Three members of Parliament from three political parties have introduced in the House of Commons petitions signed by 12,000 people opposed to the extradition to the U.S. of Vancouver-based marijuana activist Marc Emery.
The student-run social and environmental justice resource centre at Simon Fraser University is calling for support after some students tried to have its funding revoked.
In its throne speech on Wednesday (March 3), Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government opened the door to revising the English version of "O Canada".
We are a country whose citizens do not turn back when confronted by obstacles, whatever they are, and never shrink from lending a helping hand to the most disadvantaged, wherever they may be.
It took a couple of days to digest it all, but after a bit of thought, my take on the Vancouver Olympics is really quite simple: It was an absolute blast.
While many of their fellow citizens cheered on Team Canada in the gold-medal hockey game, a few hundred people took to the streets of Vancouver to protest the 2010 Winter Olympics on their closing day.
On Sunday (February 28), the closing day of the 2010 Winter Games, a few hundred anti-Olympic protesters marched through the streets of downtown Vancouver.