Meet Marianne Unger of The Backyard Project Farm Stand. This RAVEN Champion is weaving new ways for neighbours to connect.
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Meet a RAVEN Champion: The Paisley Notebook. Aman Dosanj is the one behind slow food pop-up dinners, food memory stories, and Edible Adventures spice blends. Slow food in the name of social justice.
We are so happy to see our list of RAVEN champions continually grow! Learn more about our February business supporters.
The Run for FUNds fundraiser organized by RAVEN supporters, Kayci Lesosky and Sarah Legg, is fast approaching! On April 2, 2022 Kayci and Sarah are inviting everyone to come out to a community fun run at Elk Lake provincial park in Victoria. Their goal: to bring awareness to the Wild Salmon campaign, supporting Indigenous Nations to rid the Discovery Islands of dangerous fish farms once and for all.
Here at RAVEN, we are so grateful for all our donors and we’d like to show our appreciation for some of the businesses that have been supporting us the last few months.
Last year, Pro Bono Students Canada helped RAVEN by looking at the legal precedents that have been set by cases our community has fundraised for and supported. Focusing on the specific achievements of Gitxaala v. Canada — the legal victory over the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline — student legal researchers went looking for new legal cases that had cited Gitxaala. Check out this infographic illustrating the findings.
Access to clean drinking water is something many of us take for granted, especially in a country as water-wealthy as Canada. And yet, Indigenous communities across the nation are still facing water advisories, disease, and contamination from their water supply.
RAVEN has written about the dangers of man camps before, but with the 31st Annual February 14 Women’s Memorial March honouring MMIWGT2S approaching, and little change seen, it is time to bring this issue back to the forefront of our dialogues. Because it’s time Canada and industrial development companies take the recommendations in the final MMIWG report seriously and address the issue of violence against Indigenous women, two-spirited and girls.
The Belfry Theatre is putting on a production of “Little Red Warrior and his Lawyer” throughout the month of February. Through laughter and humour, this play deals with some heavy truths about Canada’s history. Don’t miss the world premiere of Kevin Loring’s outstanding production at the Belfry!
russ elliott is RAVEN’s Office Administrator. Read more to learn about how russ came to be at RAVEN and how they are finding joy and contentedness in these times.
