Western Canada Jewish Book Awards

“Rhea Tregebov (at left) has won her second Western Canada Jewish Book Award for her 8th poetry collection. Read about it here along with the other BC-based winners.FULL STORY

 

Tranquille community care

November 03rd, 2020

Gary Steeves, a social and environmental activist has written Tranquility Lost: The Occupation of Tranquille & Battle for Community Care in B.C. (Nightwood $21.95). It’s Steeves’s firsthand account of the occupation of the Tranquille residential complex for people with developmental disabilities by the workers of the site when government announced its closure in the summer of 1983. It marked the beginning of a groundswell of activism uniting community groups and labour groups in B.C. that came to be known as Operation Solidarity.

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