CAJ & WEBSTER AWARDS FINALIST: Undocumented migrant rights
For the city’s undocumented immigrants, fear of discovery lurks in emergency rooms, schools, the local bus.
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WEBSTER AWARD FINALIST 2019: B.C.-Indigenous pipeline clash
An armed tactical police raid and clash at an Indigenous anti-pipeline barricade revealed public, and even government, confusion about the distinction between the hereditary leaders and First Nations’ elected chiefs and councils. It’s a key nuance that requires better understanding, experts argue.
Privacy watchdog coalition slams surveillance
The “largest-ever pro-privacy coalition in Canadian history” launched in B.C. Thursday, amidst revelations the country’s electronic spy agency hacked into Brazil’s federal mining department and shared the intelligence with national energy interests.
UN envoy hears aboriginal concerns
First Nations fighting the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline are “hopeful” their voice was heard after a meeting with a high-level United Nations official Thursday.
Woman asks McDonald’s for apology
A Richmond resident is demanding a McDonald’s restaurant apologize after a manager at the chain’s No. 3 Road franchise allegedly refused to serve her, then asked her to leave, because staff couldn’t understand her English.
Surrey School District passes anti-homophobia regulation
More than a decade after their predecessors waged a battle to ban gay-friendly books from their school district’s classrooms, the Surrey school board’s trustees passed an anti-homophobia regulation June 20.
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.
Abbotsford’s first Pride parade draws 500 people
More than 500 people took part in the Fraser Valley’s first Pride parade on May 25 — a turnout that its Abbotsford organizers celebrated after years of controversy.
Ex-inmates launch babies-behind-bars lawsuit
Mothers in prison could soon keep their newborns behind bars if a B.C. lawsuit succeeds.
Families of Four Pickton Victims File Sweeping Lawsuit
Named: RCMP, VPD, City of Vancouver, justice minister, crown prosecutors. Pickton siblings accused of ‘abetting’ murders.
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