‘The first half of the name is now wildly out-of-date given it was only a Crown colony for a couple of decades before joining Confederation 150 years ago, and the second part pays inadvertent tribute to a genocidal madman.’
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Did Refugee Ibrahim Ali Get Away With Murdering 13-Year Old Marissa Shen?
In an interview with Justin Trudeau in September, 2018, our prime minister issued the following statement: “I trust our justice system to apply consequences to this.”
Mr. Trudeau was responding to a question from a Maclean’s magazine journalist regarding the murder of 13-year old Marissa Shen of Burnaby, British Columbia.
Just under four years have passed since this ghastly murder. Fascinating it is that no one knows whether or not consequences were applied to accused child-killer Ibrahim Ali.
Chinese Mafia biggest Importer of Methamphetamine to British Columbia
Asian organized crime has never been this prevalent on an international scale. Like in the historical West, crime revolved around gangs and thugs. But globalization, economical and political changes in the mid-20th century in China and Asia-Pacific created conditions for a new form of organized crime: transnational organized crime.
Transnational organized crime is characterized by cross-border activities. Stiff bureaucracy, tunnel-visioning on economic growth and the flexibility of transnational crime syndicates, has made it insanely hard to combat organized crime.
B.C. officials suspect human cause for devastating Lytton wildfire
The wildfire that tore through the small British Columbia village of Lytton, levelling most of the community and killing two people, is believed to be human-caused, the B.C. Wildfire Service said.
The agency is still investigating what exactly sparked the blaze, but said it appears it started in the community and spread from there.
h/t Marvin
Canada hunts for survivors of fire that destroyed small town
The province’s Coroner’s Service said it had received reports of two deaths related to the fire, but had not been able to send coroners in to confirm because “the area is still unsafe to attend.” It said it planned to send them in on Saturday.
Buried truths about aboriginal culture
It’s not exactly reassuring that the powerful display on Pacific Northwest aboriginal culture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., is something you would probably never see in a British Columbian museum.
Whistleblower Doctor Cancelled by Canadian Health Authority After Going Public Over Vaccine Neurological Reactions
After Dr. Charles Hoffe went public with his experiences in early April of multiple First Nations patients in his village of Lytton who suffered from severe and unique Bell’s Palsy and other neurological adverse effects after receiving the Moderna vaccine, Hoffe was disciplined by BC’s Interior Health Authority only a few weeks later.
BC politicians want to change province’s name and flag to reflect “diverse” society
The resolution titled “Consideration of Change of Provincial Name, Coat of Arms and Flag” goes on to claim that the province’s name “completely fails to acknowledge either the Indigenous people’s history and culture, or the multi-cultural heritage of the settlers.”
RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’
Emails expose the BC force’s previously unknown purchase, which broke rules. Critics worry about privacy, racial profiling and false positives.
Police’s ‘flagrant disregard’ for evidence policies may impact hundreds of cases, says judge
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says the province’s homicide investigation team’s “systemic, flagrant disregard” for the charter rights of accused may impact hundreds of murder cases.
‘Kill Jews’ scrawled outside Canadian synagogue
Staff at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Learning on Glasgow Street in Victoria called police to report that they had discovered the hateful messages, the Victoria Police Department said in a news release.
Jailed BC father fighting child’s hormone therapy reaches plea agreement
According to CD’s lawyer Carey Linde, the father will be admitting to “willfully breaching certain orders” set by the overseeing judge and will “accept 18 months probation and one month for time spent in custody.”
Dan Fumano: ‘Vacancy tax’ hits airspace over B.C.’s mom-and-pop businesses this year
Dan Rodriguez recently learned he’ll need to cough up an extra $6,000 in taxes this year for the speculation and vacancy tax, a measure introduced by the provincial government with the stated aim of “turning empty homes into good housing for people who live and work in B.C.”
But Rodriguez isn’t on the hook because of any empty homes — he owes because of the air above his restaurant.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, Greta Thunberg to receive honorary degrees from UBC
“Our honorary degree recipients are a remarkable group of people that are making a difference in their communities both globally and locally,” says deputy vice-chancellor and principal of UBC Okanagan Lesley Cormack, in the release.