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  4 May 2023   

Red Dress Day 2023: How You Can Show Support for #MMIWG2S

This is a day to reflect on the devastating impact of racism and colonialism across this land we call Canada.  It’s also a day to strengthen our resolve to extend the co-op principle [PDF] of Concern for Community  to communities that have suffered injustice and exclusion for too long.

Thom Armstrong, CEO of CHF BC

  27 September 2022   

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

As we’ve engaged with our members, many of whom have either been impacted by the colonial practices embedded in their housing co-ops’ culture, or those who have observed it, we recognize that we have a long way to go. 

  2 May 2022   

May 5 is Red Dress Day

May 5 is Red Dress Day: National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ (Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual plus) people.

  9 December 2021   

2021: Our Year in Review

As 2021 comes to a close, the CHF BC Group of Social Enterprises would like to take a moment to look back on the year that was. We spent a full year in a pandemic, and we continue to be reminded of how much we can achieve if we do it together. Some of these … Continued

  6 December 2021   

Diana Day, 2021 CHF BC AGM Keynote Speaker

Diana Day was invited to speak to our 2021 AGM about what truth, reconciliation, and decolonization might look like in our community of housing co-ops. Diana is a First Nations woman from the Oneida Nation, a member of the Wolf Clan, and has lived in Vancouver since the early 80’s, and is a member of … Continued

  23 November 2021   

Truth, Reconciliation and Decolonization

Diana shared some of her knowledge and experience with CHF BC members and staff, and highlighted both important history and actions we can take now.