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The Secret to Real Affordability? Trust in Land
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The Case for Radical Rest
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Why Residential School Deaths Are Higher than Reported
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CONTEST: Uplift Kids with Children's Lit
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How BC Schools Are Marking Truth and Reconciliation Day
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Bringing Down the House with Mr. Dressup: The Tyee’s Guide to VIFF
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Study Shows Selling Tested Drugs Saves Lives
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What’s Behind the Surge in Alberta’s Electricity Prices
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Will Trudeau Survive the Nazi Affair?
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Food insecurity among Indigenous kids is a ‘public health crisis,’ doctors say
(via CTV News)
‘I’m afraid at times.’ Teachers speak out on how anti-2SLGBTQ+ protests have shaken their classrooms
(via Toronto Star)
Kitty litter purchased by Okanagan schools is not for students who identify as cats
(via Vancouver Sun)
Honouring a promise: Memorial service for man killed on Pandora Avenue
(via Times Colonist)
Hundreds of anti-SOGI protestors disrupt Abbotsford school board meeting
(via CTV News)
Moe says Saskatchewan to use notwithstanding clause over pronoun policy
(via Toronto Star)
Quebec parties scramble to uninvite right-wing nationalist from immigration hearings
(via Montreal Gazette)
Surrey RCMP rejects allegations in Washington Post story about Nijjar murder
(via Vancouver Sun)
Packed gallery watches as Kamloops council votes to support FortisBC renewable gas application
(via Castanet)
Regulator rules in favour of Trans Mountain route deviation
(via Global News)
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Inside the Vancouver Art Gallery’s New Moves
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We Might Think We Know Russia. Why We’re Wrong
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Turning to Youth to Bring Forward Solutions
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I am constantly impressed by my conversations with my grandchildren — they are articulate, caring human beings — too often thwarted by disregard and disrespect.
The young people need to be encouraged to speak out and they need to be listened to. If my contemporaries at that age had a fraction of their awareness and sensitivity, I feel the world would be a better place.
Give them an audience and the opportunity to share. The future is theirs.