‘Joy of Feeding’: Nourish Your Body and Soul
Sixteen home cooks, 16 ethnicities. Fundraiser for UBC Farm set for June 30.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Senate scandal a ‘major crisis,’ but Liberals Trudeau and Dion cautious on reform
Two of the Liberal Party of Canada’s highest-profile leaders decried the growing Senate expenses scandal while in Vancouver this weekend, but both Justin Trudeau and Stéphane Dion expressed caution about calls to reform or abolish the institution.
Parliament’s Violence Against Indigenous Women committee raising concerns
The launch of Parliament’s Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women was applauded as a rare show of political consensus, drawing unanimous all-party support on Feb. 27.
Amidst raft of federal scandals, are Canadians ready for self-government?
With Ottawa embroiled in a mushrooming number of financial embarrassments, observers across Indian Country are raising their collective eyebrows over the Conservatives’ focus on alleged First Nations improprieties.
Saanich people launch campaign to restore traditional landmark names
The name of Vancouver Island’s Saanich nation – WSÁNEC, as they spell it – means “emerging people.” And today, a remarkable re-emergence of traditional names is occurring in the peninsula they call home.
Woman cleared of charges, but analysts decry legal ‘humiliations’
After nearly a decade fighting criminal fishing charges in B.C. courts, Stó:lo nation’s Kwitsel Tatel (Patricia Kelly) won not only an absolute discharge on May 9, but now the government must pay her nearly $2,500 for seizing her crate of salmon in 2004, accusing her of selling it illegally.
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