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Launched during the early days of the pandemic, The Festival of What Works is a collection of workshops, panels, and talks revealing the things people are doing…

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By Andrea Loewen @ms_andreajoy Corrin Yewchuk is a Vancouver volunteer coordinator with 350 Canada, an organization that describes itself as “a people-powered movement for climate action”

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By Andrea Loewen @ms_andreajoy Is "fat" a bad word? Juicy Jems, a fat and plus-sized cabaret show, aims to combat fatphobia

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By Andrea Loewen @ms_andreajoy A roundup of links and resources to help understand what is happening in Palestine and what you can do about it

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy The pandemic has brought us a spike in capitalism, but the Buy Nothing Project has a solution

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy When it comes to Acts of Resistance, there was a lot to fight for in 2020. We look back on some of the…

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy Vancouver City Council has approved an ambitious Climate Emergency Action Plan that may help make the city carbon neutral by 2050

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If there was ever a time Canada was primed to institute a guaranteed basic liveable income, this could be it. After all, as of August 23, Service…

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy Last month, BC’s Minister of Mental Health, Judy Darcy, introduced Bill 22, an amendment to the Mental Health Act that allows doctors to…

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By Andrea Joy @ms.andreajoy Grace Club: a curated series of events about everything from decolonized practices to sex to embracing anger and mental health

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy Since COVID-19 struck, WISH saw an almost instant shift in their work and that of the women they support

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy We touched base with some of the powerhouse women that have been featured in this column over the past year to see how…

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy With the motto “trails not scales," Fat Girls Hiking resists diet culture and a narrow, patriarchal view of who belongs in the outdoors…

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy This month, we do a case study on the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition, and how they've created community-based resistance

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy Can a board game be an act of resistance? Squamish artist and educator Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee uses them as a decolonizing practice

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy It’s been a couple of months since the federal election, and the issue of safe drinking water on First Nations reserves has gone…

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy Fifteen teens are suing the Canadian government for specific damages caused by inaction on climate change

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By Andrea Loewen @ms.andreajoy How do you approach your one and only chance to express your democratic rights when there’s so much to take into account?

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By Andrea Loewen @ms_andreajoy Extinction Rebellion is an international, citizen-led movement using non-violent civil disobedience to fight the climate crisis