Eastside Pride

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Posted on 2009.08.24

Eastside Pride

It is a great source of Eastside Pride that the Hastings Little League has made it to the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania.

I can attest to the wonderful community spirit and dedication of the teams, players, coaches and parents of the Hastings Little League having attended some of their games and openings. They are truly a community based and run league, with a great history. Their accomplishment and participation in the World Series in Pennsylvania even made it onto the front page of the Globe and Mail, August 22 -a great story about Katie Reyes and her family. The only part of the story that was totally out of place was the sentence….”They live near Hastings Park diamond where the team plays roughly four kilometres from the epicentre of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside”. Now, why would the Globe insert that? The story has nothing to do with the Downtown Eastside whatsoever! Though both neighbourhoods are in the federal riding of Vancouver East, they are quite different and physically far apart. They are both great communities – but somehow the Globe just had to slip in the “notorious” element.

I have seen other Globe stories where the Downtown Eastside was described as “sleazy”, “seedy” and the like. This is another example of old style, sensationalized journalism that should be long gone from the Globe.

Libby’s Bill C-304 a National Housing Strategy for Canada – Libby Davies

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Libby’s Bill C-304 a National Housing Strategy for Canada

Vancouver — At four in the afternoon on Wednesday, August 19, a crowd of 160 people gathered to pay their respects to Curtis Brick — a well-known and popular homeless aboriginal man. Flowers were placed at the spot where he was found. His friend, Dwayne Koe, pulled out a guitar and sang a song called, “We are one.” Curtis Brick, 46, died on July 29 on one of the hottest days of year, mere meters away from a water fountain and children’s water park.

The original article, Homeless aboriginal man left to die in busy Vancouver park was published on August 23, 2009 in rabble.ca. Author(s): Am Johal

NDP MPs URGE HALT TO IRAQ WAR RESISTER DEPORTATION

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NDP MPs URGE HALT TO IRAQ WAR RESISTER DEPORTATION

OTTAWA
12 August 2009

The Honourable Jason Kenney, PC MP
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration,
The Honourable Peter Van Loan, PC MP
Minister of Public Safety,
House of Commons
OTTAWA ON K1A 0A6

Dear Ministers,

We are writing with regard to impending removal from Canada of Rodney Watson. Mr. Watson is an Iraq war resister who has made a refugee claim in Canada. As you know, Canada refused to participate in the war in Iraq which many Canadians believe to be an illegal war.

We would strongly urge you to immediately intervene to cease all deportation action against Mr. Watson and to allow him to remain in Canada.

In doing so, we would again draw your attention to the concurrence motions passed in both the 39th and 40th Parliaments which called on the government to establish a specific programme for war resisters who seek asylum and permanent residence in Canada.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. We look forward to your early reply.

Sincerely yours,

Bill Siksay MP
Burnaby-Douglas

On behalf of:
Libby Davies MP Don Davies MP
Vancouver East Vancouver Kingsway

Peter Julian MP Alex Atamanenko MP
Burnaby-New Westminster British Columbia Southern Interior

Jean Crowder MP Denise Savoie MP
Nanaimo Cowichan Victoria

Flaherty betrayed Ontario, broke promise on health transfers: health minister

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Flaherty betrayed Ontario, broke promise on health transfers: health minister

TORONTO – The federal Conservatives have betrayed Canada's most populous province by breaking their promise over health-care funding, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews charged Tuesday. The Harper Tories promised all provinces a six per cent increase in health transfers, but they're only giving Ontario 3.4 per cent in 2014-15, she said. That means Ontario is out $300 million, while Alberta is getting about $1 billion more — a 38 per cent increase, Matthews said…The federal New Democrats say Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is using the oldest trick in the book. "To download to the provinces and to take care of your own health at the expense of somebody else, and that's what they're doing," said NDP health critic Libby Davies. "But I don't think it works because what he's doing is betraying the trust of the premiers and it means his word doesn't count for anything."

The original article, Flaherty betrayed Ontario, broke promise on health transfers: health minister was published on December 17, 2013 in Winnipeg Free Press. Author(s): Maria Babbage

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