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Start with coats

12/16/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle Last year, at the beginning of winter in Edmonton, where the number of street kids is close to 225, Andrew Gagnon was visiting a friend who works with local at-risk youth. “What can I do? What do you need?” he asked her. “Coats,” she said. Gagnon went to his Facebook page, and […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, Edmonton, homelessness, LGBTQ, Montreal, religion, sexuality, Toronto, Winnipeg, youth

Wake Up Call

06/07/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Jodi A. Shaw “I think, if luck were real,” David Arthur Johnston says, “that I’m one of the luckiest people on the planet. To have a grand scope in my head, that’s weird, but makes me feel like a superhero most of the time. “A lot of people love me, though most of them think […]

Filed Under: Features, Wake Up Call Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, cities, homelessness, law, Victoria

Wake Up Call – page 2

06/07/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Continued from page 1 January 24, 2004: From David Arthur Johnston’s Journal of the Occupation of St. Ann’s Academy Last night I had gone to bed early (around 8PM). Around 9PM a security guard came up and fervently asked me to leave. SG- “Please leave. I must ask you to leave. You cannot stay here. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, cities, homelessness, law, Victoria

Wake Up Call – page 3

06/07/2009 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

Continued from page 2 December 5, 2008: From David Arthur Johnston’s Journal of the Occupation of St. Ann’s Academy The ‘order’ is something all parties involved in the Charter case must sign to finalize the case. The city says its going to ask the judge to amend the ruling to add the words ‘at night’. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, cities, homelessness, law, Victoria

Supernatural! Downtown Eastside!

11/10/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By guest blogger Alison@Creekside United Nations envoy Miloon Kothari, on a tour of Canada to examine homelessness, said he visited Vancouver specifically to assess whether the Olympic bid’s pledges “are being kept.” “Vancouver said, ‘If we get the Games, we commit to leaving a positive legacy,’ and we [at the UN] are taking that at […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, homelessness, Olympics, UN, Vancouver

The empty moral space

11/25/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Let me get this straight: the prairies experience a turn in the weather cold enough to take the lives of a homeless couple (who asphyxiated from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to keep a bus warm) and Edmonton’s response is to dispense second-hand mittens? Seriously? Are they serious? Meanwhile, Edmonton’s spanky city hall with its […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Edmonton, homelessness

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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