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Jean Swanson - Or der of Canada Photo: Sharon Kravitz
Recognition from the establishment can often be the negative kind - when you get portrayed as a misfit or deluded or, when it gets really nasty, as "a communist socialist sowing anti-capitalist sedition" The Order of Canada is one of the highest civilian awards in the country. It is given to individuals whose contributions to Canadian society are sustained over many years, have clear impacts on the quality of life and are referred to or even mimicked by peers in respectful recognition. Jean Swanson has agreed to accept this distinction as, in her own¡ words, another way to get a platform for the ideals of social justice and the never-ending struggles of the vast majority of people. Analysis of governme!1t programs, legislative proposals for how the very wealthy can 'better adjust' the needs of business - their control of the wealth & resourcesalways have so much devil in the details and this is Jean's specialty - seeing through to the heart of what's proposed that almost always belies the stated intent. One example is how "affordable housing" is open to anyone - as long a you can afford it. The play of media can often convince people that they're included until things are shown to be otherwise. Jean saw right away that the definition of affordable was not a universal one but set at a level not accessible to low-income people. Her work for decades has shown how the very basics are skewed to exclude. Jean's work and life, the vast number of events, plans, coalitions, organizing when things seemed hopeless, finding allies and people of like mind to keep the struggle fresh and moving forward are beyond the scope of this paper - it could be a book in itself. Suffice it for me to say that Jean is deserving of this recognition. She is one of the most principled people I've ever known. PAULR TAYLOR
DISPENSARY THE GRAM: A Q&A about cannabis news Q: How do self-identified women currently feature in the cannabis industry? A 2015 article in The Guardian interestingly claimed that the Cannabis industry is one of the first giant industries run principally by women. Also, this is perhaps the only industry with no wage gap between men and women; women are making equal to men from the get-go. It's unclear why - it could be because it's a brand-new industry, thus not having the history of built-up patriarchy that other multi-billion dollar industries have. For women to feature prominently in these other industries, they must first navigate the male- dominance, break it down, and then assert themselves. In the budding cannabis industry, it's something nearer to a blankslate to build off of. Q: Apart from women featuring prominently in the cannabis industry, how are women consumers typically perceived by society? When you think of a cannabis consumer, do you think of a man or a woman? When you think of a woman consumer,.do you imagine something similar to when you imagine a male consumer? Do you wonder why she would smoke weed more than you wonder why a man would smoke weed? Is your image of a women smoking weed sexualized and playing into a male-fantasy? Or do you see men and female consumers equally? In short, what kind of images do we have available to make sense of women consumers as opposed to those conceptions that we fall back on to understand men consumers? The coming weeks of The Gram will further explore the above questions, looking into intersections of women & cann- abis in both historical and present day popular culture. If you feel inspired by the above conversation, please stop by the store and chat with us! SUBMIT QUESTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER OFFICE OR THE FARM DISPENSARY AND HAVE THEM ANSWERED IN THE NEXT EDITION.
