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2021 Women's March
Libby Davies on the tragedy of missing and murdered women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Jase Tanner | Former Vancouver city councillor and former NDP MP Libby Davies discusses the issue of missing and murdered women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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2021 Women's March
Downtown Eastside community gathers for 30th Women's Memorial March
Jase Tanner | This episode documents the 30th annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The march, which first took place on Valentine's Day in 1992, commemorates lost loved ones.
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Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
The past and present in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Jase Tanner | Former NDP MP Libby Davies discusses the past and the present of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, reflecting on how austerity policies of the '90s have created the challenges of today.
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Strathcona Park tent city. Image: Video still
The law in its majestic inequality: A history of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Jase Tanner | Former NDP MP Libby Davies discusses the history of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where she started out as a community worker in the 1970s.
Blog
Oppenheimer Park. Image: Paul Sableman/Flickr
It's time for Canadian courts and governments to acknowledge that forcible displacement of homeless people is inhumane
Stepan Wood | The second article in a two-part series looking at the cycle of displacement of homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Podcast
Image: Used with permission of Imtiaz Popat.
Grappling with the complexity of oppression -- an intersectional approach
Scott Neigh | Imtiaz Popat talks about his wide range of activism and organizing in Vancouver against racism, homophobia, and an entire spectrum of intersecting oppressions and bigotries.
News
When Habitat 76 shone a spotlight on housing issues in Vancouver
Jean Walton | This excerpt from Jean Walton's new book "Mudflat Dreaming" chronicles how housing activists in 1970s Vancouver responded to the first UN Conference on Human Settlements.
Blog
Women's Memorial March continues to demonstrate resilience and a call for justice
Tania Ehret | On Valentine's Day -- with snow in forecast -- the Downtown Eastside community comes together to honour and grieve the lives of women, missing and taken too soon, and recommit to justice.
Blog
Plastics are not the future
David Suzuki | The best way to avoid the massive damage that comes with plastics and fossil fuels is to stop using so many. That's why cities and countries worldwide are banning single-use items made from plastic.
News
Photo: Tania Ehret
'What are our Supports' art series looks at Vancouver footnotes
Tania Ehret | The Dril Art Collective wants the installation to offer “a way to process the things that stimulate us through the senses.”
News
Photo by Hadani Ditmars
Vancouver, mon amour
Hadani Ditmars | How a very Vancouver accident led to a concussion and reflections on the changes overtaking Lotusland.
News
Photo: Emily Neufeld with Cease Wyss, common place (detail), 2018. Huckleberry, little mountain hemlock, salal, licorice, fern, oxalis, nurse log, soil.
Taking art out: New art series seeks to reclaim the commons
Tania Ehret | Vancouver art series explores how artists' projects in public spaces aim to ask the difficult questions about the supports necessary to sustain public art and common space.