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Victoria Protests Prorogation

On January 23, 2010, 60 rallies took place within and outside Canada, giving voice to dissent against Prime Minister Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament this past December. By proroguing Parliament, all Bills on the Order paper and House committee work now ceased to exist.

Many rallies, including Victoria’s, were organized through social networking site, Facebook. A call-out was placed, and the response was immediate as 20 organizers came together to plan the Victoria Rally, which took place at Centennial Square. All four parties were invited, and speakers came from the NDP, Liberals and the Greens.

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VANOC Eviction

Anti-Olympic protestors marched and rallied on February 6, 2010 in downtown Victoria and staged a mock eviction at the Olympic Secretariat offices in Bastion Square. Pete Rockwell brings us this slideshow

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Spoken Word Fest

Poets from across the country were in town this November for the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. B Channel was there to capture some of the performances. Watch this video series here.

Music

Dirty Grace

Dirty Grace combine gypsy, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and hip hop into their own unique style. B Channel News brings you three new video clips of their performance at Cafe Fantastico on December, 3, 2009

Special Guest Series on Independent Media

381410_news_cameraAs part of our goal to take part in media literacy education and critical analysis of the for-profit media, we present this special syndicated series by Nick Fillmore, featuring a new article every week for five weeks.

Nick Fillmore was an editor and producer with the CBC for 18 years and has been involved in several print media projects. A freelance journalist and media fundraiser based in Toronto, he is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).

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