One demonstration is protesting Islam, while the other is protesting white nationalism
CBC NewsPosted: Aug 19, 2017 5:00 AM PTLast Updated: Aug 19, 2017 5:00 AM PT
A counter-protest organized by Stand Up to Racism Metro Vancouver is being held at Vancouver City Hall on Saturday. (Stand Up to Racism Metro Vancouver/Facebook)
One demonstration is protesting Islam, while the other is protesting white nationalism
CBC NewsPosted: Aug 19, 2017 5:00 AM PTLast Updated: Aug 19, 2017 5:00 AM PT
A counter-protest organized by Stand Up to Racism Metro Vancouver is being held at Vancouver City Hall on Saturday. (Stand Up to Racism Metro Vancouver/Facebook)
The Conservatives claim to be true custodians of the economy. Yet as the figures below from Statistics Canada and International Monetary Fund clearly document, Canadian economy was being rapidly hollowed out in the last six years of the Conservative rule. The Total Balance of Payments deficits for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 are listed below: They represent a dramatic reversal of the massive the Balance of Payments surpluses of earlier years that the Conservatives inherited:
Scandal broke just as Finance Minister Mike de Jong landed for a six-day LNG trip to the country
By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun columnist August 4, 2015
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak delivers his opening speech at the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tuesday. A corruption scandal over $700 million US in Razak's personal bank account was hitting just as B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong landed in the country on an LNG-related trip.
Photograph by: Vincent Thian , AP
VICTORIA — The early start on the federal election campaign has ended B.C. Liberal hopes for getting an early start on a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on the northwest coast.
The Liberals recalled the legislature for a rare summer session last month to deliver final approval for the provincial side of an LNG agreement with a consortium led by Malaysian-government owned Petronas.
Therese Casgrain, a feminist icon and Quebec heroine, has been quietly removed from a national honour.
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Therese Casgrain was president of the League for Women's Rights in Quebec from 1929 to 1942.
By:Dean BeebyThe Canadian Press,Published on Sun Jul 27 2014
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/07/27/feminist_disappears_from_public_history_under_harper_government.htmlOTTAWA—The Harper government has spent millions to commemorate the War of 1812 and other episodes from Canadian history, but has also erased at least one inspiring piece of the past.
Therese Casgrain, a feminist icon and Quebec heroine who died in 1981, has been quietly removed from a national honour, to be replaced by a volunteer award bearing the prime minister’s banner.
The Therese Casgrain Volunteer Award was started in 1982 by the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau.
Todd Thompson looks out over Lower Rice Lake, where a proposed pipeline would cut through the heart of the wild rice beds of the White Earth Nation.Jolene Yazzie
WHITE EARTH RESERVATION, Minn. — Todd Thompson stood at the end of a handmade wooden pier, some of the planks cracked and bowed. He stared out onto the lake. Under the bright blue sky, a dozen or more fat cumulus clouds cast shadows on the water. Short green stalks of wild rice poked up from the depths, covering the surface like a thick carpet, swaying gently with each passing breeze.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI’
OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
1. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs”.[1]
First Nations Groups are taking action against the federal government’s move to open a herring-roe fishery near Bella Bella. The Heiltsuk First Nation wants the...
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Here's UVic Radio CFUV "Gorilla Radio" covering today's concurrent solidarity demo in Victoria, during which 75 people demonstrated outside Jim Pattison's Save-On Foods (boycott please) http://www.gorilla-radio.com/index.php?id=792
Here is a report from Ingmar Lee. about the rally in Bella Bella and the occupation of the DFO office in Vancouver.
Posted: Jan 12, 2015 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 12, 2015 7:50 AM ET
An aerial view shows a tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alta. Canada is trying to block an investigation of the tailings ponds by an environmental watchdog set up as part of the North
Canada is trying to stop NAFTA's environmental watchdog from taking a closer look at the environmental effects of the huge tailings ponds produced by Alberta's oilsands, and it appears Mexico and the U.S. will go along with efforts to stop a formal investigation.
