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Richmond protesters blame immigration for their traffic woes

November 24, 2014 – 6:10 am | 2,394 views

Members of the group Immigration Watch Canada took to the Blundell Road overpass in Richmond above Highway 99 early Wednesday morning to protest Canada’s immigration policy, blaming it in part for the Lower Mainland’s traffic …

Why kids in Canadian schools feel unsafe?

November 23, 2014 – 11:02 am | 1,894 views

In 2011, Eagle Canada published a 145-page report titled: “EVERY CLASS IN EVERY SCHOOL. Final Report on the First National Climate Survey on Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in Canadian Schools”. The study involved surveying over …

D&I: The UnConference Vancouver – December 11th, 2014

November 10, 2014 – 7:52 am | 3,156 views

UnConference [un-kon-fer-uh ns]. noun: a loosely structured conference emphasizing the informal exchange of ideas, rather than following a conventional conference structure.
D&I: The UnConference will be like no other diversity conference Canada has seen before: incredible …

Most Chinese and South Asians in B.C. report discrimination

October 27, 2014 – 6:33 am | 2,822 views

Stereotyping. Verbal harassment. Poor customer service. Workplace unfairness. Exclusion from dating.
A quarter of British Columbians with ethnic Chinese or South Asian origins say they have experienced moderate or significant amounts of those types of discrimination …

Former UBC boss – Toop – on student ethnic diversity and enclaves

September 2, 2014 – 7:08 am | 2,638 views


Even though he is “genuinely excited” that UBC has so many international students, the campus is also shaped by a Metro Vancouver population that is 45 per cent born outside the country.
As a consequence, Toope, …