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This live event features the salmon defender in conversation with coastal Indigenous leaders about our wild fish.
Whether it’s hungry congregants from St. Mary’s Parish looking for a bite, or the steady stream of workers leaving the nearby SkyTrain station, Bennet Miemban-Ganata and her crew at the Plato Filipino restaurant on Joyce Street are ready to feed them.
From behind the long steam table of chicken adobo and beef caldereta, Miemban-Ganata warmly greets her elders who come in with “Tita!” and “Tito!”
A former cultural officer at Vancouver’s Philippine consulate, she’s always looked out for the diaspora. In recent years, she’s cared for them in a different way, providing dishes from home.
Collingwood residents have launched a petition drive to save a decades-old mainstay of Filipino culture and community.
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Posted: Mar 11, 2021 10:33 PM PT | Last Updated: March 12
Residents of East Vancouver s Collingwood neighbourhood sign a petition to save a cluster of Filipino stores from a highrise condo development. (Margaret Gallagher / CBC) comments
A steady stream of socially distanced customers in face masks, some in medical scrubs, drop by a cluster of Filipino take-out restaurants and mini-marts on Joyce Street in East Vancouver. Resident R.J. Aquino says the loyal clients have been a familiar sight for decades in Collingwood.
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Sarah Kim is the food networks co-ordinator at Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks, a web of community groups working on promoting and advocating for food security across the city. Photo courtesy of Sarah Kim
Sarah Kim began thinking differently about food after starting a zero-waste vegan food delivery service one that she said made her starkly aware of the inequalities that exist in the Lower Mainland.
“The more that I was involved in this business, the more I was seeing the injustices, so I started to question that and started learning more about food security and food systems,” she said.