Health

Positive Approaches to Stigma

Miles Howe — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:15:18 +0000

Groups advocate for peer support, traditional healing for Aboriginal women with HIV/AIDS

VANCOUVER—In 2003, when her lungs almost collapsed from an AIDS-related pneumonia—a near-death experience she would never forget— Lyanna Storm swore to turn her life around if she survived.

PSA for Overdose Crisis National Day of Action April 16

waawaaskesh — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:57:52 +0000

Unofficial 2min PSA video for Overdose Crisis April 16 Canada National Day of Action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ZoXQTk9rQ

* DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO to re-post on your social media account(s):

https://archive.org/details/april1

Innovative Policies Set Surrey's GreenVote Apart!

Roslyn Cassells — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:30:35 +0000

GreenVote Policy Platform Leads in 2018 Municipal Election

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Homeless South of the Fraser - compassionate solutions

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:32:26 +0000

GreenVote Housing & Homelessness Policy - municipal election BC 2018

October 12, 2018 Hard times south of the Fraser River…Surrey is the second largest city in the province, with a large homeless population and even bigger population of people in core-housing need…living in housing they cannot afford, for which they are sacrificing other basic needs in order to remain housed.

Surrey's Silent Spring - BC ministry manufacturing consent for ecologically harmful North Surrey aerial spraying

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:28:14 +0000

Local residents oppose biotoxin spraying in working class North Surrey

SURREY'S SILENT SPRING

BC ministry manufacturing consent for ecologically harmful North Surrey aerial spraying

for immediate release - April 12, 2018 - North Surrey, BC

Pipeline rally targets Kinder Morgan & TD Bank

flux — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:08:35 +0000

UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Anti-pipeline groups rallied outside a TD Bank and the Kinder Morgan Westbridge Marine Terminal yesterday. The TD was targeted for its investment in Texas-based KM's expansion of its TransMountain bitumen pipeline to the Pacific coast.

Camp Cloud Callout for Media Boost

flux — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:57:54 +0000

Surveillance Post outside Kinder Morgan needs hardware, software, data

COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Camp Cloud Surveillance Media camped outside the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby say they are without a reliable computer and enough data to keep reporting on the fast-changing pipeline activity at the facility.

Salmon protectors occupy BC A-G's office

flux — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:12:44 +0000

COAST SALISH TERRITORIES - Wild Salmon protectors occupied the office of BC Attorney-General David Eby today.

The protesters want the provincial NDP to withdraw fish farm permits from Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw and Namgis territory. The occupation was in solidarity at occupations at two fish farms.

Thousands march against Kinder Morgan

flux — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:16:28 +0000

VANCOUVER - About 3,000 opponents of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion marched through downtown Vancouver today. Speakers at a waterside rally following the march called for renewed efforts to stop the twinning of the Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands.

Fish farm foes demand province-wide shutdown

flux — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 06:28:54 +0000

COAST SALISH TERRITORIES - Indigenous leaders and other opponents of fish farms rallied outside a BC NDP meeting in downtown Vancouver today. They called for a shutdown of the farms to protect wild salmon stocks from sea lice, disease and algae blooms.

Fires spark call for pipeline shutdown

flux — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:12:59 +0000

Secwepemc want Kinder Morgan to halt oil flow

CHASE, B.C. - Secwepemc elders, youth, children and families are calling for an immediate shutdown of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline in light of the forest fires raging through their territory. They fear the pipeline poses a serious safety hazard.

Chinatown: Up Against City Hall

flux — Tue, 23 May 2017 00:21:02 +0000

VANCOUVER - Chinatown residents met today In preparation for hearings tomorrow (Monday) at Vancouver City Hall on yet another luxury condo project in their beleagured neighbourhood. Up for approval is zoning for the Beedie Development Group's massive tower project at 105 Keefer

10 years later: new homeless camp, same site, same problem

flux — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:38:55 +0000

COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Homeless activists set up a new encampment in Downtown Vancouver today. The camp is on the same site where a homeless camp was held exactly 10 years ago.

27th Annual March for Missing and Murdered Women

flux — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:25:35 +0000

Downtown Eastside - More than 4,000 people gathered in Vancouver yesterday in the 27th annual march for murdered and missing women. Healing ceremonies were held at several locations along the winding route through the neighbourhood where the mostly Indigneous women went missing or were found murdered. The march is held every year on Feb. 14.

Funeral focuses on DAPL funder TD Bank

flux — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 03:38:33 +0000

TD Rememberance Committee Release: