Close X
    Friday, November 15, 2024
    ADVT 
    National

    Orange Shirt Day march at UBC

    Darpan News Desk Darpan, 29 Sep, 2023 02:39 PM
    • Orange Shirt Day march at UBC

    A march will be held on the University of B-C's Point Grey campus tomorrow in honour of Canada's third Truth and Reconciliation Day.

    The march also honours those who suffered at -- or did not come home from -- Indian residential schools in B-C and across the country.

    Tomorrow's event begins at the university's Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre -- and marchers will pause at the Reconciliation Pole where residential school survivor and Snuneymuxw (Snuh-NAY'-mow) First Nation Elder John Jones will speak.

    Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, his Victoria counterpart Mayor Marianne Alto and Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai (pill-AY') are among those who have issued supportive statements in advance of Truth and Reconciliation Day.

    While Kwantlen Polytechnic University has announced the launch of its Indigenous Studies Department in the Faculty of Arts.

    Prev Next

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Suspect in stabbings of mother and child in Edmonton dies in hospital

    Suspect in stabbings of mother and child in Edmonton dies in hospital
    The man was shot by Edmonton police last Friday after a 35-year-old woman and her 11-year-old child were stabbed outside Crawford Plains School in the southeastern part of the city. 

    Suspect in stabbings of mother and child in Edmonton dies in hospital

    Woman dead after being swept by Okanagan Lake

    Woman dead after being swept by Okanagan Lake
    Police say the 68-year-old was taking photos on a rock in Glen Canyon Regional Park when she slipped and fell into a creek. A friend who was with her called police.

    Woman dead after being swept by Okanagan Lake

    NDP leaves spring sitting at legislature facing turmoil in public housing management

    NDP leaves spring sitting at legislature facing turmoil in public housing management
    Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says the government will continue to provide housing to people who need it most, but for now has halted new funding to Atira and will launch another audit.

    NDP leaves spring sitting at legislature facing turmoil in public housing management

    Housing in Abbotsford for women fleeing domestic violence

    Housing in Abbotsford for women fleeing domestic violence
    The head of a local non-profit organization that helps women and kids in the city says this will make a small dent as more than 180 women were on the wait-list for safe homes at the end of 2022. Michelle Puffer, with SARA for women, says this means that 12 women and their children will find a safe haven and can begin working on a new future.

    Housing in Abbotsford for women fleeing domestic violence

    B.C. sets record, delivers 350,000 surgeries last fiscal year, health minister says

    B.C. sets record, delivers 350,000 surgeries last fiscal year, health minister says
    The ministry says 99.9 per cent of the nearly 15,000 patients whose scheduled surgeries were postponed in the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 have had procedures if they still wanted them.

    B.C. sets record, delivers 350,000 surgeries last fiscal year, health minister says

    Coyote killed after attack on two-year-old child in Port Coquitlam, B.C., park

    Coyote killed after attack on two-year-old child in Port Coquitlam, B.C., park
     The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says on Twitter that the attack happened Wednesday after 8 p.m. at Lions Park near the town centre. The service says the public should not feed dangerous wildlife under any circumstances, and violators will incur "enforcement action as warranted." 

    Coyote killed after attack on two-year-old child in Port Coquitlam, B.C., park

    PrevNext