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SUMMER HOURS 604-253-8830 Monday - Sunday, 9:15am - 5:00pm
Considering the history of activism in our Carnegie community, we are hosting a celebratory Pride afternoon on Saturday July 16th at 3pm in the Theatre, screening the documentary Before Stonewall (1984), based on the book by Andrea Weiss. The film brings to life the GLBTQ scene and events leading up to the 1969 protests in New York, known as the Stonewall Riots. The film is described as "touching, warm & funny ... a near-perfect balance between historical and political perspectives" by Time magazine. The film runs for 87 minutes, followed by questions with QMUNITY BC, and then a rainbow cake will be served at 4:30 care of our Carnegie Kitchen! On the theme of Pride, check out these library materials: Two-Spirit Journey (2016) by Ma-Nee Chacaby. This title is aft autobiography of a lesbian OjibwaCree Elder, described as a harrowing story of endurance. Ma-Nee has survived physical and sexual abuse, a struggle with alcohol, and after achieving sobriety she now works as a counsellor while raising and fostering children. The Dream Lover (2015) by Elizabeth Berg. A fictional story based on the life of Aurore Dupin, who leaves her family to immerse herself in the bohemian art world of Paris. Aurore changes her name to George Sand, and' now known for her writing, social critiques, and for dressing in men's clothing and smoking cigars in public! The Gap of Time (2015) by Jeanette Winterson. Winterson is a prolific writer in the GLBTQ genre, and this book takes on Shakespeare's play, "The Winter's Tale" as a modern retelling. It is set in London and an American city called the New Bohemia. An exploration of self-destruction and forgiveness, with "glorious wordplay." God in Pink (2015) by Hasan N amir. Considered a "revelatory novel" Namir addresses being queer and Mulsim, in a novel set in war-torn Iraq. The protagonist struggles to find his way through religion and culture, while being pressured to find a wife. Your librarian, Natalie
NEW PROGRAMS BLUE BONNET BOCCE (B.B.B) MONDAYS, 2PM - 4PM Find a mysterious Blue Bonnet Lady and enjoy the afternoon of bocce ball! HORSESHOES SUNDAYS,llAM-IPM Try your luck in the horseshoe pitch. All welcome! BASEBALL SUNDAYS, 2PM - 4PM We're playing baseball in the park. Join us as we gear up for games against the Carnegie volunteer program and the Asahi team!
OTHER PROGRAMS .OPPEN ARTS STUDIO IN JULY: SKETCH ATTHEP~ATERCOLOUR THURSDA YS,)0:'30AM - IPM Take a pencil arid paper and sketch your favourite scenery or objects in the park! Continue your project or work on something else at Oppen-Arts Stu dio in the afternoon (2:30pm - 4:30pm). FROM 9TH ANNUAL OPPENHEIMER PARK COMMUNITY ART SHOW Thank you very much for your submission forms! We will be reviewing them shortly and announce this year's participating artists and the theme/title of the exhibit. COMMUNITY ART PROJECT Join us Fridays from 11:OOAM- I :30PM to be part of a collaborative art installation that will be displayed at the Oppenheimer Park Art Show!
To Jane Elizabeth: Morning Star, lover,;, "Bright Eyes" )
"Young Man"
ANGER Many years ago I was drinking with a Yugoslavian man. We were drinking wine & everything was going fine. Then I said something he didn't like. He grabbed my chair & threw me on the floor. He kept . punching me in the face over & over. There was a paring knife in the kitchen and he grabbed that and stabbed me in the chest and then he just walked out the door. At that time we had no phone so I had to use the neighbour's phone to call the police. I knew where he lived so they went there and arrested him. I went to St Paul's Hospital and they had to remove all my beautiful teeth. I should have gotten a lawyer. I took the bloody knife and left it at this place so I could pick it up on my court date - it was evidence. I went there on the morning of the court date but the friend there said they lost it. On the witness stand they showed me pictures of myself with my face all black & blue. That terrible man spent one night in jail and I lost my case. The government gave me a cheque for $5000 for the extraction of my teeth. So when you are drinking with someone or other people watch what you say because they might beat you up. Marlene Wuttunee
I wish I could be That young man you need then you'd be proud to hold hands with me. This time was too late too much was taken What's left to give with all trust forsaken? I tried ... then I cried I could feel all your sorrow Yu can't love me today 1 can hope for tomorrow. I remember the laughter and the tears that we shared We had us a moment for each other we cared. I hope you will find Someone like me and all that man needs os fpr your man to e I will still love you Until the stars shine no more If you need me I will find you and-we'Il laugh like before. Jfthis life should deny you that young man you need Next life true love knows you because that youngman I will be! Douglas Foster
MusicallY yours Brought to you by your musical community Join us for a 3-concert series this summer oflive music in your community! From instrumental rock and blues through to tango music with a string quartet, we have an array of free music for you to enjoy. Come along to one of them - or join us for all three! In the Carnegie Theatre Saturday July 23rd j2pm-3pm j Saturday August 6th j 2pm-3pm j Saturday September 3rd j2pm-3pm Free admission - see you there!
