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When: Sep 20, 2023 06:30 PM Vancouver

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As a continuation of CUPE BC’s public childcare campaign Seamless Childcare Now, the campaign website has undergone a redesign. Please take a moment to view the new website, sign up to support the campaign or take action and send a letter to government in support, and share the new website with your members and in your personal networks. Thank you for your support!

CCDI Consulting | Cultural Sensitivity in Action Webinar | Sep 20Angèle Lalonde of the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion consulting group will lead Inclusive Leadership Through a Cultural Competence Lens: Part 1, to explore intercultural communication skills and showcase inclusive leadership in an era of diversity. Registration is free.        Date & Time: Sep 20, 2023 | 10:00am (Pacific).          Registration: Click here

CCDI Consulting will also be hosting the 2^nd and 3^rd part of their Indigenous Inclusion webinar series this fall.

ILWU 400 | Solidarity with Tugboat Workers

Send a letter to Port of Vancouver interim president Victor Pang to advocate for ILWU 400 members’ wages and working conditions. Now that the previous CEO has stepped down after having supported predatory companies’ Port of Vancouver contracts, the new leadership needs to be held accountable to ensure sure tugboat workers aren’t left behind.

Lancaster House | Fall Webinar Series | Sep 28-Dec 7Six labour relations courses are available from Toronton Metropolitan University’s Lancaster House this fall:

BC’s queer resource centre QMunity, with Chef Billy Nguyen and the Bacchus Group, are hosting an intimate wine tasting at the Vancouver Heritage Hall for their annual fundraiser this year.

Date & Time: Sep 14, 2023 | 6:00pm – 10:00pm (Pacific)
Location: The Heritage Hall at 3102 Main St, Vancouver

Tickets: $156.54 each, available here

The opioid epidemic has become a mass poisoning crisis that affects everyone in the WISH community. Too many lives have been lost.

It’s incredibly difficult to express how deeply this impacts the community we serve. The consequences of inaction in the face of this crisis are seen and felt at WISH every single day.

To recognize #IOAD, participants and staff will gather to support each other as we struggle to understand these preventable tragedies. We will take a moment to build connections, discuss harm reduction, and share thoughts on what the day means to each of us as we remember those we have lost.

Stand with us as we combat stigma, meet people where they are, and do everything we can to prevent death by overdose.

You can learn more about overdose on the International Overdose Awareness Day website.

And please consider attending We Keep Us Alive – an event happening at Oppenheimer Park from 1-6pm today – organized by the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War (CPDDW), the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS).

The BC Demographic Survey will help make BC more equitable and inclusive, by identifying inequities in government services and helping to ensure programs meet the needs of more people in British Columbia.

Please take part. It only takes 15 minutes.

Social justice consulting group Ikake Rising, in collaboration with the OCRCC initiative BIPOC Feminist Counsellors Coalition Building Project, offer a lengthy educational toolkit for supportive counselling from an anti-racism, anti-oppression & intersectional feminist lens, towards dismantling systemic inequities faced by BIPOC counsellors in the sexual assault support services sector. Download Healing Our Ancestor, Healing Ourselves and Our Communities here.

An extensive compilation of multi-media educational materials and informational resources are collected under different categories in Resilience BC’s Anti-Racism Tools online for anyone wishing to get more knowledge and join the struggle. View digital coursework, visit informative websites, browse recommended book lists, access free film and documentary content, or listen to audio on racial injustice, and how to combat it.