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Tori Ball
Briarpatch
|May/June 2018
Tori Ball moved to Vancouver a year and a half ago from Kjipuktuk/ Halifax.
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She has always been the kind of kid who came home with grass stains and dirty feet, and that’s still what keeps her busy. When she’s not out running, playing with her newly adopted puppy, or on a quest for the best veggie burrito, she is working as a campaigner at the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - B.C. Chapter.
What does a campaigner at an NGO do? What are the biggest challenges?
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