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Sue CarabettaSue has been a manager at NSCR since March of 2020. She loves people, laughter and journeying the highs and lows of life and health alongside others. She is passionate about building a thriving community on the North Shore and never ceases to be amazed at all the stories of incredible volunteers and seniors.Before taking time to raise her three kids, Sue graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and worked with seniors as the Director of the Dietary department at Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver. More recently, she worked in stroke recovery on the North Shore before joining our team. She currently oversees our staff and programs for Better at Home, Caregiver Support, Seniors One Stop, Volunteer North Shore, and our Inter-Agency Network.June MaynardJune is a retired early childhood educator who worked in direct child care, community care facilities licensing, and managing a child care resource program. She has always had an interest in intergenerational concepts and has seen first hand the life changing impacts of such programs. Once retired, June wanted to pursue intergenerational initiatives for the North Shore from a community development perspective. She assisted in the launch of the InterGenNS (Intergenerational North Shore) Project in July of 2019. In the process she has very cleverly created her own volunteer position and has had a rewarding experience in being a community representative for this Project.Rachelle PatilleRachelle Patille is a Gerontology Graduate Student at SFU who works as a Graduate Research Assistant on the InterGenNS Project, with the support of SFU and various North Shore Organizations. Her research focuses on the impact of intergenerational connections and relationships on older adults in a society that is segregated by age and divided generationally. She has previous experience in the public health and community health sectors with a specific focus on older adults health and well-being.Resources: — Celebrating Intergenerational Day with the InterGenNS Project: https://www.sfu.ca/gerontology/news-events/news/celebrating-intergenerational-day.html— North Shore Community Resources: https://www.nscr.ca/— SFU's Gerontology Research Centre: https://www.sfu.ca/grc.html
Author: Sue Carabetta, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: June Maynard, Author: Rachelle Patille
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Mark L. Winston is the recipient of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction for his book Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive, and an Independent Publishers 2019 Gold Medal "IPPY" Award for his book Listening to the Bees. One of the world's leading experts on bees and pollination, Dr. Winston is also an internationally recognized researcher, teacher and writer. He directed Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue for 12 years, where he founded the Semester in Dialogue, a program that creates leadership development opportunities equipping and empowering students to address community issues.As a consultant and thought leader, Dr. Winston partners with universities, corporations, NGOs, governments and communities to advance communication skills, engage public audiences with controversial issues through dialogue, and implement experiential learning and community engagement in educational institutions. As an award-winning writer and editor, he works with students, scientists, other professionals and writers to develop compelling non-fiction, from proposals and newspaper opinion pieces to manuscripts and books.He currently is a Professor and Senior Fellow in Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue, a Professor of Biological Sciences, and the SFU Library's inaugural Nonfiction Writer in Residence (2020-2021).
Author: Mark Winston, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes
Date created: 2021-12-14
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: Jean Swanson, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-05
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: Darren Byler, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-01
Dr. Rumena Filipova studied Political Science and International Relations at Cambridge and Oxford and she is Chairperson and Co-Founder of the Institute for Global Analytics.Rumena's main research interests focus on the politics and international relations of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular reference to questions of identity, media and disinformation, and the authoritarian influence exercised by Russia and China in the region. Constructing the Limits of Europe: Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989, is Rumena's latest book and will be published in April, 2022. Resources: —Institute for Global Analytics: https://globalanalytics-bg.org/— Constructing the Limits of Europe Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/constructing-the-limits-of-europe/9783838216492— Episode 21: Do we really know what democracy is? — with Astra Taylor: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/21-astra-taylor.html— Episode 129: Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/129-alberto-toscano.html— Europe and right-wing nationalism: A country-by-country guide: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36130006— Serbia halts China-owned mine over environmental breaches: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/serbia-halts-china-owned-mine-over-environmental-breaches-2021-04-14/
Author: Rumena Filipova, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-03
Councillor Christine Boyle was elected to Vancouver City Council with OneCity Vancouver in 2018.Christine is a community organizer, climate justice activist, and United Church Minister, born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, BC. She is passionate about tackling inequality, contributing to climate solutions, and deepening democratic engagement.Christine has an BSc in Urban Agriculture and First Nations Studies from UBC, and an MA in Religious Leadership for Social Change from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is a founding member of OneCity Vancouver.Resources– Christine Boyle's website: https://christineboyle.ca/ – Christine Boyle's profile on the City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/christine-boyle.aspx – Christine Boyle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/christineeboyle – United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html – COP 26 - Glasgow: https://ukcop26.org/ – "Superblocks: Barcelona's car-free zones could extend lives and boost mental health" - The Conversation:s: https://theconversation.com/superblocks-barcelonas-car-free-zones-could-extend-lives-and-boost-mental-health-123295 – Report: "How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning" - The Century Foundation: https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/?session=1 – Drug User Liberation Front: https://www.dulf.ca/ – BC Compassion Club: https://thecompassionclub.org/
Author: Christine Boyle, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-08
Nicolas Leech-Crier (and his secret identity, "Mr. Essential") is an adoptee of Cree heritage and a freelance writer.At 43 years old he has spent approximately half his life surviving in the streets and more than a decade in the DTES. It never occurred to him that being a "drug user" would ever be useful, but thanks to the incredible support and loving friendship shown to him by his many neighbours and friends in the DTES, he's parlayed his street smarts and community connections into a successful career as an overdose responder and outreach worker.In 2018, Nicolas became a coordinator and facilitator for the Speakers Bureau at Megaphone and just recently his title was upgraded to Storytelling and Community Networking Liaison. (Mr. Essential's title remains the same: One-time Imaginary Podcast Host of Some Notoriety). In everything he does — from powerful plays, to playful pictures, or post-secondary presentations and paradigm-shifting podcasts — he sends love to his 11-year-old son, Money. Resources: — Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/— UBC Transformative Health and Justice Research Cluster: https://transformhealthjustice.ubc.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services - UNITE Project: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/about/news-stories/stories/challenging-stigma-through-storytelling— Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/
Author: Nicolas Leech-Crier, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-15