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Dawson Creek, BC

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May 23, 2013
A new book, Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy, explores how the the temporary foreign worker program has created a Canadian... [... READ]
Article
May 23, 2013

Celebrate and call for justice for injured workers!

Since 1983, injured workers and their allies have come together on June 1st...

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Date:
Jun 1 2013 - 11:00am
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Event
May 21, 2013
The Downtown Eastside Resource Guide by the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre was created for the ease of locating resources by/for consumers and service providers. Any edits, additions, deletions,... [... READ]
Online Resource
May 14, 2013

Parent Support Services Society of BC (PSS) is a provincial non-profit organization providing support to all those in a parenting role...

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Deadline: May 20 2013 - 5:00pm
City: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Job
Sqwabb Blog
May 10, 2013
A blog written by a former writer, illustrator and graphic designer, now living rough in Vancouver. He blogs about binning, bicycles, computers, anime, his experience as a homeless person,... [... READ]
Online Resource
May 6, 2013
We have put together the following resources to give a broader sense of how the anti-poverty community is responding to the 2013 Ontario Budget. At this point, the minority Liberals need NDP support... [... READ]
Article
May 1, 2013
On this International Workers' Day, we have put together some recent stories on the struggles and victories for workers' rights in Canada: Mental health: The next frontier for workers' rights |... [... READ]
Article
May 1, 2013

Volunteering for the Seniors Abuse and Information Line (SAIL) provides opportunities to learn, share knowledge and work with older...

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Deadline: May 15 2013 - 4:00pm
City: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Job
May 1, 2013

WCDWA is a non-profit association based in Vancouver, British Columbia that provides free legal assistance in the form of advocacy,...

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Deadline: May 30 2013 - 5:00pm
City: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Job
April 24, 2013
Downtown East newspaper was founded in March 2013 as a news source for low-income communities struggles for social justice on unceded Coast Salish territory, Downtown Eastside Vancouver. [... READ]
Online Resource
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