Story continues below advertisementover new measures in this week’s budget bill that would potentially prevent asylum seekers entering Canada at unauthorized crossings from having access to full refugee hearings. Instead, they’d be referred to an immigration officer for faster processing. The move comes as the Liberal government works with Washington to close a loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement to be able to immediately send them back to the U.S.
Despite the mayor’s backing, the city has little say over how construction proceeds since it is on Squamish land. That lack of ability to weigh in on the project also applies to residents in Kitsilano who have long protested against even mild forms of density.Opioid-related deaths continue to climb as a ‘different kind of overdose’ hits B.C.in the first nine months of 2018, with Alberta and B.C. hit the hardest.
While Meng has been free on bail for months as she awaits extradition proceedings, Chinese authorities can hold people for up to six months to conduct interrogations outside the legal system. Experts say the conditions they face constitute a form of torture, with no access to daylight a form of stimulatory deprivation that can create disorientation and impede the ability to get proper sleep.London police arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange after Ecuador withdraws asylumby London police at the Ecuadoran embassy after that country dropped his diplomatic protection.