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Bio: David Spaner has worked as a feature writer, movie critic, reporter, and editor for numerous newspapers and magazines. David's also been a cultural/political organizer (Yippie, manager of the punk band The Subhumans). He is the author of Dreaming in the Rain and Shoot It! Hollywood, Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film.In 2021, Spaner published a behind-the-scenes book about the Solidarity resistance movement, Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale 2021) documenting the event using intimate storytelling and melding cultural and rebel politics to provide insight into the conflicts that are still with us. It was the largest political protest in the province's history and threatened to end in an all-out general strike. Resources: Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale 2021): https://ronsdalepress.com/all-books/solidarity/SHOOT IT! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film (Arsenal Pulp Press 2012): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Shoot-ItDreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest (Arsenal Pulp Press 2002): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Dreaming-in-the-Rain
Author (aut): David Spaner, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-03
Liz Jackson is the director of the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph. Liz has also previously worked as the Research Collection Coordinator at the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Project and the Community Engagement Officer at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Currently, Liz is the board chair of Art Not Shame, a community-engaged, multidisciplinary arts organization serving youth and adults. Human rights and the politics and implications of artistic representation are some of the themes which Liz is involved in. Resources: Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI): https://www.uoguelph.ca/research/discover-our-research/centres-institutes-groups/community-engaged-scholarship-institute-cesi Critical Community-Engaged Scholarship (Critical CES): Cynthia Gordon de Cruz: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316638765_Critical_Community-Engaged_Scholarship_Communities_and_Universities_Striving_for_Racial_Justice CESI's Community Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Program: https://www.cesinstitute.ca/about-cetl CESI's Research Shop: https://www.cesinstitute.ca/about-research-shop Europe's Science Shop Model: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261948200_Science_shops CESI's Guelph Lab: https://www.cesinstitute.ca/about-guelph-lab Art not Shame: https://artnotshame.org/who-we-are
Author (aut): Liz Jackson, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-10
Bio: Kevin Bruyneel is Professor of Politics at Babson College, teaching about race, colonialism and collective memory. He wrote the books, Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) and The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations (University of Minnesota Press 2007). Kevin was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, studied at Simon Fraser University and the New School for Social Research in New York City, and now lives and teaches in MassachusettsResources:Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States by Kevin Bruyneel: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665238/settler-memory/ Bacon's Rebellion: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/ W.E.B. Du Bois: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dubois/James Baldwin: https://nmaahc.si.edu/james-baldwinThe White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-white-possessiveLayli Long Soldier: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldierDr. Kim TallBear: https://kimtallbear.com/Cristina Sharpe: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/cesharpe/Cedric Robinson: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/robinson-cedric-j/I Am Not Your Negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/i-am-not-your-negro/Kyle Mays: https://www.kyle-mays.com/Afro Pessimism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimismFrank Wilderson: https://www.frankbwildersoniii.com/about/Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/Robyn Maynard: https://robynmaynard.com/Stuart Hall: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/hall-stuart/Kēhaulani Kauanui: https://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/Jean M. O'Brien: https://shekonneechie.ca/biographies/jean-obrien/Lee Maracle: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lee-maracle-death-bc-indigenous-writer-poet-1.6245582Jodi Byrd: https://as.cornell.edu/news/new-faculty-jodi-byrdCampuses and Colonialism: https://www.oah.org/insights/opportunities-for-historians/cfp-campuses-and-colonialism-symposium/Malinda Maynor Lowery: http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lowery-malinda-maynor.htmlStephen Kantrowitz: https://history.wisc.edu/people/kantrowitz-stephen/Alyssa Mt. Pleasant: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/africana-and-american-studies/faculty/faculty-directory/mt-pleasant.html
Author (aut): Kevin Bruyneel, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-17
