.C. health care
Pam Palmater | A new report confirms what most Indigenous peoples already knew -- that racism against Indigenous peoples is prevalent in B.C.'s health-care system.
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Vancouver renters picket a building. Image: contributed photo
A people's mandate letter to the B.C. NDP's next housing minister
Mazdak Gharibnavaz | During the last three and a half years, the B.C. NDP had the opportunity to show leadership on the bold, systemic changes that renters needed. Instead, the opposite has happened.
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Building grassroots, decolonial, intersectional feminism
Scott Neigh | Angela Marie MacDougall, Rhiannon Bennett and Jennifer Johnstone talk about the work of Feminists Deliver.
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135A Encampment, Surrey, on the unceded territory of the qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie) & kʷikʷəƛ̓əm - Kwikwetlem Nations. Image: Meenakshi Mannoe​
New B.C. government must prioritize preventing discrimination against those in severe poverty
Meenakshi Mannoe, Viveca Ellis | It's time to demand the elimination of anti-poor discrimination and the outright eradication of poverty and stigma in British Columbia.
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The ad pictured on a Vancouver bus. Image: Garnett Genuis/Twitter
Alberta MP accused of sponsoring anti-abortion messaging in Vancouver bus ads
David J. Climenhaga | Conservative MP Garnett Genuis said his supporters crowdfunded the ads appearing on buses in Vancouver, and insists they're not attacking reproductive rights.
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BC NDP Leader John Horgan flanked by candidate Bowinn Ma on campaign trail on September 29, 2020. Image: John Horgan/Twitter
Why some environmentalists are turning off British Columbia's NDP government
Robert Hackett | Despite the promises made while in opposition, and some positive steps, the Horgan government's environmental policy seems to be: pick low-hanging fruit, but don't offend corporate carbon capital.
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How a little newspaper started labour journalism in Canada
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | RadioLabour's Canada Report: More than a century ago the Rossland Evening World in B.C. showed what a union newspaper could be. Plus the plight of Amazon workers.
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To save wild salmon, Discovery Islands fish farms must go
David Suzuki | The aquaculture industry's own data show 33 per cent of farms exceeded the sea lice limit while juvenile salmon were migrating past this year.
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B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson on the campaign trail flanked by B.C. Liberal candidate Helen Poon. Image: Andrew Wilkinson/Twitter
Alberta's bad economic ideas make their mark on the B.C. Liberals' election campaign
David J. Climenhaga | Andrew Wilkinson, leader of the right-wing B.C. Liberals, is campaigning on a promise to cut the provincial sales tax.
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Direct action in defence of old-growth forest
Scott Neigh | Carole Tootill and Joshua Wright talk about the Fairy Creek blockades, which are defending some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging.
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Premier John Horgan announces a snap election on September 21, 2020. Image: John Horgan/Twitter
Riding high in the polls, B.C.'s NDP premier calls a snap election
David J. Climenhaga | The snap election call has particularly upset the provincial Greens and right-wing B.C. Liberals.