Question: Which Vancouver artist founded the annual event from which Buy Nothing Christmas got it's name?
Context: Game Design Expo is an annual event in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for video game industry professionals and enthusiasts, hosted by Vancouver Film School's Game Design program.  The inaugural event in 2007 was the first of its kind in Vancouver.  Game Design Expo has presented such industry speakers as Ron Gilbert and Eric Zimmerman, and designers and producers from companies like Bungie, Activision, Electronic Arts, BioWare, and Mythic Entertainment. Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism.  In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held on the Friday after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent to Black Friday (on Friday); elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November.  Buy Nothing Day was founded in Vancouver by artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by "Adbusters" magazine, based in Canada. Lit from Within is a Canadian compilation album, released on Nettwerk in 1995.  A benefit album to raise money for rape crisis centres in Canada, the album featured songs by several Canadian musicians, short literary readings by a number of noted Canadian writers, and the photographs of Vancouver artist, Beth Carruthers. The Vancouver Film and Television Forum is an annual event produced by the Vancouver International Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada.  Now in its 28th year, the Film and Television Forum takes place at the Rogers Industry Centre located at the Vancouver International Film Centre from October 2–4, 2013 with New Filmmakers' Day (NFD) on October 5. Night of Champions (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on July 26, 2009, at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  It was the second annual event to be promoted solely under the Night of Champions name and the ninth annual event under the Vengeance/Night of Champions chronology.  Similar to the previous two events, the concept of the show was that every championship in the company would be defended.  It featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands.  Eight matches were contested on the card. Night of Champions (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by WowWee's Paper Jamz, that took place on September 19, 2010, at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois.  It was the third annual event to be promoted solely under the Night of Champions name and the tenth annual event under the Vengeance/Night of Champions chronology.  Similar to the previous three events, the concept of the show was that every championship in the company was defended at the event.  It was also the first Night of Champions event to feature a non-title match.  Seven matches took place at the event.  The event had 165,000 buys, down on the 2009's Night of Champions figure of 267,000 buys. The Quail Motorcycle Gathering is a motorcycle rally and Concours d'Elegance held annually since 2009 at Carmel, California.  This event evolved from a different event called "Legends of the Motorcycle" which had been held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, CA for a run of three previous years (2006-2008).  The location was changed by organizer Gordon McCall to the Quail Lodge and Golf Club, and is run by Peninsula Events.  Quail participants show bikes, and 100 of them ride the California Highway Patrol motor unit escorted 112 mile Quail Ride around Carmel Valley, which includes three fast laps on the track at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  The Quail Ride is held the Friday before the Saturday show date in May, and there is also another ride on show morning called the Cycle World Tour, a fifty-mile organized but unescorted ride that includes a buffet breakfast along the ocean waterfront in Pacific Grove, CA.  The 2011 3rd Annual event, attended by 1500, showed over 250 classic motorcycles (150 being judged).  By the date of the 8th Annual event on May 14, 2016, the show featured paid admissions of 2700 and over 400 displayed motorcycles, with 237 being judged.  In 2017, the event expanded to a three-day affair, and the organizers announced they planned to extend it to a week. The Parade of the Lost Souls is an annual event in Vancouver organized by Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, which took over in 2013 from the Public Dreams Society, and takes place in East Vancouver, at a secret location disclosed the night before.  It occurs the Saturday closest to Halloween.  Though an annual event, it did not occur in 2005 due to logistical concerns. Buy Nothing Christmas is an ongoing protest and reaction to the commercialization of the North American Christmas and holiday season.  It started unofficially in 1968, when Ellie Clark and her family decided to publicly disregard the commercial aspects of the Christmas holiday.  Contemporarily a movement was created to extend Adbusters' Buy Nothing Day into the entire Christmas season.  Buy Nothing Christmas first became official in 2001 when a small group of Canadian Mennonites created a website and gave the movement a name. The Green Wing Special is the final episode of the British sitcom "Green Wing".  It was first broadcast in Australia and Belgium on 29 December 2006.  It was aired on 4 January 2007 in the United Kingdom.  The episode is sometimes billed as a Christmas special, although the episode contains nothing Christmas related.  The special is 90 minutes long, around twice the length of a normal episode.
Answer: Ted Dave