As a sustainability researcher and project manager, Magda is dedicated to assisting communities in their efforts toward positive environmental and social change. She aims to really get at the heart of issues and propose meaningful ways forward.Magda actively supports the growth of knowledge-sharing communities within Community Campus Engage Canada, and oversees operations, research and communications. Prior to joining CCEC, Magda provided extensive research and evaluation support to a multi-year pan-Canadian project titled 'Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement' (CFICE), which explored community-driven community-campus partnerships. During the initial demonstration project phase of CFICE, she also provided direct assistance to a neighbourhood organization (Sustainable Living Ottawa East) over a period of three years.Magda's focus on community draws from experience in sustainability research consulting, where she has assisted individuals and organizations in building positive social and environmental change at neighbourhood scales. In 2019 she completed PhD research on household-scale climate change adaptation activities in urban areas in Canada.Magda is continually inspired by the optimism, compassion and inventiveness that are applied to environmental and social challenges in communities. When away from her work she enjoys seeking out hiking, biking or cross-country skiing adventures, or thinking up art projects and learning new things with her daughters. Resources: — Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC): https://ccecanada.ca/— Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement: https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/
Author (aut): Magda Goemans, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-24
Bio:Shauna Sylvester is a graduate of McGill University and Simon Fraser University and until recently, served as the Executive Director of the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Currently she is Professor of Professional Practice at SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and in September she is delighted to be moving into a new role as Executive Director of Urban Sustainability Directors' Network for the US and Canada.She has co-founded and led five initiatives: the SFU Public Square, Carbon Talks, Renewable Cities, Canada's World, and IMPACS – the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society and has worked with colleagues in launching consortiums like Moving in a Livable Region and Canadian Cities + COP26. Shauna has years of experience working globally, in conflict and post-conflict zones, with incredible women's initiatives, media groups, multilateral processes and civil society organizations.In the early 1980s and 90s, she was active with HIV/AIDS, disability, peace and environment organizations. She also worked at IDERA – the International Development Education Research Association, CUSO, Community Living Society and Canada World Youth. Shauna co-chaired SPARC BC's first Community Development Institute, the Civicus World Assembly, led the Canadian forestry working group for the EarthSummit, organized the Canadian meeting for the Beijing Women's conference in 1994 and participated in three COP processes. She has published widely in mainstream newspapers, provided commentary to national and local TV and radio and authored her own climate blog.Resources:The SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue.htmlThe Social Planning and Research Council of B.C. (SPARC BC): https://www.sparc.bc.ca/Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS): https://reliefweb.int/organization/impacsCuso International: https://cusointernational.org/Canada World Youth: https://canadaworldyouth.org/CIVICUS World Assembly: https://www.civicus.org/worldassembly/Imagine Canada: https://www.imaginecanada.ca/enCanada's World: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/programs/international-relations/canadas-world.htmlCOP26: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop26Fossil of the Year Award: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-tagged-as-fossil-of-the-year-1.827062Carbon Talks: https://carbontalks.wordpress.com/about/Renewable Cities: https://www.renewablecities.ca/about-renewable-citiesSFU Public Square: https://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/about.htmlRenovictions: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/ending-a-tenancy/renovictionsSemester in Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/semester/Ecotrust Canada: https://ecotrust.ca/The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (The Circle): https://www.the-circle.ca/how-we-work.htmlUrban Sustainability Directors Network: https://www.usdn.org/about.html
Author (aut): Shauna Sylvester, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-06-07
Undergraduate Engineering students are required to complete a group-based, two-course capstone sequence: ENSC 405W and ENSC 440. Groups form company structures and create an innovative product that potentially acts as a solution to a real-life problem. This collection archives the following assignments: proposal, design specifications, requirements specifications, and proof of concept.
