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A Vancouver police officer who pulled an Indigenous protester's braid while forcefully removing them from a building acted lawfully, a review found. But training on how to account for "items of cultural significance" in use of force situations is being recommended.
A woman who admitted to vandalizing a Vancouver church will not serve time behind bars, a judge ruled earlier this week.
Canadian Banks Have an Outsized Impact on Global Fossil Fuel Financing We pledged to reduce emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, but will financial institutions undermine this goal? Michelle Gamage is a Vancouver-based journalist with an environmental focus who regularly reports on climate for The Tyee. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle_Gamage. SHARES The Banking on a Better Future movement launched April 1. Photo by Joshua Best. When 18-year-old climate activist Naisha Khan wants to start a conversation about how banking fuels climate change, she asks someone ho...
Why won’t this giant oil pipeline reveal its secret backers? Carl Meyer for Canada's National Observer and Emily Holden for Floodlight © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Candace Elliott/Reuters Nestled in the harbors of Vancouver, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation has lived for thousands of years within an inlet set against the mountain views of the Pacific north-west. But across the water from Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s reserve, less than 2km away, or a little over a mile, is a jarring juxtaposition: an industrial terminal for the large Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Oil tanker...
Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong: Big Oil’s climate cop-out How Canada's fossil fuel giants are buying influence with police departments to do their dirty work in pipeline fights on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border posted on April 22nd, 2021 at 6:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 By Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong For sci-fi writers, worldbuilding often means dreaming up the vivid and terrifying settings where dystopian stories unfold. In 2021 amid a global pandemic, however, dystopia is a matter of perspective. As the coronavirus drives this year’s Earth Day events indoors, the chil...