{"id":74559,"date":"2021-11-22T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=74559"},"modified":"2021-12-17T21:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:54:45","slug":"minister-and-mla-melanie-mark-shares-a-special-bond-with-the-peoples-from-the-downtown-eastside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/minister-and-mla-melanie-mark-shares-a-special-bond-with-the-peoples-from-the-downtown-eastside\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister and MLA Melanie Mark shares a special bond with the peoples from the Downtown Eastside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melanie Mark is the NDP MLA for the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, a riding that includes the Downtown Eastside. First elected in 2016, Mark sees this neighbourhood as \u201csmall in radius, but big on issues, the complex issues of what brings people to the Downtown Eastside. Some of it is trauma, but there\u2019s also a huge sense of community.\u201d Mark\u2019s mom still lives there today \u201cwith pride\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with issues facing the DTES, Mark, who is B.C.\u2019s Minister of Tourism, Art, Culture, and Sport, also addresses the need to combat the climate emergency that made the recent flooding in B.C. so much worse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, she speaks about the recent deaths of Lillian Howard and Lee Maracle, two very prominent and influential Indigenous women. \u201cIt\u2019s such a huge loss. But I think what I can leave you with...is that they left a great legacy in the community by being mentors and leaders and sharing their knowledge with the next generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to Melanie Mark\u2019s interview below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resource:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melanie Mark\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/melaniemarkmla.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Mark is the NDP MLA for the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, a riding that includes the Downtown Eastside. First elected in 2016, Mark sees this neighbourhood as \u201csmall in radius, but big on issues, the complex issues of what brings people to the Downtown Eastside. Some of it is trauma, but there\u2019s also a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":74561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,3265,225],"tags":[579,979,1201,758,678,370,980],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74559"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=74559"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=74559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}