Can You Hear Me Now?
Challenging, lonely and exceptional. These are the three words former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes uses to describe being a Black woman in politics. Why? Because “representation matters,” she tells me.
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During her time in office, Caesar-Chavannes was forced to push back against the status quo and lobby for legislation that would encourage equity. In return, she says she was met with sexism, racism and tokenism.
In the end, after a reportedly “explosive” conversation with a possibly tearful Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Whitby MP resigned from the Liberal party caucus in 2019 and decided not to run again.
The founder of the Canadian Farmworkers Union is remembered as a ‘titan.’
David P. Ball is a journalist based in Vancouver, B.C. SHARES Charan Gill’s activism spanned the co-founding of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, establishing of a national anti-racism organization and creating and heading the thriving Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society. He died Feb. 2, age 84.
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César Chávez was already a legendary champion for farmworkers’ rights in the United States when he arrived at David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver on April 26, 1980 to mark what would prove to be a historic day.
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The VSB’s Review of Armed Police in Schools Has Not Gone Smoothly
Parents and advocates say the Vancouver School Board is moving too slow and makes it hard to speak at public meetings.
Katie Hyslop is a reporter for The Tyee. Reach her here. SHARES Markiel Simpson of the BC Community Alliance. The alliance has requested the immediate end of the Vancouver School Board’s school liaison officer program.
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It’s been seven months since the Vancouver School Board announced a review of the presence of armed police officers in the city’s schools. An initial draft is expected to be made public in early March.
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Feb 8, 2021 11:08am Parliament Hill on Jan. 15, 2021. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Paytech of Canada is is hoping to kickstart a conversation with the government about the modernization of the current payment system, as well as consumer privacy protections within the financial sector and end-user funds under the Retail Payments Oversight Framework.
The Canadian Payments Act sets out the legal framework for payments and gives oversight to the Minister of Finance.
Paytech’s former executive director
Doug Kreviazuk has registered for the company for these discussions, Alex Vronces replaced Kreviazuk as executive director earlier this month.
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Royal Society of Tasmania to apologise for taking 14,000-year-old petroglyphs from Preminghana
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Examples of petroglyphs circular carvings on the stone at Sundown Point, in Tasmania s north-west.
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A Tasmanian Aboriginal leader says two of the state s key cultural and historic institutions will issue formal apologies to Indigenous people as part of the return of 14,000-year-old rock carvings to their original site in the state s north-west.
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Michael Mansell says two Tasmanian institutions will issue a formal apology to the state s Aboriginal people as part of the return of ancient rock carvings