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When Bharanisai Madhusudhan stopped at the grocery store on his way home from work Tuesday afternoon, he expected the trip home to Surrey, B.C. to take him about 45 minutes. Instead, it would be nearly 12 hours before he arrived home. “If I had walked to my home, I would have reached there about four […]
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Snowfall Gridlock in Metro Vancouver Turns 45-minute Commute Into 12-hour Frustration
December 1st, 2022 
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No Comments »Vancouver city council on the brink of institutionalizing anti-Palestinian racism
November 11th, 2022 Awake Goy In 2019, Vancouver rejected the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism but now a new city council is planning to adopt it despite outcry from the community. Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brink, council, institutionalizing, palestinian, Racism, vancouver No Comments »Violence against Indigenous women grows in Vancouver amid ‘apathy and injustice’
September 19th, 2022 Awake Goy Image Credit: Indigenous Rising Media Violence against Indigenous women is “escalating like never before,” the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) has warned. A series of tragedies have rocked the city of Vancouver (unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh lands) in recent months, including the discovery of the body of a 14-year-old Indigenous child, Noelle […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, apathy, grows, indigenous, vancouver, Violence, women No Comments »Violence against Indigenous women grows in Vancouver amid ‘apathy and injustice’
September 19th, 2022 Awake Goy Image Credit: Indigenous Rising Media Violence against Indigenous women is “escalating like never before,” the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) has warned. A series of tragedies have rocked the city of Vancouver (unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh lands) in recent months, including the discovery of the body of a 14-year-old Indigenous child, Noelle […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, apathy, grows, indigenous, vancouver, Violence, women No Comments »Police arrest 7 protesters at logging blockade on southern Vancouver Island
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy By Dirk Meissner, CBC May 19, 2021 Above Photo: RCMP officers move in to remove a blockade and people protesting logging of old growth forests in the Caycuse River area of southern Vancouver Island. (Dave Malysheff) Protesters say they were given 24 hours notice to leave or face arrest Police have arrested seven people at a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: arrest, blockade, logging, police, protesters, southern, vancouver No Comments »One person dead in shooting at Canada’s Vancouver International Airport, police looking for suspects
May 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Canadian police are looking for a suspect or suspects after one person was shot dead in broad daylight outside the main terminal of Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia. “A man was shot and killed this afternoon near the domestic departure terminal [of Vancouver International Airport]. Media availability later this evening in Richmond,” the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: airport, Canada, international, person, police, shooting, vancouver No Comments »Vancouver Canucks Face Criticism for ‘Culturally Appropriated’ Orca Logo
December 16th, 2020 Awake Goy The Vancouver Canucks hockey team is the latest sports organization to receive criticism that their team name or logo negatively impacts the Native American community. The NFL’s Washington Redskins and MLB’s Cleveland Indians have both recently made decisions to change their decades-old names after claims of racism from activist groups. Sean Carleton, a University of […]
Vancouver Council Votes Against Mandatory Mask Mandate: They’re Not Required
October 26th, 2020 Awake Goy The Facts: A recently published paper has found a positive association between COVID-19 deaths and influenza vaccination rates in elderly people worldwide. Reflect On: Why does vaccine hesitancy continue to grow worldwide? What’s going on? What information/factors are contributing to this hesitancy? What Happened: A recently published study in PeerJ by Christian Wehenkel, a Professor at Universidad Juárez […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, council, mandate, mandatory, required, vancouver, votes No Comments »Record snowfall for Vancouver, British Columbia – double previous record
February 25th, 2018 Awake Goy Almost double the previous record, but “not one single media organization put the term ‘record’ in the title of their news,” says reader David Taylor. Didn’t mention the word “record” until 10 paragraphs down. 23 Feb 2018 – “Between eight and 10 centimetres of snow had accumulated in Vancouver by Friday afternoon, Environment Canada […]
Posted in World News Tags: british, columbia, double, previous, record, snowfall, vancouver No Comments »From Oslo To Vancouver, Cities Plan To Go Car-Free
June 10th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Oslo is one of 12 cities which plans to phase out cars in the near future. Image: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett In late 2016, Madrid’s Mayor Manuela Carmena reiterated her plan to kick personal cars out of the city center. But the Spanish city is not the only one getting ready to take the car-free plunge. […]
Nicaraguan President: ‘US has essentially declared war on Venezuela’
March 6th, 2016 Awake Goy Nicaraguan President compared on Saturday American virtual declaration of war against Venezuela with the blockade against Cuba. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Saturday that the United States have virtually proclaimed a war against Venezuela. “[The United States] are accusing Venezuela of being a threat to their security, that is called a declaration of […]
Saudi airstrikes hit the Iranian embassy in Yemen
January 7th, 2016 Awake Goy Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of using warplanes to attack the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. Some guards were reportedly wounded in the attack, according to state news channel IRIB. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen says it will investigate the accusation, according to coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, as cited […]
Posted in World News Tags: Christmas, earthquakes, HIT, region, small, thousands, vancouver No Comments »83-year-old Romanian Jewess crowned "Miss Holocaust Survivor" in Israel
December 2nd, 2015 Awake Goy From: timesofisrael.com 83-year-old Romanian born Rita Berkowitz wins the one-of-a-kind charity beauty pageant Romania-born woman who immigrated to Israel won the third annual Miss Holocaust Survivors Beauty Pageant in Haifa. Rita Berkowitz, 83, was chosen among the 16 European natives who participated in the contest on Tuesday. She came to […]
