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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: Shauna Sylvester, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-06-07
14th annual West Coast LEAF breakfast. Updates and discussion on LEAF cases; Dionne Brand was the keynote speaker.
Author: SFU Women's Studies Department, Author: SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Date created: 2001-03-08
Author: Lui, Yulanda, Author: Lau, Rachel , Author: Wong, Rachel, Author: Smith, Paige, Author: Roach, Melissa, Author: Feng, Kathy, Author: Pinillos, Fiorella, Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-29
Can art challenge us to shift our economy to one that embraces sustainability, equality, and justice? Can we create local and global economies that are not only resilient and thriving but inclusive of everyone?The Artist Round Table (A.RT) on New Economies brought together a diverse group of panellists who have provocative ideas about art, economy, and transformative change. Set within a staged 1983 corporate boardroom, the A.RT kickoff with a presentation by artist Marilou Lemmens about her collaborative, multidisciplinary practice with Richard Ibghy. Lemmens presented artistic projects that explore the ways in which the economic system pervades nearly every facet of our daily lives. In response, panellists from various fields engaged in a lively discussion, digging deeply into the issues at the heart of the duo’s practice. The panelists draw on their experiences in the realms of art and culture, activism and citizenship, and sustainability and radical urbanism as they tell stories, debate ideas, and challenge each other and the audience with thought-provoking questions. The audience was invited into a discourse on the emergence of a new economy and how art can be a driving force for social change.FEATURING:Marilou Lemmens is a visual artist based in Durham-Sud and Montreal, Quebec where she works in collaboration with Richard Ibghy. Spanning various media, including video, performance, and installation, their work explores the material, affective, and sensory dimensions of experience that cannot be fully translated into signs or systems. For several years, they have examined the rationale upon which economic actions are described and represented, and how the logic of economy has come to infiltrate the most intimate aspects of life. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at La Biennale de Montréal (Montreal, 2014), 27th Images Festival (Toronto, 2014), La Filature, Scène Nationale (Mulhouse, France, 2013-14), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2012), and the 10th Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah, UAE, 2011), among others.WITH PANELISTS:Community organizer, writer, and activist Matt Hern teaches at UBC and is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, and alternative forms of education. He is founder of the Purple Thistle Centre, Car-Free Vancouver Day, and Groundswell: Grassroots Economic Alternatives.Cédric Jamet is a Project Manager at the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre and a Curator at Cities for People. His work explores the relationship between the urban imaginary, active citizenship, and the co-creation of sustainable cities.Artist and cultural producer Todd Lester has dedicated his career to supporting and enabling socially engaged artists around the world. He is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and founder of both freeDimensional and Lanchonete.org.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Lemmens, Marilou, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Jamet, Cedric, Author: Lester, Todd
Date created: 2015-05-29
PANELISTSAndrew MacLeod is the Legislative Bureau Chief for TheTyee.ca website. His work has been referred to in the BC legislature, Canadian House of Commons and senate. He won a 2006 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for news writing and was a finalist for a 2007 Western Magazine Award for best article in BC and the Yukon. His reporting has appeared in Monday Magazine, the Georgia Straight, BC Business, 24 Hours, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Detroit’s MetroTimes, Portland’s Willamette Week and elsewhere. Andrew lives with his family in Victoria, BC.David Beers is the Tyee's founding editor. Under his leadership from 2003 to 2014, The Tyee's traffic grew to eclipse a million page views in a month and its team won many prizes including, twice, Canada's Excellence in Journalism Award, and, twice, the North America-wide Edward R. Murrow Award. He is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.Iglika Ivanova is Senior Economist and Public Interest Researcher. Her work investigates issues and trends in health care, education and social programs, and examines the impact of public services on quality of life. She also looks into issues of government finance, taxation and privatization and how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services. Iglika’s other research interests focus on the Canadian labour market and in particular trends in income inequality, low wage work and the integration of immigrants. Iglika holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a BA in Economics from Simon Fraser University. When she is not in the office, she can often be found swing dancing or sailing the coastal waters of BC.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: MacLeod, Andrew, Author: Beers, David, Author: Ivanova, Iglika