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University set free. Humanities 101 Community Programme offers three free university-level courses for low-income people who live in and around the Downtown Eastside and Downtown South. The courses are for people who have encountered financial and other barriers to university education and who wish to expand their intellectual horizons in an accessible, challenging and respectful environment. Applicants must have a love oflearning, basic literacy skills and be willing to attend classes, complete assignments and participate in group discussions. Applications for these non-credit courses are accepted not on the basis of past academic history, but on the applicants' desire and ability to be part of the Hum 101 Programme. Classes take place at UBC Point Grey campus on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, beginning in early September. Hum 10 1 and Hum201 are eight-month interdisciplinary courses that run twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. A different subject in the arts or social sciences will be taught each week, including history & politics, art, music, architecture, philosophy, literature, sociology, first nation studies, gender studies, economics, popular culture, creative and critical thinking and more. Writingl0l and Writing201 are three-month hands on writing courses that run every Tuesday evening. Each week a new genre and style of writing will be taught, including creative fiction and non-fiction, poetry, song lyrics, life writing, journaling, manifesto writing and more. Participants receive school supplies, UBC student cards, bus tickets to get to and from class, meals, and childcare if needed. Please attend an upcoming information/application session for more details on how to participate in the programme. Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings St. (top floor classroom) Saturday August 13that 11 a.m, for Huml01 & Hum201 Monday August is" at 11 a.m, for Writingl01 & Writing201 Wednesday August 17that 2 p.m, for Hum101, Hum201, Writing101 and Writing201 Vancouver Recovery Club, 2775 Sophia St. ' Tuesday August 16th at 11 a.m, for Hum 101, Hum 201 and Writing Crabtree Corner, 533 East Hastings Sf. (third floor room) Monday August 15that 2 p.m, for for Huml0l, Hum201, Writingl0l and Writing201 Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, 302 Columbia St. (women only) Tuesday August 16that 2 p.m, for for Huml01, Hum201, Writing 101 and Writing201 Visit humanities 101 .arts.ubc.ca for more information about the programme. You can also email h.u.m@ubc.caif you have any questions. Humanities 101 Community Programme Dr. Margot Leigh Butler, Academic Director Paul Wood house, Programme Coordinator Maureen Phillips, Writing Coordinator Wil Steele, Reuben Jentink and Margot Mabanta, Programme Assistants
tel. 604-822-0028; fax. 604-822-6096; Website: http://humanities101.arts.ubc.ca/ Office: #270 Buchanan E, 1866 Main Mall, University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1
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take back space 1 was talking last week with libby davies, member of parliament for the downtown eastside of vancouver, and libby told of a star trek episode she'd seen - a futuristic situation in san francisco - an enormous wall had been constructed dividing poor people from everyone else .. and outside this wall in super consumerist upscale society there was almost no awareness of who was struggling to survive on the other side of the wall nor how wretched their living conditions were and libby said "that s not our future it's happening right now" north america's anti-pan handling bylaws and other prohibitions against the presence of certain people in what was formerly public space is a central objective in the global and local writ against the poor to put this situation in perspective I'd like to quote from an excellent book "geographies of exclusion" by david sibley; he says "power is expressed in the monopolization of space and the relegation of weaker groups in society to less desirable environments .. the boundaries between the consuming and nonconsuming public are strengthening
