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#NotGoingBack Climate Strike
October 14, 2020By Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate Sustainabiliteens, Climate Strike Canada, and Our Time planned four Metro Vancouver #NotGoingBack climate strikes on September 25. This initiative supported Friday for Future’s Global Day of Climate Action. In response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s throne speech, the event organizers demanded for economic, racial, and climate justice. Over 3,500 towns and cities in 154 countries participated in the Global Day of Climate Action. The We Are Not Going Back movement’s objective was to initiate a “transformation of our society and the/our economy to build a more equitable and resilient future.” Due to the provincial health…
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The student housing crisis that isn’t going away
September 5, 2016Priced out of options Moving is awful. So is not knowing where you’re going to live for the upcoming semester. Everything about student accommodation in Vancouver nowadays is just terrible. Now, imagine you were being evicted from your affordable housing…
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Starving for an Education
February 1, 2016The hunger epidemic at Canadian universities [dropcap]C[/dropcap]anadian post-secondary students are literally hungry for their degrees. While Food Banks Canada states that over 850,000 Canadians turn to food banks every month, impoverishment has influenced an upsurge in campus food bank…
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