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Around Town: Carmen Lansdowne, Bike Drive, Religion at the Edge, Downtown …

by Flyn Ritchie • June 22, 2022 • 0 Comments

The Executive Director of First United Church will become Moderator of the United Church of Canada next month – although she has not yet been elected to the three-year position. Here is the explanation of that slightly unusual situation from…

Around Town: Jemal Damtawe, Love Does, Leah Kostamo, Richard Bott . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • September 13, 2018 • 0 Comments

Jemal Damtawe is well known and respected in the Downtown Eastside as an outreach worker with Union Gospel Mission (UGM). Many will know that he struggled with addictions himself before he overcame them and began helping others on the street.…