The federal Conservative Leader is targeting the NDP's rural ridings on the B.C. coast where his party typically runs a close second and is courting the People's Party far-right, libertarian vote to get his candidates past the post.
Chief Don Tom of the Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island says he's been known to "partake" in watching fireworks, as a way to bring families together.
Discrimination and racism disproportionately affect Indigenous Peoples in health-care settings, according to an investigation by Surviving Hate, a multi-year probe into how these allegations are playing out across the country.
According to Indigenous health experts and critics, Surviving Hate's findings show anti-Indigenous racism continues to drive a pattern of neglect, harm and death in hospitals across the country.
Senator Yuen Pau Woo questions whether a foreign influence registry might become "a modern form of Chinese exclusion," and says angry reaction to his suggestion proves his point about racial profiling and stigmatization.
“I was physically attacked, but I was also racially attacked,” says Grace Johnson, who sought to have her assault in 2018 recorded as a hate crime. “But to have that not count was hurtful.”
Mark Lee, a professional translator and former council candidate in Richmond, B.C., says he knows what it's like to walk the fine line faced by fellow Chinese Canadians entering the political arena amid scrutiny of alleged foreign interference.
British Columbia should have been able to anticipate a spike in hate to some degree during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to protect the people who became targets, the provincial human rights commissioner says.