Date created: 2015-05-11
Al Etmanski is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. He is a founding partner of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) and BC Partners for Social Impact. Previously, he co-founded Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) with his wife Vickie Cammack and Jack Collins. Al is an Ashoka fellow, and a faculty member of John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD). He once played air guitar with Randy Bachman of BTO (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive) in a rock video, which convinced him to stick with his day job.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Vrooman, Tamara, Author: Harcourt, Mike, Author: Li, Claudia, Author: Mogus, Jason, Author: MacPherson, Donald, Author: Etmanski, Al
Date created: 2015-04-27
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Coulthard, Glen
Date created: 2014-10-22
This event was a part of the Homelessness Action Week.Speakers:Karen O’Shannacery, OBC and Retired Executive Director, Lookout Emergency Aid Society Karen O'Shannacery has been a housing advocate for the homeless and disenfranchised for 45+ years. She was the Executive Director and founding member of Lookout Emergency Aid Society, creating over 1,300 minimal-barrier shelter and housing beds and serving over 10,000 people annually. In 2011 Karen was appointed to the Mayor's Task Force on Housing Affordability. She co-founded community networks including the Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers Association, Greater Vancouver Shelter Strategy and the provincial Shelter Net BC. Karen continues to advocate for people challenged by serious mental illness, addictions and homelessness. Karen has been honoured for her continuing contributions, including receiving the Order of BC and the Diamond Jubilee Medal.Bonnie Pacaud, Co-Chair FairFares CalgaryBonnie is co-founder and co-chair of Fair Fares Calgary. For 15 years Fair Fares has advocated for a Low Income Transit Pass in Calgary. Bonnie has served as Executive Director of numerous non-profit agencies including: Canadian Alliance for Self-Determination, Calgary Community Living Society, Parent Child Centre/Observation Nurseries of Calgary and Calgary Coordinated Care Society. Bonnie was a government appointee to the first board of the Persons with Developmental Disabilities Calgary Region Community Board. Bonnie received the Calgary Advisory Committee on Accessibility Award for Advocacy. Fair Fares has received both a ‘Legacy of Social Justice Award’ from the University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work and a ‘Community Spirit Award of Distinction’ for community collaboration. Bonnie was the guardian of her sister Judy who had Down Syndrome; Judy was the driving force behind the work Bonnie has done over the years.Colleen Huston, Co-Chair FairFares CalgaryColleen has been the Coordinator of Disability Action Hall for past 15 years. Colleen has been the co-chair of Fair Fares for 15 years. Members of the Disability Action Hall continually ground and guide advocacy work with an understanding of ‘nothing about us without us’ regarding social justice, basic needs, relationships, affordable accessible housing, adequate incomes and services for all Albertans. Colleen is an artist, studied at Alberta College of Art and Design, disability studies at Mount Royal University and University of Calgary. Colleen and the Disability Action Hall have received numerous awards including: Community Collaboration Award awarded to Disability Action Hall; Social Justice Encounter Legacy Award, University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work; Lifetime Achievement Award from the Developmentally Disabilities Resource Centre; Diamond Jubilee Medal by Governor General of Canada; President’s Award issued by Alberta Council of Disability Services; Mayoral Arts Award Nominee for Colin Jackson and Arlene Strom.Mark Konecny, Project Program Manager III, King County Metro - Department of TransportationMark Konecny has worked at King County Metro Transit since 1999. Mark has served on of the Puget Sound Regional Council as a member of the Regional Reduced Fare Permit task force in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) since 2006 . While employed as a Customer Service lead since 2000, Mark supervised the employees selling Metro Transit products to the public, and managed the sales and tracking of the Human Service Reduced Fare Ticket Program, which serves the homeless and/or low income communities in the King County region. Mark has been managing the ORCA LIFT program since its launch in March 2015. The One Regional Card for All / Low Income Fare - Transit (ORCA LIFT) is a reduced-fare program that makes transit more affordable for those who meet the program’s eligibility requirement (gross annual income of 200 percent below the federal poverty level). Prior to his tenure at King County, Mark owned and operated a successful restaurant in the Seattle area for over 21 years.Peter Greenwell, Coordinator of Homeless Programs at Collingwood Neighbourhood HousePeter has worked as a Planner for both the City of Vancouver and Metro Vancouver. He was the Director of The Gathering Place Community Centre for many years, where he worked to expand both legal assistance and health services for local residents. Peter initiated the City of Vancouver’s Extreme Weather Shelter response in the downtown core. For many years Peter served as Chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission an advisory body to Vancouver City Council. Currently, Peter is a PhD Candidate in the Social Dimensions of Health program at the University of Victoria focussing research on the transportation access and exiting homelessness, as well as Coordinator of Homeless Programs at Collingwood Neighbourhood House.