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Sending out an SOS: Vancouver Rally for a National Housing Program
Olympics
Kathie Wallace
Feb 20th, 2010
Downtown Vancouver has transformed into Olympiamania: everyone dressed gaily in red waving flags up down and sideways, long line-ups everywhere, buzzing excitement in the energy field, and people...
HIV/AIDS Community Rallies at the VAG to Show Opposition to Provincial Aids Funding Cuts
Commentary
Orphan Gordie
Dec 21st, 2009
VO's favourite citizen journalist takes us to the HIV-AIDS community's protest against Aids Funding budget cuts with his video camera.
Saving Our Wild Salmon
Earth Matters
Olivia Fermi
Dec 7th, 2009
Young wild salmon are vulnerable to sea lice from infested salmon farms.
Anita Burke "It is too easy to blame the corporations and the media."
Comfort vs Change
Christabel Shaler
Oct 28th, 2009
The Resilient Cities Conference brought together big names from all sectors to discuss sustainability imperatives. Anita M. Burke, former advisor to Shell International and founder of the Catalyst...
Daphne Nederhorst Makes a World of Difference
Vancouver Women
Linda Solomon
May 7th, 2009
Linda Solomon: You’re executive director of Sawa. What does Sawa mean and what does it do that makes the world a better place? Daphne Nederhorst: Sawa means “equal” in Swahili. We give recognition...
From Inside the Joint: Betty Krawzyck's Activism
Vancouver Women
Insiya Rasiwala
May 23rd, 2008
Feisty and fiery are words used often to describe Betty Krawzyck, the Vancouver-based, eighty year-old grandma whose environmental activism...