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with nonconsumption being construed as a form of deviance at the same time as spaces of consumption eliminate public spaces in city centres, processes of control are manifested in the exclusion of those who are judged to be deviant imperfect or marginal - who is felt to belong and not belong contributes in an important way to the shaping of social space . it is often the case that this hostility to others is articulated as a concern about property values the urge to make separations between clean and dirty ordered and disordered us and them that is to expel the abject is encouraged in western cultures creating anxieties because such separations can never finally be achieved this anxiety is reinforced by the culture ofconsumption in western societies the success of capitalism depends on it and a necessary feature of the gcographies of exclusion the literal mappings of power relations and rejection is the collapse of categories like public and private and to be diseased or disabled is a mark of imperfection the fear of infection leads to erection of the barricades to resist the spread of diseased polluted others there is a history of imaginary geographies which cast minorities .. imperfect people .. and a list of others who are seen to pose a threat to the dominant group in society as polluting bodies or folk devils who are then located elsewhere this elsewhere might be nowhere as when genocide or moral transformation of a minority like prostitutes are advocated the imagery of defilement which locates people on the margins or in residual spaces is now more likely to be applied to the mentally disabled the homeless prostitutes and some racialized minorities" the downtown eastside of vancouver, where I live, is by any statistical measurement of poverty and disease a third world area besieged by upscale developmental greed of truly genocidal proportions the highest rates and numbers of hiv/aids ..suicide .. hepatitis c..syphulis and tuberculosis in the western world and close to the lowest life expectancy and the single question I arri asked more than any other by media and concerned citizens
is "where will they go?" where will the people go when they are driven from this area by gentrification/displacement?
the sophistication of the system we are opposing is . such that the presence of panhandlers in business areas of vancouver has been greatly reduced without the police having to change a single person yet thus the system is able to avoid a public legal challenge and public space continues to be seized
referring to sibley, 1 must conclude that . the municipal provincial and federal governments must have some imaginary geography in mind because there is nowhere for the people to go and in the downtown eastside the public space that has been available for drug addicts, mentally disabled, homeless, prostitutes is being seized from them
to put this in a theological perspective I'll briefly quote from a book entitled "money and power" written by jacques ellul, who fought in the resistance in france during the second world war and engaged in many social justice struggles throughout the remainder of his life. ellul says "ultimately the rich seck to kill the poor this happens because fine rich arc exasperated , by constantly being called into question by god ,jithrough the poor - and this is the real reason for . the amazing problem that in all societies the rieh have detested the poor and why when precisely the rich arc the powerful the superior the strong do they set themselves against the poor? we can find of course all the psychological and r sociological reasons we could want ~ t but none of these reasons is definitive "'. none really explain'S hut they all relate to the faet that the poor are a temporal reflection of god"
shutters and grates cover doorways and stairwells where human beings who have nowhere else to go at least could stand for awhile awnings are removed from buildings so that cold rain pouts down on very ill people large private security forces in gastown and chinatown business districts enforce to the limits of their capability anti-panhandling bylaws and harass poor and vulnerable people out of their areas ..away from tourists and businesses there is serious talk of establishing what is being called the carroll street corridor - a kind of demilitarized zone between gastown and chinatown so that tourists do not have to walk through the defiled downtown eastside
i::~t and in the midst of the downtown eastside to resist today is to take back space but when the police have established a red zone we are few in numbers and have no money or political for prisoners released from jail, meaning you could power, what do we do? be arrested simply for being found on a certain block ' ~ ~ b the question 1 finally asked myself is not which cause, and vancouver city council has recently invested time which new assault on the poor should I take on? and money in an attempt to circumvent ~ anti-panhandling bylaws? the health care system? the charter of rights and freedoms housing? the legal system? racism? unemployment? naming the downtown eastside specifically as the target the theft of children from poor women? welfare? of this action to loosen even more but who are the defiled? the ones who don't belong? the search and seizure regulations - the human beings who are relentlessly dehumanized? there are no-go zones in new westminster those who are victimized by this social cleansing? several block areas where you can be charged ."
