Operation Phoenix

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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. Read Full Article...
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, ... Read Full Article...
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 ... Read Full Article...
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 ... Read Full Article...

The Province Operation Phoenix Headlines

Mother was lost but now is found

5/23/2010 5:56:31 PM

Inspired by Operation Phoenix, a year-long project exploring the problems of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a group of students from a Coquitlam school set about trying to reconnect some of the area's residents with their families

The Province claims one of three National Newspaper Awards won by Canwest

5/15/2010 5:02:05 PM

Canwest newspapers, including The Province, won three top honours at the National Newspaper Awards ceremony in Toronto Friday night.

Homelessness: Keep up the fight for street people

1/20/2010 11:03:23 AM

In its final week, Operation Phoenix makes six recommendations for the Downtown Eastside.

Change must be led by the people

12/1/2009 2:01:47 PM

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.

Community pitches in for homeless

12/1/2009 12:02:49 PM

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.

What did you have for dinner last night?

11/2/2009 12:02:28 PM

How people on the streets answered the question:

Operation Phoenix Links and Contacts:

To Nominate an Unsung Hero please email heroes@cknw.com

Volunteers, groups and corporations can get involved by signing up online at:

www.operationphoenix.ca

Non-profit groups supporting people in the Downtown Eastside who want to participate can send an email to: phoenixneeds@theprovince.com

Contact CKNW:

cnicol@cknw.com

The Province:

www.theprovince.com

Global BC: