A 70-page legal indictment — accompanied by a staggering 4,000-page dossier — has been filed in B.C. court to have former George W. Bush arrested during his visit to Surrey tomorrow
In week two of The Left Coast Post’s election coverage, we interview the only City Council candidate camping at #OccupyVancouver
As a troubled inquiry into missing women entered its second week, family members of the disappeared took over a busy downtown intersection in opposition
With one of the highest urban Indigenous populations in the country, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become the site of a battle over rising housing prices, a lack of affordable lodgings, and encroaching up-scale development
A colourful annual march for safe, affordable housing in Vancouver was overshadowed by the death of an Indigenous woman, who fell from the sixth floor of her single-resident occupancy hotel room almost exactly a year after a similar suspicious death
Native people are more often killed or abused by police officers than are others in Canada, but police actions are more often than not chalked up to ‘bad apples’ on the force instead of symptoms of systemic problems within police ranks
Finalist, Canadian Association of Journalists 2012 Community News Award. Police across the country are seeking closer ties with gay, lesbian and transgender communities, but speakers at a recent international conference on policing questioned whether cops and queers make good bedfellows
Despite only occasionally surfacing in the news — with more than 1,000 G20 arrests, tasering deaths, lethal shootings and abuse in holding cells — police misconduct is not only widespread and historic it is also deeply entrenched, said presenters at a major conference on policing last week in Winnipeg
Biting a chunk out of the common adage that a few “bad apples” in the police are responsible for misconduct, Winnipeg Indigenous leader Leslie Spillett pointed to an inherent “culture of oppression” in Canada’s police forces at an international conference on policing
Inspired by Arab uprisings, organizers are transforming Lebanon
David P Ball 