Deceased Deportee’s Accent Led to Border Services Arrest
Transit Police officer testifies at inquest into Lucía Vega Jiménez’s hanging death.
Transit Police officer testifies at inquest into Lucía Vega Jiménez’s hanging death.
Lucía Vega Jiménez died nine months ago awaiting deportation at a Vancouver airport.
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.
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 […]
‘There won’t be any more Disneyland trips,’ says new head of beleaguered nonprofit.
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.
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.”
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.
Policy would let municipal agencies refuse to give info about ‘illegals’ to immigration authorities.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark speaks at a major LNG conference in Vancouver | Photo published in The Tyee | May 23, 2014