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Lower demand and guest restrictions at many downtown buildings have pushed outdoor sex workers into scarier situations.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Mebrat Beyene is the executive director of WISH, which supports street-based sex workers in the Downtown Eastside. She’s calling for more income supports for sex workers during the pandemic.
Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press.
By fall, Vancouver’s street scene was almost non-existent for sex workers. But with her building not allowing guests because of COVID-19 precautions, Jasmine couldn’t work inside either. So she decided to try her luck on the street.
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Feb 1, 2021 11:13am Parliament Hill pictured on Jan. 15 (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
As the number of COVID-related deaths continue to rise in Canada, the toll on mental health across the country has experts in the field actively pushing the government to boost funding for mental health. The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association is working with Benjamin Howe of Impact Public Affairs to advocate for additional mental health services funding.
The Walt Disney Company has hired Justin Burrows of Geopolitics Group to discuss the government’s bid to overhaul Canada’s broadcasting laws (Bill C-10) as well as its proposal to implement a Digital Charter (Bill C-11).
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The traditional owners of the land set to be inundated by raising the walls of the Warragamba Dam have launched a federal bid for the protection of the area with Environment Minister Sussan Ley.
The application, made by Gundungurra elder Sharyn Halls, claims the controversial NSW government plan to raise the dam walls by up to 17 metres to cut flood risks to downstream communities will erase landscape features recorded in the Burragorang Valley’s creation story, as well as intersecting songlines.
Traditional owners Sharyn Halls (right) and Kazan Brown stand beside Lake Burragorang.
Credit:Wolter Peeters
The area contains the landscape features from the story of the chase of Gurangatch by Mirrigan, which explains how the landforms were made.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people.
In May 2020, the international mining giant Rio Tinto made a calculated and informed decision to drill 382 blast holes in an area of its Brockman 4 mining lease that encompassed the ancient rock shelter formations at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
The Puutu Kunti Kurrama Pinikura people, who are the traditional owners of that land, lost their material connection to sacred sites of ceremonial, clan and family life, the basis for their political and social organisation. The Australian people lost a significant chunk of their national estate. For this hefty price we all paid, Rio Tinto lawfully gained access to $135 million dollars of high-grade iron ore.