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: O'Shannacery, Karen, Author: Pacaud, Bonnie, Author: Huston, Colleen, Author: Konecny, Mark, Author: Greenwell, Peter
Date created: 2015-10-08
Canada is in a state of emergency and if we don’t act now, irreparable harm will be done to the environment, the economy, and the basic democratic and human rights of Canadians. The persistent failure by successive governments to address the ill effects of past and current oppression of Indigenous peoples threatens the well-being of all Canadians. The health and well-being (or lack thereof) of First Nations is a strong indicator of the health of Canada. Canada simply can’t exist without its land defenders. First Nations are Canada’s last best hope at saving the lands, waters, plants and animals for our collective future generations. The real power in any nation is in the people and Canadians, in solidarity with First Nations, have the power to take back Canada and restore the original treaty vision of mutual respect, protection and prosperity.Dr. Pamela D. Palmater is a Mi’kmaw citizen and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. She has been a practicing lawyer for 16 years and is currently an Associate Professor and the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University. She comes from a large family of 8 sisters and three brothers.She has 4 university degrees, including a BA from St. Thomas in Native Studies, and an LLB from UNB where she won the Faskin Campbell Godfrey prize in natural resources and environmental law. She went on to complete her Masters and Doctorate in Law from Dalhousie University Law School specializing in First Nation law.Pam has been studying, volunteering and working in First Nation issues for over 25 years on a wide range of social, political and legal issues, like poverty, housing, child and family services, treaty rights, education and legislation impacting First Nations. She came in second in the Assembly of First Nations election for National Chief in 2012 and was one of the spokespeople, organizers and public educators for the Idle No More movement in 2012-13.She has been recognized with many awards and honours for her social justice advocacy on behalf of First Nations generally, and Indigenous women and children specifically, and most recently for her work related to murdered and missing Indigenous women. Some of these awards include 2012 YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in Social Justice, the 2012 Women’s Courage Award in Social Justice, Bertha Wilson Honour Society 2012 and Canadian Lawyer Magazine’s 2013 Top 5 Most Influential Lawyer in the Human Rights category, Canada's Top Visionary Women Leaders 2014, and most recently, the 2015 UNB Alumni Award of Distinction.Pam’s area of expertise is in Indigenous law, politics, and governance. She has numerous publications including her book, Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity, legal academic journal publications, magazine articles and invited news editorials. Her political blog, Indigenous Nationhood has been reposted and reprinted in numerous formats and will soon become a book. She is a well-known speaker, presenter and educator on Indigenous issues both across Canada and internationally, having spoken in Samoa, Hawaii, Peru, Switzerland and England. She is frequently called as an expert before Parliamentary and United Nations committees dealing with laws and policies impacting Indigenous peoples.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Palmater, Pam
Date created: 2015-09-24
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Montani, Adrienne , Author: Hawkins, Lorelai , Author: Oberle, Eva , Author: Ellis, Vivica
Date created: 2016-10-05
Panelists:Honorary Witness Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, City of VancouverRev. Mary Fontaine, Hummingbird MinistriesHonorary Witness David Wong, Architect, Community Activist and WriterDoug White, Director, Centre for Pre‐Confederation Treaties and Reconciliation, Vancouver Island UniversityJody Wilson-Raybould, Regional Chief, B.C. Assembly of First Nations Linda Morris, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Member and Community Engagement, VancityHonourary Witness Robbie WaismanTogether we recognize and celebrate our diverse histories and unique strengths in attempt to find a New Way Forward for Aboriginal peoples and all Canadians.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Robertson, Gregor, Author: Fontaine, Mary, Author: Wong, David, Author: White, Doug, Author: Wilson-Raybould, Jody, Author: Morris, Linda, Author: Waisman, Robbie
