The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29.
Since winning the leadership, O’Toole has gone on about changing the party to be more inclusive and more mainstream.
“My main goal is that in the next election I want more Canadians waking up that morning and seeing a Conservative staring at them in the mirror,” he told HuffPost Canada in late November. “More young people, more women, more new Canadians, members of the LGBTQ community, Indigenous Canadians.”
Not likely. Especially when O’Toole is still flogging the tough-on-crime pony, now with an argument that threatens the lives of largely Indigenous people.
‘There Has to be a Better Way’: Police Kill a Sword-Wielding Man in the Downtown Eastside
It’s the third such violent incident involving police since November. Advocates want changes to how authorities deal with those in distress.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Investigators from the Independent Investigations Office arrive at the scene of a fatal police shooting in Vancouver at East Hastings Street and Princess Avenue on Tuesday.
Photo by Jen St. Denis.
A police watchdog agency is now investigating after a man was shot dead by Vancouver police in the Downtown Eastside early Tuesday morning.
Winners to be announced virtually June 9 at a free online event.
In my reporting for The Tyee these last nine months, people marginalized by drug policy, racism, ableism and ageism in B.C. have been clear that normal was what was killing them.
People who use drugs have been living in a public health emergency since 2016. They saw deaths due to illicit drug overdoses rise to historical levels as services shuttered and people used alone out of fear of the virus. In a dual health emergency, they lobbied for more services in Vancouver and around the province. Officials took some heed, and rolled out some of the most expansive, albeit so far unrealized, safer supply measures in North America.
Posted: Dec 23, 2020 5:38 PM AT | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
The RCMP raided five unlicensed cannabis dispensaries on Wednesday.(Mark Crosby/CBC)
Nine people were arrested Wednesday after the RCMP raided five unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in the Halifax area.
Police say they seized a significant quantity of cannabis, cannabis products and cash from the dispensaries on Caldwell Road in Cole Harbour.
The businesses operated on land that is part of the Millbrook First Nation.
RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Lisa Croteau said the businesses had previously refused to voluntarily cease operations. Nova Scotia RCMP is continuing to employ a measured approach, which includes consultation with the stakeholders, to address the unlicensed sale of cannabis in the community, Croteau said in an emailed statement.
Info Nation at the crossroads “We have to ask why Australia has failed, why Australian governments have failed to deal with the racism that Aboriginal people continue to experience, why some governments have even sought to exploit racist tendencies in Australian society for political gain.” Dr Naomi Mayers OAM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service writes in the guest editorial in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
I have been involved in Aboriginal Affairs since 1957. I
have seen governments come and go. I have read most of the reports into
Aboriginal Affairs in that time and all the reports into Aboriginal health. My