if you are deemed an undesirable just for being there and that is basically in response to drug addicts driven from the downtown eastside to new west by police but there is resistance. I know there is here in victoria and in vancouver not long ago activists protesting the anti-panhandling bylaw invaded city hall and occupied city council chambers
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at approximately the same time as these events ann.livi~gston and myself held meetings with drug addicts 10 the downtown eastside hundreds of addicts and listened to them say over and over that what they most needed was a place to go a place, some space to be safe and rest and have the use of a telephone and a shower and a restroom common amenities denied them for even the community centre in the area is off limits
the degraded situation nd circumstances of drug addicts is one issue that affects or will affect everyone in b.c. and is the only opening, the only breach in the system 1 have yet seen . during my activism in the downtown eastside the horrendous condition of drug addicts has forced government, the system, to yield resources it never would have otherwise I believe that in the downtown eastside to defend the entire community of poor people the best way to do it is to defend and stand with and for those who are most defiled and excluded the drug addicts
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there's currently a battle over where this facility will be and there are those insisting it be located anywhere elsewhere nowhere but it will be in the downtown eastside; and it is space taken back because if anything can be said to be an anti-gentrification project, it is this one
a year ago several downtown eastside activists involved with the drug situation held a protest we blocked the corner of main and hastings and distributed a pamphlet describing the horrendous situation of overdose deaths and disease we planted 1200 crosses in oppenheimer park to commemorate the number of people who have died as a result of drug overdoses in the past 4 years and then as a member of the vancouver/richmond health board representing the downtown eastside I introduced a motion which passed declaring the hiv/aids infection rate among injection drug users vancouver's first public health emergency
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and the health boardjn cooperation (of all things) with other ministries and b.c housing put together money not marked for any other housing venture and purchased 2 hotels in the dark heart of the emergency - the block where the red zone is located the block most people in business wish was gentrified and the addicts expelled as soon as possible and these 2 hotels will house mentally disabled drug addicts, many of whom are infected with hiv/aids this initiative is an important signal that a commitment has been made to house "undesirables" in the downtown eastside and most dramatically of any project so far is a drug users' organization also funded by the vancouver/richmond health board it's called vandu -vancouver area network of drug users sibley says in his book "there is always the hope that through political action the humanity of the rejected will be recognized and the images of defilement discarded" and that is what vandu has most powerfully begun to accomplish the de-marginalization of those most marginalized
and the emergency is not going to go away problems associated with drug use will only increase and worsen if real changes are not made for social activists this is an opportunity that may not ever come again
it occurs to me regarding activism in the downtown eastside that out of all advocacy efforts and all the meetings and demonstrations around housing, while important as acts of resistance, they have not yielded one square inch of space taken back but the drug emergency has been truly hopeful a petition campaign was begun by vandu members for safe injection rooms in the downtown eastside more space for the lowest the least and the last and because of the horrendous number of overdose deaths, this has become a possibility the 24-hour resource centre committee unanimously supported this petition and safe injection sites and this committee includes a gastown business leader and an inspector of the vancouver police department and the chief medical officer of be. john millar, in a report on the public health emergency, urges the government to yield resources with housing mentioned prominently to help save lives of drug users out of this suffering of drug addicts and their families out of this exclusion, out of this genocide, out of the enormous health care costs now and later out of the monstrous market of international drug trade against first nations people out of the wild fire consequences of the prohibition of illicit drugs
out of the disease, out of the lives of the most execrated most written-off and hated human beings in our society has come an opening .. a possibility for something new for change for taking back space
