CAJ & WEBSTER AWARDS FINALIST: Undocumented migrant rights
For the city’s undocumented immigrants, fear of discovery lurks in emergency rooms, schools, the local bus.
CBC SCOOP: Ex-army commander says Canadian military needs dedicated climate disaster force
Lives at risk because Canada has no rapid response, warns retired Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie
GLOBE & MAIL: Indigenous researchers are reclaiming archeology and anthropology
A new generation of researchers are changing the face of their disciplines in Canada — digging up new ways of thinking about fields long seen as colonial
POLITICS EXCLUSIVE: B.C. let its bridge rep review own invoices
Critics call for scrutiny after revelations a senior accounting firm partner headed up a review of 2009 expenses he’d overseen in a previous role.
TORONTO STAR: This remote reserve has been 17 years without safe drinking water. Many don’t even have tap water
Xeni Gwet’in First Nation has been under boil-water orders since 2001, despite more than $3M Ottawa spent. Residents explain it shows the gap between feds’ words and actions.
CAJ/WEBSTER AWARDS WINNER: The Cross-Border Coal War
As North American producers massively ramp up plans to export coal to Asia, B.C. figures large in their plans — and in opposition efforts of citizens worried about climate change.
War Correspondence: From the Lebanon-Israel war frontline
A photo essay that recalls the panic following the invasion of the south of Lebanon by Israel, which killed 1,200 civilians including Canadian citizens
AL JAZEERA: Trump’s tariffs forge ‘feeling of big betrayal’ in Canada’s manufacturing
The White House’s Aug. 1 deadline has ‘set off some panic’ among both workers and employers, experts say.
INDIGINEWS: Híɫzaqv take RCMP to court, say police discriminate against Nation’s laws
The Central Coast community wants the B.C. Supreme Court to declare its public safety bylaws are ‘valid federal laws’ that officers must enforce
THE TYEE: Gains and pain — election stakes for workers
Labour experts untangle the B.C. government’s record and opposition parties’ pledges.
CBC IN-DEPTH: Provincial decision looms for Cariboo Gold Mine at edge of Wells, B.C.
Residents divided over plans for large mine building at edge of their 220-resident community Published on CBC News | Oct. 9, 2023 In a winter 2020 photograph, ore-carrying trucks from […]
AFP: Fighting anti-Asian hate crimes
The racist incidents are not simply a short-term crisis — the pandemic is bringing long-standing societal prejudices to the surface, experts say
Making life better for B.C. workers: where election parties stand
We asked experts about the NDP record on work life reform, what’s needed, and how the competing platforms compare.
THE GUARDIAN: Meng Wanzhou lawyers say documents will prove Canada plotted with FBI
Published in The Guardian | July 27, 2020 | Via Agence France-Presse
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