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Martha Perkins

Vancouver
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Martha Perkins’s Biography

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• January 2017 to present: Editor-in-chief of the Vancouver Courier, one of Vancouver's longest established weekly newspapers.

• 2016: A year of learning how to surrender to cancer: http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/blogs/fight-cancer-this-is-why-i-surrendered-to-it-1.15116087

• Spring of 2015 to October 2015: Interim editor of the Bowen Island Undercurrent, the Burnaby NewsLeader and New Westminster NewsLeader.

• May 2014 to May 2015: founding executive director of Glacier Media's crowdfunding…

Martha Perkins’s Journalist Portfolio

Why I'm the last journalist you'd expect to have a viral video

Why I'm the last journalist you'd expect to have a viral video

I spent much of the Labour Day weekend periodically lurking on the Vancouver Courier's YouTube channel. A vid…

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Courage to Come Back chair Lorne Segal speaks and acts from the heart

Courage to Come Back chair Lorne Segal speaks and acts from the heart

It's 10 o'clock on a Tuesday night. Fifteen-hundred people are gathered in the ballroom of the Vancouver Conv…

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Free speech in the age of trolls: how Twitter is responding

Free speech in the age of trolls: how Twitter is responding

Just after he was sworn in as president of the United States, Donald Trump posted a tweet that included a lin…

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Head to the Cambie Bridge at dusk to swim with the fishes

Head to the Cambie Bridge at dusk to swim with the fishes

I accompanied this review of an art installation underneath a Vancouver bridge with my video and photos.

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Fight cancer? This is why I surrendered to it

Fight cancer? This is why I surrendered to it

On a beautiful September morning, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As my husband and I stood outside the r…

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Articles

Labyrinth Walk in Vancouver: Public event at St Paul's May 4

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By Martha Perkins
| Vancouver is Awesome Verified
The first time Sally Hull walked a labyrinth, she thought she was doing something wrong. It seemed to be taking forever to get to the centre of the path that wound in and around itself in a seemingly endless loop. Once again, the voice inside her head was one of self-doubt. Then, when she finally made it to the centre, “I realized that if I had just trusted myself, I would end up where I was supposed to be. “To me, that was profound. I can still doubt myself but I’m aware that I don’t have to.
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Ladner native opens softball training business

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By Martha Perkins
| Delta Optimist Verified
In baseball slang, when a ball is in a batter’s wheelhouse she knows that she’ll be able to hit it far. “It’s your best shot at being successful,” says Olivia Malesku, a former Delta Heat player who has won several national and provincial titles.
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Sprint races at Deas Island a forerunner to world championships

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By Martha Perkins
| Delta Optimist Verified
If you’ve never attended an outrigger race before, there’s one thing you should know when you’re cheering on the competitors at the upcoming national sprint regatta at Deas Island. Never, ever shout out “Go, rowers, go!” “Rowers go backwards; paddlers go forward,” says Ronald Chin, president of the Canadian Outrigger Racing Association, lightheartedly. CORA is hosting the Canadian 2024 OC Sprints Championships on April 27 and 28 at the Delta Deas Rowing Club venue.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

High school columnist in the Lindsay Post (unpaid.) Summer reporter at the Lindsay Post (poorly paid but deeply rewarding.)

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I started my career on a manual Underwood!

How is social media changing news?

In a small town I could find out what people were talking about by going to the grocery store. Social media is my new grocery store.
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