you can take on the whole system from the side of a drug addict this crisis is in victoria, it is in the comox valley it is on reserves throughout the province it is across the world and so I urge political activists to organize with drug addicts - they are in the biggest mess there is their lives are the biggest messes and the closer you are to them the more of a mess you get into but this solidarity is the only hope I see for actual concrete change ,.~the downtown eastside is being crushed .,:,there are a million battles to fight I have never before realized the width and breadth and power of the system as I have in this advocacy because here is a real threat to the system, trying to save the lives of those others would rather see die I'll close with another quotation from the best book 1 know on this whole debacle it's called "the corner" the corner being the drug corner, the drug scene. the authors david simon and edward bum say "the corner is everywhere and we have swallowed some disastrous pretensions allowing ourselves a naive sincerity that even now assumes the battle can be restricted to heroin and cocaine limited to a self-contained cadre of lawbreakers when all along the conflict was ripe to become a war against tire underclass itself we can commit to the people of the comer,to the notion that they are our own, that their future is our future or we can throw the problem back on them empathy demands that we recognize ourselves in their faces, that we acknowledge the addictive impulse is something more than simple lawlessness that we begin to see the corner. as the last refuge of the truly disowned and connectedness admits that between their world and ours the distance in human terms at least is never as great as we make it seem" BudOsborn
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Come join us on July 23 for an amazing evening of music & entertainment at St. James Community Square. Tickets are only $15 so come down, have a drink, hang out and listen to some amazing home grown talent and great guest speakers. It's time to take action towards solving the affordable housing crisis in Vancouver. â&#x20AC;˘ We need your support to ensure the campaign is successful and effective. You can count on COPE to both I enhance Vancouver's communities and throw a great party! Its time to get ready for the housing fight of our l lives!!!! Proceeds will go towards funding future COPE Housing Initiatives. \..
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What: Salsa Fiesta For Housing Justice.
When: July 23, 2016 6:30PM- 11:30PM Where: St. James Community Square 3214 West l Oth Avenue, Vancouver
Dinner plate of Delicious Latino Food $5.00 Cash Bar
Speakers: Marilyn Hogan, Chair of COPE's Housing Committee Find out we are working on and consider joining our team Ivan Drury, Alliance Against Displacement. Ivan is in the front lines of the fight against displacement in the Metro Vancouver Region Professor Margot Young UBC- Her work focuses on equality rights, social justice and economic equality for marginalized groups. What are the legal and constitutional protections for affordable housing in Canada and are these being respected?
Music! Fraser River Ramblers They play a combo of upbeat blues and pop classics that will get everyone up dancing. Appearing at Khatsahlano Days, Showboat AND COPE's Salsa Fiest Carnegie Centre Jazz Band Salome Fornier-Hanlon & Co. Contemporary with a blues streak Get your ticket on the COPE website (tickets will be available for pickup at the door to the event)
NOTEBOOK FOR A FUTURE REVOLUTION The leaders of the world admit very little other than there need to be more hearings than meet the eye ... yet with viewers like you protecting us from what they want my retinas roll up to the sky. Some words washed ashore the other day the pages had turned shady shades of yellow floating on oceans soon to be destroyed they th ink the author of said pages was one Saint Minus a decent fellow yet easily annoyed & often dismayed, like giving attention to detail the people at his disposal knew the meaning of that word - to pretend that things are going to get better (don't be so absurd: if god were to give you the day you're going to die but not the year does that sound cruel?), like an antagonistic end-of-the-world hug that crushes your throat when a yearly calendar would have been just as fine from your local extortionist who collects fingers from those who goshdarn-it just didn't make that payment in time as a matter of fact that's where I first saw 'The Book' the pages dripped blood the words in tears&letters spelt out answers to questions we had never asked my how mankind can be the greater fool Like a garage sale at a graveyard or a 3rd Reich Barbie Doll that mimics Mein Kampf so delicately pristine .. it's times like these I paint the town black I ran into Jesus Christ he read the book actually he was the first one to take it out yet his name was in the dedication - he kept it never giving it back!Why should he as for me when nothing says it all, just too many people like anything is wrong a newer war should make their day/ There's a story