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2/2/2009
Christy Clark Launches Operation Phoenix - Photos
The Christy Clark Show launched Operation Phoenix on CKNW with a broadcast live from Main and Hastings Streets in the Downtown Eastside. Guests included Jim Chu (VPD Chief Constable), Gregor Robertson (Mayor of Vancouver) and Mike McCardell (Global TV Reporter). Click HERE to view all photos.
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1/30/2009
Operation Phoenix
NEW ONE-OF-A-KIND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM TO BENEFIT THE LESS FORTUNATE ON THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE OPERATION PHOENIX Unique partnership between The Province, Global BC and CKNW connecting donors and volunteers with non-profit organizations (Vancouver, B.C. – February 2, 2009) In an unprecedented move to help the needy in the Downtown Eastside, ...
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1/30/2009
Operation Phoenix Overview
What is operation phoenix?   New one-of-a-kind community outreach program to benefit the less fortunate on the downtown eastside.   Who is involved?   In an unprecedented move to help the needy in the Downtown Eastside, The Province, Global BC and CKNW are launching a new, proactive outreach project to generate ...
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1/30/2009
The Christy Clark Show launches Operation Phoenix
Vancouver is one of the most beautiful, poverty-stricken cities in the world. From the awe-inspiring mountains to the crystal meth, vast beautiful forests and countless homeless people, Vancouver truly is Mother Nature’s masterpiece and a heart-wrenching man-made disaster. We should all be so grateful and appalled, to live in a ...
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The Province Operation Phoenix Headlines
 
 
The Province was named a finalist in two categories at the 2010 Jack Webster Awards.
Canwest newspapers, including The Province, won three top honours at the National Newspaper Awards ceremony in Toronto Friday night.
In its final week, Operation Phoenix makes six recommendations for the Downtown Eastside.
Milton Wong walks down Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside, hands in pockets, looking comfortable in the rough neighbourhood. It is, after all, his old haunt.
A warm and safe shelter with room for 26 homeless women in the Downtown Eastside opened yesterday, thanks to the unique partnering of socially minded business leaders, city and provincial governments and a non-profit group that will run it.

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To Nominate an Unsung Hero please email heroes@cknw.com
 
Volunteers, groups and corporations can get involved by signing up online at:
 
Non-profit groups supporting people in the Downtown Eastside who want to participate can send an email to: phoenixneeds@theprovince.com
 
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