Trish Garner is the Community Organizer of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and the co-author of A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC. She gained her experience working with Raise the Rates, an anti-poverty group based in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. In 2008, she co-founded the Poverty Olympics, a community festival that highlighted the disparity between public spending on the Olympics and people living in poverty, and in 2010, she coordinated the Poverty Olympics Torch Relay around the province ending with an 100 km walk from Langley to Vancouver.
Visit BC’s Hardest Working
by Trish Garner
The recently released Rich 100 list shows that the combined worth of the wealthiest 100 Canadians surpassed $200 billion this year, with 11 percent belonging to the 12 British Columbians included in the list. Clearly, it’s been a great year at the top. For most of us, it’s a very different story. We’re working harder than ever before but still falling behind.
