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Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry (RAPM) 10th Anniversary Benefit Concert and Silent Auction
Saturday, April 22
At Whitmore Park United Church, Regina
7:30 p.m.
Doors open 7 p.m.
Tickets are $15.00 and are available from
Public network finally gets around to airing the miniseries it delayed until after the election
Ottawa (22 Feb. 2006) - The CBC is finally going to air Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story, a two-part miniseries about the founder of Candian medicare on March 12 and 13.
Briarpatch magazine invites submissions for our June 2006 issue, Vol. 35, No. 4. The theme is “Resistance is Fertile: Sustainable Solutions for a Troubled Planet,” and submissions are due by Monday April 17, 2006.
2006 Stapleford Lecture
NETTIE WIEBE
“Who’s Cooking the Food System? Globalization and Food Sovereignty”
Date: 23 March 2006
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Campion Auditorium
Daughters of Africa (DOA) invites you to an International Women’s Day Breakfast in solidarity with sisters in Africa who are working against HIV/AIDS and for equality and justice.
February 20, 2006
Vancouver, BC — The Tyee (www.thetyee.ca) formally launched its two journalism fellowships today: the Investigative Fellowship Fund and the Solutions Fellowship Fund.
Do you have a passion for proofreading? Can you do website updates in your sleep? Are you happiest when you’re dragging your tongue across an envelope? Do visions of mailing address labels dance in your head at night? Would nothing please you more than helping to plan a successful fundraiser?
And — most important — are you excited about alternative media and willing to put in a couple of hours here and there to help it flourish?
Then this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for….
Our December issue has been generating some positive interest — on Scott Neigh’s blog, for instance. Hopefully it can help to inject some much needed critical information into what passes for a foreign policy debate in this election campaign.
(Here’s the text of the December dispatch of our “Cyberpatch Monthly” recommended readings. You can sign up for this free monthly service on the main page of our website. -Ed.)
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