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2010 Watch is the official site of the 2010 Games Watch Committee, the "only truly independent watchdog of the 2010 Games." |
| AIDS VANCOUVER |
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AIDS Vancouver was founded in 1983 as one of the first AIDS service organizations in Canada. For the past 20 years, AV has been at the forefront of community response to the epidemic here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Our 28 paid staff and 300 volunteers strive to provide a comprehensive and integrated range of health promotion, education, and support services. |
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The BC Civil Liberties Association was established in 1962 and is the oldest and most active civil liberties group in Canada. |
| B.C. Persons Living With AIDS Society |
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The British Columbia Persons With AIDS Society (BCPWA Society) is dedicated to empowering persons living with HIV disease and AIDS through mutual support and collective action. It is Western Canada's largest AIDS organization with a membership of more than 4,400 HIV-positive individuals. |
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Carnegie Community Centre, at the corner
of Main and Hastings Streets, has been serving disadvantaged
residents of the Downtown Eastside and neighbouring communities
since 1980. |
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dtes.ca The community website of the Downtown Eastside, with links to over 160 local organizations websites, if
you are looking for any organization in the Downtown Eastside,
you will find them here. |
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Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) Organization of residents working towards improving the
living conditions in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. |
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Impact
on Community Coalition (IOCC) is an independent
organization dedicated to ensuring that environmental,
social, transportation, housing, economic and civil rights
issues associated with the Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Olympic
Games are addressed from a community perspective. |
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Insite
for Community Safety Insite
For Community Safety is a group of concerned citizens
and organizations who have come together to provide fact-based
information on Insite, the supervised safe injection facility
in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. |
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Intraspec.ca Selected resources, news and statistics on housing and homelessness in Canada, listing national and provincial housing and homeless initiatives, developments and services in major cities, local Ottawa services and charities, research and policy organizations, food banks by province, and a customized POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS SEARCH ENGINE. |
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prisonjustice.ca In support of prisoners and prison justice activism in Canada |
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PovNet is an internet site for advocates, people on welfare,
and community groups and individuals involved in anti-poverty
work. |
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RightsCity A blog website by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. |
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Tenants' Rights Action Coalition (TRAC) is a community-based coalition of groups and individuals
working on behalf of B.C.'s one million tenants. TRAC
works to improve legal protection for tenants, and to
promote community action for the purpose of protecting
and increasing the supply of affordable rental housing
in B.C. |
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VANDU
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug
Users (VANDU) was formed in January 1998 in Vancouver, to bring together people who use heroin and cocaine.
It is a non profit organization dedicated to improving
the lives of drug users, their families and our communities. |
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WISH Women's Information Safe House. Based on West Pender street
in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, their mission is to
increase the health, safety and well being of women working
in the sex trade in the Downtown Eastside. |
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West End Residents Association (WERA) is an inclusive membership-driven group seeking to improve and maintain quality of life for West End residents of Vancouver. |
