Early on Friday (November 16) when the Métis flag was being hoisted outside the B.C. legislature to honour Louis Riel, South Asians in Canada were commemorating the martyrdom day of one their heroes.
Government itself has done the math and found that increasing income and disability assistance rates to 75 percent of the poverty line (using the market basket measure) costs only $372 million.
According to an academic who ran for council this year, many of Surrey’s problems emerge from the fact that, for reasons largely unconnected to any political oppression, the city has a negligible public square.
Parents whose kids go to Edith Cavell elementary at West 20th Avenue and Cambie Street on Vancouver’s West Side are furious about plans to seismically upgrade the 98-year-old school.
Richmond mayor Malcolm Brodie received clarification from staff that this decision will not cannibalize funding for other projects approved in TransLink's phase two plan.