Author (aut): Cheung, Desmond, Author (aut): Ng, Humphrey, Author (aut): Pun, Patrick, Author (aut): Wong, Janice, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Pool Shark Technologies
Date created: 2000-04
Bio: David Lester is a musician, graphic designer and graphic novelist. His most recent book is Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel (Beacon Press) created with Marcus Rediker and Paul Buhle. He also illustrated "1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike", (published in English, German and French editions). 1919 was co-winner of the 2020 CAWLS Book Prize. Lester's poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He is the guitarist in the rock duo Mecca Normal, cited as an influence on the founders of the feminist social movement Riot Grrrl. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.Resources: David Lester website: https://davidlesterartmusicdesign.wordpress.com/Prophet Against Slavery Benjamin Lay: A Graphic Novel: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/676291/prophet-against-slavery-by-david-lester-with-paul-buhle-and-marcus-rediker/97808070818081919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike: https://graphichistorycollective.com/project/1919Mecca Normal: https://meccanormal.wordpress.com/Horde of Two: https://hordeoftwo.wordpress.com/Durruti: A Life in 8 Parts: https://hordeoftwo.bandcamp.com/track/durruti-a-life-in-8-partsHorde of Two: "I Knew I Was a Rebel Then: CD: https://hordeoftwo.bandcamp.com/album/i-knew-i-was-a-rebel-thenBook: Horde of Two: "I Knew I Was a Rebel Then: https://www.bamboodartpress.com/store/horde_of_two-i_knew_i_was_a_rebel_then.htmlEmma Goldman graphic novel in progress: https://emmagraphicnovel.wordpress.com/HEROIN: An Illustrated History by Susan Boyd: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/heroinSolidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983 by David Spaner: https://www.amazon.ca/Solidarity-David-Spaner/dp/1553806387
Author (aut): David Lester, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-06-14
Author (aut): Cheung, Desmond, Author (aut): Ng, Humphrey, Author (aut): Pun, Patrick, Author (aut): Wong, Janice, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Pool Shark Technologies
Date created: 2000-04
Author (aut): Cheung, Desmond, Author (aut): Ng, Humphrey, Author (aut): Pun, Patrick, Author (aut): Wong, Janice, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Pool Shark Technologies
Date created: 2000-04
Undergraduate Engineering students are required to complete a group-based, two-course capstone sequence: ENSC 405W and ENSC 440. Groups form company structures and create an innovative product that potentially acts as a solution to a real-life problem. This collection archives the following assignments: proposal, design specifications, requirements specifications, and proof of concept.
Author (aut): Wong, Josephine, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Ngai, Brandon, Author (aut): microSense metrics
Date created: 2005-04
Jean Swanson has been a city councillor in Vancouver since 2018, when she was elected through COPE (The Coalition of Progressive Electors).Jean is an anti-poverty activist who has been working with Downtown Eastside organizations for almost 50 years, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2017. She is the author of the book, Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. Jean recently announced her intention to run for re-election in 2022. Resources: Housing For All Of Us: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-making-home-kennedy-stewart-revisedCarnegie Action Projects: http://www.carnegieaction.org/reports/Residential Tenancy Act: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/lc/statreg/02078_01Vacancy Control: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-needs-vacancy-control-tenants-group-says-following-alarming-evictions-study-1.5588483CMHC: Rental Market Report: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/market-reports/rental-market-reports-major-centresRenter Services Centre: https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/renter-office.aspxIan Mulgrew: B.C.'s chief coroner laments lack of action as opioid crisis hits worst death toll yet: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/change-bonnie-henry-to-b-c-s-chief-coronerVancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU): https://vandureplace.wordpress.com/Drug Users Liberation Front (DULF): https://www.dulf.ca/Fair Price Pharma: http://fairpricepharma.ca/Insite: https://www.phs.ca/program/insite/
Author (aut): Jean Swanson, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-05
Micheal Vonn is CEO of PHS Community Services Society, previously known as the Portland Hotel Society.For fifteen years, Micheal was the Policy Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. As an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the Faculty of Law and in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, she taught civil liberties and information ethics.Through her work in HIV/AIDS, Micheal has been granted both an AccolAIDS Award and a Red Ribbon Award. She was also the recipient of the 2015 Keith Sacré Library Champion Award for support, guidance and assistance given to the BC library community. Resources: PHS Community Services Society: https://www.phs.ca/about/Pigeon Park Savings: https://www.phs.ca/our-services/pigeon-park-savings/BC Civil Liberties: https://bccla.org/AIDS Vancouver: https://www.aidsvancouver.org/