of a soon-to-be revolution making the rounds many will not make it but someone like Saint Minus will always be around the losers of this world were once its leaders (my how time falls), like barber shops in hospital cancer wa ds that wasn't meant to be funny it's on the page of atrocities in that yellow notebook with an interview with Donald Trump & his no star banned - this is one publication he shall never own to him terrorist trading cards are worth a look too many hands & yes not enough ifany common sense, Like corner stores becoming the lint in the pocket of your well-worn pants just when things couldn't get worse Wrong! Some form of death asks for a dance yet when 1 read these golden pages suddenly they became white as in phonebooks like in the Old testament when people had names & no 12 phone number houses a time when life & numbers truly made sense Today's books full of awful beginnings & awkward exits in between globai make-up artists & alcoholic
breakfasts in 5 minutes, the disability segment is piled into the obituaries soon that will be the only section give me back my yellow page can't you see I'm incomplete, lowlife historians trying their best to drag me into that sewer in the sky so the chains can continue to grow all around give me my sanity notebook or I swear I'll take you all down as far as I can with me. Do not make my shadows lengthen it's a scary thing to see! or pity!! By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y "Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind." -Emerson
Letters to the Editor Ottawa Citizen newspaper Re: Turning CPP into 18 million 'RRSPs' -- July 12 To the Editor, I'm disappointed that social policy discussion in this newspaper has degenerated into how best to privatize Canada's greatest public-minded initiatives. This has becomeso standard a conservative tactic that column titles such as "Why not privatize medicare?" are no longer a matter of "What?" but of "When?" Undoubtedly Tommy Douglas is spinning in his grave. â&#x20AC;˘ This gradual shift from Canadian compassion to Social Darwinism owes no small debt to these ongoing concerted attacks by small-c conservative columnists, orchestrated by corporate-minded newspaper-chain owners more interested in the business bottom-line (profits) than in how business could best serve Canada (people). Nazi Propaganda Minister Jeoseph Goebbels himself could not have done a better job of persuading people to buy into this "Big Lie." To suggest that the CPP could be privatized is to make more viable corporate Canada's goal of holding sway over all of Canada's wealth and assets. If that happens, Canada's future will be in the same hands that -- supposedly in the interests of increasing general prosperity -- brought us the Crash of 1929 and The Great Depression. Do we want to bet our tomorrows on a Casino Economy controlled by a few plutocrats, or do we want to think together about what is Canada's best direction for us all? Yours truly, Rolf Auer
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The Festival team is working on the 2016 Festival, and by September the programs will be in place. This year's theme is Living on Shared Territory. We are inspired in part by the words of Chief Robert Joseph, Ambassador, Reconciliation Canada: 'Our future and the well-being of our children rest with the kind of relationships we build today. I
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The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, working with a host of community partners.
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MISSING WOMEN COME TO CARNEGIE On Friday 5 August 2016, from 3pm to 5pm, City Opera Vancouver is presenting a public workshop for our next commission, MISSING WOMEN. "It is extremely important that we bring this to the people ofthe DTES," said City Opera president Janet Lea. "We need feedback and comment at every stage. We road-test and beta-test all of our new operas at Carnegie, and appreciate the response of the community. "We always start with the words. On August 5 at 3pm we will be presenting a group of professional actors, four aboriginal and three white, and read the text as if it were a stage play. We want candid comments from the audience. There can be no music until we perfect the text." Librettist Marie Clements and dramaturge Paula Danckert will be in attendance throughout.
MISSING WOMEN is being written by Marie Clements, the distinguished
FN playwright & film-maker. Its music will be composed by the Juno-award winning Brian Current. This new chamber opera will be premiered in November 2017, with six nights in Vancouver, followed immediately by another five nights in Victoria. A tour on the Highway of Tears is being planned thereafter.
MISSING WOMEN is a partnership between City Opera Vancouver, Pacific Opera Victoria, and the Heart of the City Festival. This public workshop is sponsored by the Carnegie Centre. Creation of the opera is made possible by an extraordinary award of$127,000 from The Vancouver Foundation.
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