Date created: 2015-06-02
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Douglas, Stan , Author: Clover, Joshua , Author: O’Brian, Melanie
Date created: 2016-05-27
Alberta's historic election results call for analysis and discussion.The Broadbent Institute and the SFU School of Public Policy presented: Beyond the Headlines: Learning about Alberta's Historic Election.The panel discussion of politicos and campaigners discussed what happened in the election that ended 44 years of Progressive Conservative Party rule of Alberta -- and how that shift led to an NDP majority.Panelists:Gerry Scott, Alberta NDP campaign directorKerry Towle, former Wildrose and PC MLA, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Mike McDonald, Principal, Rosedeer Strategies Inc., and Campaign Director, BC Liberal 2013 electionAnne McGrath, National Director, New Democratic Party of Canada
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Scott, Gerry, Author: Towle, Kerry, Author: McDonald, Mike, Author: McGrath, Anne
Date created: 2015-06-01
Author: Gosnell-Myers, Ginger , Author: Soutar, Rena , Author: Todd, Kamala, Author: Lindsay, Spencer, Author: Khelsilem, Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2019-09-25
Panelists:Mary Clare Zak, Managing Director, Social Policy & Project Division, City of VancouverMatt Hern, instructor in SFU Urban Studies and author of Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, Co-founder/Director of 2+10 IndustriesPaul Taylor, Executive Director of Gordon Neighborhood House in the West End, and formerly Executive Director of the DTES Neighborhood HouseViveca Ellis, Single Mothers AllianceMargot Young, law professor at UBC Bill Beauregarde, Community Coordinator, Aboriginal Front Door Society Moderated by Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Zak, Mary Clare, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Taylor, Paul, Author: Ellis, Viveca, Author: Young, Margot, Author: Beauregarde, Bill
Date created: 2015-11-02
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Indian Summer Festival
Date created: 2015-10-28
Governmental policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular form of colonialism—settler colonialism. As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe has noted: “The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism. Land is life—or, at least, land is necessary for life.” The history of North America is a history of settler colonialism. The objective of government authorities was to terminate the existence of Indigenous Peoples as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide. US and Canadian history, as well as inherited Indigenous trauma, cannot be understood without dealing with the genocide committed against Indigenous peoples. From the colonial period through the founding of states and continuing in the 21st century, this has entailed torture, terror, sexual abuse, massacres, systematic military occupations, removals of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories, forced removal of Native American children to military-like boarding schools, allotment, and policies of termination.Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. Her grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, was a member of the Oklahoma Socialist Party and Industrial Workers of the World. Her historical memoir, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, tells that story. Moving to San Francisco, California, she graduated in History from San Francisco State University and began graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, transferring to University of California, Los Angeles to complete her doctorate in History, specializing in Western Hemisphere and Indigenous histories. From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist and a leader in the women's liberation movement that emerged in 1967, organizing in various parts of the U. S., traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. A second historical memoir, Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975, tells that story. In 1973, Roxanne joined the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights, lobbying for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. Appointed as director of Native American Studies at California State University East Bay, she collaborated in the development of the Department of Ethnic Studies, as well as Women's Studies, where she taught for 3 decades. Her 1977 book, The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation, was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indians of the Americas, held at United Nations' headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Two more scholarly books followed: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico and Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination. In 1981, Roxanne was invited to visit Sandinista Nicaragua to appraise the land tenure situation of the Mískitu Indians in the isolated northeastern region of the country. In over a hundred trips to Nicaragua and Honduras, she monitored what was called the Contra War. Her book, Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War, was published in 2005. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in September 2014.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Date created: 2015-10-27