GVAD AGM IS IN ROOM NUMBER 3408 AT DOUGLAS COLLEGE
The best way to the room is to go to the second floor (Concourse) where the Library is – take the elevator up to 3rd floor. The room is in the Humanities area.
Doors Open at 9:30 so people can check in, pay for membership, and read the materials.
Drinks and TimBits, etc. will be available.
October Family Storytime in Sign Language and English at Burnaby Public Library
http://bpl.bc.ca/events/family-storytime-in-sign-language-and-english-at-tommy-douglas-0
Join a Deaf storyteller and a children’s librarian for stories, songs, rhymes and a craft presented in both American Sign Language and English. This is a free drop-in for children of all ages and abilities, together with a parent or caregiver. All families are welcome! Interpreters will be present.
Saturday, October 24, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. At Tommy Douglas Library in Burnaby: 7311 Kingsway, 604.522.3971.
Presented by Burnaby Public Library in partnership with Family and Community Services and Provincial Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at the Ministry of Children and Family Development. For more information, e-mail Randi at the library (Randi.Robin@bpl.bc.ca) or Roger at Family and Community Services (Roger.Chan@gov.bc.ca).
Canadians who use and rely on closed captioning to access English-language programming will have access to the highest possible quality of closed captioning in live programming. Learn about the issues and process in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2015-325 “Call for comments on the English-language closed captioning quality standard related to the accuracy rate for live programming” (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-325.htm). This also includes a link to “Report on Efforts to Improve the Quality of Closed Captioning” which I believe may be of interest to you.
You can submit your comments to the public process – by November 10, 2015: https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/instances-proceedings/Default-Defaut.aspx?lang=eng&YA=2015&S=O&PA=b&PT=nc&PST=a#2015-325
Please note that all information provided will be posted on the CRTC’s website and will become part of a publicly accessible file. Learn more in “How to Participate in CRTC Public Proceedings”: http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht/g4.htm
I invite you to participate. The CRTC needs input from citizens like yourself to help shape the Canadian communication system.
“Special Divine Liturgy” – in English – will be “Signed” for deaf
Intent is provide an opportunity for persons with various disabilities and their care-givers, to attend a church service. Primarily for Catholics, of Roman & Ukrainian rites, but ALL welcome. Thursday, Nov. 5th at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (fully handicap accessible) with large parking lot, at Ash and west 14th Ave.
Brief schedule:
6:55PM-Welcoming Remarks
7:00 PM – Divine Liturgy (Mass)
8:00 PM – Light Refreshments/Fellowship in church Hall
RSVP by Nov. 28 to Andrei Fedunyk : (604)985-7972 or e-mail: olandun@gmail.com
I am looking for a sign language tutor to work with a disabled adult residing at George Pearson Cente (GP), at Cambie and 57th in Vancouver.I would like a lesson every two weeks during daytime hours on either Monday, Wednesday or Friday. Tutor would have to travel to GP for the lesson.
Please contact me at juliemboisvert@gmail.com if you are interested.
Here’s more details about BCSD 100th anniversary Open House. Everyone is welcome!
The Gallaudet University Board of Trustees announced on October 9, 2015 it has selected Roberta “Bobbi” Cordano, J.D., to become the next president of Gallaudet University, effective January 1, 2016.
In making the announcement, Gallaudet Board of Trustees Chair Heather Harker said, “We are delighted to have selected Ms. Cordano to become the 11th President of Gallaudet. As our students are connecting with our vibrant community, discovering their academic and career aspirations, and influencing conversations and their futures, Ms. Cordano will be the kind of president to lead transformational change at the university. She’s the right person at the right time for Gallaudet.”
On October 14th an international conference for LNG is going to be held in Vancouver. We’d like to give them the welcome we think they deserve.
WHAT: Make Some Fracking Noise – A Community Noise Demo
WHEN: Wednesday October 14th @ 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: 1055 Canada Place – Meet at the Olympic Cauldron (near Waterfront Skytrain Station). We will go on a short march to visit some fracking corporations and end up at Canada Place (999 Canada Pl.) where the conference is being held.
WHY: Because alternatives that are better for the people, better for the land, and better for the future make sense and “drill baby drill,” no matter what the cost, doesn’t!
