Libby joins thousands at vigil for Iranians – Libby Davies
Libby joins thousands at vigil for Iranians
Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff told about 3,000 people at a candlelight vigil in Vancouver Thursday he’s proud of Canadians who are fighting for democratic rights in Iran. “The Iranian regime did not anticipate you,” he told the last of a series of 10 nightly vigils at the Vancouver Art Gallery aimed at raising awareness of the violence in Iran and calling for a return to a fair and democratic electoral process in that country.
The original article, Thousands gather in Vancouver to support Iranians fighting for democratic rights was published on June 26, 2009 in The Vancouver Sun. Author(s): Mary Frances Hill
THE COMMUNITY AND THE PORT
THE COMMUNITY AND THE PORT
Media Advisory
VANCOUVER– Libby Davies (MP, Vancouver East) will host a public forum to discuss community issues regarding the Port Metro Vancouver site.
East Vancouver is home to many residents living adjacent to the Port, resulting in residential impacts that need attention and resolution. The goal is to respect the livability of the surrounding residential area, while recognizing the Port’s needs to accommodate future growth and provide jobs for our local economy.
Port representatives will be in attendance to discuss community concerns.
PUBLIC MEETING ON PORT METRO VANCOUVER
Thursday, June 25th at 7:00pm
Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, in the East/West Room
2425 Oxford Street (at Nanaimo)
For more information, please contact:
Janet Woo, Office of Libby Davies, MP: 604 775 5800
Rally to save MAP Van
Rally to save MAP Van
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY
FEDERAL MP LIBBY DAVIES RALLIES TO SAVE MAP VAN
Vancouver– Vancouver East MP, Libby Davies will join rally coordinators – WISH Drop-In Centre Society and the Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education (PACE) Society for a candle-light vigil Tuesday night, in support of the outreach MAP (Mobil Access Project) van.
“This van provides essential health and safety services for hundreds of women in the survival sex trade,” said Davies. “Closing down this successful project is unthinkable and will only hurt our community’s most vulnerable women.”
When: 9:30 p.m. Tuesday June 23, 2009
Where: Corner of East Hastings and Gore
Who: WISH Drop-In Centre Society and
PACE Society
The MAP vigil will take place from 9:30 pm to 10:00 pm at 13 intersections across the Downtown Eastside. Libby Davies will participate at the Hastings and Gore intersection.
Rally to save MAP Van
November 2002
Libby questions Prime Minister about Employment Insurance
Libby questions Prime Minister about Employment Insurance
HANSARD
House of Commons
Question Period
Libby Davies (MP Vancouver East):
Mr Speaker, the marriage of convenience between Conservatives and Liberals has blossomed into true love.
And what’s their message for Canadians?
If you have H1N1 – take an aspirin. If you’re putting groceries on your credit card – our big fonts will show you just how deep you’re sinking. If you lost your job – here’s a blue ribbon panel to figure out EI… sit tight ‘til the fall! When will these partners in crime get real?
Instead of appointing panels, why won’t the Prime Minister act for the jobless today?
Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC): Mr. Speaker, we have already taken important action for the unemployed, but the NDP voted against it. NDP members decided they would vote against it before they even knew what it was. They have decided they will be against any further proposals before they know what they are. In effect, we have le Bloc anglais down there.
Libby Davies (MP Vancouver East):
Workers need help now, not months from now. When my party negotiated Budget 2005 we delivered.
We turned $4.6 billion in corporate tax breaks into:
$1.6 billion in housing
$1.5 billion in post-secondary education
$1 billion in transit, and more.
After all that tough talk from the Liberal leader all jobless Canadians get is a blue ribbon panel?
Cold comfort for the 1.5 million laid-off Canadians!
When will the Prime Minister stop playing at his opponent’s low level and start acting to help those jobless Canadians?
Libby and the NDP call on Ignatieff to support housing Bill
Liberals join Conservatives to pass heavy handed drug bill
Liberals join Conservatives to pass heavy handed drug bill
Liberals join Conservatives to pass heavy handed drug bill
Ottawa – The Liberal Party teamed up with the Conservatives this week, to pass a bill that will impose a mandatory minimum sentence for the trafficking of just one marijuana plant.
Warnings from expert witnesses in Canada and the U.S. about the costly failures of mandatory minimums in the U.S. didn’t stop the Liberals from working with the Conservatives to bring in Bill C-15, a law that by all accounts will have no effect on drug crimes in Canada.
“Mandatory minimums have been an expensive failure in the United States, divert needed resources from prevention, treatment, and harm reduction measures, and further criminalize what must be recognized as a public health issue,” said Davies.
The John Howard Society, the Canadian Bar Association and Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network who testified on C-15, all warned that these sentences mostly target low-level drug users and street dealers, and not the drug-lords and king-pins that the Conservatives have promised to go after.
“Not one witness, not one study, could show that mandatory minimums work to reduce drug use or drug crimes,” said Davies. “The U.S. is repealing these laws as fast as they can, so why is Canada looking backwards on this issue?”
Davies, who won amendments at Committee to mitigate the worst aspects of the Bill, calls C-15 “A heavy handed approach that criminalizes drug users and takes Canada in the wrong direction.”
-30-