A new national study shows that Canada’s transgender youth face significant challenges, but are helped by strong family, school and community connections
#Nanaimo anti-poverty coalition prepares action plans
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Local coalitions are taking on advocacy and planning work to help decrease poverty in Nanaimo, while also promoting the concept of a living wage
Workers earning minimum wage cannot make ends meet in B.C.
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The B.C. Federation of Labour is calling on British Columbia’s government to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour
Bev Sellars, chief of Xat’sull First Nation in Williams Lake, and her remarkable memoir
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Chief Bev Sellars is winner of the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her book “They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School”
Justice, not torture: challenging solitary confinement in Canadian prisons
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The BC Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada have launched a constitutional challenge to the use of solitary confinement in Canadian federal prisons
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