Author (aut): Micheal Vonn, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-12
Tony Valente is a first term City Councillor. Tony has an MBA from UBC and for the last twelve years he has worked as a project manager delivering complex infrastructure projects in the public sector. Tony is currently working as a Risk Director with a Crown corporation.Tony envisions a vibrant, diverse City of North Vancouver where transportation and housing options abound, and our public spaces are the envy of Metro Vancouver. All of this is supported by a strong local economy where small business thrives.Dr. Meghan Winters is an epidemiologist interested in the link between health, transportation, and city design. She received her PhD in 2011 from the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility at Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, studying on older adults' mobility and the built environment. Dr. Winters joined the Faculty of Health Sciences as an Assistant Professor in July 2011. Resources: Councillor Tony Valente: https://www.tonyvalente.ca/about-tony/Dr. Meghan Winters: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/meghan-winters.htmlHUB Cycling: https://bikehub.ca/Esplanade Complete Street: https://letstalk.cnv.org/esplanade-complete-streetCHATR Lab: https://chatrlab.ca/Bike Maps: https://bikemaps.org/Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure in Mid-Sized Cities (IBIMS): protocol for a natural experiment study in three Canadian cities: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29358440/COVID-19 street reallocation in midsize Canadian cities: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33650060/Not quite a block party: COVID-19 street reallocation programs in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000446WalkRollMap: https://chatrlab.ca/projects/walk-roll-map/
Author (aut): Tony Valente, Author (aut): Winters, Meghan, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-07-19
Author (aut): Cheung, Desmond, Author (aut): Ng, Humphrey, Author (aut): Pun, Patrick, Author (aut): Wong, Janice, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Pool Shark Technologies
Date created: 2000-04
Author (aut): Wong, Josephine, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Ngai, Brandon, Author (aut): microSense metrics
Date created: 2005-04
Author (aut): Wong, Josephine, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Ngai, Brandon, Author (aut): microSense metrics
Date created: 2005-04
Author (aut): Wong, Josephine, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Ngai, Brandon, Author (aut): microSense metrics
Date created: 2005-04
Author (aut): Wong, Josephine, Author (aut): Wong, Lawrence, Author (aut): Ngai, Brandon, Author (aut): microSense metrics
Date created: 2005-04
Bio:Eldritch Priest writes on sonic culture, experimental aesthetics, and the philosophy of experience from a 'pataphysical perspective.He is Associate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Eldritch is also a composer and improviser as well as a member of the experimental theory group "The Occulture." He is the author of several essays and books including Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (Bloomsbury 2013) and most recently, Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and other Imaginary Refrains (Duke University Press 2022). Resources: Eldritch's new book, Earworm and Event: https://www.dukeupress.edu/earworm-and-event Eldritch's Website: https://www.strangemonk.com/ Eldritch's previous book, Ludic Dreaming:https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ludic-dreaming-9781501320804/ Eldritch's other previous book, Boring Formless Nonsense: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/boring-formless-nonsense-9781441122131/ The Logic of Sense, by Gilles Deleuze: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-logic-of-sense/9780231059831
Author (aut): Eldritch Priest, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-26
Darren Byler a sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Simon Fraser University's School for International Studies.His research examines the dispossession of stateless populations through forms of contemporary capitalism and colonialism in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. He has written two books, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City, and In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony. Darren is part of the Xinjiang Documentation Project, which features personal testimonies and archives, internal police reports, translations and other documents about the ongoing detention of Turkic Muslims in China and the erasure of their native knowledge. Resources: Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City: https://www.dukeupress.edu/terror-capitalismIn the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696114/in-the-camps-by-darren-byler/Glen Coulthard on Below the Radar: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/37-glen-coulthard.htmlBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon: http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdfJustice for "Data Janitors by Lilly Irani: https://www.publicbooks.org/justice-for-data-janitors/Amazon Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jordan Jefferson: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Digitize-and-Punish-by-Brian-Jordan-Jefferson-author/9781517909239
Author (aut): Darren Byler, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-01