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Author: Laurence Gatinel

Dalannah Gail Bowen

DTES blues legend and advocate Dalannah Gail Bowen releases new song for missing Indigenous women

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 24-03-2021
An exterior photo of a row of South False Creek's housing co-ops in spring

Economist: Current private, for-profit approach doesn’t allow for affordable housing build out

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 24-03-2021
Giant novelty receipt showing expenses for people who depend on B.C. disability assistance

People with disabilities rally, block Vancouver street demanding end to below-poverty rates

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 22-03-2021
Chinatown Revitalization Gate Landing

Chinatown Community Unites to Survive the Pandemic

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 19-03-2021
Flavours of Hope nonprofit founder Trixie Ling

‘We can’t be pitted against each other’: Anti-Asian hate crime survivor reflects on pandemic year

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 18-03-2021
Downtown Eastside Vancouver protest to raise social and disability assistance rates in B.C.

B.C. government partly reverses disability rate cuts, but advocates say it’s still poverty

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 17-03-2021
Downtown Eastside resident Paul Young holds loaves of bread outside with a green Oppenheimer Park sign behind him

Downtown Eastside residents look forward to re-opened Oppenheimer Park, lament lost year

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 16-03-2021
Bryn Davidson stands outside of a wooden tiny home with an artwork painted on the side featuring a man smoking against a green background

After city rejection, Vancouver builder creates prototype tiny home DTES temporary shelter

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 15-03-2021
Byron Cruz speaks at a microphone in front of a row of protesters with signs

B.C. migrant community response an ‘inspiring’ lesson from COVID-19 year: advocate

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 11-03-2021
People stand outside with protest signs in support of drug decriminalization.

Majority of Canadians now back drug decriminalization, support highest in B.C.

Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - Vancouver • BC | 10-03-2021