Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 May, 2024 04:18 PM
B-C's human rights commissioner has been reappointed by the legislature for another five years.
Legislature members voted unanimously to reappoint Kasari Govender, following a recommendation from a parliamentary committee of government and opposition members.
I am honoured and energized to be reappointed today as BC’s Human Rights Commissioner. As I look toward the next 5 years, there is no doubt that BC faces significant human rights challenges. I am grateful to continue working toward a province free of discrimination and injustice.
Committee chair Joan Phillip says members were impressed with Govender’s work to promote human rights in her first term.
Govender says there is no doubt that B-C faces significant human rights challenges, and she is grateful to continue working toward a province free of injustice and discrimination. (
Police in Port Moody say they’ve seized hundreds of pieces of identification, stolen mail, stolen licence plates and devices used to make fake I-Ds. It started back in July when police were called to a report of a mail theft, and officers pulled over a stolen vehicle linked to the theft about a month later.
A free and confidential legal service is now being offered to people who have been sexually assaulted in British Columbia. The not-for-profit Community Legal Assistance Society officially launched the program Tuesday, which offers three hours of legal advice to people regardless of age, gender or income, or whether they have reported the assault to police.
A female pedestrian is dead after she was struck by a vehicle in Richmond over the weekend. Richmond R-C-M-P say the crash happened on Oct. 14 at 6 a-m in the 7000 block of Granville Avenue.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the bombing of a hospital in Gaza is not legal and is calling the situation "absolutely unacceptable." Trudeau was responding to unfolding reports by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry that an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in Gaza City, killing hundreds of Palestinians, including people using the hospital as shelter.
Eby says Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke "fought a good fight" in attempting to move the RCMP back to its police force of jurisdiction, but that the decision to move ahead with a municipal force has been made by his government and is no longer up for discussion.
An Israeli woman with Canadian family has died, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs says. The centre says the family of Tiferet Lapidot has asked that the development be shared with the media.
