Jewish teachers file antisemitism complaint against B.C. Teachers’ Federation, lawyer says
July 2, 2024
A Vancouver labour lawyer says a group of British Columbia teachers has launched a human rights complaint against their union, saying the BC Teachers’ Federation “has engaged in and enabled antisemitism.”Paul Pulver, who says he represents BC Teachers Against Antisemitism, filed the complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal over what he calls the “erasure of Jewish and Zionist voices and opinions” within the union and members’ workplaces.
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A group of animal rights organizations are calling on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to halt the practice of exporting live horses overseas for slaughter.
July 4, 2024 - 21:34 | Marney Blunt | Global News - Canada
A whale research group that was involved in efforts to rescue an orphaned orca calf from a Vancouver Island lagoon says she has not been seen since May 10, despite multiple recent sightings of her family members.A statement from Bay Cetology says the two-year-old female killer whale known as kwiisahi?is or Brave Little Hunter could be travelling with an unsighted pod, moving between groups or “she is gone.”The statement says there have been several documented sightings of the calf’s maternal family and related groups of Bigg’s killer whales since she swam free of the lagoon near the...
July 4, 2024 - 20:59 | | The Globe and Mail
The end of the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto this week may offer a path to resolution for similar protests that continue across the country.As many as two dozen encampments have popped up at universities across the country since late April and a number of those have since been disbanded or resolved. But several also continue to occupy parts of some campuses and it’s not clear whether their demands will be resolved through negotiation.On Wednesday, protesters cleared out the encampment at King’s College Circle on the University of Toronto’s St. George campus a...
July 4, 2024 - 20:23 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
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