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1. When I was deciding whether to leave my old newspaper job to start The Current, I kept coming back to one key fact: Not every part of the journalism industry was contracting and shrinking and getting worse. There was hope. There was real growth.
I'm so honoured to have been a part of Channeling Youth Voices, an unforgettable project. It's all about the incredible people who were SO brave in being vulnerable and telling their stories. Making such a sacrifice to help others who might have similar experiences. Thank you ❤️
After a year-long collaboration between CHASI researchers and Chilliwack youth, we're proud to share the Channeling Youth Voices Reflection Series!
Watch the documentary short here: youtube.com/watch?v=iYuRSOQE…
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Celebrating the very recent arrival Social History of South Asians in British Columbia coffee table book, which arrived in @ufvsasi hands less than an hour ago! #ThreadingOurStories
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Many partners walked with us on the journey to document South Asian Canadian history, says @ufvsasi director Satwinder Bains, including key partner @RoyalBCMuseum. Six wide-ranging projects are being celebrated today.
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Honoured & grateful to be invited to Delhi by @BJP4indla & @narendramodi's @PMOIndia office as a delegate to discuss water rights & sovereignty of Punjab. Truly an honour. Can't wait! Owe thanks to @PoeticJFdn team for making this happen 🙌🏽 Will be livestreamed on @republic
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This week, Channeling Youth Voices, a year-long participatory research collaboration between CHASI researchers and Chilliwack youth, hosted a celebratory thank-you dinner for all the youth involved in the project.
ALT Photos young people watching a documentary, talking, listening, and enjoying a meal together.
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Hey all!! Just found out I’m woke… all this time
I just thought I was good at history.
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Attention podcast fans, meet the CHASIcast! We spoke to Dr. Jacqueline Nolte about universities as a space for dialogue, protests in Ottawa, and her years of active resistance against the apartheid state in South Africa.
Full details available at blogs.ufv.ca/chasi/chasicast…
ALT Photo of a studio with professional recording equipment. The focus is on a laptop showing Dr. Jacqueline Nolte on a Zoom call, while in the foreground, Dr. Martha Dow speaks into a microphone. Overlaid is a quote from Dr. Nolte, reading: "It’s about creating space in which we negotiate dialogue. We understand the reciprocity of dialogue and we have faith in reason, gentle reason, ultimately prevailing."
If you live in the #FraserValley, please hear these artists (link below) and go see their powerful work, now out in the #Abbotsford community.
In 2021, four Fraser Valley artists created a series of paintings with a clear focus on increasing awareness of the systemic racism faced by Black people and inspiring concrete action to tackle its existence globally and locally. ow.ly/l5qh50I5ZJb
#BlackHistoryMonth
ALT BLM social justice art project: an artist looks at her painting in the gallery
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⚡️Zelensky: "What the occupiers are doing in Kharkiv, Okhtyrka, Kyiv, Odesa, and other cities and towns merits an international tribunal.
We record all their crimes."
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⚡️Zelensky: They lied they wouldn't touch the civilians, but from the first hours of the invasion, Russian troops were attacking civilian infrastructure.
They deliberately chose tactics to strike at people and everything that makes life normal - electricity, hospitals, homes.
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⚡️Ukraine launches a website to help Russian families find their relatives killed in combat.
The Interior Ministry has launched 200rf.com, where it publishes photos and documents of the dead and captured Russian soldiers.
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I dare a single Canadian to complain about their lack of freedom for being offered a life-saving vaccine at no cost, when 40 million Ukrainians are under the deadly weight of tyranny. – at Ottawa, Ontario
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⚡️ Canada’s new sanctions target 31 individuals, as well as 27 banks and entities, all connected to Russia’s ruling elite.
Canada has also canceled all export permits to Russia, which would curve about $750 million in Canadian exports and penalized 351 Russian lawmakers.
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Zelensky on the Russian shelling of a kindergarten in Ukraine that killed at least one child and injured more:
"What kind of war is that? Were these children neo-Nazi? Or were they NATO soldiers?"
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Ukraine's president said that Russia will attack with full force this night.
Our team will be up through the night to bring you the latest news.
Our people are placed in and out of Kyiv. Even if the Internet goes down in Kyiv, we should be able to continue to post updates.