Deceased Deportee’s Accent Led to Border Services Arrest
Transit Police officer testifies at inquest into Lucía Vega Jiménez’s hanging death.
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Author Archives: David P. Ball
As Inquest into Border Services Death Opens, Questions about Private Security
Lucía Vega Jiménez died nine months ago awaiting deportation at a Vancouver airport.
Mine, Dam Inspections Dropped Since 2001
inside the Ministry of Environment itself — the department tasked with overseeing non-mining dams in the province — a 2010 memorandum suggests that reduced staffing for dam inspection more broadly was flagged as a concern by senior officials, alongside suggestions that inspections lacked consistency.
CAJ & Webster Finalist: Vancouver’s Sanctuary Movement
Series published in The Tyee | July 8-18, 2014 For the city’s undocumented immigrants, fear of discovery lurks in emergency rooms, schools, the local bus. Keying off the May 29 […]
Can Portland Hotel Society’s New Boss Restore Faith?
‘There won’t be any more Disneyland trips,’ says new head of beleaguered nonprofit.
Citizenship reforms bring back banishment: refugee lawyer
As Conservatives’ citizenship legislation clears its final hurdle in Ottawa, a group of lawyers for refugees is promising to take them to court over a bill they’re decrying as unconstitutional.
‘It’s Prompted Debate’: Enbridge CEO
The push to have Canadian oil meet Asian market demand has grown massively since Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. conceived of the Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast more than a decade ago. But as the company’s CEO told reporters yesterday, so has the “passion and emotion around this project.”
First Nations on Gateway: ‘When We Say No, We Mean It’
With the federal government’s approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline this afternoon, First Nations across the province say they’re ready for the battle of a generation.
EXCLUSIVE: Vancouver Backs Undocumented Migrant ‘Sanctuary’
Policy would let municipal agencies refuse to give info about ‘illegals’ to immigration authorities.
Photo: Natural Gas Is a Bridge to Nowhere’: Cornell Methane Expert
B.C. Premier Christy Clark speaks at a major LNG conference in Vancouver | Photo published in The Tyee | May 23, 2014
