Lost Canadians
Jul 12th, 2010
If Howard Kornblum was going to prove he is a Canadian citizen, he had to find out where his mother was on January 1, 1947. That was the day (nine years before his birth) that Canadian citizenship...
Lost Canadians
Jul 8th, 2010
The repercussions of gender based discrimination in Canada’s Citizenship Act was under the radar in most circles until the late 2000's, when the United States government declared that Canadians...
Lost Canadians
Jul 7th, 2010
Paul Martin Sr., the father of former Canadian Prime Minster of the same name, minus the suffix, didn’t know he was on a quest for a symbol to represent "the character of Canada", but he found one,...
Lost Canadians
Megan Stewart and Linda Solomon
Jul 6th, 2010
By his own description, Don Chapman is irritating. Politicians grow weary of hearing from him, he says. But he never gives up. His persistence has made him immensely effective in gaining the...
Lost Canadians
Jul 5th, 2010
“Bastard,” she says. Denise Tessier, 64, a retired BC Rail administrator living in Quesnel, B.C., makes a sound that could be mistaken for a sob. It’s a laugh. “My sister and I were born out of...
The Scene
Mar 2nd, 2010
It can't be easy being Marie-Philip Poulin. Female athletes can't just be. Not without so many of us passing judgement on their choices, actions and ultimately, their legitimacy....
News
Nov 18th, 2009
The latest piece of equipment purchased for the VPD toolkit will not be used as a weapon, assured the chief of police, Jim Chu at a police board meeting today. Although the equipment, a long-range,...
News
Oct 12th, 2009
Months after Richard Giles, a Social Media Specialist at the CPSU/CSA in Perth, Australia, posted his stunning collection of photographs of the Bejing Olympic Games on his Flickr account, he received...
News
Oct 7th, 2009
Two citizens stood up today against the Vancouver Olympics Committee and the City of Vancouver to oppose a bylaw they say will infringe on free speech and erode Canada's Charter of Rights and...
Aug 31st, 2009
A 52-year-old industrial chemical plant on the North Shore will close for at least four weeks in the same quarter as the 2010 Games. This winter, Canexus Chemicals Canada will stop production...
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