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In poverty
Recommendation 2:
Engage in formalized, proactive education with professionals in healthcare settings, police, and private service providers (such as landlords and private security companies) to raise awareness of social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
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Recommendation 3:
Engage in an audit of provincial and municipal laws and policies to identify potential discrimination based on social condition.
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Recommendation 1:
Engage in a provincial education campaign to ensure that all people in BC who may suffer discrimination on the basis of social condition, and all people in BC who are prohibited under the Code from discriminating on the basis of social condition are aware of the change.
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Recommendation 10:
Ending Street Sweeps will require cross-department collaboration between the City of Vancouver, Park Board, and Vancouver Police Department. Each of these institutions must commit to the elimination of Street Sweeps. By eliminating costly and traumatic Street Sweeps, the City could fund peer-led programming, including community clean-ups, street and sidewalk maintenance, vending support, and the management of storage facilities.
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Recommendation 76:
End wage discrimination against farm workers and implement the general minimum wage as a wage floor for all piece-rate farm workers, as recommended by the Fair Wages Commission in 2018.
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Recommendation 153:
End transit fare evasion ticketing.
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Recommendation 183:
End the health risks associated with living in the DTES by ensuring healthy environments and built-environments in all buildings, residences, and outdoors. This includes the right to:
- Clean air and clean streets.
- Green space and urban ecological systems.
- Sanitation.
- Accessible and clean public washrooms.
- Potable water.
- Functioning water fountains and more access to water sources.
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Recommendation 152:
End the criminalization of homelessness by eliminating bylaw infractions and criminal charges for sleeping or tenting in public spaces, and end the displacement of tent cities.
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Recommendation 115:
End the apprehension of Indigenous children due to poverty or Eurocentric ideas of neglect that stem from a legacy of colonization. Poverty must not be conflated with neglect or mistreatment, and removing children from their families exacerbates cycles of trauma and poverty.
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Recommendation 79:
End contract flipping that enables employers to keep wages low for tens of thousands of workers.
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