HOW: Bring your artful signs, banners and other messages and BRING YOUR NOISE MAKERS! This event will be held outside on city streets, sidewalks and spaces. Wheelchair accessible washrooms will be most readily available in local businesses and restaurants. ASL interpretation provided by Douglas College Sign Language Interpretation students (Thank you!).
Speakers:
Khelsilem Rivers – Skwomesh Action
Greg Horne – Skeena Watershed Alliance
Leila Darwish – Author and longtime Community Organizer
(and more!)
This action is part of the #FloodTheSystem grassroots mobilization. Find out more at www.floodthesystem.net
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This event will be held on the traditional and unceded territories of the x?m??kw?y??m (Musqueam), S?wx?wú7mesh (Squamish), and S?l?ílw?ta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
This event is held in solidarity with frontline communities, including The Unis’ot’en Camp and Madii Lii Camp.
This event will be conducted primarily in English.
This event will be held outside on city streets, sidewalks and spaces. Wheelchair accessible washrooms will be most readily available in local businesses and restaurants. ASL interpretation provided by Douglas College Sign Language Interpretation students (Thank you!).
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Some context:
There’s nothing “natural” about natural gas. At present, about half of the gas extracted in BC is fracked gas. Almost all new extraction for LNG exports is planned to be from fracking, so LNG is better called “Liquefied Fracked Gas” or “LFG”.
Indigenous communities in the North and across Turtle Island are being heavily impacted by the gas industry. There are communities that can’t even shower in their water let alone drink it or cook with it. Yet, pipelines that destroy water sources and land continue to be proposed, fracking and gas extraction continues. Demands to stop these projects are being consistently ignored to make way for corporate profit.
Hardly a transition fuel, LFG produces about the same greenhouse gas pollution as coal. Fracked gas is in direct competition with energy conservation, wind, solar and other low-carbon energy sources. We need effective community based responses to the climate crisis, not more polluting fossil fuels.
Economically speaking, the numbers just don’t add up. It costs more to liquefy and transport this dirty fuel than it can be sold for.
We are all downstream from these projects! Provincial and federal funds subsidizing and supporting the fossil fuel industries are not being put into other social services that our communities actually need. Education, socially subsidized housing, child care, women’s centres, centres offering supports with people struggling with mental health issues, services for refugees and migrants and health care are services that indigenous, poor and racialised communities are constantly fighting for and their voices are consistently being ignored. Governments implement austerity measures saying there’s no money for the services that will support peoples lives, but there are endless amounts of energy and money to lobby for the industries that further marginalize communities.
Indigenous sovereignty is being ignored and undermined. The poor are being displaced from their homes and communities. The labour market is forcing people into precarious work in a fossil fuel industry that rips workers away from their communities and families. This is not the embodiment of a just and respectful community that we want!
So what exactly are the federal and provincial governments doing??
We’re not sure, but what we DO know is that on Wednesday October 14th we’re going to make a lot of NOISE and make sure that the people running and attending this convention know that their fracking industry is NOT WELCOME.
Help us build a true climate justice movement, and create the just and respectful community we want and need!
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More info:
The Unist’ot’en Camp has a checkpoint set up at the entrance to their territory, to protect sovereign Wet’suwet’en territory from several proposed pipelines from the Tar Sands Gigaproject and shale gas from Hydraulic Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region. Find out more at http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/ or email: unistotencamp@riseup.net.
The Madii Lii Camp is located at the entrance to Madii Lii territory within the Gitxsan Nation, in Northwest BC. On Aug. 26, 2014, the hereditary chiefs of the territory declared access to the territory closed to all fracked gas (LFG/LNG) pipeline development and other unauthorized industrial activity, and enacted the Luutkudziiwus Territorial Management Plan. Find out more at http://www.madiilii.com/ or email: richardwright_8@hotmail.com.
Council of Canadians Fact Sheets:
Fracking and Climate Change http://canadians.org/publications/factsheet-fracking-and-climate-change
LNG in BC: Fracking our future
http://canadians.org/publications/lng-bc-fracking-our-future
Fracking Myths and Realities by Andrew Nikiforuk http://thetyee.ca/Series/2013/01/08/Fracking-Myths-And-Realities/
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